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    Facing The Dawn by Cynthia Ruchti

    March 15, 2021 / Comments Off on Facing The Dawn by Cynthia Ruchti

    The Strength-Giver Facing The Dawn by Cynthia Ruchti is the most beautiful Christian tale about love and loss and hope. Cynthia Ruchti writes with care and compassion as the reader immerses themselves in her beautiful words. Facing The Dawn is like a hug from Jesus in a book. The reader will not be able to […]

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    The Boy, the Cloud, and the Very Tall Tale by Heather Smith

    January 21, 2024

    Celebrate Our Birthday With Us! (Hint: there will be giveaways!)

    February 12, 2019

    *Wild Things and Castles in the Sky from Square Halo Books

    June 3, 2022
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    The Last Goodbye by Fiona Lucas

    March 15, 2021 / Comments Off on The Last Goodbye by Fiona Lucas

    Serenely Beautiful The Last Goodbye by Fiona Lucas is the most beautiful contemporary novel about love and loss and life. Fiona Lucas words sunk deep into my heart and soul. I was enchanted by the whole book. It was serenely beautiful. The book is about loss. “I’m not sure how I go on living and […]

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    Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

    June 24, 2020

    *Skunk and Badger by Amy Timberlake and illustrated by Jon Klassen

    October 14, 2020

    Love’s Belief by Linda Shenton Matchett

    July 20, 2019
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    While Paris Slept by Ruth Druart

    March 14, 2021 / Comments Off on While Paris Slept by Ruth Druart

    Great Love While Paris Slept by Ruth Druart is a powerful historical novel that will break your heart. The action is mainly set in occupied Paris in 1944 and in Santa Cruz in 1953. The voices alternate within the chapters. This is a novel about the great love for a child. It is a love […]

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    Truth and Story

    October 22, 2022

    Picture Book Round Up: The Big Wide Welcome, God Cares for Me, Love Is, Rice From Heaven, My Breakfast With Jesus

    May 25, 2022

    5 Souvenirs from Narnia

    July 19, 2023
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    Shelter Mountain by Robyn Carr

    March 14, 2021 / Comments Off on Shelter Mountain by Robyn Carr

    Community Life Shelter Mountain by Robyn Carr is a delightful contemporary novel and the second book in the Virgin River series. It can be read as a stand-alone. Once more the community of Virgin River pulls together to welcome a stranger and to help to bring healing and wholeness. The community has a strong sense […]

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    Alice’s Farm: a Rabbit’s Tale by Maryrose Wood

    May 14, 2022

    Simple Summer Reading Challenge for Tweens and Teens

    June 7, 2019

    Gladys Hunt on Little Golden Books

    January 1, 2023
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    My Name Is Leon by Kit de Waal

    March 12, 2021 / Comments Off on My Name Is Leon by Kit de Waal

    Searching My Name Is Leon by Kit de Waal is a marvellous debut novel that mesmerised me from the start. The setting is Birmingham in 1981. I grew up near Birmingham so I know it well. Lots of memories from that time were ignited by the novel. I remember the hype around Charles and Diana’s […]

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    The Improbable Tales of Baskerville Hall by Ali Standish

    October 10, 2023

    Read the Bible in 2021

    January 1, 2021

    Village of Scoundrels by Margi Preus

    April 25, 2020
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    The Menu by Steven Manchester

    March 12, 2021 / Comments Off on The Menu by Steven Manchester

    Love As He Has Loved Us The Menu by Steven Manchester is a beautiful allegorical tale about the great love of God for all His children for all eternity. Life is short. Eternity is long. We are all born and we all die, we need to make sure we live well between the dates. The […]

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    The Nerviest Girl in the World by Melissa Wiley

    September 25, 2020

    Jason Reynolds’s Track Series: A Winner for Middle Grades

    February 2, 2019

    Birds of Pray by Rob Maaddi

    January 30, 2019
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    The Sowing Season by Katie Powner

    March 12, 2021 / Comments Off on The Sowing Season by Katie Powner

    Absolutely Charming The Sowing Season by Katie Powner is a marvellous Christian debut novel about love and life and family. Katie Powner has created a delightful set of characters, all misfits in their own way, struggling to make sense of life in the season they are in. The main pairing is a fifteen year old […]

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    *Room for Everyone by Naaz Khan, illustrated by Mercè López

    June 20, 2022

    Ordinary Hazards by Nikki Grimes: a Discussion

    March 15, 2020

    *Bamboo People by Mitali Perkins

    March 19, 2019
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    Save Me Twice by E.A. Dustin

    March 12, 2021 / Comments Off on Save Me Twice by E.A. Dustin

    Powerful Yet Horrifying Save Me Twice by E.A. Dustin is a heart wrenching historical novel set in Germany between October 1944 – October 1945. The novel is grounded in fact as it is based on the author’s father’s wartime experiences. It is a marvellous, comprehensive and horrifying read. The author has captured the horrors of […]

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    Back Porch Book Chat: Elizabeth Farquhar (Teen Writer)

    December 31, 2023

    *Hosanna in Excelsis by David and Barbara Leeman

    November 8, 2020

    Pie in the Sky by Remy Lai

    July 24, 2019
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    Delia And The Drifter by Melody Carlson

    March 12, 2021 / Comments Off on Delia And The Drifter by Melody Carlson

    Inheritance Delia And The Drifter by Melody Carlson is a marvellous Christian historical novel and the first in the Westward To Home series. The novel concerns family, inheritance and wealth. Family is more than just blood ties, family is those who love and care for us. Sometimes family casts us off, this is in direct […]

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    Two Years before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

    May 30, 2020

    Raising Lumie by Joan Bauer

    September 30, 2020

    *Baby Believer Board Books

    December 18, 2020
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    Nicky & Vera by Peter Sís

    March 12, 2021 / Comments Off on Nicky & Vera by Peter Sís

    Nicky & Vera, by Caldecott illustrator Peter Sís, celebrates the quiet heroism of Nicholas Winton, who saved 669 Czech children from the Holocaust. Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued by Peter Sís. Norton, 2021, 60 pages. Reading Level: Picture Book, ages 4-8 Recommended for: ages 4-10 “Nicky was born in 1909, into a century full of promise.” World-shaking events would soon begin to erode that promise, but Nicky managed to avoid them during his early years. His comfortable British middle-class upbringing allowed for a fine education, the opportunity to travel Europe, and eventually become a banker. By the mid-1930s, though, he could…

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    When Is It Okay to Mess with the Classics?

    May 13, 2020

    Gladys Hunt on the Music (and Magic) of Words

    February 26, 2023

    The Ingredients For Happiness by Lucy Knott

    August 8, 2019
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