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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 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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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…





























