As the Nazis march toward Paris in 1940, American ballerina Lucie Girard buys her favorite English-language bookstore to allow the Jewish owners to escape. Lucie struggles to run Green Leaf Books due to oppressive German laws and harsh conditions, but she finds a way to aid the resistance by passing secret messages between the pages… Continue reading Book Review: Until Leaves Fall in Paris by Sarah Sundin
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Book Review: When the Day Comes by Gabrielle Meyer
Libby has been given a powerful gift: to live one life in 1774 Colonial Williamsburg and the other in 1914 Gilded Age New York City. When she falls asleep in one life, she wakes up in the other without any time passing. On her twenty-first birthday, Libby must choose one path and forfeit the other--but… Continue reading Book Review: When the Day Comes by Gabrielle Meyer
Book Review: All That It Takes by Nicole Deese
When the ever-cautious Val Locklier finally agrees to a cross-country move with her nine-year-old son to take a job with her best friend, Molly, everything she had planned for the future unravels within the first week. After pushing aside her anxieties about renting an apartment from Molly's twin brother, whom she barely knows, she accepts… Continue reading Book Review: All That It Takes by Nicole Deese
Book Review: The Souls of Lost Lake by Jaime Jo Wright
Wren Blythe has long enjoyed being among the Northwoods, helping her father with programming at a youth camp. But when a little girl in the area goes missing, an all-out search ensues, reviving the decades-old campfire story of Ava Coons, the murderess, who still roams the woods. Joining the search, Wren stumbles upon the Coons… Continue reading Book Review: The Souls of Lost Lake by Jaime Jo Wright
Book Review: God Is My Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
"If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you'll be at rest."--Corrie ten Boom Dutch watchmaker Corrie ten Boom, with her courageous, God-fearing family, sheltered Jews from the Nazis during World War II. This led to her arrest and suffering in… Continue reading Book Review: God Is My Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
Book Review: Proposing Mischief by Regina Jennings
Maisie Kentworth is stuck on the ranch. Having fallen in love with the wrong guy, she can't risk inflaming things between her former beau and her protective family. Left to rue her mistakes, she keeps busy exploring the idle mine at the edge of their property. Boone Bragg is also stuck. With his parents on… Continue reading Book Review: Proposing Mischief by Regina Jennings
Book Review: Carved in Stone by Elizabeth Camden
After years of tragedy, Gwen Kellerman now lives a quiet life as a botanist at an idyllic New York college. She largely ignores her status as heiress to the infamous Blackstone dynasty and hopes to keep her family's heartbreak and scandal behind her. Patrick O'Neill survived a hardscrabble youth to become a lawyer for the… Continue reading Book Review: Carved in Stone by Elizabeth Camden
Book Review: Marrying Mr. Wrong by Melissa Jagears
Can a man who’s completely wrong for her help her find Mr. Right? Gwendolyn McGill wants to be loved and accepted for who she is, but that’s hard to do in a small town where everyone judges her by the scandal her father caused. Unfortunately, the man she hoped would sweep her away from all… Continue reading Book Review: Marrying Mr. Wrong by Melissa Jagears
Book Review: The Girl Who Could Breathe Under Water by Erin Bartels
When Kendra Brennan moves into her grandfather's old cabin on Hidden Lake, she has a problem and a plan. The problem? An inflammatory letter from A Very Disappointed Reader that's keeping her from writing her next novel as long as its claims go unanswered. The plan? To confront Tyler, her childhood best friend's brother--and the… Continue reading Book Review: The Girl Who Could Breathe Under Water by Erin Bartels
Book Review: Shadows of Swanford Abbey by Julie Klassen
Agatha Christie meets Jane Austen in this atmospheric Regency tale brimming with mystery, intrigue, and romance.When Miss Rebecca Lane returns to her home village after a few years away, her brother begs for a favor: go to nearby Swanford Abbey and deliver his manuscript to an author staying there who could help him get published.… Continue reading Book Review: Shadows of Swanford Abbey by Julie Klassen
