Tag: Books

Running from the mistakes of her past, Tessa Taylor heads to the uppermost reaches of Michigan, planning to serve as the new teacher to the children of miners. She quickly learns the town had requested a male teacher, but Percival Updegraff, superintendent and chief mine clerk, says she can stay through winter since it's too… Continue reading Book Review: Undaunted Hope by Jody Hedlund

Samantha Moore has always hidden behind the words of others―namely, her favorite characters in literature. Now, she will learn to write her own story―by giving that story to a complete stranger. Sam is, to say the least, bookish. An English major of the highest order, her diet has always been Austen, Dickens, and Shakespeare. The… Continue reading Review Wednesday: Dear Mr. Knightley by Katherine Reay

Kit Barnes bolstered his worth with alcohol and ruined more lives than his own. Now sober, he wants to make amends by opening a mission for drunkards. But the most suitable location belongs to Joanna Cranston Stewart, a woman Kit spurned. Now a reclusive widow, Joanna will let the walls of her rundown property crumble… Continue reading Book Review: A Reluctant Melody by Sandra Ardoin

 Sophie Dupont, daughter of a portrait painter, assists her father in his studio, keeping her own artwork out of sight. She often walks the cliffside path along the north Devon coast, popular with artists and poets. It's where she met the handsome Wesley Overtree, the first man to tell her she's beautiful. Captain Stephen Overtree… Continue reading Review Wednesday: The Painter’s Daughter by Julie Klassen

Lydia’s job at the library is her world—until a mysterious patron catches her eye . . . and perhaps her heart. Just months after the closure of the Chicago World’s Fair, librarian Lydia Bancroft finds herself fascinated by a mysterious dark-haired and dark-eyed patron. He has never given her his name; he actually never speaks… Continue reading Review Wednesday: Whispers in the Reading Room by Shelley Gray

 The Great War shakes the world of a spirited young woman and the brave British pilot she loves, taking her from London to her family’s magnificent country estate, and sending him into the war-torn skies over France.   Penny Ramsey has always considered Highland Hall her home, but when Britain becomes involved in World War… Continue reading Fiction Friday: A Refuge at Highland Hall by Carrie Turansky