Recycling Week – Best of Book Reviews

In honor of National Recycling Week – don’t even ask how I know that – I’m recycling a few of my old blogs. It was time to dust them off and make them work for their keep. Over the past two years, I’ve read countless books, but I only...

Book Review: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See Description: A language kept a secret for a thousand years forms the backdrop for an unforgettable novel of two Chinese women whose friendship and love sustains them through their lives. My Review: What a breathtaking ride...

Book Review: A Most Unsuitable Match

Description: An unlikely attraction occurs between two passengers on a steamboat journey up the Missouri River to Montana… She is a self-centered young woman from a privileged family who fears the outdoors and avoids anything rustic. He is a preacher living...

Review: Nightingale

Nightingale Esther Lange doesn’t love her fiancé—she’s trapped in an engagement after a mistaken night of passion. Still, she grieves him when he’s lost in battle, the letters sent to her by the medic at his side giving her a strange comfort, so much that she strikes...

Review: Love Finds you In Homestead, Iowa

Description: Times are hard in 1894. Desperate for work, former banker Jacob Hirsch rides the rails west from Chicago with his four-year-old daughter, Cassie. When a life-threatening illness strands the pair in Homestead, Iowa, the local Amana villagers welcome the...

Congratulations to ACFW winners

2011 Genesis Winners Contemporary Fiction Katy Pistole Contemporary Romance Mary Curry Historical Fiction Johnnie Alexander Donley Historical Romance Sarah Ladd Mystery/Suspense/Thriller Dianna T. Benson Romantic Suspense Renee Ann Smith Speculative Fiction Matt Jones...