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Love Water Memory, book review

If you could do it all over again, would you still choose him? Love Water Memory by Jennie Shortridge About this book: Who is Lucie Walker? Even Lucie herself can’t answer that question after she comes to, […]

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13 Favorites from 2013

I can’t say goodbye to 2013 without casting one last, lingering look behind. It was a year filled with some beautiful stories and wonderful reads, and I am thankful for each that fell into my eager […]

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Good God, Lousy World, & Me, book review

“In this extraordinary memoir of grace, one of the foremost human rights advocates of the last half century shares her brutally and hilariously honest story of finding God on one of the most unlikely, irreverent, […]

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Stones for Bread, book review

A solitary artisan. A legacy of bread-baking. And one secret that could collapse her entire identity. Stones for Bread by Christa Parrish About the author: Christa Parrish is the award-winning author of three novels. When she’s […]

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The Greatest Gift, book review

The Greatest Gift: Unwrapping the Full Love Story of Christmas by Ann Voskamp About the author: Ann Voskamp married a farmer and then birthed half-a-dozen kids, whom she homeschools. She authored One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to […]

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Someone Else’s Love Story, book review

Someone Else’s Love Story by the incomparable Joshilyn Jackson. New York Times Bestselling novelist Joshilyn Jackson has also authored five other novels: gods in Alabama, Between, Georgia, The Girl Who Stopped Swimming, Backseat Saints, and A Grown-Up […]

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Blessed Child, book review

Blessed Child by Ted Dekker with Bill Bright. Ted Dekker, a child of missionaries living among the headhunter tribes of Indonesia, grew up to become a New York Times best-selling author of more than twenty novels. Best […]

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The Language of Sparrows, re-covered

Last summer, I had the chance to review Rachel Phifer’s lovely debut novel, The Language of Sparrows. Beautiful story, but the cover struck me as rather…meh. (See my review here.) Well, after receiving some feedback, Rachel […]

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Declan’s Cross, book review

Sometimes I stumble onto an author and wonder how I’ve been missing out for so long. Multi-published novelist Carla Neggers has been gracing the New York Times Bestsellers list for years, and somehow I’m only […]

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The Quotable C.S. Lewis

Herman Wouk’s Marjorie Morningstar sits at the top of my list of favorite re-readables. I love this novel for so many reasons: The era and glamorous locales it immerses me in. The author’s intimate knowledge […]

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