Book Review: Dinosaur Devotions

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Dinosaur Devotions is a fun way to help your dinosaur-loving kids connect with God. These 75 devotions include bright, colorful illustrations and uncover facts about specific dinosaur species while providing spiritual insight and easy-to-understand takeaways that will encourage your children to take their faith to the next level! Your kids will also love segments like Dino Stats (a dinosaur’s measurements), Bible Excavation (a main Bible verse), Digging Deeper (self-reflection questions), Did You Know? (fun facts), and Jurassic Journaling (creative writing opportunities) that make this devotional interactive and even more memorable.   And here’s a review, reprinted by permission: Any kid, boy…

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Book Review: Unleash Your God-Given Healing

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Unleash Your God-Given Healing by Ginny Dent Brant is an inspirational, Christian living book written with commentary from a well-respected oncologist, Dr. Robert Elliott. It explores nutrition, lifestyle, integrative and conventional medicine, and biblical wisdom in a practical way to assist people in preventing and beating cancer while surviving the journey.   * * * Here’s a review of Unleash Your God-Given Healing, reprinted by permission: When faced with a cancer diagnosis, the worry and fear can be exhausting. I’ve been looking for a balanced strategy for dealing with my cancer. In this book, each chapter addresses matters I have…

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Book Review: His Gift

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His Gift: This historical novel is suitable for all ages, but the main character is in her late teens. This book is written to appeal to the YA audience, the NA audience, and every adult who has ever cared to dream. Brace yourself for a thrilling race with twists and turns as a young woman is determined to see her dream come true. On the cusp of the stock market crash of 1929, seventeen-year-old Molly has aspirations for a career in music after high school. With the passion of an athlete preparing for the Olympics, she trains relentlessly to become…

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Book Review: I Love You to the Stars – When Grandma Forgets, Love Remembers

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I Love You to the Stars — When Grandma Forgets, Love Remembers is a new picture book published by Kregel Publishing. Inspired by a true story, a young boy enjoys having his grandma and her dog live with them. Soon Grandma gets forgetful and needs to live in another home, but the love they have for each other remains the same.   And here’s a review reprinted with permission from Xochitl Dixon: In Crystal Bowman’s I Love You to the Stars, readers are introduced to a close-knit family facing the heart-breaking decline of a loved one who suffers from dementia. Bowman’s gentle tone…

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Book Review: Miss Tavistock’s Mistake

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Looking for a sweet and clean Regency romance? Wit and humor abound in Miss Tavistock’s Mistake as a young woman in Regency England engages in a subterfuge while trying to assess the character of the man she’s betrothed to by arrangement.  As she falls in love, her troubles increase until she sees no way out of the lie. How could such an honorable man ever forgive her deceit?   * * *   And here’s a great review reprinted by permission from The BookLife Prize: Plot/Idea: 8 out of 10 Originality: 9 out of 10 Prose: 9 out of 10 Character/Execution: 8 out of…

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Book Review: An Impossible Price

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Book 3 in the Christian historical western romance series, Front Range Brides, is here! We posted book reviews of the first two books a few weeks ago. Here’s a summary of the 3rd book, An Impossible Price: He has to choose – keep his secrets or the woman he loves. He can’t have both. With no husband of her own, midwife Sophie Price lives to keep others calm in their hour of need. But when a handsome horse handler steps off the train with a fiery stallion, he brings anything but calm as he looks her dead in the eye and…

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YA Book Review: Freerunner

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A book review for YA novel—Freerunner Set against the backdrop of the sport of freerunning, Kia must decide whether she will continue running or face her past abuser in order to save another child. Learn more: Night is Kia’s favorite time, when she freeruns to outdistance the memories of abuse she suffered as a young child. But when former reality television star Terrence Jones arrives at their school as the new head track coach, things begin to change in unpredictable ways. Kia tries out for the team to fit in, but just as she’s gaining a new sense of normal,…

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Book Review: Editing Secrets of Best-Selling Authors

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Book Review for Editing Secrets of Best-selling Authors by Kathy Ide Kathy Ide’s book, Editing Secrets of Best-Selling Authors is a writers’ helps book containing tips from professional freelance editor Kathy Ide and numerous best-selling authors on how to edit a fiction or nonfiction book manuscript. Aspiring, beginning, and intermediate writers will learn how to polish a manuscript to get it ready for publication. Established authors can use these tips to edit other writers’ manuscripts, either in a critique group setting or as an editorial freelancer.   Here’s a review, reprinted with permission, from Denise Loock, General Editor, LPC Books:…

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Book Review: Fighting for Your Marriage While Separated

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  Linda Rooks’ book, Fighting for Your Marriage While Separated, is a winner of the Golden Scroll Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award in 2019.  Fighting for Your Marriage While Separated guides a person step-by-step through the complexities of a separation. Dispelling the assumption that a separation will inevitably end in divorce, Rooks shares practical insights, biblical wisdom, true stories of reconciled marriages, and her own reconciliation story after a three-year marital separation. Through Scripture-based truth, practical wisdom gained from eleven years of ministry to marriages in crisis, and her own personal experience, Rooks demonstrates there is hope for reconciliation…

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Book Review: Earl Grey with Ephesians

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  A book review of Earl Grey with Ephesians by Dr. Sandra Glahn, a six-week Bible study that explores the answers Scripture provides for “Who am I” and “Why am I here?” as well as how to live in light of these great realities. Workbook format. Leader’s guide included.   Enjoy this review, reprinted by permission of Mary DeMuth: I remember picking up my first Bible study book when I was probably sixteen years old. I turned it over, looked at it like an anomaly. Why? Because I was an unchurched girl, recently converted, and I had zero idea about…

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