CAN Book Feature: People of the Book by Kathi Macias

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  People of the Book Author and website link: Kathi Macias ISBN: 978-1-59669-282-4  Eighteen-year-old Farah, who lives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with her family, wants nothing more than to develop a deeper, more meaningful devotion to her Muslim faith. She sees the month of Ramadan as her chance to draw nearer to Allah, and she pursues that goal throughout the holiday. All goes well until the prophet Isa—Jesus—appears to her in a dream and calls her to Himself. At the same time, her only brother, Kareem, who has never liked Farah, actively seeks an opportunity to expose her for the…

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CAN Book Feature: Finally a Bride by Vickie McDonough

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  Title: Finally A Bride – book 3 in the Texas Boardinghouse Brides series Author: Vickie McDonough Publisher: Barbour Publishing ISBN: 978-1602606494 Keep your eyes wide open for romance in Lookout, Texas. Noah Jeffers enters town determined to make up for past misdeeds. Reporter Jacqueline Davis is determined to nail her story. Will she uncover Noah’s secret before he can capture her heart? With nowhere else to go, ex-con Carly Payton returns to the Lookout boardinghouse. Garret Corbett is looking for an upstanding wife, not some jailbird. What will he do when overpowered by Carly’s unassuming appeal? Does love deserve a second…

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CAN Book Feature: When All My Dreams Come True by Janelle Mowery

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Title:  When All My Dreams Come TrueAuthor: Janelle Mowery Publisher: Harvest HouseISBN: 978-0-7369-2807-6   Bobbie McIntyre dreams of running a ranch of her own. Raised without a mother and having spent most of her time around men, she knows more about wrangling than being a lady. Still, the friendship of her new employer awakens a desire to learn more about presenting her feminine side…but ranch life keeps getting in the way.  Ranch owner Jace Kincaid figures the Lord is testing his faith when a female wrangler shows up looking for work. Bobbie has an uncanny way of getting under his skin,…

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CAN Book Review by Diana Brandmeyer: A Wealth Beyond Riches by Vickie McDonough

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I love sequels and this one–A Wealth Beyond Riches–follows The Bounty Hunter and the Bride. It is Jimmy’s story. His world is spinning after rescuing a beautiful woman who disappears. He’s surprised when she appears at the very place he has been hired to build a house.   Sasha’s world is turned upside down in the first few pages. She discovers she’s not who she thought she was and heads west to look for her uncle and finds a way of life she’d never imagined. McDonough is a great storyteller. Her plots and characters stay with you after you finish the…

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CAN Book Review by Diana Brandmeyer: Deadly Exposure by Cara Putman

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T.V. news Reporter, Dani Richards moves to Lincoln, Nebraska to care for her Aunt Jayne who has Alzheimer's. Taking her aunt to see Cats, Dani prays she won't see Caleb Jamison, the man who stole her sixteen-year-old heart. Not only does she see him, she has to work with him when she discovers a dead body at the theater. Caleb is on the police force and is assigned to keep Dani safe, but can he protect her heart from him? Deadly Exposure is a page turner. It was a delight to read a suspense novel that doesn't go into grisly…

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CAN Book Review by Diana Brandmeyer: Touching the Clouds by Bonnie Leon

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When Touching the Clouds arrived in the mail I wasn't sure if the author could pull off a book with such an independent heroine during the depression. Well, Leon did it.  Kate Evans calls off her marriage and heads to Alaska in her small plane to be a bush pilot. She leaves Washington State and its heartaches behind, hoping to support herself in the rough Alaskan terrain. She runs into major problems, from unpredictable weather to judgment from other male pilots. She's not the only one hiding in Alaska. So is Paul Anderson. He has his own memories that he…

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CAN Book Review: The Anonymous Bride by Vickie McDonough

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 THE ANONYMOUS BRIDE by Vickie McDonough  Review by Carla Stewart  Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc. (April 1, 2010) ISBN-13: 978-1602606968   Veteran writer Vickie McDonough’s first trade length novel, THE ANONYMOUS BRIDE, delights and entertains with fresh characters and puts a fun, new spin on the mail order bride story. Set in late nineteenth century Texas in the fictional town of Lookout, the characters dance off the page from the very first scene. When Luke Davis returns to the hometown he left several years, he is excited about being the new town marshal, but dreads facing Rachel, the woman who betrayed…

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CAN Book Review: A Distant Melody by Sarah Sundin

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 A DISTANT MELODY by Sarah Sundin  Review by Carla Stewart Publisher: Revell; Original edition (March 1, 2010)  ISBN-13: 978-0800734213   Once in a while a book comes along that wraps its arms around you and so enchants you that you don’t want to the story to end. Sarah Sundin’s debut novel, A Distant Melody, is one of those books. At the height of WWII, a chance meeting brings Allie Miller and Walt Novak together, but Allie’s upcoming marriage, arranged by her wealthy parents, and Walt’s dispatch to pilot a B-17 bomber from an airbase in England, halts the romance before…

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CAN Book Feature: Love Finds You in Golden, New Mexico by Lena Nelson Dooley

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Love Finds You in Golden, New Mexico By Lena Nelson DooleyISBN: 978-1935416746Summerside PressHistorical Romance All that glitters is not gold. It’s 1890, and Golden, New Mexico, is a booming mining town where men far outnumber women. So when an old wealthy miner named Philip Smith finds himself in need of a nursemaid, he places an ad for a mail-order bride—despite the protests of his friend Jeremiah. Hoping to escape a perilous situation back East, young Madeleine Mercer answers the ad and arrives in town under a cloud of suspicion. But just as she begins to win over Philip—and Jeremiah himself—the…

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The Anonymous Bride by Vickie McDonough

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The Anonymous Bride,  Book 1 in the Texas Boardinghouse Brides series by Vickie McDonough from Barbour Publishing released April 1, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-60260-696-8 Three mail-order brides arrive in Lookout, Texas, each expecting to marry the local marshal. But—he didn’t order a bride. When a contest ensues to discover which bride will make him the best wife, there is a surprise fourth entry –an anonymous one. Mayhem occurs as the whole town tries to figure out who the anonymous bride is, and the mayor pressures the marshal to pick a bride or lose his job. Will Marshal Davis tuck tail and run for the hills? Or…

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