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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Book Review: Shadow of the Dagger

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  Shadow of the Dagger: by Anne Greene Three people are murdered and one kidnapped to find the solution to a priceless treasure map. As Nicole Phillips seeks to find her kidnapped brother, she doesn’t know whom to trust. No one is who they appear to be. All is deception. To bring his brother’s murderer to justice, CIA Intel Analyst, Josh Baruch, lays his life on the line. Can he walk the tightrope between obeying the killers’ instructions and bringing them to justice? Because Nicole’s husband died in a mysterious plane crash, she fears falling in love again with a…

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Book Review: The Complete Guide to the Prayers of Jesus

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  Janet Holm McHenry’s book, The Complete Guide to the Prayers of Jesus, published by Bethany House, is the only comprehensive book on the prayer life of Jesus. This nonfiction Christian living book is an engaging, vivid journey through the recorded prayers of Jesus as well as his practices and teachings on prayer. It provides to the reader: Background, context, and a detailed look at each of Jesus’ prayers Jesus’ teachings on prayer A look at Jesus’s prayer practices Scripture-based prayers along with questions for personal or group use.   Check out this book review: “Have you ever echoed the…

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Book Review: Direct Threat

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Direct Threat by Kimberly Rose Johnson A book review of Kimberly Rose Johnson’s romantic mystery, Direct Threat, which released June 1, 2020. One little girl. Two bodyguards. Only one chance to guard their hearts.   In Direct Threat, Kimberly Rose Johnson has created a book that will pull readers into a sweet romance laced with mystery and a dash of suspense. Sent to protect a child for the summer, Carissa Jones finds her heart opening to the child and to the possibility of love. But first she has to decide who to trust and who is the direct threat. A page turner that is…

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Book Review: An Improper Proposal AND An Unexpected Redemption

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  Book 3 in Davalynn Spencer’s series, Front Range Brides, will be released June 4, 2020. So you’ll want to get caught up with Books 1 & 2 in this series of inspirational western romances! Check out the first two books, starting with a review of An Improper Proposal: Ya’ll better hold on to your cowboy hats because Davalynn Spencer is about to take you on the ride of your life in her latest Western novel, An Improper Proposal. As a mail-order bride traveling across state lines to meet her intended, Mae Ann Remington never imagined she’d be robbed at gun…

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Book Review: Encountering God’s Heart for You: 365 Devotions from Genesis through Revelation

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A book review of Encountering God’s Heart for You: 365 Devotions from Genesis through Revelation by Diane Stortz. A daily devotional journey through the whole story of the Bible. Shared by permission of Elisabeth Espinoza. Encountering God’s Heart for You by Diane Stortz features 365 brief devotions that chronologically explore important people, events, and themes in Scripture beginning in Genesis and continuing all the way through to Revelation. Having personally read through an entire chronological Bible just last year, I am finding Encountering God’s Heart for You to be one of the most inspiring devotionals I have read in quite a while. Ms….

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New Nonfiction Releases and a Wonderful Review!

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Becky Harling has a new book releasing February 6th titled, Who Do You Say That I Am? This new Bible study considers the challenging questions Jesus asked and answers those question by considering His I Am statements.        What do you do when your marriage isn’t broken, but it doesn’t seem to be growing, either? Noted author and speaker Cindi McMenamin shows you the small changes you can make to touch your husband’s heart in a big way in her Feb. 1 release from Harvest House Publishers:  12 Ways to Experience More with Your Husband. McMenamin, who has been married 30 years to a pastor and introvert, is…

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