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As a homeschooling veteran, I review middle-grade stories to help parents, librarians, and teachers choose good books.
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Highland Blessings by Jennifer Hudson Taylor, ebook available free
A free ebook for you today, Highland Blessings by Jennifer Hudson Taylor: I’ve read this book and liked it. The ebook is free on Kindle at the moment, and also at Christian Book Distributors in non-Kindle format. Remember, you don’t have to have an e-reader; you can read your download on your computer, and that’s free.
Free on Kindle, Tracie Peterson novel
Fans of Christian romantic fiction will be happy to know that Tracie Peterson has a novel for free on Kindle right now. Don’t have a Kindle? You don’t need one–you can create a free Kindle account at Amazon and download your ebooks to read on your computer.
Inside the mind of author Athol Dickson
Athol Dickson writes these beautifully crafted suspenseful novels with a touch of the magical. I really love his work. So why isn’t he a best-selling author?
Half-empty nest
Two of our four children have flown the nest lately.
African version of the Lord’s Prayer
My dear daughter fell in love with this African song, which is the theme song for a video game, Civilization IV. She looked up a translation for the song and found that it is in fact the Lord’s Prayer! Enjoy!
Lessons from Spider Man
“From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded.” Sound familiar? How about the Spider Man take on it: “With great power comes great responsibility”?
Call to join a new Facebook devotional community
Like most tools, the values of social networking depends on the user, but for me, a writer who spends countless hours each day shut inside my office, Facebook has provided a much needed window to the outside world. It’s allowed me to stay in contact with distant friends and has deepened many relationships I hold dear. Facebook has become a wonderful, vibrant, interactive community. What better place to launch a Christ-centered devo-group?
Deceit by Brandilyn Collins, a review
Joanne Weeks’ best friend Linda vanished six years ago. Linda’s husband remarried, and now the second wife is dead too, ostensibly from a fall down the stairs. The husband, Baxter Jackson, looks like a murderer to Joanne. But not to others, apparently.
Another free Kindle book for Christian fiction fans
Well-known Christian authors Tracie Peterson and Judith Miller collaborated on this book, which is currently available for free in ebook form on Kindle. By the way, if you don’t have a Kindle, you can still get the book, download a free reader to your computer, and read it on your computer. The book is A Daughter’s Inheritance, which presents intrigue and romance set in the opulent Thousand Islands resort area at the turn of the century.
A free ebook from Kim Vogel Sawyer!
I don’t know of you’re a fan of Kim Vogel Sawyer’s. She writes prairie romances mostly, sweet stories of hope. If you are, snap up her free Kindle ebook today! My Heart Remembers, published in 2008, is Kim’s personal favorite of all her books.
Undercurrent by Michelle Griep, a review
What if, sometimes, people who go missing actually end up in another time? Michelle Griep asked herself this question and spun this story to answer it. In it, Englishwoman Dr. Cassie Larson takes some students on a short cruise in the North Sea. She buys a wooden brooch shaped like a wolf from a mysterious man. Back on the boat, the brooch falls overboard. She leans after it… and she falls too. A Viking is rowing across the North Sea, circa 900 AD.
Unearthly by Cynthia Hand, a review
Clara has a hard time believing she’s an angel, until her mother shows Clara her mother’s wings. Clara finds she has them too. Each part-angel, says her mother, has a Purpose which is revealed when he or she is a teenager through visions. It’s very important to do what the visions are telling you to do, to fulfill your Purpose. Otherwise, apparently, you may end up as a Dark Wing, the disobedient angels with black wings who are absolutely up to no good.