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Home Run by Travis Thrasher ~ Tracy’s Take

Publisher’s Synopsis:

Major League baseball player Cory Brand excels at hitting home runs – but he’s striking out in his personal life. After years of hard partying and reckless living, a DUI, and team suspension land him back in the Oklahoma town where he started.

Forced to coach the local Little League team and spend eight weeks in Celebrate Recover, the only twelve-step program in town, Cory must face the memories of an abuse father – and the love he left behind. What he doesn’t realise is that the road to recovery will take him through the childhood pain he …

Character Spotlight ~ Cara Putman’s Rachel & Scott with a giveaway

Meet a photojournalist and an art curator in

Cara Putman’s

historical romance

Shadowed by Grace

B & H

The Story

Desperate to save her dying mother, Rachel accepts her newspaper’s assignment to travel to Italy to capture images dangerously close to the front lines of WWII. Her real motive – to find the father she never knew — an artist she hopes can offer the comfort and support both she and her mother need to survive.

It’s an unlikely situation for love and faith to flourish, but soon Rachel not only finds herself, but also her long-lost earthly father, …

Relz Reviewz 2014 & a Bookish Question

Welcoming in a new year always has me pondering new ways of doing things on the blog and this year is no different. By the end of 2013 I was getting a little overwhelmed with all I wanted to do on the blog so in an effort to manage the blog (and my life!) a little better, I’m working on a new schedule for 2014. I’ll be posting every weekday and taking the weekends off for the most part!

Here’s the proposed schedule, give or take!!

Monday ~ Bookish Question of the Week and/or Noteworthy News

Tuesday ~ Author’s Choice …

The Girl in the Glass by Susan Meissner ~ Tracy’s Take

Publisher’s Synopsis:

Renaissance is a word with hope infused in every letter.

Since she was a child, Meg has dreamed of taking a promised trip to Florence, Italy, and being able to finally step into the place captured in a picture at her grandmother’s house. But after her grandmother passes away it falls to her less-than-reliable father to take her instead. Meg’s long-anticipated travel plans seem permanently on hold.

When her dad finally tells Meg to book the trip, she’s hopeful that the experience will heal the fissures left on her life by her parents’ divorce. Meg arrives in Florence, …

The winners are….

Dear readers ~ the dreadfully hot heatwave we have been experiencing here has been taking its toll so apologies for things being a bit quiet around here. I’ll be posting some more reviews and then will be back in action, with an updated schedule, beginning Monday 20th January. Stay tuned for more info…

For now, here are the winners of the fanatastic Tamara Leigh Age of Faith giveaway:

Robin W ~ The Unveiling

Amy C ~ The Redeeming

Katherine C ~ The Unveiling

Julie H ~ The Unveiling

Don’t miss the release of her newest novel, Lady at Arms, which …

No One to Trust by Lynette Eason

Synopsis:~

Summer Abernathy wakes up one morning to find her husband missing, three men in her home intent on finding him, and the life she’s been living based on a lie. Which Kyle Abernathy did she marry? The computer programmer she met in line at the bank? Or the one who was apparently using that image as a cover story?

The search for her husband–and answers–takes Summer ever deeper into a world of organized crime where people are used one moment and discarded the next. And with her deepest relationship of trust already shattered, Summer doesn’t know who to believe.…