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Character Spotlight ~ Sarah Sundin’s Georgie & Hutch

Meet a pharmacist and a flight nurse in

Sarah Sundin’s

World War II romance

On Distant Shores

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The Story

Lt. Georgiana Taylor has everything she could want. A comfortable boyfriend back home, a loving family, and a challenging job as a flight nurse. But in July 1943, Georgie’s cozy life gets decidedly more complicated when she meets pharmacist Sgt. John Hutchinson. Hutch resents the lack of respect he gets as a noncommissioned serviceman and hates how the war keeps him from his fiancée. While Georgie and Hutch share a love of the starry night skies over Sicily, their lives …

The Outcast by Jolina Petersheim

Synopsis:~

Raised in an Old Order Mennonite community, Rachel Stoltzfus is a strong-willed single woman, content living apart from mainstream society until whispers stir the moment her belly swells with new life. Refusing to repent and name the partner in her sin, Rachel feels the wrath of the religious sect as she is shunned by those she loves most. She is eventually coerced into leaving by her brother-in-law, the bishop.

But secrets run deep in this cloistered community, and the bishop is hiding some of his own, threatening his conscience and his very soul. When the life of Rachel’s baby …

Bookish Question of the Week

A recent enthusiastic tweet from my blogging friend Kate, from Too Read or Not Too Read, about Jody Hedlund’s latest hero, Carl from A Noble Groom got me thinking about heroes and what it is about them that appeals to readers. There are many different kinds of heroes – romantic heroes, unlikely heroes, heroes who save the day, and those that sacrifice their lives. I can think of a number of romantic heroes that I found quite captivating ~ like Kate, Jody Hedlund’s Carl, all of Ronie Kendig’s leading men but particularly Reece Jaxon from Dead Reckoning and Dane …

Patrick W. Carr ~ Pop Quiz

Husband, father, mathematician

Author of fantasy novels

A Cast of Stones ~ A Hero’s Lot ~ A Draw of Kings

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What did you do on/for your 13th birthday?

That is so long ago, I don’t really remember. But I probably checked my face for signs of hair. I remember being jealous of my older brother’s ability to grow a mustache. I remain sorely disappointed to this day.

What 3 adjectives would your friends/family use to describe your personality?

Focused (or OCD. I mean c’mon tomayto – tomahto)

Determined (or stubborn, it’s hard to tell the difference sometimes)…

Into the Whirlwind by Elizabeth Camden

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As owner of the 57th Illinois Watch Company, Mollie Knox’s future looks bright until the night the legendary Great Chicago Fire destroys her beloved city. With her world crumbling around her, Mollie will do whatever it takes to rebuild in the aftermath of the devastating fire.

Zack Kazmarek, an influential attorney for one of Chicago’s finest department stores, is a force to be reckoned with among the city’s most powerful citizens. Bold and shrewd, he’s accustomed to getting exactly what he wants–until he meets Mollie Knox, the beguiling businesswoman just beyond his reach.

In the tumult as the people …

Winter in Full Bloom by Anita Higman with giveaway

Synopsis:~

Lily Winter’s wings are folded so tightly around her daughter that when empty nest arrives, she feels she can no longer fly. But Lily’s lonely, widowed life changes in a heartbeat when she goes to visit a woman who is almost a stranger to her-a woman who also happens to be her mother. During their fiery reunion, her mother reveals a dark family secret that she’d been hiding for decades-Lily has an identical twin sister who was put up for adoption when they were just babies.

Without looking back, Lily-with her fear of flying-boards a jumbo jet and embarks …