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    Where Courage Calls Book Review

    BySharon Williams March 23, 2014March 23, 2014

    I grew up reading books by Janette Oke and have read the When Calls the Heart, Canadian West Series many times. Where Courage Calls is a new book in the same series that traces the life of Beth Thatcher, a young socialite who is ready to start her new life in the northern backcountry. She…

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  • Tide and Tempest Book Feature
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    Tide and Tempest Book Feature

    BySharon Williams March 19, 2014March 19, 2014

    ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Elizabeth Ludwig is an award-winning author whose work has been featured on Novel Rocket, the Christian Authors Network, and The Christian Pulse. Her first novel, Where the Truth Lies (co-authored with Janelle Mowery), earned her the 2008 IWA Writer of the Year Award. This book was followed in 2009 by “I’ll be…

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    Poison Town Book Review

    BySharon Williams March 18, 2014March 13, 2014

    Have you ever wondered if a company could cause an entire community to get sick with mysterious ailments and cause potential life threatening symptoms? Jack Crittendon’s reporter instinct goes on high alert when his mechanic’s family gets personally caught in the middle of cover up, illness and lies. He and his family already know way…

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    How Sweet the Sound Book Review

    BySharon Williams March 13, 2014March 13, 2014

    There are some families that just seem to have it all together; until you look closer. Sometimes what you see is not necessarily the real story. How Sweet the Sound is a book loosely based on an Old Testament character in 2 Samuel where family drama, tragedy and loss are the building blocks of a…

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  • The Dancing Master Book Review
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    The Dancing Master Book Review

    BySharon Williams February 28, 2014February 27, 2014

    When I think of the late 1700’s entertainment, I think of dancing as a common community event. But not in this small village. Alec and his family are relocating with a mysterious past they want to keep hidden. He and his family come from a line of dancing/fencing teachers so finding gainful employment as a…

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  • It Had To Be You Book Review
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    It Had To Be You Book Review

    BySharon Williams February 26, 2014February 26, 2014

    Sometimes you wake up one day and find yourself uncomfortably aware that you have invested so much of your life in someone else that you have no life of your own. That’s where Eden Christiansen found herself. Eden is writing about dead people when she wants to become a real newspaper reporter. Her whole life…

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    Scraps of Evidence Book Review

    BySharon Williams January 28, 2014October 13, 2019

    As a female police detective, Tess has a tough side. She can handle the community, hold her own and solve the problems. She has worked hard to achieve her dreams but has a soft side that the world doesn’t see. She loves to sit back and work on quilts with the ladies in the quilt…

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  • For the Love of Pete Book Feature
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    For the Love of Pete Book Feature

    BySharon Williams January 23, 2014January 24, 2014

    Widow Bethany Hanahan is trying in vain to fill an empty heart and an empty nest. The result is a home filled to the brim, but something is still missing. That’s when her new gardening club friends come to the rescue, encouraging her to let go of the past as well as the present clutter…

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  • Songs of the Shenadoah Book Feature
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    Songs of the Shenadoah Book Feature

    BySharon Williams January 9, 2014December 17, 2017

    At the onset of the Civil War, Seamus heeds his wife’s wishes to return to her beloved family farm in the South, where he takes a post as chaplain for General Stonewall Jackson’s brigade. As Seamus ministers to the troops, his sister Clare ministers in a different way—by being a powerful voice in the Northern…

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