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I am looking to interview and review authors of quality novels.Mary Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13735070825827853107noreply@blogger.comBlogger2813125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793332551228948572.post-55030080761371739182024-03-18T04:47:00.000-04:002024-03-18T04:47:26.112-04:00The Memory of Lavender and Sage by Aimie Runyan<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgET9tCsoFLuunK2oWhb6muqzf9wnSqoZkvrJBwhlLMjiWdfWHjD-aUEN33q5yfnV6Mncdyk3cfwx_QB_u2bYkLR4uIZrDJR_FErTOiAMjpLhGY9AlYdtetg4TVwAKJUBDf2ZqRQGwnMXMXgmqN4bbroBMhcZAbQsWSA9-nxQcjPyMZTlF9uYuWmmJ5aHU/s425/81GowFTUnWL._SY425_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="279" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgET9tCsoFLuunK2oWhb6muqzf9wnSqoZkvrJBwhlLMjiWdfWHjD-aUEN33q5yfnV6Mncdyk3cfwx_QB_u2bYkLR4uIZrDJR_FErTOiAMjpLhGY9AlYdtetg4TVwAKJUBDf2ZqRQGwnMXMXgmqN4bbroBMhcZAbQsWSA9-nxQcjPyMZTlF9uYuWmmJ5aHU/s320/81GowFTUnWL._SY425_.jpg" width="210" /></a></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; font-weight: 700 !important;">Perhaps the secrets of her mother’s past in this tiny French town hold the key to her own future. . .</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Food critic Tempèsta Luddington has always felt like the odd person out in her family, ever since she lost her beloved mother at the tender age of thirteen. When her workaholic father passes fifteen years later, Tempèsta is not surprised that the majority of the considerable family money will pass to her dutiful younger brother, Wal. Still, she is left a modest remembrance from her mother, and for the first time Tempèsta has a world of choices before her.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lost in grief and hoping to reconnect with her memories and her mother’s past, she uses the money to buy a ramshackle manor house in Sainte-Colombe, a small village in Provence, where her mother had grown up. But she is greeted with more questions than answers. Her welcome, especially by the town’s stodgy mayor, is cold at best, and she finds herself wondering if the entire experiment was a mistake.</span></p><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Yet she stays, stubbornly sticking it out, slowly learning that her mother’s legacy was more than just a nest egg. Through her mother and the village, Tempèsta learns the value of community and friendship, the importance of self-confidence, and the power of love and trust. What’s more, she sees for herself that there is magic and beauty in the everyday—even something as simple as a sprig of lavender and sage.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Pick up your copy here... </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Memory-Lavender-Sage-Aimie-Runyan/dp/1400237254/ref=sr_1_1?crid=HNMJFSGI9FWL&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.zxS1xuE6DPHhptYlWpU4w7aIeqASxplxAOIhk4gCI4S7x4epnLQ6vZdZ9bTWXLfy1DwA2cXdPf01meHTPaCrZrw7r26-kr8ZsZxv76lkbyQ.MKnSjUP1HW6pE9tIX-sIIOjKrRZ4AKTOIVd1cgPAtyM&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+memory+of+lavender+and+sage&qid=1710520081&sprefix=The+Memo%2Caps%2C124&sr=8-1" style="background-color: transparent;">The Memory of Lavender and Sage: Runyan, Aimie K.: 9781400237258: Amazon.com: Books</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrQOwT-aV8nuPCjG7iR-XYv7KZ8laKhXwEg3s8x0mgxDOwjcFwxRUpcZf2dAHLqp_Cit07n2nJzhTCBIJ1oPWZDMUJdeN2WAiWMrERKu3CJVV-q1JX7JCT2K2wNjMWXYYiW9y3ECn6hY5qDkNbQUpKvRUH0kxYeu7Ibu0x19YE5x9efppGGlT_NwrSGAg/s600/m10mngj8qurhsa83vdra5e4fv3._SY600_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrQOwT-aV8nuPCjG7iR-XYv7KZ8laKhXwEg3s8x0mgxDOwjcFwxRUpcZf2dAHLqp_Cit07n2nJzhTCBIJ1oPWZDMUJdeN2WAiWMrERKu3CJVV-q1JX7JCT2K2wNjMWXYYiW9y3ECn6hY5qDkNbQUpKvRUH0kxYeu7Ibu0x19YE5x9efppGGlT_NwrSGAg/s320/m10mngj8qurhsa83vdra5e4fv3._SY600_.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Aimie K. Runyan writes to celebrate history’s unsung heroines. She has been honored as a Historical Novel Society Editors’ Choice selection, as a three-time finalist for the Colorado Book Awards, and as a nominee for the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writer of the Year. Aimie is active as an educator and speaker in the writing community and beyond. Her next books, The Castle Keepers (in collaboration with J'nell Ciesielski and Rachel McMillan) and A Bakery in Paris will release in 2023 from Harper Collins. Also from Harper Collins, Aimie's contemporary Women's Fiction debut, The Memory of Lavender and Sage, will release in early 2024. She lives in Colorado with her amazing husband, two (usually) adorable children, two (always) adorable kitties, and a dragon. To learn more about Aimie, please visit www.aimiekrunyan.com. </div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #1e1915;">Let's talk about this cover for a second. Is that not just gorgeous! Do you feel like you don't fit in? Even in your own family, if you answered yes then you are going to love this main character, Tempesta. You will relate to her. This book was such a good read.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="color: #1e1915;">Mary Reader received this book from the publisher for review. A favorable review was not required, and all views expressed are our own.</span></span></b></div>Mary Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13735070825827853107noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793332551228948572.post-10095341739442731622024-03-15T05:03:00.001-04:002024-03-15T05:03:15.310-04:00I Could be Wrong But I Doubt It by Phil Robertson<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8WY5PR7v2zkrfs4fwqY8IDA3H7fOqsGCmOuW4iM7OMQKudrnIWb1Isx9LYN5RPswaW4L2VdwrMuKfG7UCS4GM0jSoV-8Og8yFno3CGHAnjuLyb0YdJUNqYeMK521yjqYIwu8eDOBjCyusTQRV1N2mm5a5qrUWkMwubGPUwz4vsJWgM1IR-0vF3k9z7uw/s425/81Qid+IP8NL._SY425_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="283" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8WY5PR7v2zkrfs4fwqY8IDA3H7fOqsGCmOuW4iM7OMQKudrnIWb1Isx9LYN5RPswaW4L2VdwrMuKfG7UCS4GM0jSoV-8Og8yFno3CGHAnjuLyb0YdJUNqYeMK521yjqYIwu8eDOBjCyusTQRV1N2mm5a5qrUWkMwubGPUwz4vsJWgM1IR-0vF3k9z7uw/s320/81Qid+IP8NL._SY425_.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">Discover the completely unique qualifications and accomplishments of Jesus Christ--the Creator of everything, the King who will set you free, and the best friend you could ever have.</span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Over nearly five decades of walking with God, podcaster, author and </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Duck Dynasty</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> star Phil Robertson has learned a thing or two about why Jesus is the only one worth following. Of all the things we could put our trust in, only Jesus has the answers to our questions and the solutions for our problems.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Plenty of people claim to have the answers for a better life. Politicians claim they can fix our nation. Scientists and technologists trumpet the latest and greatest discoveries that'll make everything right. Self-help gurus offer one pathway to peace after another. But it's no secret that our world is increasingly divided and broken--and we've got the fear, anxiety, and hopelessness to prove it. Jesus alone can make good on the promise of lasting peace, real freedom, and life eternal.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">With his trademark directness, humor, and insight, Phil will help you</span></p><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">experience Jesus as the Creator and all-powerful Sustainer of all creation;</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">reconcile your own brokenness and sinfulness with Jesus’ unending well healing, forgiveness, and peace;</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">develop the eyes to see Jesus for who he really is: the friend who will always be there for you, no matter what mistakes you've made; and</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">look to the Bible to get to know Jesus and better understand His grace and love for you.</span></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Politics won't save you. Science can't give you the power to sidestep death. The pleasures and joys of this world are fleeting at best, damaging counterfeits at worst. But Phil has good news for you: Jesus offers life, joy, and peace, and he's never more than a prayer away.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Pick up your copy here... </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Could-Be-Wrong-But-Doubt/dp/1400230187/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1P90LV6IXE95H&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.cnDRdwtIzdNjuc0VzZUYBvxiv3iRSkG2C5RG7SNMO5CzmAsp3QVHVMdiDthz0l6mZTjESIOaGgxD4UO-6OqwKSshAgjDR8j7_iVKMMAmTlJztbdE2BheJR2XJYpF0w24KPOiomXw0AQfniROmQaO2JZjP-iHgLIvYOMqrAAPjCF8bqHHabNRfENkqK5oUuNimec90Ps2zWku20wSGYoCLAO9QQwPyiLzF_UhyPrGkR8.X3wVfLTQXDYq5wYdtqRYCTy4WbOr4ebP0O9z4e09CfQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=i+could+be+wrong+but+i+doubt+it&qid=1710430669&sprefix=I+could+be+wrong%2Caps%2C120&sr=8-1#customerReviews" style="background-color: transparent;">I Could Be Wrong, But I Doubt It: Why Jesus Is Your Greatest Hope on Earth and in Eternity: Robertson, Phil, Dasher, Gordon: 9781400230181: Amazon.com: Books</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKw9s1oDwCc9o7_06qYD7Xxkuod66Qa_M0jE7pFq1eZ36uwMn0WfOWuTNBSNsPHrdFZzyyxTtZ4sSrfTtCgTtB0avIenA7-MEU2YVagRjCAXCb7WTX54LPl2uHGA3A0EXluDMBd2rKg5oRjoWoWWfNd4WbV_exGiLgDFw43ByhLtNvNPkOkX73atVfpLY/s400/4i4a9v8ul8gcvt9j1ss2mll2qs._SY600_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKw9s1oDwCc9o7_06qYD7Xxkuod66Qa_M0jE7pFq1eZ36uwMn0WfOWuTNBSNsPHrdFZzyyxTtZ4sSrfTtCgTtB0avIenA7-MEU2YVagRjCAXCb7WTX54LPl2uHGA3A0EXluDMBd2rKg5oRjoWoWWfNd4WbV_exGiLgDFw43ByhLtNvNPkOkX73atVfpLY/s320/4i4a9v8ul8gcvt9j1ss2mll2qs._SY600_.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">Phil Robertson is a professional hunter who invented his own duck call and founded Duck Commander. He also starred in the hit A&E series Duck Dynasty and is now the co-host of the hugely popular podcast Unashamed with Phil & Jase Robertson.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">Phil is the New York Times bestselling author of Uncanceled; Jesus Politics; The Theft of America’s Soul; Happy, Happy, Happy; and UnPHILtered. He and his wife, Kay, live in West Monroe, Louisiana. He has five children, 19 grandchildren, and 13 great-grandchildren. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><b>My Thoughts...</b></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="color: #1e1915;">In this day and time, we all need hope. And Mr. Robertson gives us a look at that hope in his newest book. This is one to take your time and read and let it all sink in. Full of Scripture and sound advice this is a must read.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="color: #1e1915;">Mary Reader received this book from the publisher for review. A favorable review was not required, and all views expressed are our own.</span></b></span></div></div>Mary Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13735070825827853107noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793332551228948572.post-55374666104800894782024-03-14T04:46:00.001-04:002024-03-14T04:46:42.556-04:00Letters of Wisdom by Wanda Brunstetter GIVEAWAY!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgchhXuR8Y3G-5dj_zt99Xxf1sR6XlwPQe7dAzO1P_8zOWdhPWjqIMbAoNZujNTLD3YXK-m8sGEPeTMQPWL1gDfo9ZRFcb8U9mKqqBXYHhWOBgWkoGvYUljhDThkU1eYmFGRuBElHHl1PhNcpt3PBAGdJs7FtorQuqBfw1Z3kUvH9NDyi2qcFK1mMouTzI/s445/51NkoZbt03L._SY445_SX342_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="292" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgchhXuR8Y3G-5dj_zt99Xxf1sR6XlwPQe7dAzO1P_8zOWdhPWjqIMbAoNZujNTLD3YXK-m8sGEPeTMQPWL1gDfo9ZRFcb8U9mKqqBXYHhWOBgWkoGvYUljhDThkU1eYmFGRuBElHHl1PhNcpt3PBAGdJs7FtorQuqBfw1Z3kUvH9NDyi2qcFK1mMouTzI/s320/51NkoZbt03L._SY445_SX342_.jpg" width="210" /></a></div><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important; font-weight: 700 !important;">Letters and Prayers Between Friends Become a Balm for Healing</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Irma Miller thought having a family of her own would bring her joy and a sense of accomplishment, but she struggles with memories of the abuse she suffered as a child at the hand of her stepfather. When she becomes physically and emotionally abusive to her own children, she reaches out to her friend Doretta for prayer and wisdom. But Irma may find herself at an even darker emotional place before she will admit she needs professional help to heal the past traumas. Will Doretta’s letters of wisdom help Irma and her family, or will too much be broken to ever be repaired? </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Pick up your copy here...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Letters-Wisdom-Friendship-3/dp/1636096220/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3VUTAZ00KVWR8&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1jHjy8NbeUwHTcA9S04AMpBrw6dFP4GTarjp_M6lKPvGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.enn6L9U5ywkBCQsO_brY_INitSwUZ5shCG0kdxJZ93g&dib_tag=se&keywords=letters+of+wisdom+brunstetter&qid=1709913660&s=books&sprefix=Letters+of+wis%2Cstripbooks%2C89&sr=1-1">Letters of Wisdom (Friendship Letters, 3): Brunstetter, Wanda E.: 9781636096223: Amazon.com: Books</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK575M4JfIL5SWpIzVsmD8RuhK8Q2Qhn5RMN0LPzF65HsRjBqCrTMYBAYfODYJbX90VhF_75dqdV9e3n_jFZaRwUT6WM9Tc4AinThCRzD9ntYcVoIfao2s3pic6QFoXEqKxzoCfQum-ePY_mHp8-AdUxJDteAB-lk62Du29mE18kb8m2i8L0p8Mc2RGaU/s601/2dpc42mf5fd41qi5m5fifh7m1o._SY600_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="601" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK575M4JfIL5SWpIzVsmD8RuhK8Q2Qhn5RMN0LPzF65HsRjBqCrTMYBAYfODYJbX90VhF_75dqdV9e3n_jFZaRwUT6WM9Tc4AinThCRzD9ntYcVoIfao2s3pic6QFoXEqKxzoCfQum-ePY_mHp8-AdUxJDteAB-lk62Du29mE18kb8m2i8L0p8Mc2RGaU/s320/2dpc42mf5fd41qi5m5fifh7m1o._SY600_.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">Wanda Brunstetter is an award-winning romance novelist who has led millions of readers to lose their heart in the Amish life. She is the author of over 100 books with more than 12 million copies sold. Many of her books have landed on the top bestseller lists, including the New York Times, USA Today, Publisher's Weekly, CBA, ECPA, and CBD. Wanda is considered one of the founders of the Amish fiction genre, and her work has been covered by national publications, including Time Magazine and USA Today.</p><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">Wanda's fascination with the Amish culture developed when she met her husband, Richard, who grew up in a Mennonite church, and whose family has a Pennsylvania Dutch heritage. Meeting her new Mennonite sister-in-laws caused Wanda to yearn for the simpler life. In their travels, she and her husband have become close friends with many Amish people across America. Wanda's desire to explore their culture increased when she discovered that her great-great grandparents were part of the Anabaptist faith.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">All of Wanda's novels are based on personal research intended to accurately portray the Amish way of life. Many of her books are well-read and trusted by the Amish, who credit her for giving readers a deeper understanding of the people and their customs.</p><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Wanda's primary attraction to the Amish is their desire to live a devout Christian life that strives to honor God, work hard, and maintain close family ties. Whenever she visits her Amish friends, Wanda finds herself drawn to their peaceful lifestyle, sincerity, and close family ties, which is in stark contrast to the chaos and busyness that plagues so many modern "Englishers." Time and time again, Wanda loses her heart in the Amish life, and she hopes her readers will, too. For more information, visit: www.WandaBrunstetter.com </div></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #1e1915;">It's not often that an Amish fiction author writes about a tough topic such as abuse. So, this was a new take on Amish Fiction and Brunstetter did it with so much love. This is one Amish book you might want to read.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="color: #1e1915;">Mary Reader received this book from the publisher for review. A favorable review was not required, and all views expressed are our own.</span></span></b></div>Mary Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13735070825827853107noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793332551228948572.post-2329958301933195952024-03-13T04:46:00.000-04:002024-03-13T04:46:44.952-04:00What Color is God's Love? by Xochitl Dixon<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7uezFDF7znDffLKbLiLNHad2wZi_wJjqviGOvWoIEeVactW6Dml6ryBhRo0dQyh21phZdVgmsqpM2ok6qQeD6dOHNGDljm4GqC-P1U0xxHcjVFIZbN6FRmRyotRJNfvXjAiStC6CwYcBQ3FHbY5UJZbTtsEHNgVDHXxz8cxWDzcXZiZTfVkemiCpTnz0/s425/A1FfAezQX9L._SY425_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="425" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7uezFDF7znDffLKbLiLNHad2wZi_wJjqviGOvWoIEeVactW6Dml6ryBhRo0dQyh21phZdVgmsqpM2ok6qQeD6dOHNGDljm4GqC-P1U0xxHcjVFIZbN6FRmRyotRJNfvXjAiStC6CwYcBQ3FHbY5UJZbTtsEHNgVDHXxz8cxWDzcXZiZTfVkemiCpTnz0/s320/A1FfAezQX9L._SY425_.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">This playful rhyming picture book invites young readers to discover all the ways God’s love can be displayed through a rainbow of colors.</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;">All the colors displayed in this world that God made—</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;">every glorious, fabulous, beautiful shade—</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;">show how good God is and will always be.</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;">But what is the color of love? Come and see!</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">God created all the colors in the world, and in each one, we can discover how great His love is for us and how we can let that love shine to others! With each turn of the page, the focus shifts to a specific color—orange, yellow, blue, green, pink, black, white, gray, brown, red, purple—and explores a different attribute and expression of love through its many shades. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Pick up your copy here...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/What-Color-Gods-Xochitl-Dixon/dp/0593579011/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1NAIKWXLUQUNS&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.rNbD5xGe5MwJX4ZmCdqQmQ.qLFkc18z3R7SB1VgfbchjTDpHwGddb9QI-5CqP4UgRQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=what+color+is+god%27s+love+xochitl+dixon&qid=1709891316&s=books&sprefix=what+color+is+gods+love+xochitl+dixon%2Cstripbooks%2C93&sr=1-1">Amazon.com: What Color Is God's Love?: 9780593579015: Dixon, Xochitl, Varma, Darshika: Books</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHRov5694jISQ67Lj78WR23wPRtiyjYbgVr1dhyphenhyphenXdXLBzfH1PDGv_p1oFKfxIRcizhkRV0aTMMLUfLztPwTllqE5QFyq_TBscSt667BiUeZlKdfY_ircAOtaauuC7bUXNGmPdzQaKdVp9P7AKZRQ6ZBDRAsFlAPvefSjAc-xbf1JALiKuhNdITYmZtR4s/s600/jqv14qldsc80d0arvolbshisti._SY600_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHRov5694jISQ67Lj78WR23wPRtiyjYbgVr1dhyphenhyphenXdXLBzfH1PDGv_p1oFKfxIRcizhkRV0aTMMLUfLztPwTllqE5QFyq_TBscSt667BiUeZlKdfY_ircAOtaauuC7bUXNGmPdzQaKdVp9P7AKZRQ6ZBDRAsFlAPvefSjAc-xbf1JALiKuhNdITYmZtR4s/s320/jqv14qldsc80d0arvolbshisti._SY600_.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">Xochitl (So-Cheel) E. Dixon is a disabled, Mexican Christian author, speaker, wife, mom, and grandma, who loves Jesus and people. She celebrates diversity, advocating for inclusion and disability awareness with her service dog, Callie.</p><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">As a regular contributor to Our Daily Bread (www.odb.org) and God Hears Her (www.godhearsher.org), and in her first devotional, Waiting for God: Trusting Daily in God’s Plan and Pace (2019), Xochitl crosses international, cultural, and generational lines with hope-filled, biblical encouragement and Scripture-based prayers that inspire spiritual growth through authentic community.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">Her first picture book, Different Like Me (2020), also available in Spanish (Diferente como yo, 2022), is a 2021 Evangelical Christian Publishing Association Christian Book Award Finalist. Her second picture book, What Color is God’s Love? (WaterBrook & Multnomah, 2024), is available for pre-order now!</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">Connect with Xochitl here, on Facebook and Instagram, and at www.xedixon.com.</p></div>Mary Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13735070825827853107noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793332551228948572.post-70022308697409646362024-03-12T04:46:00.000-04:002024-03-12T04:46:30.382-04:00Love, Unscripted by Denise Hunter<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjye08aHo14V5HlAGwclO1jrhqqm1PTmD9SUPEX7eoX_JXMXpjifeYof45dS37YeYGAFJyWqp_yIjyRiljTkGUi-spJke8abooDn0tCGnulRhVd0DtM6_sF_89eHRdKQw-R7agYV6F0n2YKb2HSCssuTmJ5ZxVdpw08L3awTSVtlLwX_dqQ2bYvokwY0uo/s425/819A4vtbDXL._SY425_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="279" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjye08aHo14V5HlAGwclO1jrhqqm1PTmD9SUPEX7eoX_JXMXpjifeYof45dS37YeYGAFJyWqp_yIjyRiljTkGUi-spJke8abooDn0tCGnulRhVd0DtM6_sF_89eHRdKQw-R7agYV6F0n2YKb2HSCssuTmJ5ZxVdpw08L3awTSVtlLwX_dqQ2bYvokwY0uo/s320/819A4vtbDXL._SY425_.jpg" width="210" /></a></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;">The perfect boyfriend only exists on paper…doesn’t he?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fresh off the heels of a bad breakup, Chloe Anderson poured her heart into penning the perfect boyfriend—and the result was an off-the-charts debut beach read that resonated with women worldwide. Now, Chloe’s scripted hero is headed for Hollywood, with her book destined to become a major motion picture.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">When Chloe gets wind that silver screen bad boy Liam Hamilton has been cast as the ideal-in-every-way hero of her novel, she’s horrified by the film director’s choice. How could a player like Liam possibly do Chloe’s perfect hero justice? Unafraid to speak her mind, Chloe lets her executive producer know she’s one hundred percent opposed to the casting. And oops—the call is on speakerphone, where the annoyingly attractive Hollywood star hears Chloe’s unbridled outrage firsthand.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">With Liam’s reputation already on the rocks, his agent concocts a PR plan to upgrade Liam’s image while putting the story—and the film—in the spotlight. The catch? During the movie’s filming in Chloe’s cute hometown of Stillwater, North Carolina, Chloe and Liam will fake a wholesome, committed relationship. Both stand to gain something from the arrangement. Liam’s fans will see him in a new light, while Chloe can boost her struggling social media following and further her writing career. What could possibly go wrong?</span></p><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">As author and actor navigate the waters of the PR relationship, they’re unprepared when their professional agreement turns into an actual friendship. And when serious sparks start to fly—well, that’s an unread chapter for both of them.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Pick up your copy here... <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Love-Unscripted-Denise-Hunter/dp/0840716656/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1WZOVX6QFLCS8&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9._GQnpTadn6DLDEpxRc9N_ZOcwUp9DkrXmGyZNrYR-dLPBXY8-W5b-nuF8TqEQDn7DQaGQd2KldZVAKb8nZeVnMnaRlNRfAVI5G7azyWi8lY.cEPTDlT3eHRLvjgD-IpxK1yro6TGJZePX8BG3BDzzxk&dib_tag=se&keywords=love%2C+unscripted+denise+hunter&qid=1709914158&s=books&sprefix=Love%2C+unsc%2Cstripbooks%2C247&sr=1-1" style="background-color: transparent;">Love, Unscripted: Hunter, Denise: 9780840716651: Amazon.com: Books</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzBmqPLMmuPRRPlAFU-IqYfPR68WDY_-9OgBqqeiUgqvJS8arnFmyOK_-9j1CiG4p51BTbhX1DjR9cdSRqQV1ZOC_gFJPNcyjq0M_2SeMd6SgJl3QxJPvS6lK3heUnBWqLbFW4rflEvIv2qrEprcMW_rwFvPnAmtm9AbxQZFQmeFlpnW5JjXbSvuhl8wE/s600/fcdg5ogk7696p4pim8jfde293s._SY600_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="446" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzBmqPLMmuPRRPlAFU-IqYfPR68WDY_-9OgBqqeiUgqvJS8arnFmyOK_-9j1CiG4p51BTbhX1DjR9cdSRqQV1ZOC_gFJPNcyjq0M_2SeMd6SgJl3QxJPvS6lK3heUnBWqLbFW4rflEvIv2qrEprcMW_rwFvPnAmtm9AbxQZFQmeFlpnW5JjXbSvuhl8wE/s320/fcdg5ogk7696p4pim8jfde293s._SY600_.jpg" width="238" /></a></div><br /><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" class="placeholder" height="20" id="56da2f89ac1d4" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/transparent.gif" style="background-color: #d8d8d8; background-image: url('https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/i/materialiconsextended/insert_photo/v6/grey600-24dp/1x/baseline_insert_photo_grey600_24dp.png'); background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; opacity: 0.6;" width="20" /></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">Denise Hunter is the internationally published bestselling author of more than forty novels, three of which have been adapted into Hallmark movies. She has appeared on the The 700 Club and been featured in Southern Living and Woman's World.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">Denise writes heartwarming, small-town love stories, peopled with layered characters who have real-life issues. Her readers enjoy the vicarious thrill of falling in love and the promise of a happily-ever-after sigh as they savor the final pages of her books.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">In 1996, inspired by the death of her grandfather, Denise began her first book, writing while her children napped. Two years later it was published, and she's been writing ever since. Her husband says he inspires all her romantic stories, but Denise insists a good imagination helps too!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">When Denise isn't orchestrating love lives on the written page, she enjoys traveling, drinking chai lattes, hiking, and playing drums. Denise makes her home in Indiana where she and her husband raised three boys and are currently enjoying an empty nest and two beautiful granddaughters.</p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">You can learn more about Denise through her website www.DeniseHunterBooks.com or by visiting her FaceBook page at https://www.facebook.com/authordenisehunter </div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #1e1915;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">What a sweet romance. The setting in North Carolina just happens to be my state that was a plus but Liam and Chloe were the perfect couple. They were so easy to connect with. Liam was the perfect boyfriend not just on paper does he exist. I love this story was about a book turn movie. This is a must read.</span></b></span></div></div>Mary Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13735070825827853107noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793332551228948572.post-22523484689065025492024-03-11T04:46:00.000-04:002024-03-11T04:46:31.983-04:00Eight Weeks Later G. T. London <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKwqi7xj7NrmPJrrESBrUSyFt5XI970hB-bmaCgrwfXt1ZznXQqNKUSc3zs4RKNMlnx8AyYl9YGpWnOXi_KKd8XBD_CfJIJDMfBTBFFcohXcmEYxTlUdzLpG7Br2l2-QhKTMno7peP-HIn-Ih96hLsWvjEObsRFFc_fZuUxcIps48id4Qhqup6ZOxuCDM/s425/810TdQXRLrL._SY425_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="266" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKwqi7xj7NrmPJrrESBrUSyFt5XI970hB-bmaCgrwfXt1ZznXQqNKUSc3zs4RKNMlnx8AyYl9YGpWnOXi_KKd8XBD_CfJIJDMfBTBFFcohXcmEYxTlUdzLpG7Br2l2-QhKTMno7peP-HIn-Ih96hLsWvjEObsRFFc_fZuUxcIps48id4Qhqup6ZOxuCDM/s320/810TdQXRLrL._SY425_.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">A key to paradise isn’t the same thing as entry.</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />After a tumultuous childhood, Roy Fernsby now runs a quaint London coffee shop that his friends frequent, cycles on Sundays . . . and keeps his distance from romantic relationships. Though Roy’s charming and well-liked, being single suits him—if only because it helps him avoid the sting of abandonment. Besides, Roy likes his life exactly as it is.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Then a lawyer in Hawai’i calls Roy to inform him that he’s just inherited a beach house in Nalu from his grandparents. There’s just one problem: a former foster child, Roy never knew he had grandparents.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Roy doubts this newly discovered “family” ever cared about him. But a tropical island—complete with a beach house inheritance—beckons. He takes a chance and flies to Hawai’i, expecting to stay a week and sell the beach house. Fast. What he isn’t anticipating is the resentment and painful childhood memories that resurface as he uncovers the roots of a close-knit family he never knew he had. Why didn’t any of these folks, whom everyone adored, look for him?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Then he meets Amy, a former New Yorker and single mother who works as a snorkeling guide. Though the pair are from opposite worlds—literally—and neither is looking for a relationship, their connection is instant, and they’re soon spending a lot of time together.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Roy tells himself that Amy’s only a nice distraction, even as he falls for her. But Amy has her own secrets . . . and a hidden agenda that involves Roy and his beach house.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">As Roy grapples with life-changing secrets regarding his past, he must make difficult decisions about his present: Can he embrace his roots and let go of resentment? Can he trust Amy? Can he stay and seek the truth about where he belongs—no matter the cost to his guarded heart? </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4Hi_nTKj1aR36-RBIXpO3eeUuRRIC7tu9OVqmBlMM6o41rxUfAoF1SyTZaz8WomHXcTiUjTUALHID4pc3jyJbH1xILoyLoJgzNU4e_uigrKwy4D1p48MswyK2lDvb_1vsAmJ_VmZjZXQnHGD2nFHosNMAEoMCrfGC4IgMzq8vjgVsNAx4h2i8NcxXWb4/s600/p1mtbapv87hofhp9g4iv8grnti._SY600_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4Hi_nTKj1aR36-RBIXpO3eeUuRRIC7tu9OVqmBlMM6o41rxUfAoF1SyTZaz8WomHXcTiUjTUALHID4pc3jyJbH1xILoyLoJgzNU4e_uigrKwy4D1p48MswyK2lDvb_1vsAmJ_VmZjZXQnHGD2nFHosNMAEoMCrfGC4IgMzq8vjgVsNAx4h2i8NcxXWb4/s320/p1mtbapv87hofhp9g4iv8grnti._SY600_.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">G.T. London is a contemporary romance novelist who crafts love stories infused with secrets, mystery, and suspense. Characters often venture far from home, whether in pursuit of self-discovery, a new place to belong, life-changing decisions, or escaping their past or present. Bold leaps define their journeys, and all facets of love are explored in her stories.</p><div><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">For most of her adult life, she embraced the vibrant energy of the bustling city of London and dedicated herself to making a difference as a business and leadership coach, consultant, and trainer in both the UK and Canada.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">She holds an MBA from Warwick Business School in the UK and has served as a guest lecturer for MBA students. Now a full-time writer, she has published articles for Entrepreneur and Training magazines, and she also mentors at business schools internationally.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">G.T. London now lives in Hawai’i with her author husband and partner-in-adventure, Jason. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Pick up your copy here...</span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Eight-Weeks-Later-G-T-London-ebook/dp/B0CTHQWX65/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3VKU36ZFIQY9Q&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.b59u-xhRiWfhENn6Oa1CYw.XrN7amWP3WX8g7IIjIMckaHESc7fpM7mwYJ6ctZp1K4&dib_tag=se&keywords=Eight+weeks+later+by+g+t+london&qid=1709914916&s=books&sprefix=eight+weeks+later+by+g+t+london%2Cstripbooks%2C107&sr=1-1">Eight Weeks Later: A Novel - Kindle edition by London, G.T.. Romance Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.</a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">This one I was on the fence about the writing style was not my usual writing style that I like to read. But the story kept me engaged and I loved the romance and the characters. So glad I stayed with this one in the end the story really was a good one.</span></b></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Mary Reader received this book from the publisher for review. A favorable review was not required, and all views expressed are our own.</span></b></div></div></span></div>Mary Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13735070825827853107noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793332551228948572.post-18272388082376981742024-03-07T04:47:00.000-05:002024-03-07T04:47:17.358-05:00The Last Verse by Caroline Frost<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPTTci0bwg0gX9PyDmbA9PLyQmDAnRImT4bF5uPycGP7put82LGAMoMBXilI-x2iMVHWGiysyA_BsxF7IxP3vNepTKqKphN9T-sxKPLqZ52ij1yNxw7PCx9GtBTOUbdE3OjSZXiMECHPRx8yOZlEOGJDMUjeA05-XgBA-LmYSPKLUBPeeoO0jjpwgqQoU/s425/91wJOwnDZFL._SY425_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="280" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPTTci0bwg0gX9PyDmbA9PLyQmDAnRImT4bF5uPycGP7put82LGAMoMBXilI-x2iMVHWGiysyA_BsxF7IxP3vNepTKqKphN9T-sxKPLqZ52ij1yNxw7PCx9GtBTOUbdE3OjSZXiMECHPRx8yOZlEOGJDMUjeA05-XgBA-LmYSPKLUBPeeoO0jjpwgqQoU/s320/91wJOwnDZFL._SY425_.jpg" width="211" /></a></div><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">Set in the country music world of 1970s Nashville, a struggling musician writes a hit song that both promises her long-sought-after fame and implicates her in a heinous crime. </span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; font-weight: 700 !important;">Nashville, 1977: A broken heart. A terrible crime. A song the world would sing.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">When aspiring musician Twyla Finch arrives in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1977, the nineteen-year-old Texan is dazzled by the fringe-and-rhinestones country music scene. Live music flows from bars, open mic nights tempt with the chance of stardom, and record label execs seek the next hot new act.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">As Twyla finds her way in this vibrant town, she soon falls for Chet Wilton, country music hopeful and son of blue-blooded Nashvillians. When a night out with Chet goes terribly wrong, Twyla finds herself involved in a shocking crime. Hoping to process what happened that fateful night, she composes a haunting ballad that she performs only once in an empty bar. But weeks later, when she turns on the radio, she hears another woman singing her song.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Twyla must decide: Should she claim her ballad and secure the fame she’s always wanted? Or stay quiet and avoid implicating herself in the terrible crime she’s desperate to put in the past?</span></p><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Seductive and bold, tense and unflinching, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">The Last Verse</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> is the story of a woman’s ambitions, obsessions, and determination to claim her voice.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Pick up your copy here...</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Last-Verse-Novel-Caroline-Frost/dp/0063265486/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2U32JPH5AUNLB&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.oTqQymnVk-Lg5zTYbV-k7iGN9XlZmb-LrH9uwpqeNhFNsGm6X0NnBRxQOHZaDB4Dh2TwYoBJo7untefkJj2kZQ.ITIu7y7tvhMp7T25DFKhWmtqewBikIlwz8IoCZ93q6Y&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+last+verse+caroline+frost&qid=1709646314&sprefix=The+Last+Verse%2Caps%2C132&sr=8-1">Amazon.com: The Last Verse: A Novel: 9780063265486: Frost, Caroline: Books</a></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9yr5GZw5h2Ay4OdlDy9SoQX5oIR8Y0QCw99Us76_zg6uc0G_rInf9wy5zir782VZBaWeNN5QkcoF1dHbEAxy_N1giswUOqKR6z2E01mMo6y-6ewO9sU_NQzY8WufMJG6e7ZemQK-2oOiOXL55dxU9boOlHnE_NXTY27h_eqEmj_cEsBSBFncrLrsWAGs/s600/drtq4gboe686g6nuq6f8u6gl7f._SY600_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9yr5GZw5h2Ay4OdlDy9SoQX5oIR8Y0QCw99Us76_zg6uc0G_rInf9wy5zir782VZBaWeNN5QkcoF1dHbEAxy_N1giswUOqKR6z2E01mMo6y-6ewO9sU_NQzY8WufMJG6e7ZemQK-2oOiOXL55dxU9boOlHnE_NXTY27h_eqEmj_cEsBSBFncrLrsWAGs/s320/drtq4gboe686g6nuq6f8u6gl7f._SY600_.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Caroline Frost has a Master of Professional Writing from the University of Southern California and is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Although she currently resides in California with her husband and three young children, her roots in Texas run deep. SHADOWS OF PECAN HOLLOW is her first novel.</div>Mary Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13735070825827853107noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793332551228948572.post-16503368132657494092024-03-06T04:45:00.000-05:002024-03-06T04:45:39.549-05:008 Down by Kimberley Woodhouse<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtm_RWNH-S23ykU-T48SN96aBvaeQDdAe5taHP46QuFS9LLrIm_JwJOdWgQSz_msErT1JytoSkKIyQbEreeTntRuDqPcLvMfpGtZwbLUVNK1kX01pC3_SbDbUXQSHR9x4wciVJATu4vbnEQCpWBKvhsOFWR7OPnvPbOqjJLSTAIFvEuBOqnBXIXb2qIxs/s425/91fnQiUMyqL._SY425_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="275" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtm_RWNH-S23ykU-T48SN96aBvaeQDdAe5taHP46QuFS9LLrIm_JwJOdWgQSz_msErT1JytoSkKIyQbEreeTntRuDqPcLvMfpGtZwbLUVNK1kX01pC3_SbDbUXQSHR9x4wciVJATu4vbnEQCpWBKvhsOFWR7OPnvPbOqjJLSTAIFvEuBOqnBXIXb2qIxs/s320/91fnQiUMyqL._SY425_.jpg" width="207" /></a></div><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;">bodies down.</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;">8 more lives at stake.</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Investigator Carrie Kintz is new blood with the Alaska Bureau of Investigation in Anchorage. But with a serial killer on the loose, there's no easing into the job. It's sink or swim. The only clues to help law enforcement stop this madman are the taunts he drops into crossword puzzles across the country--always in the same 8 DOWN position.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Carrie is desperate to prove her worth to the force and the community by catching the killer. But when she discovers signs that these deaths are just the tip of the iceberg in a frighteningly elaborate cyberattack, it's time to admit she needs help.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Calling in security specialist Scott Patteson for his expertise seems like the right move--until Carrie realizes that he may be a dangerous distraction for her heart. With her faith fading in the face of horror and uncertainty and her career in danger of ending, this is no time for flirtation.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">But with a killer who is determined to prove that he's smarter than everyone else, it may be impossible to fight both the madman and their feelings for each other . . .</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Pick up your copy here...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Down-Alaskan-Cyber-Hunters/dp/0825447739/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.b5XdMiZ30087aMYAD5gCVqUPd7oKwO9K23GTnGbgzUy2CyL9ez87e3SN1a1NtENMf6JFcnyHzlq_eeXI--PAfPsn_30IW1cHsRE8bejvfaU.hvKxsZjyIz79EK9CTW19ivfz_iTL9y8gTlQxbyqW1TM&qid=1709645859&sr=8-1">8 Down (Alaskan Cyber Hunters, 2): Woodhouse, Kimberley: 9780825447730: Amazon.com: Books</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghWREoiGEom_-sgN5i5mfJoKne9ZLyKXB2nTDjwtTvl1UwjJsAPehWCL-CtXY37utG6WifrF4AEXm1hz6wjztESlhX-J_lT8edw0Sj0Oqr8xtplSBPMK945rcxNERxH7xLClvoH-maLQQxXpDD24P5DEjb7BtXL6emPObwh-SGXsO_g_xvD1WvYieOlZc/s600/gr6mutk8h02pqe3iau8p87kpbr._SY600_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghWREoiGEom_-sgN5i5mfJoKne9ZLyKXB2nTDjwtTvl1UwjJsAPehWCL-CtXY37utG6WifrF4AEXm1hz6wjztESlhX-J_lT8edw0Sj0Oqr8xtplSBPMK945rcxNERxH7xLClvoH-maLQQxXpDD24P5DEjb7BtXL6emPObwh-SGXsO_g_xvD1WvYieOlZc/s320/gr6mutk8h02pqe3iau8p87kpbr._SY600_.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">Kimberley Woodhouse is the best-selling and award-winning author of more than two dozen books. She is a wife, mother, author, and musician with a quick wit and positive outlook despite difficult circumstances. A popular speaker, she's shared at more than 2,000 venues across the country. Kimberley and her family's story have garnered national media attention for many years including ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, The Montel Williams Show, Discovery Health channel's Mystery ER, The Hour of Power, The Harvest Show, and over 1,000 other TV appearances and radio interviews. She lives and writes in the Poconos with her husband of thirty years. kimberleywoodhouse.com</p><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">Find Kim on twitter and facebook:</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">twitter.com/kimwoodhouse</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">author fan page Kimberley Woodhouse</p></div>Mary Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13735070825827853107noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793332551228948572.post-30683298905091797102024-03-05T04:49:00.000-05:002024-03-05T04:49:27.171-05:00Till Human Voices Wake Us by Rebecca Roque<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHGOaf0fBIGWvtOsUcCRrXt2OnRGjmUiaBZPqfwZsC9DfuXWmhQZbt-7g0Ep-khBqY-fDP_JdUSqqh83iDBDSEzoSg9zklsLfs2EGK92giRGN81gmapB3Sb3Jf287ukvHo-5hFrXZjJJiBANaNgHrOIFckry1TSPJOXU3isXeJinljWcfbBAL8yrywYy8/s425/91CDzsT7-bL._SY425_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="266" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHGOaf0fBIGWvtOsUcCRrXt2OnRGjmUiaBZPqfwZsC9DfuXWmhQZbt-7g0Ep-khBqY-fDP_JdUSqqh83iDBDSEzoSg9zklsLfs2EGK92giRGN81gmapB3Sb3Jf287ukvHo-5hFrXZjJJiBANaNgHrOIFckry1TSPJOXU3isXeJinljWcfbBAL8yrywYy8/s320/91CDzsT7-bL._SY425_.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Seventeen-year-old Cia lived in a house of secrets until she was five, when her father literally burned it all down. The price of his clandestine operation? Cia's entire family, and her leg. So, when her best friend Alice says she has a secret too, Cia wants nothing to do with it--even if it could shed light on her family's dark past. But Alice doesn't let go so easily, especially when her search for answers might help find Noah, the boy who broke her heart before going missing two months ago.</span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">But then the police find Alice's body floating in the quarry.</span></p><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Now Cia would give anything to know Alice's secrets. Because Alice would never have jumped, no matter what the cops think. Desperate to figure out what happened to her friend, Cia picks up the threads of Alice's investigation, plunging deep into a shadow world of augmented reality. As she untangles one web of lies after another, Cia finds herself pursued by an enemy that will pay any price to keep their secrets buried. But the girl who already lost everything isn't about to back down now. Her only chance to avenge Alice lies in exposing an underground society preying on those they think no one will miss--but danger lies closer to home than she imagined.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Pick up your copy here...</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Till-Human-Voices-Violet-Trilogy/dp/B0CCW982NN/ref=sr_1_1?crid=20UV3ECSXSD9L&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.BNV8z7PfSWL1to_mHpnyknHeJoOA7v-JdfkrPXeyKt8.D0d7S79kQI7wSYya7miNfP62JDVDiCM-H6v312EvvkQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=till+human+voices+wake+us+rebecca+roque&qid=1709591662&sprefix=till+human+voices%2Caps%2C153&sr=8-1">Amazon.com: Till Human Voices Wake Us (The Violet Hour Trilogy, Book 1): 9798212631051: Rebecca Roque: Books</a></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQSa-Pilzi2qi0sRGfjOgnYlg2JAkcGrjijjpEA2dTTozvKCljCBZ2s_kGln_gWebG-Cnt6LKr3N_AU2wfTI_JFyLhDKerSulfy8oX0cjQ1lARN-IgEamk7iN5lymjsYBcaSUbTHWhizjteyCbFIVUdqmGUoYZOykfkYvGehlrS-XwFi9_e2j6jEO3qc8/s600/8qfn09u5p6v26mujen33qn15m3._SY600_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQSa-Pilzi2qi0sRGfjOgnYlg2JAkcGrjijjpEA2dTTozvKCljCBZ2s_kGln_gWebG-Cnt6LKr3N_AU2wfTI_JFyLhDKerSulfy8oX0cjQ1lARN-IgEamk7iN5lymjsYBcaSUbTHWhizjteyCbFIVUdqmGUoYZOykfkYvGehlrS-XwFi9_e2j6jEO3qc8/s320/8qfn09u5p6v26mujen33qn15m3._SY600_.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">Rebecca Roque comes from a long line of proudly ungovernable women. After graduating from Rush University, she hit the ground running as a critical care nurse, often finding herself at the crossroads of the most fascinating human stories. When she isn’t annoying her neighbors by luring everything feathered, furred, and feral to her backyard, Rebecca enjoys true crime podcasts and hiking in places true crime podcasters would probably advise against. Till Human Voices Wake Us is her debut novel.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">http://www.rebeccaroque.com</p></div>Mary Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13735070825827853107noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793332551228948572.post-69785446888225766692024-03-04T04:25:00.000-05:002024-03-04T04:25:23.312-05:00The Skinny Sweet Air Fryer Cookbook by Ella Sanders<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTlqKLtV1o20KLuT8fb8yYb8__gLlebu-HaT2Y8Q65_BCUQ1FrwsCAC8ClmnwvBKP8hXVOyB79k22v_pJ71LOVJ5mUSNJ6gwlnkxOqSlkrriC3fpacutmyHD6vzhHBE-OPQ8eM5sMJoLdKpaVH5M-_Ykjywc0bH8qd5gqPmJpOpDO41Os-c46meiTG7D8/s425/91+hMxkcDcL._SY425_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="349" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTlqKLtV1o20KLuT8fb8yYb8__gLlebu-HaT2Y8Q65_BCUQ1FrwsCAC8ClmnwvBKP8hXVOyB79k22v_pJ71LOVJ5mUSNJ6gwlnkxOqSlkrriC3fpacutmyHD6vzhHBE-OPQ8eM5sMJoLdKpaVH5M-_Ykjywc0bH8qd5gqPmJpOpDO41Os-c46meiTG7D8/s320/91+hMxkcDcL._SY425_.jpg" width="263" /></a></div><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">Have your cake and FEEL GREAT!</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Now you can say </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;">yes</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> to dessert! Let your air fryer whip up dreamy indulgences with a fraction of the fat and calories of traditionally prepared desserts. Packed with 75 luscious yet light recipes, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;">The Skinny Sweet Air Fryer Cookbook</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> makes it easy to treat yourself and reach weight-loss goals faster. You’ll stick with healthy habits while you enjoy slimmed-down classics and new favorites to satisfy your sweet tooth, including:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />- Apple Cider Doughnuts<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />- Frosted Fruit Toaster Tarts<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />- Vanilla Dream Mini Cupcakes<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />- Easy Tiramisu<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />- Chocolate Cheesecakes<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />- Strawberry Shortcake<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />- Glazed Lemon Cookies<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />- Maple-Almond Biscotti<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />- Apple Crostata<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />- Mini Pumpkin Pies<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">With smart macro and calorie counts for every recipe, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;">The Skinny Sweet Air Fryer Cookbook</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> is like having your own nutritionist and pastry chef. Get ready to enter dessert heaven with tempting flavors and perfect portions to keep you feeling amazing!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Pick up your copy here,,,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Skinny-Sweet-Air-Fryer-Cookbook-ebook/dp/B0C1X7JDG8/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1WKTWQX4L6R30&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.wTCu5Lgla1eRHoD8T4FHUT5I8UiLCE_Udir3CClEIC7GjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.qUrevz-N1DvQLjWUTCh4AK609yr6uE6lIh_oZUB82qw&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+skinny+sweet+air+fryer+cookbook+by+ella+sanders&qid=1709483297&sprefix=The+Skinny+sw%2Caps%2C117&sr=8-1">The Skinny Sweet Air Fryer Cookbook: 75 Guilt-Free Recipes for Doughnuts, Cakes, Pies, and Other Delicious Desserts - Kindle edition by Sanders, Ella. Cookbooks, Food & Wine Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Read the title of the cookbook. You would think no flour no sugar all healthy ingredients nope all the recipes have flour and sugar so it not a cookbook of heathy snacks by no means. I was very disappointed in this one. The pictures all look great so that's a plus.</span></b></span></div><p></p>Mary Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13735070825827853107noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793332551228948572.post-69315833513004108492024-02-29T12:23:00.004-05:002024-03-03T12:07:07.461-05:00Worthy by Jamie Kern Lima GIVEAWAY!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtDozzlmhhAijWXRoEO7J9PG4Xw9TjnDA68hHgggKIm4D1kh7JZc77a1I7ZYyeIIGQBv6TCeYqX_GZXLCS69mEyUGK5gAGYkcy6ifsRn0S5qYPvTsKZOKJa7nX5o49pTrmMxgsteaPq_nE5w5ew8arQaBwWyQQx12H8RWZUbeO0E3MQbMowJzUIMBQQOk/s974/423454971_337704958650678_2800956689528716010_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="974" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtDozzlmhhAijWXRoEO7J9PG4Xw9TjnDA68hHgggKIm4D1kh7JZc77a1I7ZYyeIIGQBv6TCeYqX_GZXLCS69mEyUGK5gAGYkcy6ifsRn0S5qYPvTsKZOKJa7nX5o49pTrmMxgsteaPq_nE5w5ew8arQaBwWyQQx12H8RWZUbeO0E3MQbMowJzUIMBQQOk/s320/423454971_337704958650678_2800956689528716010_n.jpg" width="246" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <span>I had to share this book with my people. The people who know the good the bad and the ugly. These ladies jumped right on board and started this life changing, transforming, journey with me. It gave me the confidence I needed to dive in headfirst and put this book first in my very busy daily life. I read and wrote notes and underlined the whole time I was reading and prayed that this would help me.</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b> Reading this book is like sitting with Jamie and you and your best friend hitting all the deep pent-up emotions that need lots of work.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>I want every girlfriend and every one of my female followers to grab a copy of this book. If you have been following me, you know I read a lot. This is the best nonfiction, self-help book I have read. It really hits home for me.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b> So, join me and my favorite people and get your copy and come back and tell me how much your self-confidence has changed.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b> Let's all hold each other accountable and help lift each other up!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Get your copy at your local Target if they are not sold out already or....</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Get your copy here...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Worthy-Believe-Enough-Transform-Pre-Order/dp/140197760X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1NTNDGQFTNTXO&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.dLmddu6ZoojqXUkeY0sJsDNvHIUxNsnw3bNqyS_xHmoXmUMWqJx63aln0vJS2NIg0jgqtCLKElkK9Ps-T716SVgCkms237-yecrtr8esbBu50pSwiB86bYsFFR2R4hnECPWppFU2E9UAITlUnUNnd6-95LrEA9HIf7Tz6BbZ9hgahc7DfSbsTmsK32iIQ2eHUQSlB4cLd6Wc05GZUwT3tZXe50mKo-jD2-lP3ChFFYg.61jkm54UK5DbikK0KRLjBhdf6u5DKPlij8SJ4Ebq07A&dib_tag=se&keywords=worthy+jamie+kern+lima&qid=1709226255&sprefix=worthy%2Caps%2C113&sr=8-1">Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life: Kern Lima, Jamie: 9781401977603: Amazon.com: Books</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKkiCR_yx3qqRdUcfS22MRqofKWTIjF4pWRE1Q-EcfiXXeG6NMZv1U4SMz-A_qyEg1ciugd3IXRk2z6swXw1lkswD6azOmEKBZJWpv-QvzmA0gsllo_RO6Ux_17VhUVnwqzvYpxU5LE5tOva1RG0ZG8j6a2SyJDJ7AVOBRaq8E5_GnPovKIENYXDLF7mM/s425/71WwD1Uw8QL._SY425_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="289" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKkiCR_yx3qqRdUcfS22MRqofKWTIjF4pWRE1Q-EcfiXXeG6NMZv1U4SMz-A_qyEg1ciugd3IXRk2z6swXw1lkswD6azOmEKBZJWpv-QvzmA0gsllo_RO6Ux_17VhUVnwqzvYpxU5LE5tOva1RG0ZG8j6a2SyJDJ7AVOBRaq8E5_GnPovKIENYXDLF7mM/s320/71WwD1Uw8QL._SY425_.jpg" width="218" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="a-text-bold" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">What has self-doubt already cost you in your life? </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;">WORTHY</span><span class="a-text-bold" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;"> is how you change that.</span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Imagine what you'd do, if you FULLY believed in YOU! When you stop doubting your greatness, build unshakable self-worth and embrace who you are, you transform your entire life! WORTHY teaches you how, with simple steps that lead to life-changing results!<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;">"</span><span class="a-text-bold" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">In life, you don't soar to the level of your hopes and dreams, you stay stuck at the level of your self-worth.</span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;"> In your business, leadership, relationships, friendships and ambitions, you don't rise to what you believe is possible, you fall to what you believe you're worthy of. When you build your self-worth, you change your entire life. </span><span class="a-text-italic" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic;">WORTHY</span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;"> teaches you how. </span><span class="a-text-bold" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">I wrote </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;">WORTHY</span><span class="a-text-bold" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;"> for YOU if you have some self-doubt to destroy and a destiny to fulfill!</span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;">" </span><span class="a-text-italic" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic;">- Jamie Kern Lima</span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Author Jamie Kern Lima's first, instant </span><span class="a-text-italic" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic;">New York Times</span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;"> bestselling book </span><span class="a-text-italic" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic;">Believe It, </span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;">captured her journey of going from </span><span class="a-text-italic" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic;">Denny's</span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;"> waitress to billion-dollar entrepreneur by learning to believe in herself. And now her second, much anticipated, upcoming book </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;">Worthy</span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;">, is the playbook for how </span><span class="a-text-bold" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">YOU</span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;"> can </span><span class="a-text-bold" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">believe in</span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span class="a-text-bold" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">YOU</span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;">! <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span class="a-text-bold" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">If you've ever struggled with self-doubt, felt like you don't have what it takes...or that who you </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;">truly</span><span class="a-text-bold" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;"> are isn't enough, even if you're really good at hiding it from the world, </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;">WORTHY </span><span class="a-text-bold" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;"> is for you. </span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;"> If you've been underestimating your talent and gifts, or battle imposter syndrome, </span><span class="a-text-italic" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic;">WORTHY</span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;"> is for you. If you've been letting fear of failure and rejection hold you back, </span><span class="a-text-italic" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic;">WORTHY</span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;"> is for you. If you've learned to please others so much that you end up betraying yourself, </span><span class="a-text-italic" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic;">WORTHY</span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;"> is for you. If you're sick and tired of what self-doubt has already cost you in your life, in your goals, in your relationships, and in your hopes and dreams, </span><span class="a-text-italic" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic;">WORTHY</span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;"> is for you! If you're ready to </span><span class="a-text-bold" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">expand your self-love</span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;">, </span><span class="a-text-bold" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">ignite your self-confidence</span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;"> and </span><span class="a-text-bold" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">wakeup your self-worth</span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic;">WORTHY </span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;">is for you!!<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span class="a-text-bold" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">When you change what you believe you're worthy of, you change your entire life. </span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span class="a-text-bold" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;"> </span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />This book is about how to do that.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />IN </span><span class="a-text-italic" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic;">WORTHY</span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;"> YOU'LL LEARN HOW TO... <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div><p></p><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Get Unstuck from the Things Holding You Back</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Build Unshakable Self-Love</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Unlearn the Lies the Lead to Self-Doubt</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Embrace The Truths That Wakeup Worthiness</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Stop Dimming Your Light and Doubting Your Greatness</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Let Go of Past Mistakes and Restore Self-Confidence</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Overcome Limiting Beliefs and Embody Empowering Ones</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Eliminate Your Fear of Rejection and Failure</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Learn to Believe You're Enough Exactly as You Are</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Transform the Meaning You Give to Your Own Story and Identity</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Follow the Roadmap for Achieving True Fulfillment in Life</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Achieve Your Hopes and Dreams by Believing You Are Worthy of Them</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Embrace Who You Truly Are</span></li></ul><div><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;">And much more...<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Are you ready to unleash your greatness and believe in the power that is YOU? Are you ready to </span><span class="a-text-italic" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic;">finally</span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;"> stop believing the lies that you're unlovable, unqualified or not </span><span class="a-text-italic" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic;">(fill in the blank)</span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;"> enough? Are you ready to triumph over the thoughts holding you back, destroy self-doubt and truly know and believe you have what it takes to accomplish your greatest goals and wildest dreams? <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Imagine...what would you do if you had zero self-doubt and unshakable self-worth? What would you do if you fully believed in YOU? Join Jamie's VIP Insider Book Launch team at </span><span class="a-text-bold" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">WorthyBook.com </span></div><div><span class="a-text-bold" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHHQEzQufC_hGLL2k1DrxrfZ_sZrAv4RksUa8FZ2J0JwiKJqMSqCyJaFSoiD82a5su5csa7FlXyGpM9T9DZ9iMbbfUzMDARO5inKcTNWKN_CWMRL69oerqUemOQ41jHbjw2Kxm4KSgoQljqhIOOq7MEag4LM5nK53DKN3K907M9tcWnbZ1xCKENPJe734/s600/vrck8r6kil37pdhghtp7mk32e9._SY600_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHHQEzQufC_hGLL2k1DrxrfZ_sZrAv4RksUa8FZ2J0JwiKJqMSqCyJaFSoiD82a5su5csa7FlXyGpM9T9DZ9iMbbfUzMDARO5inKcTNWKN_CWMRL69oerqUemOQ41jHbjw2Kxm4KSgoQljqhIOOq7MEag4LM5nK53DKN3K907M9tcWnbZ1xCKENPJe734/s320/vrck8r6kil37pdhghtp7mk32e9._SY600_.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span class="a-text-bold" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="a-text-bold" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #0f1111;"><b>Meet gorgeous Jamie....</b></span></span></span></div><div><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-weight: 700;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400;">Jamie Kern Lima is an American entrepreneur, billion dollar business success story, champion of women, philanthropist, culture-shifter and highly sought-after keynote speaker. Jamie is a New York Times bestselling author of Believe IT: How to go from Underestimated to Unstoppable, guest teacher of the Life You Want class live with Oprah Winfrey, and Founder of IT Cosmetics, a company she started in her living room and grew to the largest luxury makeup brand in the country. She sold the company to L'Oréal in a billion-dollar deal and became the first female CEO of a brand in its 100+ year history. Her love of her customers and remarkable authenticity and belief eventually landed her on the Forbes America's Richest Self-Made Women list. She's been a Denny's waitress, a struggling entrepreneur, lived a life-long journey of rejections, and has battled her way through years of self-doubt, body-doubt and God-doubt. She was given away at birth and adopted and has been on a journey of learning to believe she's here with purpose, on purpose and for a purpose and is worthy, lovable and enough. She's the author of the new book WORTHY: How to Believe You Are and Transform Your Life. She's a mother of two and an active investor, speaker, and thought leader who is passionate about inspiring and elevating women. She's also an active philanthropist who has funded leadership training in more than 100 prisons and shelters across the United States, and has donated over $40 million in product and funds to help women face the effects of cancer with confidence. She's donating 100% of her author proceeds for both WORTHY and Believe IT. Pre-Order WORTHY now to get bonuses including an invite to join Jamie's VIP Insider Book Launch team JamieKernLima.com and WorthyBook.com</span></span></div><div><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-weight: 700;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-weight: 700;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwz_i1dqGCZIUMfoSub_n1ccUaOpa7ZDoiBhrYx7m8YkbEvRnulaZ-3Bm30JFXd2PUFvyeH2vVGJoVP3D38uZS5yAYxGfZNvcx8u-XGwUAZeLETVQMaj0c6jtGEufU8m0Oz7ivG5Eed1pVxNY8W-fgqaxowMA-jSVggNYE-IogkKPM6ZGsPiQKifUOcww/s970/12ed642b-f7f3-474c-ab75-64c0ee2b3982.__CR0,0,970,300_PT0_SX970_V1___.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="970" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwz_i1dqGCZIUMfoSub_n1ccUaOpa7ZDoiBhrYx7m8YkbEvRnulaZ-3Bm30JFXd2PUFvyeH2vVGJoVP3D38uZS5yAYxGfZNvcx8u-XGwUAZeLETVQMaj0c6jtGEufU8m0Oz7ivG5Eed1pVxNY8W-fgqaxowMA-jSVggNYE-IogkKPM6ZGsPiQKifUOcww/w640-h198/12ed642b-f7f3-474c-ab75-64c0ee2b3982.__CR0,0,970,300_PT0_SX970_V1___.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span></div>Mary Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13735070825827853107noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793332551228948572.post-19356310931523493012024-02-28T04:54:00.000-05:002024-02-28T04:54:11.728-05:00My Name Was Eden by Eleanor Barker-White<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhycQAI-oF35x_aZcnpVOCm3wdbcIbxRQtKTI2biurhstB3zwje67DZeOM-NgPoIg56u8SzWo1tfj_pCzP3MnCAUjTK3fgGvcOId2xe-4bdYp915Qa5hFVgW217pdRCU59mSDO92ps1mvQJMdhf5kLISgoI_oYydz00F13bfUeeeCIal0tqT2Z6-MYxu34/s425/81ciloJi4bL._SY425_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="280" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhycQAI-oF35x_aZcnpVOCm3wdbcIbxRQtKTI2biurhstB3zwje67DZeOM-NgPoIg56u8SzWo1tfj_pCzP3MnCAUjTK3fgGvcOId2xe-4bdYp915Qa5hFVgW217pdRCU59mSDO92ps1mvQJMdhf5kLISgoI_oYydz00F13bfUeeeCIal0tqT2Z6-MYxu34/s320/81ciloJi4bL._SY425_.jpg" width="211" /></a></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; font-weight: 700 !important;">One twin vanished. The other twin remained. Until now...</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">When her daughter Eden came home from the hospital, Lucy was profoundly relieved. Eden had survived a drowning incident and had no apparent brain damage, no serious injuries, not even a scratch on her. Lucy fervently welcomed having a second chance at being the good mother she should have been before her teenager’s accident.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Until Eden tells her that Eden </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">isn’t</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> her name. Until she starts calling herself Eli. The name Lucy had reserved for Eden’s unborn twin.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Don’t worry</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, says the doctor. </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Eden is completely fine</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, says her husband. </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Of course I’m fine</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, Eden says, with that strange new smile of hers. </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">I didn’t die. I’m here</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</span></p><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">But Lucy knows something’s very wrong with Eden. She’s not her maddening, complicated teenage girl anymore—this straight-backed, even tempered, steady-eyed child in her house is someone else entirely. Eden, it seems, is the twin who disappeared…</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Pick up your copy here....</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/My-Name-Was-Eden-Novel/dp/0063341298/ref=sr_1_1?crid=JPYIO3LI9BOQ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MZ6_Xdgt2_zsPgjTc9XrKg.HLkOXGdn3fRU5ugVt4wrbgWUq5_0izA-pczVUskDae4&dib_tag=se&keywords=my+name+was+eden+eleanor+barker-white&qid=1709050142&sprefix=My+Name+is+eden%2Caps%2C123&sr=8-1">Amazon.com: My Name Was Eden: A Novel: 9780063341296: Barker-White, Eleanor: Books</a></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKI4Qr6oqo7t0QW_Pin7QitUvfkuRETBMTm2C4iuC0JVxiGaQ68B4wk2mVVCVNGF2pid8yf8LY7LJcqA09dC1dP-Ecfi5Rj-O3255cUTCwp_8_pEaPJzJ3hG8pFzim415f4nndC7i3wlRbdHhl7sivsr5u1ONKTJnm9rNWD6nG2ZPOtZIT33IK7gypRGc/s200/35542488.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="200" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKI4Qr6oqo7t0QW_Pin7QitUvfkuRETBMTm2C4iuC0JVxiGaQ68B4wk2mVVCVNGF2pid8yf8LY7LJcqA09dC1dP-Ecfi5Rj-O3255cUTCwp_8_pEaPJzJ3hG8pFzim415f4nndC7i3wlRbdHhl7sivsr5u1ONKTJnm9rNWD6nG2ZPOtZIT33IK7gypRGc/s1600/35542488.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="tabpanel pb-0 pt-0" role="tabpanel" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #21282d; float: left; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.88235; min-height: 1px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 3rem; padding-top: 2.25rem; width: 53.75rem;"><div aria-hidden="true" class="tabpanel" id="ProductDetailsTab" role="tabpanel" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.88235; min-height: 1px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 3rem; padding-top: 2.25rem; width: 53.75rem;" tabindex="-1"><h2 class="text--center mb-s" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Poynter, Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.875rem; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 1.5rem !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: small; outline-color: initial !important; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px;">Eleanor Barker-White</span><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"> holds an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa university. In 2017, she was shortlisted for the Janklow and Nesbit Prize, and has had a number of short stories published in </span><em style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: 400; outline-color: initial !important; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px;">Best of British</em><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"> and </span><em style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: 400; outline-color: initial !important; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px;">The People’s Friend</em><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"> magazines. She has previously worked with children and families in family courts, His Majesty’s Prison service, and children’s charities, and remains fascinated by the endless capacity for human resilience. She was born and raised in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, but now lives in Wiltshire with her husband and four children. </span><em style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: 400; outline-color: initial !important; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px;">My Name Was Eden</em><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"> is her first novel.</span></h2></div></div></div>Mary Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13735070825827853107noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793332551228948572.post-86903741327072349872024-02-27T04:49:00.000-05:002024-02-27T04:49:28.032-05:00 Open by Nate Klemp<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZRuqDGe4yULPCctrArDVeV9YIyPiyLTqh4owiMj2dUA7LjK_qM3Bak0M8xFPuqq8wgREA2SsC8oX5v3mM6HeKwxpsY4AdfLfcRB3HCS2X0DmB3Z48CR9N9rjI0SrY09UktkpZi_lT1WcPUjpoAeqT7tUDKanfBseh4Xyjkf8fZsgpUbtzh86tecB7488/s425/71FUBwZNwoL._SY425_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="283" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZRuqDGe4yULPCctrArDVeV9YIyPiyLTqh4owiMj2dUA7LjK_qM3Bak0M8xFPuqq8wgREA2SsC8oX5v3mM6HeKwxpsY4AdfLfcRB3HCS2X0DmB3Z48CR9N9rjI0SrY09UktkpZi_lT1WcPUjpoAeqT7tUDKanfBseh4Xyjkf8fZsgpUbtzh86tecB7488/s320/71FUBwZNwoL._SY425_.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br /> <span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">With the avalanche of information we get every day, closing down our minds and hearts seems to be the only way to survive. We close down to our inner experience by compulsively checking our devices. We close down to others by getting caught in echo chambers of outrage. But what if there’s another way? What if being more open to life is actually what brings us sanity and happiness? In this climate of distraction and division, Nate Klemp’s </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;">Open </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">offers a path back to a way of living that is expansive, creative, and filled with wonder.</span><p></p><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Drawing on new science, age-old practices, and personal stories, Klemp examines why we close down when faced with stressors or threats, then reveals how we can train ourselves to open up to the fullness that life offers―even when frightened, outraged, or heartbroken. Join him to explore:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• The uniquely modern challenges that make closing down easier and more tempting than ever<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• Experiential stories of psychedelic-assisted therapy, opening to political adversaries, meditation, and other tools for opening the mind<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• The Three Shifts of Opening―how to break the habit of mind wandering, approach instead of withdraw, and enlarge the size of your perspective<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• The Open Toolkit―a treasury of meditations, investigations, and habit-changing practices to open your mind<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Expanding the size of the mind may sound subtle ―yet the results can utterly transform our lives. “When we open to life,” says Klemp, “we’re no longer stuck in here fighting against our thoughts on the inside or a crazed world on the outside. We’re connected. Our minds and lives get bigger. There’s more room, more perspective, more possibility. This is what it means to be free.”</span><div><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Pick up your copy here...</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Open-Living-Expansive-Distracted-World/dp/1649631480/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2U60VQ6T8J75S&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.yiRf9wL1CpZh4HIrsfGEoi4ZjEf3cRBJejpVDbGikIbGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.lY8jFMhuUSl4ehF-F6QSy1bX8pfeo67XTtFMH441ARM&dib_tag=se&keywords=open+by+nate+klemp&qid=1708972182&sprefix=Open+by+%2Caps%2C113&sr=8-1">Open: Living with an Expansive Mind in a Distracted World: Klemp, Nate: 9781649631480: Amazon.com: Books</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx7fvtAkcdAvvQIsAzg2PT86zdEJeWMy93Q8CBpy-HzR4A0p5p4SvWuUaafjlZlcXB7lRa_OwfqaVXMNX9g1rDLJ6rne3eqRalE9BUL7Ls1yLlV1B-XMsPsQoIadc-EmuFSg682nPHPonHCqHgxlkPD60rbjqLU7KzkPIstvldRAifIvSoNQeSLuIDjFw/s600/uc51soesahsoitbqq02ibhu24g._SY600_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx7fvtAkcdAvvQIsAzg2PT86zdEJeWMy93Q8CBpy-HzR4A0p5p4SvWuUaafjlZlcXB7lRa_OwfqaVXMNX9g1rDLJ6rne3eqRalE9BUL7Ls1yLlV1B-XMsPsQoIadc-EmuFSg682nPHPonHCqHgxlkPD60rbjqLU7KzkPIstvldRAifIvSoNQeSLuIDjFw/s320/uc51soesahsoitbqq02ibhu24g._SY600_.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">Here's a quick recap of the 40 or so years of my life.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">I grew up in Boulder. I went to college at Stanford, where I got hooked on jazz and philosophy. There, I made the "pragmatic" decision to become a philosopher rather than a jazz musician in an attempt to learn how to live the good life.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">I then got an MA at Stanford, followed by a PhD at Princeton in political philosophy. At the end of 10 years of intense philosophical training, I didn't exactly achieve my goal of realizing human flourishing through philosophy. Instead, I burned out.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">I ended up working as an assistant professor at Pepperdine for four years, where I wrote The Morality of Spin, a book about the ethics of political rhetoric.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">Then, I left my cushy tenure-track job in 2012 to continue exploring this crazy idea of philosophy as a way of life. That's when I met Eric Langshur, my cofounder at LifeXT, a mindfulness training company that brings optimal wellbeing to the workplace. After 8 years, we ended up merging with Mindful Magazine to become Mindful (the world's leading mindfulness media and training company).</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">Together, Eric and I also coauthored the NYT bestseller Start Here: Master The Lifelong Skill of Wellbeing.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">In 2021, my wife Kaley Klemp and I wrote a book about relationships in the modern age called The 80/80 Marriage: A New Model for a Happier, Stronger Marriage. The book was published by Penguin Random House and was selected by the NY Times as an Editors' Choice.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">You'll now find me writing a new book called OPEN: Living With an Expansive Mind in a Distracted World, which will be published by Sounds True Press in February, 2024.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">You'll also find my on Instagram, where I'm exploring short videos on meditating in the wild, and on YouTube, where I'm offering mindfulness instruction.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">When I'm not doing all that, you'll find me hiking in the hills of Boulder, meditating in odd places, and still playing a little jazz on the piano.</p></div>Mary Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13735070825827853107noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793332551228948572.post-12049927681164704812024-02-22T04:06:00.000-05:002024-02-22T04:06:14.197-05:00All You'll See Is Sky by Janet Wilson<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUo1KGC2wxTphF8TDbUtubLKavKJMfXIXaiFLqnXv_-Gba-DCcwxiVKdaox-5uPMF3roXgJLGbQd6S2IaDZtoFsYoiSlkmxsmTOfLExscKMWfjMYvn1uwr__Xn4VkZJhHDIt7HX6BfcgkSR1FlasGBfTUN-QHsreePns1UYy4ggvD_6PzazoKoE5iEi90/s445/51DEXXzFhbL._SY445_SX342_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="288" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUo1KGC2wxTphF8TDbUtubLKavKJMfXIXaiFLqnXv_-Gba-DCcwxiVKdaox-5uPMF3roXgJLGbQd6S2IaDZtoFsYoiSlkmxsmTOfLExscKMWfjMYvn1uwr__Xn4VkZJhHDIt7HX6BfcgkSR1FlasGBfTUN-QHsreePns1UYy4ggvD_6PzazoKoE5iEi90/s320/51DEXXzFhbL._SY445_SX342_.jpg" width="207" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Despite having everything she could ask for, Janet Wilson couldn’t shake a sense of emptiness in her life—or her desire to return to the continent of her birth. After much back-and-forth, she and her husband reached an agreement: they would embark on a daring adventure, driving 25,000 miles across Africa. What they couldn’t anticipate then was how this trip would challenge almost every belief, opinion, and value they held.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Over the course of their journey, Janet and her husband collided with the world and each other. There were tears and laughter. They shared thrilling highlights and challenges that forced them to negotiate and cooperate with one another. And after a heartbreaking tragedy and Janet’s arrest, they made critical decisions that transformed their relationship, bringing them to a level of trust and commitment they had never before experienced. Ultimately, this led them to a deeper understanding about their place in the world—and each other’s lives.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">A suspenseful and emotional true account that explores themes of love, commitment, resilience, and the power of forgiveness in the face of adversity, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;">All You’ll See is Sky</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> is a memoir of a woman’s transformation from brokenness to wholeness and a couple's transformation from breakdown to breakthrough.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Pick up your copy here...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/All-Youll-See-Sky-Resetting/dp/1647426448/ref=sr_1_1?crid=HICJ1ICMJS2C&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.jKVVD61YXH7ZoKXwuVNkAkp73qN1AYIW67sls4PyYUfNmMAMc6ftNlEIAPz3So-2ZU933qVEcUeLUrDynbkieI1y3x_7M7BurEhzLtovfyTveTny8K5rHR7-zr5IQjinj8ITHTafvCGdu0BuHvPX9ZjGYOM2zdL4G_jwXXxqpO-tvm21YA12lJxBJetDPxz_k2gecqKMZ8Gvrhu2qMJCc_GJqrar9pLvLdiJslGNpGY.aFKl525azh5DoYAn9hYDWe1LAHjKqVXH4kcJ_tJw3j4&dib_tag=se&keywords=all+you%27ll+see+is+sky&qid=1708541459&sprefix=All+you%27ll+see%2Caps%2C148&sr=8-1">All You'll See Is Sky: Resetting a Marriage on an Adventure Through Africa: Wilson, Janet A.: 9781647426446: Amazon.com: Books</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwiLZX5F5depHgL2x6vgOGsvhKPSmb0Us9eQUdGiiCMjCBksEy8DgjPpveHc8BKWvPEqccv-GlQ9IlQHqNOkRxSdqPDGc759thcDc4kQ7ra2szHR3DnmIPfZlAqI5DdZN5_VCcpx01vVODXrx6LuCImt7vivz9wiUb1o-oZ5nc7mvctSWeLvX-EX9pjP0/s600/u2s4efbb4bpk33id8i16nh6rqj._SY600_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwiLZX5F5depHgL2x6vgOGsvhKPSmb0Us9eQUdGiiCMjCBksEy8DgjPpveHc8BKWvPEqccv-GlQ9IlQHqNOkRxSdqPDGc759thcDc4kQ7ra2szHR3DnmIPfZlAqI5DdZN5_VCcpx01vVODXrx6LuCImt7vivz9wiUb1o-oZ5nc7mvctSWeLvX-EX9pjP0/s320/u2s4efbb4bpk33id8i16nh6rqj._SY600_.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Janet A Wilson was born and raised in South Africa. She has a fierce love for the continent's wilderness, wildlife, and the rich diversity of cultures and people. She lived in the wilderness, as her husband was an exploration geologist. Surrounded by wildlife, no running water, no electricity, and a toddler, Janet loved their lifestyle. But unwilling to support apartheid, they immigrated to Canada with their sons in 1979. But she always retained her desire to return to Africa and explore the continent. Janet has experienced three extensive overland travels across Africa with her husband. The couple have also driven from Alaska to Argentina. She lives in Calgary, Canada. She graduated with a degree in sociology and nursing and obtained her Master’s in Health Administration.</span></div><p></p>Mary Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13735070825827853107noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793332551228948572.post-16771789247164451762024-02-21T04:49:00.000-05:002024-02-21T04:49:31.043-05:00The Quilt Room Secret by Lisa Jones Baker<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Lj8hISwyNqCA7Jnf5TvjNeh6DbELMbCaa99K-YOzJ2nL9H6FVDuRZX5eqbmc7ZOr5zWY-rTXsD1I5y6zHq3Z_Ghe0NIxhGVadlKxx-coS1PvHZjn2LU8dN9eAG8mRngiUuVZLXCasjUb_F-RzEZm2BjHyUrTPl1T8dsOqcJsWzRM9XKRRidZfYj32C0/s425/81MWdD0KkPL._SY425_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="279" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Lj8hISwyNqCA7Jnf5TvjNeh6DbELMbCaa99K-YOzJ2nL9H6FVDuRZX5eqbmc7ZOr5zWY-rTXsD1I5y6zHq3Z_Ghe0NIxhGVadlKxx-coS1PvHZjn2LU8dN9eAG8mRngiUuVZLXCasjUb_F-RzEZm2BjHyUrTPl1T8dsOqcJsWzRM9XKRRidZfYj32C0/s320/81MWdD0KkPL._SY425_.jpg" width="210" /></a></div><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">Trini Holds Secret Dreams for Her Future</span><p></p><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;">Full of faith, hope, and romance, this new series takes you into the Heart of Amish country.</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />As they took turns pushing each other on the swing that hung from a large tree, the mature—for a five-year-old—Jacob Lantz asked Trini Sutter to marry him. The nine-year-old thoughtfully responded that she’d consider his proposal when they were older.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Nearly two decades later, the Amish farmer returns to the beautiful countryside of Arthur, Illinois, to take the independent owner of The Quilt Room up on her promise. Quiet, handsome Jacob is truly in love with the spirited list maker, and Trini finds herself falling in love with Jacob, but the youngest of eleven has big plans of her own.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Jacob’s long-held aspirations are put to the test when he learns that Trini has been holding a secret. He prays for a turnaround of events; however, when Trini moves away from her tight-knit community, he begins to realize that his dream of them being Mr. and Mrs. most likely won't happen.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Will Trini forfeit her own well-laid plan for the man of her dreams?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Pick up your copy here...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Quilt-Room-Secret-Heart-Amish/dp/1636097758/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3S4MDRK2N3X1W&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.pTCIbO-qx_m9H7f88SpcMijfVWg5hMbbi7HsCUrFGb4wygwMnornq6TqW07qvG8GaDMrr3iPZSayzbVUCJZAMDy0Dtq1TmpVzugv3eWJPEeY_jguZUzzAATnJoKynnd6OZbMp7Ln_mcSBQ-9LBklNNrsOuW9Dn4IfvZ60iuak7-n4re6sobw5Re7gxxZdxsRb2KH4iI5qJZ7KzPuGS5wHg.Z3BGM8WmY0iEz0rJAGazCSM5Frvtb_hHNayHmYxp0bg&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+quilt+room+secret&qid=1708450460&s=books&sprefix=The+Quilt+Room+Sec%2Cstripbooks%2C101&sr=1-1">The Quilt Room Secret (Heart of the Amish): Baker, Lisa Jones: 9781636097756: Amazon.com: Books</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVTxonMDi_SMZ3TlPdbfpbsyvkNzL7dy3JpnqEJO1_F5LCYKKIY89x-bRlrAMZ1rbEbqCRdhv0Oq231R7-I8QFrNOBQRow6AFsWUqohHqa1fEsXHBomQVPIK9SGg3ExDTX1pSvuKOlZrZKGPzjgP3GpaXKMOXxopcrZIci5aiVqi257Zpk25_m36t8MlU/s600/61Liay3sZ6L._SY600_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="599" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVTxonMDi_SMZ3TlPdbfpbsyvkNzL7dy3JpnqEJO1_F5LCYKKIY89x-bRlrAMZ1rbEbqCRdhv0Oq231R7-I8QFrNOBQRow6AFsWUqohHqa1fEsXHBomQVPIK9SGg3ExDTX1pSvuKOlZrZKGPzjgP3GpaXKMOXxopcrZIci5aiVqi257Zpk25_m36t8MlU/s320/61Liay3sZ6L._SY600_.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">WELCOME to my page! I author Amish Inspirational Fiction; the sixth and final book of my HOPE CHEST OF DREAMS series, PROMISE AT PEBBLE CREEK, will be available next week! I grew up near Arthur, Illinois, and became acquainted with the Plain Faith at an early age when they custom-made and installed our kitchen cabinets. On weekends, my parents and I frequented the quaint Amish town, often the setting of my stories, where we purchased our meat, cheese, and home-made baking spices. Now, decades later, I still love visiting; the town and the people yet intrigue me, and I so appreciate the talent of quilt-making almost as much as I love horse and buggy rides. Oh...and I never leave without a visit to my fav store, Stitch and Sew! But there is much more to this perplexing group than meets the eye; they are extremely disciplined, hard-working, and honest...and they don't all think alike. For these reasons, writing about them is my passion.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"></p><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">I was fortunate to have been raised in a loving, Christian home by two wonderful parents: a reading specialist mother who plays the piano, and a retired Junior High Principal father who's also an avid fox hunter. I have a B.A. in French Education, and I'm a former school teacher who loves gardening, cooking, reading, positive thinkers, and every dog I meet. Although I'm a homebody, travel has played a large part of my life. Over three decades of working with the airline industry has landed me on five out of seven continents. </div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>I love second chance romances and then to add faith and Amish fiction you get the best of it all in The Quilt Room Secret. I love Amish </b><b>quilts,</b><b> so this made this book even better. Great setting great </b><b>characters</b><b>. </b><span style="font-weight: 700;">The Mary Reader received this book from the publisher for review. A favorable review was not required, and all views expressed are our own.</span></span></div></div>Mary Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13735070825827853107noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793332551228948572.post-73447345507258332022024-02-20T04:53:00.000-05:002024-02-20T04:53:49.414-05:00The Women by Kristin Hannah<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicE4KC7ktz8yu0HJmOiDiUJbK5vzH6MpiGvTDG14ZQiB6YCkueFz6ZgCJrEhreKGpEcXA-Fd5zxV43dcC5rDXvAxPeRxZusU89J4Cs_jE80ly4Vmn5j898KMZefnAwfl6ZEvVAeRjvAkzH4ThcFaRDrRw7aCSh4S6ll3pVBGJ-LUidXtteJcsTJv-AZaY/s425/913C+MR3S5L._SY425_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="283" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicE4KC7ktz8yu0HJmOiDiUJbK5vzH6MpiGvTDG14ZQiB6YCkueFz6ZgCJrEhreKGpEcXA-Fd5zxV43dcC5rDXvAxPeRxZusU89J4Cs_jE80ly4Vmn5j898KMZefnAwfl6ZEvVAeRjvAkzH4ThcFaRDrRw7aCSh4S6ll3pVBGJ-LUidXtteJcsTJv-AZaY/s320/913C+MR3S5L._SY425_.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br /> <span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;">Women can be heroes.</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path.</span><p></p><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is over-whelmed by the chaos and destruction of war. Each day is a gamble of life and death, hope and betrayal; friendships run deep and can be shattered in an instant. In war, she meets―and becomes one of―the lucky, the brave, the broken, and the lost.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />But war is just the beginning for Frankie and her veteran friends. The real battle lies in coming home to a changed and divided America, to angry protesters, and to a country that wants to forget Vietnam.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;">The Women </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">is the story of one woman gone to war, but it shines a light on all women who put themselves in harm’s way and whose sacrifice and commitment to their country has too often been forgotten. A novel about deep friendships and bold patriotism, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;">The Women </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">is a richly drawn story with a memorable heroine whose idealism and courage under fire will come to define an era.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Pick up your copy here...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Women-Novel-Kristin-Hannah/dp/1250178630/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.vU0HWiKLFhA4lMnZiU71JNKnDVPCHgAgNnQ63HwfZ0-Mc4zxwHm1cytKreV5ufMeZiMe79Bwh49HY1ThMzZBtCOr-Bc_BuIXktxISNyTn0qZ1xbfEEcRfETDze8Ql9wD-teOH-15L-JF_r0oVt4k4Wt5HK0JVu1hKwseAFH-0VLToiZjEoJM80HaijEXnr2e-Xh72W2CcubmGeLllN5cPAd1OZPcDVM4RoUCgXwD4VE.sP_TbdHWyhbzIjPC5WhH-ML-smdaq7AlFzTNDgiAFqo&qid=1708386660&sr=1-1">The Women: A Novel: Hannah, Kristin: 9781250178633: Amazon.com: Books</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKTUoJPQ72aBwaExxI2qSq7D3M2YcljcZAPKhfkQyhnUp6ORjdN6v5wqTKJf62AC1PK9-OcAe2sYTBsEaama0d9u2u2ZWxrK9Qxdx5p4c0wlZFNz_dEG8djMdGApHCWGEmu7JcnR6SyfSOT7brwkyqD1acq1TRAlkcMuXdZ5PEvyItmCZlwC8a60_dDFw/s600/3dkvmtgigvmp2cpkfovivq25f1._SY600_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="429" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKTUoJPQ72aBwaExxI2qSq7D3M2YcljcZAPKhfkQyhnUp6ORjdN6v5wqTKJf62AC1PK9-OcAe2sYTBsEaama0d9u2u2ZWxrK9Qxdx5p4c0wlZFNz_dEG8djMdGApHCWGEmu7JcnR6SyfSOT7brwkyqD1acq1TRAlkcMuXdZ5PEvyItmCZlwC8a60_dDFw/s320/3dkvmtgigvmp2cpkfovivq25f1._SY600_.jpg" width="229" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">Kristin Hannah is the award-winning and bestselling author of more than 20 novels. Her newest novel, The Women, about the nurses who served in the Vietnam war, will be released on February 6, 2024.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">The Four Winds was published in February of 2021 and immediately hit #1 on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Indie bookstore's bestseller lists. Additionally, it was selected as a book club pick by the both Today Show and The Book Of the Month club, which named it the best book of 2021.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">In 2018, The Great Alone became an instant New York Times #1 bestseller and was named the Best Historical Novel of the Year by Goodreads.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">In 2015, The Nightingale became an international blockbuster and was Goodreads Best Historical fiction novel for 2015 and won the coveted People's Choice award for best fiction in the same year. It was named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, iTunes, Buzzfeed, the Wall Street Journal, Paste, and The Week.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">The Nightingale is currently in pre-production at Tri Star. Firefly Lane, her beloved novel about two best friends, was the #1 Netflix series around the world, in the week it came out. The popular tv show stars Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">A former attorney, Kristin lives in the Pacific Northwest.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"></p><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">www.kristinhannah.com</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Run and get your copy , this is a 5 star must read.</b></span></div></div>Mary Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13735070825827853107noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793332551228948572.post-66146036370759744192024-02-19T04:38:00.003-05:002024-02-19T04:38:26.875-05:00The Brave In- Between by Amy Low<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeuk-qvVlfKuPfgzW0YXtx1dBVn3b1KaLkhcYXJo1PuMFiySQf17MW-xBf4r66wgsnzXNmIvd0OLX6UF8Er6dcBT1CaHlK2ERSnSxxSbloqCMdO5hYoDs_ZtJxU7e5TdQtbaKahIMyICqj4i0SxhLNsgSTovxkX1e4AZXVM1l1eeJzVDFt89XZ544hrdk/s445/419I+hnvUhL._SY445_SX342_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="295" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeuk-qvVlfKuPfgzW0YXtx1dBVn3b1KaLkhcYXJo1PuMFiySQf17MW-xBf4r66wgsnzXNmIvd0OLX6UF8Er6dcBT1CaHlK2ERSnSxxSbloqCMdO5hYoDs_ZtJxU7e5TdQtbaKahIMyICqj4i0SxhLNsgSTovxkX1e4AZXVM1l1eeJzVDFt89XZ544hrdk/s320/419I+hnvUhL._SY445_SX342_.jpg" width="212" /></a></div><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Amy Low resides in a room that is her last—her medical team is clear-eyed with her: there is no cure for Stage IV metastatic colon cancer, and the odds of long-term survival are scant. Miraculously, she’s lived four years with her diagnosis, and that life between life has changed her.</span><p></p><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Through the swirl of prolonged trauma and unbearable grief, a vantage point emerged—a window that showed her the way to relish life and be kinder to herself and others while living through the inevitable loss and heartbreak that crosses everyone’s paths. Instead of viewing joy and sorrow as opposites, she saw how both exist in harmony, full of mystery and surprise. Instead of seeing days as succeeding </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;">or</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> failing, and physical selves as healthy </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;">or</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> unwell, she’s learned to carry both achievements </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;">and</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> afflictions in stride. And instead of bitterness and betrayal, forgiveness—toward her body, toward others, toward herself—became her wisest light.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Mapping her experiences to the words that St. Paul wrote in his own last room</span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;">The Brave In-Between</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> is a sacred invitation to explore that space between triumph and tragedy. We all have a heart to marvel at miracles, a lightness to spot the absurdity, and an imagination to pause and extend empathy for others—even when tragedy strikes. Sometimes we just need a guide.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Pick up your copy here...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Brave-Between-Notes-Last-Room/dp/0306831791/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3T99TTEW19ZNS&keywords=the+brave+in-between+notes+from+the+last+room&qid=1708225383&s=books&sprefix=The+Brave+in%2Cstripbooks%2C185&sr=1-1">The Brave In-Between: Notes from the Last Room: Low, Amy: 9780306831799: Amazon.com: Books</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiddyr6phJ3OdSnPa-dqSWXp59x4hR3cMq_6BhgGBVZd6jVyqsEuwGuF0T07vzRC3aNb8bOTXeqmMQZUtp5ytBANw9AZcX_-_tIWDR4pVZvnQKAtK-VeiKcN3KLEFVw1d5Mmf2f9ZP0KrMol-wnWvqNvqYq0Sk5BOTHzUOkj7CniMZrIVI1Zr2k689hQUQ/s1307/f2d4b3e0-2239-4162-8516-6e6a66023aef_1296x1307.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1307" data-original-width="1296" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiddyr6phJ3OdSnPa-dqSWXp59x4hR3cMq_6BhgGBVZd6jVyqsEuwGuF0T07vzRC3aNb8bOTXeqmMQZUtp5ytBANw9AZcX_-_tIWDR4pVZvnQKAtK-VeiKcN3KLEFVw1d5Mmf2f9ZP0KrMol-wnWvqNvqYq0Sk5BOTHzUOkj7CniMZrIVI1Zr2k689hQUQ/s320/f2d4b3e0-2239-4162-8516-6e6a66023aef_1296x1307.jpg" width="317" /></a></div><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">Amy Low</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> has been a storyteller all her life. She grew up in and continues to live life through parables and metaphors. She sees her life as an invitation to discovering the new every day and even records some of these discoveries in her Substack, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;">Postcards from the Mountain</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">. As the managing director for fellowships and nonprofit journalism at the Emerson Collective, she directs efforts to empower individuals and newsrooms to strengthen our shared conversation in the public square. Most important, Amy is mom to Connor and Lucy. Her proudest achievement is raising a son and daughter who are unafraid, grateful, and curious, whether in class, at home, on stage, and especially in the band. </span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Mary Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13735070825827853107noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793332551228948572.post-34826701555951531832024-02-16T04:49:00.000-05:002024-02-16T04:49:03.016-05:00Lonely For You Only by Monica Murphy<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcJZKGFQvyTiQim3hvsIG2ytkWRYI0dgcpCn9wK66GjFLhAqJPKcvfsTK0rTxFfofCOE9NxUQwmp6x5J9V_riXMmrERYNR0FNUQ4XTq6m6UGJPdBDLObVnp_f8hKtJYju5SjMBSCruIjkfDpIEk_TD0xrxwVT_Bj728EkDSQy8BPkCDSOBP9y_xODa6MQ/s466/81mRb7mYUBL._SY466_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="291" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcJZKGFQvyTiQim3hvsIG2ytkWRYI0dgcpCn9wK66GjFLhAqJPKcvfsTK0rTxFfofCOE9NxUQwmp6x5J9V_riXMmrERYNR0FNUQ4XTq6m6UGJPdBDLObVnp_f8hKtJYju5SjMBSCruIjkfDpIEk_TD0xrxwVT_Bj728EkDSQy8BPkCDSOBP9y_xODa6MQ/s320/81mRb7mYUBL._SY466_.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Young heiress Scarlett Lancaster is delighted when her father tells her he hired a famous pop star and former boy band member to play at her eighteenth birthday. But delight becomes utter disappointment when it turns out he wasn't talking about Harry Styles. No, Scarlett's dad hired Tate Ramsey, former lead singer of the band Five Car Pileup, who hasn't been popular for years.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tate, after years of alcohol- and drug-fueled partying, is sober and ready for a comeback. He is in top form at Scarlett's party and blows the audience away with his performance--though Scarlett herself still isn't impressed. But when they talk after he leaves the stage, their encounter ends in a kiss that surprises them both--and immediately goes viral.</span></p><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The viral kiss and the video of Tate singing at the party do wonders for both of their burgeoning careers. So after some careful negotiation, the two of them agree to start a fake relationship. But before long they discover their feelings might not be fake after all ...</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Pick up your copy here...</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lonely-You-Only-Lancaster-Novel/dp/B0CCW6SYFY/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1708026389&sr=8-1">Lonely for You Only: Monica Murphy: 9798212385978: Amazon.com: Books</a></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-IaXArYLUZdkPjBCJ_mTeTzNhja1mrCOYqWGzJHJ-l4bVnzf6cloB4tQ323zIeM43gpDXUo4LUImfCgPCxxt6V52jmjOEgG33SCnVYL_7aN8TKK-cpVTD6oqvNJFWgtagcF1Th1ZnH-nGx8c65S0c_t8FBMa6pXsrGBxzLE4bILQfTSIC6XDkZY99WxY/s600/ocpoqa1sk5vuru7n50tn17lcl7._SY600_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-IaXArYLUZdkPjBCJ_mTeTzNhja1mrCOYqWGzJHJ-l4bVnzf6cloB4tQ323zIeM43gpDXUo4LUImfCgPCxxt6V52jmjOEgG33SCnVYL_7aN8TKK-cpVTD6oqvNJFWgtagcF1Th1ZnH-nGx8c65S0c_t8FBMa6pXsrGBxzLE4bILQfTSIC6XDkZY99WxY/s320/ocpoqa1sk5vuru7n50tn17lcl7._SY600_.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">Never miss a release! Sign up for Monica's newsletter to get new book alerts (copy/paste) ➜ https://bit.ly/Monicanewsletter</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">Join my reader group! ➜ http://bit.ly/Monicareadergroup</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">My website ➜ https://bit.ly/32RZdaZ</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">Follow me on Instagram! ➜ http://bit.ly/2GSOq3D</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">Monica Murphy is a New York Times, USA Today and international bestselling author. She writes new adult, young adult and contemporary romance.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">She is a wife and a mother of three who lives in central California on fourteen acres in the middle of nowhere, along with their four cats and one crazy dog. She's a firm believer in happy endings, though she will admit to sometimes putting her characters through tough, angst-filled moments before they finally get that hard won HEA.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">Monica is also known as USA Today bestselling romance author Karen Erickson (http://karenerickson.com).</p></div>Mary Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13735070825827853107noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793332551228948572.post-64342632654434419032024-02-15T04:51:00.000-05:002024-02-15T04:51:18.401-05:00Simply the Best by Susan Elizabeth Phillips<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNzStK350Y6xSwB2qdmQWYg3mRN1AP9WB4DEJuh9O4nBxgGh3qsYclgtC5OYGmvyOg1cuWAUavgK1F1j7zmz2XyEX8_Mhv8YY8vRbRCjlII4l44jecBu1ZPPZvWiA2XBfMgPp95gvUcu_5-hP3VNYZ1NCFcdccVigO79tnInJuLIUCZ6eyi1TlFgfmc-8/s466/71cHl2IMoGL._SY466_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="311" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNzStK350Y6xSwB2qdmQWYg3mRN1AP9WB4DEJuh9O4nBxgGh3qsYclgtC5OYGmvyOg1cuWAUavgK1F1j7zmz2XyEX8_Mhv8YY8vRbRCjlII4l44jecBu1ZPPZvWiA2XBfMgPp95gvUcu_5-hP3VNYZ1NCFcdccVigO79tnInJuLIUCZ6eyi1TlFgfmc-8/s320/71cHl2IMoGL._SY466_.jpg" width="214" /></a></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Take one hard-driving sports agent…</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Throw in a failed chocolatier…</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">And her superstar football player brother…</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Add a quirky pink and purple food truck…</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Then, to really screw things up, mix in a very unfortunate murder.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Brett Rivers is the hottest sports agent in the business—fast and furious, swift and deadly. Failure? Not an option.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Rory Garrett is—let’s be honest—a disaster. She has a big heart, an empty bank account, a passion for making exquisite chocolate, and a huge inferiority complex from living in the shadow of Brett’s most important client, her football legend brother.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Brett and Rory should never have met, and they absolutely, positively should never have had to deal with the consequences of one stupid, drunken night…one disastrous lie…one career in jeopardy…one missing football player…and a very dead body.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">It’s going to get messy…and dangerous…and heartbreaking…and sexy. To Rory, Brett represents skewed values and a devious mind. To Brett, Rory is forbidden fruit, off limits, do not disturb, and no entry—definitely no entry.</span></p><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">A woman who has succeeded at nothing and a man who’s succeeded at everything confront the challenge of their lives as they struggle with themselves and each other. When it comes to love—what price are any of us willing to pay to be simply the best? </span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Pick up your copy here...</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Simply-Best-Chicago-Stars-Novel/dp/0063248565/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1CZFG6PGD9K6K&keywords=simply+the+best+susan+elizabeth+phillips&qid=1707939060&sprefix=Simply+the+best%2Caps%2C121&sr=8-1">Simply the Best: A Chicago Stars Novel: Phillips, Susan Elizabeth: 9780063248564: Amazon.com: Books</a></span></div><div style="background-color: white; 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box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS is a #1 New York Times, Publisher's Weekly, and USA Today bestselling romance and women's fiction novelist, whose books are published in over 30 different languages.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">If you'd like to know more, including info on her newest book, whether any of her books will be made into movies, how to get an autographed book, where she gets her ideas, please visit her</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">website http://susanelizabethphillips.com/</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SusanElizabethPhillipsNovels/</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">Instagram https://instagram.com/SEPauthor/</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">Twitter http://twitter.com/sepauthor</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">To register for her monthly sweepstakes visit http://susanelizabethphillips.com/monthly-sweepstakes-2/</p><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></div>Mary Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13735070825827853107noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793332551228948572.post-23175145122915665172024-02-14T04:50:00.000-05:002024-02-14T04:50:02.754-05:00Walk the Blue Line by James Patterson<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsQgJPJv4_gPq8X1avRux81U4B0Ft5UZ6KNFv4KC0m4AD_2W-0oZ63CB_Autx1CBHFP4rvVLIt3W9WJUth5pKFhpv9MP8XZJWr1MucjoVu8lCwI86bP11CUie3NdqGFfa9Ys8yEO9KX2F3PpzbjdoWbisxHCz-DFU9bLtt8PMQljqjq9ab92OrpGP4sUM/s466/81QHF1vBBXL._SY466_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="306" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsQgJPJv4_gPq8X1avRux81U4B0Ft5UZ6KNFv4KC0m4AD_2W-0oZ63CB_Autx1CBHFP4rvVLIt3W9WJUth5pKFhpv9MP8XZJWr1MucjoVu8lCwI86bP11CUie3NdqGFfa9Ys8yEO9KX2F3PpzbjdoWbisxHCz-DFU9bLtt8PMQljqjq9ab92OrpGP4sUM/s320/81QHF1vBBXL._SY466_.jpg" width="210" /></a></div><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">Protect</span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">These men and women are our eyes. Our ears. Our protectors. Those who wear a badge, doing their best to help people.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;">Serve</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">These cops serve their communities. They serve their country. They’re in the business of saving lives—even at the risk of their own.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;">Defend</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">These patrol officers and K9 handlers, sheriffs and detectives, reveal what it’s really like to wear the uniform, to carry the weight of the responsibility they’ve been given.</span></p><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">This is a calling. </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">This is the job.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Pick up your copy here...</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Walk-Blue-Line-Real-Stories/dp/1538710862/ref=sr_1_1?crid=23MMYK7U016ZK&keywords=walk+the+blue+line+james+patterson+book&qid=1707851620&sprefix=Walk+the+blue+line%2Caps%2C135&sr=8-1">Walk the Blue Line: Real Cops, True Stories: Patterson, James, Eversmann, Matt, Mooney, Chris: 9781538710869: Amazon.com: Books</a></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU4FCh51LIDLhfhMguOMcn7tmib-eoRaK5gSBEm5J0qM373f_BPzQHC5l7zqHd_3vxoIpAJjf5O867pPB8RjNcPDgCBrlkKRJa7XgE2o0s9tgsNsFLRrzxiC6LMU0dXUJ5Y8bVTLVxARlfNmhWZlLiBbC51MhSbeMgspfS7tlWyJTqYmt6MxsChEz3dF8/s901/f83dinp2g2c6q52rf44bs32ich._SY600_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="901" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU4FCh51LIDLhfhMguOMcn7tmib-eoRaK5gSBEm5J0qM373f_BPzQHC5l7zqHd_3vxoIpAJjf5O867pPB8RjNcPDgCBrlkKRJa7XgE2o0s9tgsNsFLRrzxiC6LMU0dXUJ5Y8bVTLVxARlfNmhWZlLiBbC51MhSbeMgspfS7tlWyJTqYmt6MxsChEz3dF8/s320/f83dinp2g2c6q52rf44bs32ich._SY600_.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of all time. His books have sold in excess of 375 million copies worldwide. He is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades – the Alex Cross, Women’s Murder Club, Detective Michael Bennett and Private novels – and he has written many other number one bestsellers including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books for young readers including the Middle School, I Funny, Treasure Hunters, Dog Diaries and Max Einstein series. James has donated millions in grants to independent bookshops and has been the most borrowed author of adult fiction in UK libraries for the past eleven years in a row. He lives in Florida with his wife and son.</p></div>Mary Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13735070825827853107noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793332551228948572.post-43008543837739776422024-02-13T04:51:00.000-05:002024-02-13T04:51:36.490-05:00Praying Personalities By Janet Mchenry<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI6GUWlgwaP18ysmQhYrKzt1KuxqouCLBZovRTk_CVjVmU-aJ5Ja5jevq_2zKwgJSQz7PACiBUi1s3ZZmdGmMAKEShPAvzCD_Cm-xf9L2EBA7dun5AfuTT0P8RgpP5OVBFcWWLfwM09_5VKbNBjP6hzqbk9BASar6UvVBnraLtSPJ3eONhkPPPnHDtgII/s425/914Y8YVROJL._SY425_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="275" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI6GUWlgwaP18ysmQhYrKzt1KuxqouCLBZovRTk_CVjVmU-aJ5Ja5jevq_2zKwgJSQz7PACiBUi1s3ZZmdGmMAKEShPAvzCD_Cm-xf9L2EBA7dun5AfuTT0P8RgpP5OVBFcWWLfwM09_5VKbNBjP6hzqbk9BASar6UvVBnraLtSPJ3eONhkPPPnHDtgII/s320/914Y8YVROJL._SY425_.jpg" width="207" /></a></div><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;">Discover the particular way God designed you to connect with prayer</span><p></p><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;">You should pray in the morning. You should write out your prayers. You should make prayer lists and pray through them every day. You should pray with others or out loud.</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> We've all heard the "you shoulds" of prayer from pulpits, presenters, and well-meaning friends. But when none of these ways to pray feel natural, what's next?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Janet Holm McHenry has studied prayer extensively, and the one thing she knows for sure is that there's no one-size-fits-all way to pray. Instead, there are different styles of prayer--and by discovering the style most instinctive to each individual personality, staying in touch with God throughout the day becomes simple and all the more joyful.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />In this book, the author helps readers determine their particular praying personality by examining the praying styles of biblical people, spiritual gifts, and various ideas about personality, including the classic temperaments, the Enneagram, and more. McHenry includes scores of bulleted suggestions for developing a praying lifestyle that works for individuals. She has also created a Praying Personality Quiz for readers (available in the book and online) to help narrow down the style that will most naturally fit into how they process a prayer life.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Whether a longtime Christian who has tried various prayer strategies but can't keep up or a new believer looking to learn about this spiritual discipline, every reader who dives into this book will come away with a renewed prayer life and a greater understanding of who God created them to be.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Pick up your copy here...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Praying-Personalities-Finding-Natural-Prayer/dp/0825448182/ref=sr_1_1?crid=12EXX5UMOP2SN&keywords=praying+personalities%2C+janet+mchenry&qid=1707760032&sprefix=Praying+perso%2Caps%2C122&sr=8-1">Praying Personalities: Finding Your Natural Prayer Style: McHenry, Janet Holm: 9780825448188: Amazon.com: Books</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy8r4jGiu0jv2BPFXX6yJYcbt8rjogErKqhijGTjlY8xO3RddiXTNRrPMvQXyjpjC_QHXRFH8rNTrMheNq7k2aEP8h8Q6UOJHPBz1qorNumrHzTCZMy87obw6Y6kaKUmoD_F6bzkKCHZsqXh2waYOeI0U_lciMLcACTV_ZtvTUoR-JHZBOZh33oZMzITE/s600/qg457bc1gh5b1qt3asr4mnokpi._SY600_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="460" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy8r4jGiu0jv2BPFXX6yJYcbt8rjogErKqhijGTjlY8xO3RddiXTNRrPMvQXyjpjC_QHXRFH8rNTrMheNq7k2aEP8h8Q6UOJHPBz1qorNumrHzTCZMy87obw6Y6kaKUmoD_F6bzkKCHZsqXh2waYOeI0U_lciMLcACTV_ZtvTUoR-JHZBOZh33oZMzITE/s320/qg457bc1gh5b1qt3asr4mnokpi._SY600_.jpg" width="245" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Janet Holm McHenry is a national speaker and the author of 24 books, including two bestsellers, PrayerWalk (WaterBrook/RandomHouse) and 50 Life Lessons for Grads (Worthy). A former high school English teacher, she and her rancher husband Craig raised four children in the Sierra Valley. The beautiful setting has inspired her to follow her passions--prayerwalking and writing. Find out more about Janet, her Looking Up! business, and her blogs at www.janetmchenry.com.</span></div>Mary Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13735070825827853107noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793332551228948572.post-4773982551722496782024-02-12T04:49:00.000-05:002024-02-12T04:49:08.599-05:00All the Rage by Cara Hunter<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7monxvhq2N74S-faj-r8z668UXnmfOoEyeZDdQyMOzXeWI_wnlgyfUR7qcyPUUK_joHsakl7i1_gCe5B5uEi8B2yWrU2BduK9L76CCFUkSqG9eW8D9kvSrYU8kqM8f1sYYEgBf4bAvUNLmKo-g-shLClqn9-vx5oOry62AQgPeO4fFCQeVbv_0BkeI5Q/s425/81yCz8WQ3AL._SY425_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="282" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7monxvhq2N74S-faj-r8z668UXnmfOoEyeZDdQyMOzXeWI_wnlgyfUR7qcyPUUK_joHsakl7i1_gCe5B5uEi8B2yWrU2BduK9L76CCFUkSqG9eW8D9kvSrYU8kqM8f1sYYEgBf4bAvUNLmKo-g-shLClqn9-vx5oOry62AQgPeO4fFCQeVbv_0BkeI5Q/s320/81yCz8WQ3AL._SY425_.jpg" width="212" /></a></div><br /> <span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">From Cara Hunter, the </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important; font-weight: 700 !important;">New York Times</span><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;"> bestselling author of </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important; font-weight: 700 !important;">Murder in the Family, </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">comes</span><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">the fourth novel in her DI Fawley detective series, one of Britain’s most enduringly popular and mega-selling crime series.</span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">After being abducted and assaulted, a teenage girl somehow managed to escape from her captor. She is traumatized and needs to heal, but the police need her help to catch her assailant—information she clearly knows, but is unwilling to give. </span></p><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Without the girl’s assistance, DI Adam Fawley’s investigation is at a dead end. When another girl vanishes under the same circumstances, he recognizes a disturbing pattern—and a link to something long buried in his past. . .</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Pick up your copy here... <a href="https://www.amazon.com/All-Rage-Novel-Fawley-4/dp/006326093X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1707533281&sr=8-1" style="background-color: transparent;">Amazon.com: All the Rage: A Novel (DI Fawley series, 4): 9780063260931: Hunter, Cara: Books</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyLoWzEXp5vL8TUIjqU_gl9ST2TEvCrzH3WhKfCEims0KroV7CEE0NzsSRZKtmIcsXg5oM83DJ3R-L83f1GzjoUlgGTsOZFFkgrX-hFLVBwQ4OgsXwaj2X0L-drY_uY3CvRMqgG_brF8znD7PWFMS64y4Dbm_GcZmN1cG2Gnjxs11UFO4zd6X3NLEeMF4/s600/h43tdnt8buh3sdelr3urvgufu._SY600_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyLoWzEXp5vL8TUIjqU_gl9ST2TEvCrzH3WhKfCEims0KroV7CEE0NzsSRZKtmIcsXg5oM83DJ3R-L83f1GzjoUlgGTsOZFFkgrX-hFLVBwQ4OgsXwaj2X0L-drY_uY3CvRMqgG_brF8znD7PWFMS64y4Dbm_GcZmN1cG2Gnjxs11UFO4zd6X3NLEeMF4/s320/h43tdnt8buh3sdelr3urvgufu._SY600_.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">I'm the author of MURDER IN THE FAMILY, and the DI Adam Fawley series, set in Oxford.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">I've always been a voracious reader and viewer of crime - I've learned so much from the outstanding writing that we now see on crime TV like Line of Duty or Broadchurch, and I've tried to recreate the experience of watching series like that for my readers. I've been using mixed media from the very first Fawley book - in fact, since before they started calling it mixed media! I love giving my readers different ways to explore the story and I'm such a geek that I do all my artwork myself. My favourite feedback is when readers tell me it's like getting the raw material of the case, so they can be detectives themselves. That's where the idea for MURDER IN THE FAMILY came from.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">What else about me? I have a boy cat who does his best to distract me whenever I get close to a keyboard (if you have cats, you'll know), I love travelling, spending time with friends, and I have never knowingly turned down a glass of champagne....</p></div>Mary Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13735070825827853107noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793332551228948572.post-46893019472655034182024-02-08T04:54:00.000-05:002024-02-08T04:54:20.707-05:00My Block Looks Like By Janelle Harper<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAGvr6zofpLcv8aqb_M_VShGKgiPakI47zIPnZ_T1TapM-tVuL9rRYSuaQc9FdHslI0wvX5NXKhbmj2m3Yf3aYm25M4pyS6lYjqzd47t_d1n5IaLxAULPF4Yad9T9qJB9wdiVUB_pdm1ahAjjl-oul1nhCA2iZ3MIBu1TVac3nGOk1hjKUBB0JZ1Hgf_s/s385/911EQZBeWXL._SY385_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="385" data-original-width="282" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAGvr6zofpLcv8aqb_M_VShGKgiPakI47zIPnZ_T1TapM-tVuL9rRYSuaQc9FdHslI0wvX5NXKhbmj2m3Yf3aYm25M4pyS6lYjqzd47t_d1n5IaLxAULPF4Yad9T9qJB9wdiVUB_pdm1ahAjjl-oul1nhCA2iZ3MIBu1TVac3nGOk1hjKUBB0JZ1Hgf_s/s320/911EQZBeWXL._SY385_.jpg" width="234" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"My block looks like<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />a collision of cultures<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />a melting pot of cool<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />a burst of life<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />my favorite groove<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />. . .No matter what happens<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I’ve seen it for myself<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />my block looks like<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />the coolest place<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I’ve ever been."<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">A lyrical and proud picture book that recognizes the beauty of the bodegas, subways, and playgrounds that characterize everyday life in the Bronx and pays homage to the ways that its residents have shaped pop culture through music, visual art, and dance. Perfect for fans of </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;">I Am Every Good Thing</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> and </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;">Last Stop on Market Street</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;">My Block Looks Like</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> offers kids a reaffirming message to celebrate and uplift their communities in an energetic text that begs to be read aloud.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Pick up your copy here...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Block-Looks-Like-Janelle-Harper/dp/0593526309/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1O66FEROYQWLG&keywords=my+block+looks+like+by+janelle+harper&qid=1706994300&sprefix=My+Block+looks+like%2Caps%2C139&sr=8-1">My Block Looks Like: Harper, Janelle, Morrison, Frank: 9780593526309: Amazon.com: Books</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGnef1veAUDQBhGw5IRarVAU9xe2Fg2aQg91Q-4cZKLf3PWTvbTJ42M9Vox9lzfCsy2yY7xS32_uZ79a1ydfDlxlBTbPp5UrLyggVmDWI5pjO99STz-Zv4bQtm0x38JD_cQKaoVu-Y4tB7BhTrlVQS8zJVRJMVI2Eyby6veeTXq9ZuKbJyWGvzGC1RQsw/s600/76st9r1k8a2akeu02o1850e4gm._SY600_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGnef1veAUDQBhGw5IRarVAU9xe2Fg2aQg91Q-4cZKLf3PWTvbTJ42M9Vox9lzfCsy2yY7xS32_uZ79a1ydfDlxlBTbPp5UrLyggVmDWI5pjO99STz-Zv4bQtm0x38JD_cQKaoVu-Y4tB7BhTrlVQS8zJVRJMVI2Eyby6veeTXq9ZuKbJyWGvzGC1RQsw/s320/76st9r1k8a2akeu02o1850e4gm._SY600_.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Frank Morrison started his journey as a graffiti artist in New Jersey, tagging walls with spray paint. It wasn’t until he visited the Louvre Museum in Paris with his dancing group, that he realized painting was his true creative path. His work has been featured at Art Basel, Scope Miami and Red Dot art fairs, and shown at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Mason Fine Art Gallery in Atlanta, GA. He is the illustrator of over 20 children’s books, including the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award winner R-E-S-P-E-C-T, the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award winner Jazzy Miz Mozetta, and the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor books, Little Melba and her Big Trombone and Let the Children March. Frank was a Society of Illustrators’ Original Art Silver Medal Honoree two years in a row, for The Roots of Rap and R-E-S-P-E-C-T.</span></div><p></p>Mary Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13735070825827853107noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793332551228948572.post-40913765299194299232024-02-07T04:48:00.000-05:002024-02-07T04:48:37.613-05:00Science and Faith in Harmony by Sy Garte<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1e1wl4imq8RPsXWZnULfqIjI7PbkCaebku3W_-m84MsTNgO6_MZmV9sIlFRWEhTydg8YLszSIFgzdE5r7FdS8qk4FcqiHS4olo9qXmSsMjsUlxxz91tdCXMACP0sttMAuRBoxNh3slRrM7fWHtlbfLJgV9lu4cPonPvQ8L9BF1JIaD-qbjoPZwdJuyAI/s385/61R280yrjnL._SY385_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="385" data-original-width="249" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1e1wl4imq8RPsXWZnULfqIjI7PbkCaebku3W_-m84MsTNgO6_MZmV9sIlFRWEhTydg8YLszSIFgzdE5r7FdS8qk4FcqiHS4olo9qXmSsMjsUlxxz91tdCXMACP0sttMAuRBoxNh3slRrM7fWHtlbfLJgV9lu4cPonPvQ8L9BF1JIaD-qbjoPZwdJuyAI/s320/61R280yrjnL._SY385_.jpg" width="207" /></a></div><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important; font-weight: 700 !important;">Rather than discord between science and Christian faith, there is a harmony as grand as any choral masterpiece</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The idea that Christianity and science are inextricably in conflict is a relatively recent conception. However, with each new scientific discovery and scriptural insight, it’s an idea that’s being proved to be insupportable.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Sy Garte has immersed himself in both science and faith and knows they work beautifully together to sing of the greatness of God. Now this respected scientist shares how God's world (nature and science) and God's word (made flesh in Christ) are bound together in loving harmony.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />In </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;">Science and Faith in Harmony</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, Garte examines modern scientific concepts and what they can teach us about theological truths, such as the dual nature of Christ. He explores the ways in which the terminology and language of science and faith consistently match each other. Despite his deep dives into theology and science, Garte does not get overly technical in his writing. Instead, he is personal and passionate, speaking directly to readers with a tone of joy and wonder, inviting them to join the chorus of praise to the Lord.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Readers still wondering whether the truths of science and Christian faith are in conflict need this book. Following the path of Christ and holding a scientific worldview at the same time is not only possible but also leads to a fuller, richer life of harmony and truth.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Pick up your copy here...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Science-Faith-Harmony-Contemplations-Distilled/dp/0825448158/ref=sr_1_1?crid=386QR18I5I34T&keywords=science+and+faith+in+harmony&qid=1706987577&sprefix=Science+and+Faith%2Caps%2C131&sr=8-1">Science and Faith in Harmony: Contemplations on a Distilled Doxology: Garte, Sy, McDowell, Sean: 9780825448157: Amazon.com: Books</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFvLkRnlXJsPGcTRPlzou-FfPFxKHQPKwtNtymVj5_6Nz8tTOGwU6drxd_nNtODbYP6b2ae7LtGgrlUFSdiUeORMP9WieRxpzc_GJRHIVeFNr0UVMJzDibtG0KNPbIiNe5ZG_aiXOq8MIdY4N93WgTN15vrYajYDt2qPLb2T2LgK82pHZknD5AYv-gSAA/s315/21j7ddn3cn5l4ck1loobr40ed8._SY600_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="269" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFvLkRnlXJsPGcTRPlzou-FfPFxKHQPKwtNtymVj5_6Nz8tTOGwU6drxd_nNtODbYP6b2ae7LtGgrlUFSdiUeORMP9WieRxpzc_GJRHIVeFNr0UVMJzDibtG0KNPbIiNe5ZG_aiXOq8MIdY4N93WgTN15vrYajYDt2qPLb2T2LgK82pHZknD5AYv-gSAA/s1600/21j7ddn3cn5l4ck1loobr40ed8._SY600_.jpg" width="269" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">Dr. Sy Garte is a biochemist and has been a professor at New York University, University of Pittsburgh, and Rutgers University. He has authored over two hundred scientific publications and four previous books, and has served as division director at the National Institutes of Health and Vice President for Research (acting) at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He served on the Board of Advisors for the John Templeton Foundation.</p><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">Sy is the Editor-in-Chief of "God and Nature" magazine and vice president of the Washington, DC, chapter of the American Scientific Affiliation (ASA). He is a Fellow of the ASA and a lay leader and certified Lay Servant in the United Methodist Church.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">Although retired from active employment, Sy keeps busy writing and evangelizing online and in the church. He also contributes to science and faith journals such as Perspectives in Science and Christian Faith, and keeps a blog "The Book of Works". His book "The Works of His Hands: A Scientist's Journey from Atheism to Faith" (Kregel Publications) is his first book on science and Christian faith, but probably not his last.</p></div>Mary Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13735070825827853107noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793332551228948572.post-51679161997300912122024-02-06T04:49:00.000-05:002024-02-06T04:49:07.232-05:00God's Little Astronomer Tina Cho<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8oXN85GxqEHwmCfIbnerVZ2e-V1Ct6BulyoL-wUgJsmXsHXVgk_Ng-FWcK-G3JgIriJDO-n-4B8oxElzzA2EqP7dUhkS9Eqa0Mh-xl3PFj0S-wkjo_p_UTlR2TJ4hFZTOpsKxTLROJJak8Haft05ThcbapMN3j9elVZh7OCRz6675MtnO01QwswesgRs/s385/91PoHLbg0cL._SY385_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="385" data-original-width="385" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8oXN85GxqEHwmCfIbnerVZ2e-V1Ct6BulyoL-wUgJsmXsHXVgk_Ng-FWcK-G3JgIriJDO-n-4B8oxElzzA2EqP7dUhkS9Eqa0Mh-xl3PFj0S-wkjo_p_UTlR2TJ4hFZTOpsKxTLROJJak8Haft05ThcbapMN3j9elVZh7OCRz6675MtnO01QwswesgRs/s320/91PoHLbg0cL._SY385_.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;">God's Little Astronomer,</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> author and educator Tina Cho invites young readers to</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">blast off to see God’s creation in the heavens. From the sun, moon, stars, constellations, and comets, this out-of-this-world introduction to space will teach budding astronomers new words, facts, and concepts, while also encouraging them to see God throughout the universe, and reinforcing the message that the same God loves them too.</span><p></p><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Each page includes fact-filled sidebars plus an accompanying Bible verse, making </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;">God's Little Astronomer </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">the perfect combination of faith and science for budding scientists.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Pick up your copy here...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Little-Astronomer-Explorers/dp/0593579410/ref=sr_1_1?crid=41HJ59AAQRY2&keywords=god%27s+little+astronomer&qid=1706992869&sprefix=God%27s+Littel+As%2Caps%2C143&sr=8-1">God's Little Astronomer (God's Little Explorers): Cho, Tina, Miguéns, Marta Álvarez: 9780593579411: Amazon.com: Books</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkFpVi7CYVK8Wg6y4Xv4YUgrKaxuMqWyH4RcBO5PNWWy7ONOmy7oNOJH4q7dX6fNHSjhfjc6lreJSaxuIS3TlnBawlffomD1HPQTguDfIp6UgilA17SyZOaENtwQKLd2-aUn7Z1WkIew7BjK7BAnfjKEV2ndz6-451_0Lb_i78jgNperX1gfDQLWx1-NE/s607/v6tbkob71aqp43tdl498m6igjt._SY600_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="607" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkFpVi7CYVK8Wg6y4Xv4YUgrKaxuMqWyH4RcBO5PNWWy7ONOmy7oNOJH4q7dX6fNHSjhfjc6lreJSaxuIS3TlnBawlffomD1HPQTguDfIp6UgilA17SyZOaENtwQKLd2-aUn7Z1WkIew7BjK7BAnfjKEV2ndz6-451_0Lb_i78jgNperX1gfDQLWx1-NE/s320/v6tbkob71aqp43tdl498m6igjt._SY600_.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #373e3e; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Ember, amazon_ember, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Tina Cho is the author of Rice from Heaven: The Secret Mission to Feed North Koreans (Little Bee Books 2018), Korean Celebrations (Tuttle 2019), My Breakfast with Jesus: Worshipping God around the World (Harvest House 2020), The Ocean Calls: A Haenyeo Mermaid Story (Kokila/Penguin Random House 2020), and God’s Little Astronomer (Waterbrook Multnomah 2024) + 1 more from Waterbrook. Her lyrical middle grade graphic novel, The Other Side of Tomorrow, debuts from Harper Alley in 2024. After living in South Korea for ten years, Tina, her husband, and two kids reside in Iowa where Tina also teaches kindergarten. </span></div>Mary Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13735070825827853107noreply@blogger.com5