Hey! Kara from Beautifully Broken is having a series of giveaways in honor of the season, and I'm participating by giving away some notecards I designed. Check out the giveaway by clicking the link here. Things have been busier than usual this year, what with different medical problems that have come up, house repairs, and also being busy with my job. So that's kind...
Genre: Historical Fiction Rating: ♥♥♥ Three and a half out of five hearts= good A Victorian Ladies novel About: When a wealthy client dies, Eleanor (an evaluator of antiquities) is charged with the task of deciding where his valuable collection will go. With his son, Harry, the rightful heir who betrayed Eleanor, or with a museum for all the world to enjoy? She...
Description: Ninety years ago, Millie Sullivan’s great-grandmother was a guest at banker Howard Dawkins’ palatial estate on the shore of St. Simons Island, Georgia. Now, Millie plays a 1920s-era guest during tours of the same manor. But when her grandmother suggests that there is a lost diary containing the location of a hidden treasure on the estate, along with the true identity of Millie’s...
Via Google Images Several years ago, Go Teen Writers by Jill Williamson and Stephanie Morill was published. Now they are revising this awesome guide and republishing it, complete with a new cover! I'm a little late to the game, but I thought it would be fun to participate in their cover reveal. So here we go! .... ...... ...... ..... I love the artsy,...
What I've Been Up To AND Review: Hope Your Heart Needs by Holley Gerth
Tuesday, October 09, 2018
Looking back over my latest posts, I realize haven't blogged about anything for awhile, and I apologize. Life got crazy busy during the past month! I got a job at a popular fast-food restaurant and learning how everything works has been stressful and time-consuming, to say the least. Hopefully soon I'll have enough money, though, to start college courses! That's one of the...
I had no idea The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, apparently a classic, even existed until I got lucky one day in our small local library. Scanning, once again, through the mostly speculative, vampire and raunchy-looking titles, I pulled apart two novels and found a smaller, unfamiliar one tucked in between them, out of sight. I never usually just pick up a book like that,...
via google images I'm a big fan of Jill Williamson's, so as you can imagine, I'm really excited to be participating in her cover reveal today! It's for the last book in her action-packed Mission League series, The Profile Match, which releases October 15. Are you ready? ............... here we go......... ............... Back-Cover Description: When Spencer Garmond’s friend is kidnapped, the young Mission League...
Genre: Historical Fiction Rating: Five out of Five hearts ♥♥♥♥♥ About: When Tressa Harlowe's father dies unexpectedly, she and her mother are left wondering where the vast fortune he left is hidden. But they aren't the only ones looking for it- fortune hunters, even family members are keen to get it before anyone else. And Tressa isn't sure what to think about the...
Biblical Adventure and Redemption: Thief of Corinth by Tessa Afshar
Thursday, August 16, 2018
Genre: Historical Fiction Rating: ♥♥♥♥ Four and a half out of five hearts = excellent About: Ariadne has never known her mother's love and approval. It seems as though all she can do is gain her mother and grandfather's displeasure, and so when they try to pledge her hand to an abusive suitor, it is no hardship to leave them and escape to...
Genre: Historical Romance Book one in the Patchwork Family series Rating: ♥♥♥♥ Four out of five hearts Description: Born an anomaly- one eye blue, the other brown- who would ever want Evangeline Hamilton? So whenever she's thrown together with two other unwanted fellow orphans, they become the kind of family they've been looking for. It's years later, and Logan Fowler is on the...
Story Within the Fairytale: Lost in a Book, by Jennifer Donnelly
Saturday, July 21, 2018
Genre: YA fiction Rating: ♥♥♥♥ Four out of five hearts= very good About: Everyone knows the story of Belle and her time in the Beast's castle- how she fell in love before the last petal fell, and found her own happily-ever-after. Based on the 2017 live-action Disney movie, this book tells the story of something that happened in between her capture by the...
Genre: Historical Fiction Rating: ♥♥♥ three out of five hearts= okay Book two in the Orphan Train series About: Marianne Neumann has a heart for the dirty and hungry orphan children of New York City, partly because she can relate to their story- her past wasn't all flowers and sunshine. Working with a local orphan society, her first placing trip is coming up....
The Girl's Guide to Conquering Life by Erica and Jonathan Catherman
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Genre: Youth-Nonfiction Rating: Three out of five hearts ♥♥♥ Also available: The Girl's Guide to Conquering Middle School, The Manual to Manhood, The Manual to Middle School Growing up presents you with so many new experiences, challenges and difficulties to sort through, The Girl's Guide to Life wants to help you along. Inside, you'll find instructions on many things, from how to throw a football...
Journey into the Wild West: The Accidental Guardian by Mary Connealy
Wednesday, June 06, 2018
Genre: Historical Fiction Rating: Four out of five hearts ♥♥♥♥ Book one in the High Sierra Sweethearts series About: Trace Riley is the self-appointed watchdog for a wilderness trail, having been the lone survivor of an attack years before. Deborah Harkness now finds herself in a similar position, having been able to rescue only herself, her younger sister, and two small children from...
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