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Giveaway Time! And Book Recommendations.

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Blogger: Rachel Kent

I have a pile of books stacking up and I’d love to pass them along to you, dear blog readers!

Please comment below with the title and author of a book you read recently that you would recommend to others. By doing so, you will be entered into a random drawing for one of the following titles.

Framed for Murder by Mary Alford

Christmas Captive by Liz Johnson

The Regency Brides Collection with stories by Michelle Griep, Nancy Moser, Erica Vetsch, MaryLu Tyndall, Amanda Barratt, Angela Bell and Susanne Dietze.

Love, Lexi: Letters to God by Sherry Kyle

I will pick the four winners on Monday, so be sure to share your book recommendation with us by Sunday night. I’ll announce the winners here on the blog and will also email the winners.

I look forward to seeing the books you have been reading, too! I am always eager for a good book recommendation.

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  2. I just finished reading The Innkeeper’s Daughter by Michelle Griep. Not only was the story great, but her writing is amazing and something to be studied. I kept wanting to stop to analyze how she did deep POV so well. Now that I have finished reading it for enjoyment, I am going back and tearing apart my favorite scenes to see how she did it. Love love love Michelle Griep. She is definitely someone who I would love to be compared to one day.

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  3. I got this one for Christmas from one of my children. It is called A Dab of Dickens and A Touch of Twain by Elliot Engel. It’s a cool collection of short bios of early English writers. Engel is an educator who’s been featured on PBS for his mini lecture on Charles Dickens. The book’s subjects include Dickens and sixteen other authors. I highly recommend it, especially to someone who is a champion for literacy.

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  6. The Private Patient, by PD James. (I’m rereading all of her extraordinary work.) I’d love to have Framed for Murder, then send it to my daughter, who is about to finish law school and whose eyes are suffering from looking at the screen too much. She’s into paper pages only these days—on those rare occasions that she reads for joy. (And I’m happy to pay for the shipping.)

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  8. Flood by Brennan McPherson. It’s speculative Biblical fiction about Noah’s life up to the flood. Exceedingly difficult to put down, thoroughly faithful to what little is in Genesis, and profound in its illustration of how God’s judgement is sometimes an act of great mercy.
    It’s not a sweet, sentimental read, but I don’t expect that of any realistic story of such evil times.

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  10. Thanks for this contest, Rachel.
    A book I recently read and loved is: You Can’t Hurry Love, by Beth K. Vogt.
    Oh-my-goodness it was good. I’m a forever fan of her writing now. My review is on Goodreads and on Amazon.
    Blessings ~ Wendy Mac

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  12. Ooooh, as far as CBA, I just read “The Masterpiece” by Francine Rivers and “The House on Foster Hill” by Jaime Jo Wright. I very much enjoyed both. “The Lady and the Lionheart” was wonderful. Plus I just listened to an ABA YA favorite on audio book in the car, “Inkheart” by Cornelia Funke. And I just finished reading out loud to my sons “Cinder” and have started “Scarlet” by Marissa Meyer, also ABA. Yes, boys can enjoy cyborg Cinderella, especially if there are lots of pages describing the mechanics of her metal foot and if she has a dart gun in her finger, well, they are sold.

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  13. I’m almost finished with A Refuge Assured by Jocelyn Green and loving it! I would definitely recommend it. 🙂

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  15. I have several amazing books I’ve read recently and would recommend, but I will just mention three. “Home” by Ginny Yttrup and “Against All Odds” by Irene Hannon, and “Just Give Me Jesus” by Anne Graham Lotz. Wonderful each in their own way.

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  20. Recently finished Laura Frantz’s The Lacemaker ~ but I’m sure y’all at B & S are well aware of that gem. (Posted a visual book review on FB & blog. Fun)

    Before that, Kristy Cambron’s The Illusionist’s Apprentice. Also reading (ta-da!) The Inside Scoop by Janet Grant & Wendy Lawton.

    Hope something here is new to one of your blog readers. And thank you, Rachel, for sharing the book joy.

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  22. “Flexible” by Ruth Buchanan. It’s the second in a trilogy (last installment to be released later this month) and good, clean, light reading. Love her humor. The other recent read is “Henry’s Awful Mistake,” by Robert Quackenbush, which I picked up for the kids at a thrift store. It was very popular with everyone and was read multiple times the first day.

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  24. I recently listened to Lauraine Snelling’s Daughters of Blessing series. I so enjoyed the Norwegian narrator and Lauraine’s attention to all things Norwegian.

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  25. Recently I read “Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women” by Sarah Helm. It reads like an impressionist painting–we feel the overall effect based on a composite of different women’s stories. I’ve recommended “Ravensbruck” often, but I also recommend following it with something light. I read “Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand” when I finished “Ravensbruck.”

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  27. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein. I screened it for my 9 yr old and it was actually a very fun book.
    I’m also really enjoying 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson.

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  29. I am almost done with A Refuge Assured by Jocelyn Green and it is so well written and researched. I have learned quite a bit!

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  31. I have finished reading The Woman in the Window by A J Finn. I also haves finished “I’ve Been Thinking by Maria Shriver. The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin. I’ve began “The Woman Left Behind” by Linda Howard. I enjoyed all.

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  32. Thanks so much for all the great recommendations! 🙂

    I have randomly selected the winners of the books. I’ll post the names here and will also reach out to each winner via email. If you are a winner, please email me your mailing address to [email protected] . I’ll send the books out ASAP!

    The winners are:

    Priscilla Sharrow: Christmas Captive
    Sharon Goolsby: Framed for Murder
    Susan Sage: Love, Lexi
    Angela Carlisle: Regency Brides Collection

    Congratulations!

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