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As a homeschooling veteran, I review middle-grade stories to help parents, librarians, and teachers choose good books.
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Free ebook for today: Biblical fiction
Gods and Kings by Lynn Austin is the free ebook I am featuring today. It’s the first in the Chronicles of the Kings series. Readers really like it; it received 4.7 out of 5 stars on 80 customer reviews at Amazon. You can download it and read it on your computer if you don’t have an e-reader. Remember to do it soon; the special deal may end shortly.
Angel Eyes by Shannon Dittemore, a review
Brielle is crippled by her despair as she blames herself for her best friend’s death. To learn to cope, she returns to the small town she calls home from the big city where she had attended a performing arts high school. Old friends reach out to her, but she rebuffs them. Then an amazing boy shows up and shakes her from her lethargy.
Featured free ebook: a prairie romance
Our featured free ebook for today is Paper Roses (Texas Dreams trilogy, Book 1) by Amanda Cabot, published in 2009 by major Christian fiction publisher Revell. It received four out of five stars on 75 reader reviews at Amazon. Be sure to get it soon; it may not be free much longer!
An email from God
An e-mail from God showed up in my in-box last November, during a year I strained to wring out the deeper novel my literary agent was convinced I had in me. I needed to scrape out my emotions and smear them on the page. But I only knew how to shove them inside.
Joanie Hileman’s 32 Miracle Stories
Joanie Hileman was not a writer, but the Lord kept bugging her to write this book. Finally she did it. She gathered testimonies of God’s faithfulness in miracles and in loss from all over the state of Maine, it seems.
Free Ebook: Legacy Lane
Our featured free e-book for today is Legacy Lane by Robin Lee Hatcher (Book One in the Hart’s Crossing series), a mother-daughter tale. It earned 4 out of 5 stars at Amazon on reviews by 18 readers. It was published by Stonehouse in 2010. At 160 pages it’s a short novel, or novella.
More than religion
Writer Jennifer Slattery: When my daughter was young, I spent a great deal of time shining up the inside and outside of our house. I wrapped so much of who I was in what others could see. Pretty ugly, huh? God thoughts so, and as I grew closer to Him, He redirect my heart to things of greater value—eternal value.
Free ebook: A Hearth in Candlewood by Delia Parr
A Hearth in Candlewood by Delia Parr, Book 1 of the Candlewood trilogy, is our featured free ebook for today, available on Kindle. This book, published by a major Christian publishing house, Bethany, got 4 of 5 stars on 30 reader reviews at Amazon.
God – our strength, our comfort
hen I was a young woman, I hoped that I would marry the perfect man. I hoped that I would become a mother. I hoped that I would be happy, and have a wonderful life. But when I should have been patient, I rushed into marriage to the wrong man.
Kim Vogel Sawyer on worrying
In September of 2004, when God revealed the source of my many chronic illnesses, I knew I had to break my habit of worry. I claimed Isaiah 26:3, “You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You.”
The 13th Tribe by Robert Liparulo, a review
Jagger Baird felt like he was losing his mind in the aftermath of a horrific car accident that took the lives of dear friends. Now he’s taken his family to a gig as a security guard for an archaeology dig at Mt. Sinai in Arabia, and things are looking up for him. He’s enjoying his beloved wife and son now, for one thing.
Free Kindle ebook: Discovery in the Desert
Our featured free ebook is Discovery in the Desert: It Will Shake the Nations by Tom Thiele. Amazon readers have given it 4.7 out of 5 stars on 35 reviews, many of whom report loving the book. Note that I haven’t read this book, don’t recognize the publisher, and can’t personally recommend it, but I am intrigued. And the price is right!