This is Janette Oke's latest book co-written by her daughter Laurel Oke Logan. I really enjoyed this book and cannot wait for the next one to come out, which I am sure will be a while since this one just came out in January/February 2014!! The book gave you time to get to know the characters and wasn't just set on making it into a predictable love story.
Beth Thatcher, the main character, follows in her aunts (Elizabeth in When Call the Heart by Janette Oke) footsteps and goes to western Canada to become a school teacher. Leaving behind her family and their privileges and wealth. Things are worse than she imagines, with most of the men having died in a cave in at the mine and many women having the pressures of providing for their children on the western frontier alone.
Beth is so busy teaching the children and helping Molly at the boarding house, but she also wants to help teach the men in the mining camp how to read. Can Beth help the towns people open their hearts to accept the men living in the camps working in the mines and leave their prejudices behind? Then her younger sister Julie comes for a visit trying to get Beth matched up with several eligible men. Edward the boy who tormented her her entire
childhood, but seems to have grown up after becoming a Mountie, Jerrick the Mountie posted to their area, or Philip the young preacher that has a deep love for Jesus and preaches so differently than the sermons she heard growing up.
This book leaves some loose ends, so I am sure there will be a sequel, but I have yet to find any information on if and when that will be.
Hope you enjoy this great read!!
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Sunday, September 22, 2013
The Secret Keeper by Beverly Lewis
I think this is my favorite book in the Home to Hickory Hollow Series. I received this a free book to review for Bethany House Publishers.
Jennifer has always felt out of place in her family and in this century. She feels like she should have come from a simpler time in another century. After making friends with an Amish girl and after much thought, she has decided she would like to part of the Amish community. This story is her quest to become Amish. The struggles she goes through connecting with her family and helping them understand who she is and trying to fit in to a community where it takes a lifetime to master things like submission, language, culture, etc... I very much connected with the main character as I always longed to go back to the 1800's. A great read!
Jennifer has always felt out of place in her family and in this century. She feels like she should have come from a simpler time in another century. After making friends with an Amish girl and after much thought, she has decided she would like to part of the Amish community. This story is her quest to become Amish. The struggles she goes through connecting with her family and helping them understand who she is and trying to fit in to a community where it takes a lifetime to master things like submission, language, culture, etc... I very much connected with the main character as I always longed to go back to the 1800's. A great read!
A Talent for Trouble by Jen Turano
Another great book by Jen Turano. This book was so cute and funny! I had a hard time putting it down. Loved it. My new favorite by her!!
Miss Felicia Murdock has a talent for getting herself in trouble. She has a wonderful heart for helping others and is discovering how to spread her own wings and be who God made her to be rather than the person she thinks she should be. Lord Grayson Sumner is hiding from his past and God, unsure he should or can be forgiven.
Grayson and Felicia have an instant attraction for each other and immediately, Grayson must help get Felicia out of the messes she keeps getting herself in.
The characters come to life before your very eyes. Their personalities are exaggerated, which brings about much laughter and makes this book so light-hearted and fun! A great read!!!
Miss Felicia Murdock has a talent for getting herself in trouble. She has a wonderful heart for helping others and is discovering how to spread her own wings and be who God made her to be rather than the person she thinks she should be. Lord Grayson Sumner is hiding from his past and God, unsure he should or can be forgiven.
Grayson and Felicia have an instant attraction for each other and immediately, Grayson must help get Felicia out of the messes she keeps getting herself in.
The characters come to life before your very eyes. Their personalities are exaggerated, which brings about much laughter and makes this book so light-hearted and fun! A great read!!!
Saturday, May 11, 2013
The Guardian by Beverly Lewis
This is the third book in the series Home to Hickory Hollow.
This book was a about a teacher, Jodi Winfield, who is house sitting for her cousin in Lancaster, PA. While out training for a half marathon she plans on running in Boston in the fall she comes across a small Amish girl on the side of the road. Returning the girl to her rightful family, she makes friends with them and they help her grow spiritually.
The book goes through her person trials of dealing with her loss of her sister and best friend and how she finds her way back to God.
I enjoyed this book as I do with all of Beverly Lewis' books.
I received it as a free book to review for Bethany Publishers
This book was a about a teacher, Jodi Winfield, who is house sitting for her cousin in Lancaster, PA. While out training for a half marathon she plans on running in Boston in the fall she comes across a small Amish girl on the side of the road. Returning the girl to her rightful family, she makes friends with them and they help her grow spiritually.
The book goes through her person trials of dealing with her loss of her sister and best friend and how she finds her way back to God.
I enjoyed this book as I do with all of Beverly Lewis' books.
I received it as a free book to review for Bethany Publishers
Monday, May 6, 2013
Gentleman of Her Dreams by Jen Turano
This was the cutest, cleaverest (is that a word?!), funniest book!! I loved it!!! I couldn't put it down (good thing it wasn't a full length novel)! It is my favorite read. I cannot wait to read more by this author! You have to read it!
It is about Charlotte who asks the Lord to show her whom to marry. She has decided that the Lord told her to marry Mr. Beckette, a widower. Just after her 'revelation' her best childhood friend, Henry St. James, returns from sea and she enrolls his help to get this man to notice her. Unbeknownst to her Henry left to sea to try to escape his love for her. She is quite unconventional and stirs up mayhem wherever she goes!
She is too hilarious!
It is about Charlotte who asks the Lord to show her whom to marry. She has decided that the Lord told her to marry Mr. Beckette, a widower. Just after her 'revelation' her best childhood friend, Henry St. James, returns from sea and she enrolls his help to get this man to notice her. Unbeknownst to her Henry left to sea to try to escape his love for her. She is quite unconventional and stirs up mayhem wherever she goes!
She is too hilarious!
Sunday, November 25, 2012
The Bridesmaid by Beverly Lewis
The Bridesmaid is about a young Amish woman named Joanna, who is 25 years old and still not married. She is from Hickory Hollow, Pennsylvania. She has a secret passion for writing short stories. As the name of the book suggests she has been asked to be a bridesmaid a couple of times, and her sister cautions her "three times a bridesmaid, never a bride."
While visiting Virginia Beach for a funeral, she meets a Amish young man named Eben Troyer from Shipshewana, Indiana. They get along so well that before they leave they get each others address and start to write back and forth. Of course the relationship evolves to phone calls every other Friday. The only problem is Eben's younger brother has left the family farm to try out the world. In Amish families the family farm is left to the youngest son. This means Eben's father is depending on Eben to take over the family farm. Will Joanna be willing to move to Indiana if Leroy doesn't return to the family farm? Would her bishop grant her permission to join a different church district?
Eben's and Joanna's relationship causes tension and jealousy between Joanna and her younger sister Cora Jane. What will Cora Jane do to cause Joanna to get in trouble with Preacher Yoder? You will have to read the story and find out.
I enjoyed the story very much, as I always do with a Beverly Lewis book. I love the whole concept of the Amish world. The close knit family and a community working for the greater good of all. Being self-sufficient and having your whole life and all your decisions revolving around your belief and faith in God.
This was a second book in the series Home & Hickory Hollow, but I did not feel at all like I missed anything by not reading the first book.
I received this book from Bethany House Publishers as a free book to read and review.
While visiting Virginia Beach for a funeral, she meets a Amish young man named Eben Troyer from Shipshewana, Indiana. They get along so well that before they leave they get each others address and start to write back and forth. Of course the relationship evolves to phone calls every other Friday. The only problem is Eben's younger brother has left the family farm to try out the world. In Amish families the family farm is left to the youngest son. This means Eben's father is depending on Eben to take over the family farm. Will Joanna be willing to move to Indiana if Leroy doesn't return to the family farm? Would her bishop grant her permission to join a different church district?
Eben's and Joanna's relationship causes tension and jealousy between Joanna and her younger sister Cora Jane. What will Cora Jane do to cause Joanna to get in trouble with Preacher Yoder? You will have to read the story and find out.
I enjoyed the story very much, as I always do with a Beverly Lewis book. I love the whole concept of the Amish world. The close knit family and a community working for the greater good of all. Being self-sufficient and having your whole life and all your decisions revolving around your belief and faith in God.
This was a second book in the series Home & Hickory Hollow, but I did not feel at all like I missed anything by not reading the first book.
I received this book from Bethany House Publishers as a free book to read and review.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
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