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Reviews: Fiction

Review: Adoring Addie by Leslie Gould

Addie Cramer’s parents are thrilled that Phillip Eicher has come to call.  He’s good, kind, wealthy, and a real catch.  Addie wonders, though, if this is love.  When she meets Jonathan Moosier, she simultaneously discovers what love at first sight is and understands the depths of the old feud between her family and the Moosiers.  […]

Review: The Gate by Dann A. Stouten

Well, I’ve never read a book like this before.  Or maybe just one, a long time ago, that I couldn’t understand at all and did not want to either. That’s how it was with The Gate at first, too.  I wouldn’t, couldn’t let myself open up to the book.  Then, at page 82 I suddenly […]

Review: Seaside Harmony and Sunflower Summer

When we were in the midst of icy winter and up to our ears in homeschooling, I was offered Seaside Harmony and Sunflower Summer to review.  The beautiful covers made these books irresistible, and the stories truly reflect the covers—beautiful, welcoming, and full of God’s goodness. Seaside Harmony:  What a delightful novel!  Three sisters, middle-aged […]

Review: The Dance by Walsh and Smalley

After 27 years of marriage, Marilyn Anderson is tired of trying to get through to her husband Jim.  Convinced he does not love her, she leaves home to sort out her thoughts and to live a few dreams. When Jim arrives home and finds Marilyn gone, he is stunned.  A successful businessman, he is sure […]

Review: A New Home for Lily by Kinsinger and Fisher

Lily Lapp has moved to Pennsylvania, to a new Amish community.  So much is different:  the kitchen with its orange counters, the school girls, the church, her little bed in the hall.  The house is ugly; the ideas are different; and Lily longs for her old life in New York. But it gets better.  Father […]