While there are many novels about Reformation times, and many church history biographies throughout the ages, we have come across very little fiction about early church history and even less about the creeds. However, Darlene Bocek’s novel Trunk of Scrolls covers the time after 526 AD, after the council of Chalcedon and during the continuing […]
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Review: High as the Heavens by Kate Breslin
Evelyn Marche, British nurse in WW1 Brussels, had taken over Edith Clavell’s hospital, even winning an Iron Cross for saving the life of a German major. Now she directed the hospital during the day while in the evenings, she helped her aunt and uncle run a café frequented by the Germans. In her few remaining hours she […]
Review: A Name Unknown by Roseanna White
Rosemary Gresham, a London street urchin grown up, supported the other orphans she called family by taking on assignments from Mr. V. Once she ‘liberated’ an old manuscript from the British Museum. At other times she, like Robin Hood, relieved wealthy women of their jewellery. But on the eve of World War I she was […]
Review: Heart on the Line by Karen Witemeyer
Grace Mallory, telegraph operator since her father’s sudden death, has been hiding from his killer, far away in a unique town of women. (Men are rarely allowed in Harper’s Station.) Amos Bledsoe, also a telegraph operator, is a quiet fellow who enjoys his sister’s family, bicycles, and late night telegraph chats with the unknown Miss […]
Review: Under a Summer Sky by Melody Carlson
At the end of the school year, art teacher Nicole Anderson receives an unexpected summer job offer: She is invited to manage an art gallery and house sit for a wealthy family friend in Savannah. It all seems ideal until she meets her co-worker Amira, sometimes called Vampira. Childhood friends Alex and Ryan surprise her, […]