Kelly's Chance by Wanda E. Brunsetter

Hello Everyone!

What a sweet fast reading book! I loved Kelly's art work!

Carol :)

This week, the

Christian Fiction Blog Alliance

is introducing

Kelly’s Chance Barbour Books; Reprint edition (January 1, 2010)

by

Wanda E. Brunstetter





ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

A Note From Wanda:



Ever since I was a child, I wanted to be a writer. When I was in the second grade, I wrote my first poem about a moth. Luckily, I received encouragement from my teacher. During my teen years, I wrote skits that my church teen group performed during special holidays.



It wasn’t until 1980, that I took a course on writing for children and teenagers. I became serious about a career as an author. Soon after that, I began to write stories, articles, poems, and devotionals, which appeared in a variety of Christian publications. Later, I had 5 books of puppet/ventriloquist scripts published. *These books are currently available by contacting me. (wanda@wandabrunstetter.com)



My first novel was released by Barbour Publishing’s book club, Heartsong Presents, in Dec. 1997. I have now written nearly fifty books, with over 4 million books in print. Many of the novels I've written are Amish-themed.





ABOUT THE BOOK

Life for Kelly McGregor is a daily drudge of driving her overbearing father’s mules along Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Canal. She dreams of one day owning an art gallery where her own drawings and paintings are on display. But these dreams don’t include marriage. . .not after seeing what her father has done to her mother. How then can Mike Cooper, a general store owner, make her realize he is different than her father and wants to support her artistic talent? Will Kelly learn that dreams can walk hand in hand with a love created by God?

If you would like to read the first chapter of Kelly’s Chance , go HERE.

The book link is: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1602608903

The Last Day by James Landis

Hello Readers!

This was listed as a controversial book because it is in places! It is good, it has plenty of war in for those who have been through wars. I did like the way Jesus was portrayed in most of the book. The things I didn't like were the two times that the author let Jesus say that this is the only world. That doesn't work for me. There are millions and billions of stars and galaxies that we can't even study because they are so far away, as well as those are that are closer and yet we can not get far enough to check them out. For us as humans to say that we are God's only creations, this world, this plant, for it to be the only one with life on it out of all that God has made has always struck me as extremely conceited.

The only other major issue I had with this book concerned the Red Sea part. That part bothered me more than anything else in this book. I was greatly saddened for the Author to have tried to make the Red Sea, including all the archaeological findings that are now well known, into a bog quake and a sea of reeds. :(

Those two issues aside it was well written and thoughtful.

Carol :)

This week, the

Christian Fiction Blog Alliance

is introducing

The Last Day

Steerforth; 1 edition (September 1, 2009)

by

James Landis


ABOUT THE AUTHOR:


James Landis lives in New Hampshire.

















ABOUT THE BOOK

Warren Harlan Pease, the young narrator of this spellbinding novel, returns to his native New Hampshire from the Iraq War and spends an entire day with Jesus visiting and contemplating hi own life with fresh eyes, and a willing heart. He examines his relationships to those he loves─his girlfriend, his best friend, his father, his dead mother, his daughter ─ and grapples with the pain he has been carrying since the death of his mother when he was still a boy.

While in Iraq, armed with his sniper’s ‘s rifle and his deeply held faith, Specialist Pease traveled across ideological borders and earned an appreciation for his enemy’s culture and for what connect us all as human beings. He also learned how to kill and taught others to do the same. “War doesn’t test your faith in Jesus,” Warren comes to realize. “It tests your faith in yourself.” The Last Day answers some questions and asks many more. It’s a powerful meditation on religion and war, love and loss.

This work of compassion and healing grace will resonate with skeptics and believers, be shared and discussed between friends and among families. It is a book for our time, and forever.

If you would like to read an excerpt from Chapter one of , go HERE

The book link is: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1586421654

The Silent Governess by Julie Klassen

Hi Fair Readers,

This is a delightful book that you will not wish to miss. With out the plot being the same, this book still has the same wonderful feel that I got the first time I watched a good black and white movie of "Jane Eyre".

While running for her life Olivia Keene accidentally overhears something quite important. This predicament lands her a position at Brightwell Court for at least three months. Those three months can give Olivia much needed time to sort out what has happened to her. But what is Olivia going to do when her voice comes back, and how does her Mother have some connection to Brightwell Court that she has no knowledge about? Many strange and mysterious things are happening and no one quite trusts anyone else. When Olivia winds up as Governess to two children things really get complicated for her!

This very well written book has sayings from books from this era about how servants were to behave, and the rules that Governesses were to follow in order for things to be "proper". These quotes added a great deal to the book in my opinion. Suffice it to say that in this time period Governesses were expected to be like children, seen and not heard. I am not going to tell you what happens, because I never give away endings, but I will tell you that this was a really well written, interesting, charming read. Besides that, how could I possibly resist when the main character's name only has one extra letter than mine!

Carol :) (Yep... Carol E. Keen!!!)

This week, the

Christian Fiction Blog Alliance

is introducing

The Silent Governess

Bethany House; Original edition (January 1, 2010)

by

Julie Klassen


ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Julie says: My background is in advertising and marketing, but I am blessed with a dream job—working as an editor of Christian fiction. I have been writing since childhood, but Lady of Milkweed Manor was my first novel. It was a finalist for a Christy Award and won second place in the Inspirational Reader's Choice Awards. My second novel, The Apothecary's Daughter, was a finalist in the ACFW Book of the Year awards. I am currently writing one novel a year.

I graduated from the University of Illinois and enjoy travel, research, BBC period dramas, long hikes, short naps, and coffee with friends.

My husband and I have two sons and live near St. Paul, Minnesota.


ABOUT THE BOOK


Olivia Keene is fleeing her own secret. She never intended to overhear his.

But now that she has, what is Lord Bradley to do with her? He cannot let her go, for were the truth to get out, he would lose everything--his reputation, his inheritance, his very home.

He gives Miss Keene little choice but to accept a post at Brightwell Court, where he can make certain she does not spread what she heard. Keeping an eye on the young woman as she cares for the children, he finds himself drawn to her, even as he struggles against the growing attraction. The clever Miss Keene is definitely hiding something.

Moving, mysterious, and romantic, The Silent Governess takes readers inside the intriguing life of a nineteenth-century governess in an English manor house where all is not as it appears.

If you would like to read the prologue and first chapter of The Silent Governess, go HERE. You can also sign up as a Follower when you get to that page, and get announcements of the first chapters for all the great books we tour!

The book link is: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0764207075