The Applegate Garden by Roberta Gibson
248 pages, 12 of 12 reviews are 5-star, Lending Enabled
When Dawn Applegate puts her happy but hectic Manhattan lifestyle on hold to return for a short visit to Druwick, Massachusetts, the picturesque village of her childhood, something undreamed of happens. Dawn’s desperate struggle to escape from those who have cruelly victimized her, form the core of this darkly clever story with a spine-chilling conclusion.
The Applegate Garden will appeal to readers who relish an eerie concept woven into the innocent fabric of everyday life.
Along with Stephen King and the late Ira Levin, there is Roberta Gibson.
A Family Affair by Mary Campisi
351 pages, 77 of 103 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled
When Christine Blacksworth’s larger-than-life father is killed on an icy road in Magdalena, New York, a hundred miles from the ‘getaway’ cabin he visited every month, she discovers a secret that threatens everything she’s always held to be true. Her father has another family which includes a mistress and a daughter. Determined to uncover the truth behind her father’s secret life, Christine heads to Magdalena, prepared to hate the people who have caused her to question everything she thought she knew about her father. But what she finds is a woman who understands her, a half sister who cherishes her, and a man who could love her if she’ll let him. The longer she’s around them, the more she questions which family is the real one. . .
From a Distance by Tamera Alexander
384 pages, 54 of 58 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled
What happens when the realization of a dream isn’t what you imagined… and the secret you’ve spent a lifetime guarding is finally laid bare?
Determined to become one of the country’s premier newspaper photographers, Elizabeth Westbrook travels to the Colorado Territory to capture the grandeur of the mountains surrounding the remote town of Timber Ridge. She hopes, too, that the cool, dry air of Colorado, and its renowned hot springs, will cure the mysterious illness that threatens her career, and her life.
Daniel Ranslett, a former Confederate sharpshooter, is a man shackled by his past, and he’ll do anything to protect his land, and his solitude. When an outspoken Yankee photographer captures an image that appears key to solving a murder, putting herself in danger, Daniel is called upon to repay a debt. He’s a man of his word, but repaying that debt could bring secrets from his past to light.
Forced on a perilous journey together, Daniel and Elizabeth’s lives intertwine in ways neither could have imagined when first they met…from a distance.
The Applegate Garden by Roberta Gibson
248 pages, 12 of 12 reviews are 5-star, Lending Enabled
When Dawn Applegate puts her happy but hectic Manhattan lifestyle on hold to return for a short visit to Druwick, Massachusetts, the picturesque village of her childhood, something undreamed of happens. Dawn’s desperate struggle to escape from those who have cruelly victimized her, form the core of this darkly clever story with a spine-chilling conclusion.
The Applegate Garden will appeal to readers who relish an eerie concept woven into the innocent fabric of everyday life.
Along with Stephen King and the late Ira Levin, there is Roberta Gibson.
Isaac: Trek To King’s Mountain by J Wayne Fears
162 pages, 6 of 6 reviews are 5-star, Lending Enabled
Hunger, horrible weather, fatigue beyond imagination, constant fear of death, loneliness, and vengeance were constant companions of Isaac as he walked in moccasins, cross country, over 100 miles of wilderness terrain to fight in one of America’s least known but most important battles in the American Revolution.
Isaac- Trek to King’s Mountain is the story of a teenage boy for whom isolation, daily wilderness survival, and Indian raids were not history lessons in a dusty book or on an internet site. They were 14 year old Isaac’s day-to-day life.
Isaac Hunt was a product of living in a remote wilderness farm under constant Indian danger, and a threat of destruction by the British. His loyalty was not so much to a political cause, but to his family, for a very good reason, his father had been recently murdered by the British.
Reuben McGee, a master woodsman and aging longhunter, befriends and mentors Isaac, teaching him the wilderness and combat skills he will need to handle the hard days ahead.
Isaac, Reuben McGee and Sara Fowler are fictitious characters. However, the other people, all of the political and military events, even the daily moves, weather and camp locations in this book, really happened in the bloody autumn of 1780.
The Overmountain men might have thought better than to leave their homes to fight the British in a far-away land because the Cherokee were, at the same time, planning to attack the remote farms and settlements. But, the call to put down the British threat was too great. The men, called “Overmountain men”, who lived on the western side of the Appalachians took the gamble.
King’s Mountain, an actual place in northern South Carolina, was named for a pioneer named “King” (not the King of England). The trek to, and the Battle of King’s Mountain, is accurately described and based on a true event. Many of the fighters in this historic 300 mile trek, and the resulting one hour and five minute battle, were teenage boys, like Isaac.
This often overlooked battle, according to historians, played a major role in turning America’s War for Independence around and was a pivotal point in the birth of what became the United States of America.
This is a story of everyday pioneers overcoming great odds to enjoy liberty. Equally it is story about a boy’s rapid adventure into manhood, because of his willingness to risk everything to avenge his father’s death and to assure the freedom the Overmountain settlers wanted so bad.
All Roads Lead to Austen: A Year-Long Journey With Jane by Amy Smith
384 pages, 5 of 5 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled
With a suitcase full of Jane Austen novels en español, Amy Elizabeth Smith set off on a yearlong Latin American adventure: a traveling book club with Jane. In six unique, unforgettable countries, she gathered book-loving new friends— taxi drivers and teachers, poets and politicians— to read Emma, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice.
Whether sharing rooster beer with Guatemalans, joining the crowd at a Mexican boxing match, feeding a horde of tame iguanas with Ecuadorean children, or tangling with argumentative booksellers in Argentina, Amy came to learn what Austen knew all along: that we’re not always speaking the same language— even when we’re speaking the same language.
But with true Austen instinct, she could recognize when, unexpectedly, she’d found her own Señor Darcy.
All Roads Lead to Austen celebrates the best of what we love about books and revels in the pleasure of sharing a good book— with good friends.
Forever Blessed (Women of Prayer) by Darlene Shortridge
301 pages, 7 of 7 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled
Laney watched her life disappear in the rear view mirror. If only her memories would disappear as well…
She was two hours west of town when the lights in the big two-story brick house came on. She couldn’t possibly hear the shouting and cursing, yet her insides were knotted and her stomach churned. If he caught her, he would kill her. Of that she was certain.
Forever Blessed is the story of a young mother who is on the run from an abusive husband with her three children in tow. Does Laney find safety from a controlling manipulating spouse? Does Paul track her down and make her pay for her disobedience? Where does God fit into all this?
Dingo Creek Challenge by Robert Elmer
176 pages, of reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled, Young Adult, Grade 5+
Will the truth come out before someone gets hurt?
Let by mysterious sounds, Patrick McWaid stumbles upon a group of aborigines in the midst of a nighttime corroborree at Dingo Creek. The elaborate story-dance fascinates Patrick, who stays to watch—until an angry band of settlers bursts in to arrest two aborigines for stealing horses.
Seeing the unfair way the native Australians are treated, Patrick and his sister, Becky, befriend them and set out to uncover the truth about the horse thefts. But things get out of hand when Patrick is challenged to a “friendly” cricket match between the expert Echuca team and the aborigines. Without thinking, Patrick accepts, even though he and the aborigines don’t know the game! Can Patrick and Becky unmask the real thieves before the cricket match turns into an all-out battle?
Calamity @ The Carwash by Sharon Rose
188 pages, no reviews, Lending Enabled
A marital spat at a carwash turns deadly – and Mabel Wickles, Parson’s Cove’s amateur sleuth, isn’t buying the claim that the victim’s wife bashed him over the head with a brick. However, when the woman confesses to the murder, Mabel decides to investigate the crime herself – along with help from her best friend Flori, her cat Sammy, and a busload of senior citizens.
202 pages, Lending Enabled
Bookwi.se Note: Renewal Journal is an Australian Journal Specializing in Church Renewal and Revival. I will list each Journal below
Journal 2: Church Growth
Journal 3: Community
Journal 4: Healing
Journal 5: Signs and Wonders
Journal 6: Worship
Journal 7: Blessing
Journal 8: Awakening
Journal 9: Mission
Journal 10: Evangelism
Journal 11: Discipleship
Journal 12: Harvest
Journal 13: Ministry
Journal 14: Annointing
Journal 15: Wineskins
Journal 16: Vision
Journal 17: Unity
Journal 18: Servant Leadership
Journal 19: Church
Journal 20: Life
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