Friday News: Twitter tolerates harassment, animated films and the ‘fun...
Twitter can fix its harassment problem, but why mess with success? – A very interesting post by Ben Kuchera on how Twitter capitalizes off of harassment and the outrage it generates, both of which...
View ArticleDA3 Interview & Giveaway: Back to School
The school year isn’t fresh and new everywhere at the beginning of September, but it’s a good excuse to bring you some books with peeks inside the classroom. These stories also share the theme of...
View ArticleRomance and the ‘Meaning of Life’
In response to last week’s guest post by Zoe Brouthers on feminine sacrifice in Romance, author Moriah Jovan wrote a very thoughtful comment on the role that faith plays in so many people’s lives,...
View ArticleREVIEW: Beyond All Dreams by Elizabeth Camden
Anna O’Brien has the perfect job at the Library of Congress until she stumbles across a baffling mystery of a ship that disappeared at sea. When forces conspire to prevent her from learning the truth,...
View ArticleREVIEW: Tiffany Girl by Deeanne Gist
As preparations for the 1893 World’s Fair set Chicago and the nation on fire, Louis Tiffany—heir to the exclusive Fifth Avenue jewelry empire—is left without a staff when glassworkers go on strike...
View ArticleJOINT DISCUSSION: For Such a Time by Kate Breslin
ALL THE TRIGGER WARNINGS Janine: I asked Sunita, who read this book in its entirety, to join me for this discussion. As one whose relatives died in Auschwitz, I could only bring myself to read 35% of...
View ArticleThursday News: Three Essays and a Video
More Titillated Than Thou: How the Amish conquered the evangelical romance market -A really interesting, insightful, and respectful piece on the popularity of Amish Romance written by someone with...
View ArticleREVIEW: Toward the Sunrise by Elizabeth Camden
Julia Broeder is only six months shy of graduating from the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania when one small decision spirals out of control and results in her expulsion. Hoping to travel the...
View ArticleREVIEW: Until the Dawn by Elizabeth Camden
A volunteer for the newly established Weather Bureau, Sophie van Riijn needs access to the highest spot in her village to report the most accurate readings. Fascinated by Dierenpark, an abandoned...
View ArticleREVIEW: Flirtation Walk by Siri Mitchell
West Point History Comes Alive in this Warmhearted Romance Trying to escape the shambles her con-man father has made of their reputation, Lucinda Curtis arrives in West Point, New York, determined to...
View ArticleREVIEW: Castles in the Clouds by Myra Johnson
The first book in the Flowers of Eden series introduced readers to Bryony Linwood, an orphan trying desperately to provide for her sisters in the shadow of the Great Depression. In Castles in the...
View ArticleREVIEW: Too Pretty by Andrea Grigg
When being beautiful means you are constantly criticised, how would you react? Ellie Paxton has endured more than her fair share of criticism – simply because she’s beautiful. Frustrated by a long...
View ArticleREVIEW: The Mark of the King by Jocelyn Green
Sweeping Historical Fiction Set at the Edge of the Continent After being imprisoned and branded for the death of her client, twenty-five-year-old midwife Julianne Chevalier trades her life sentence for...
View ArticleREVIEW: The Scarlet Coat by Angela K. Couch
Surrounded by the musket fire of the American Revolution, Rachel Garnet prays for her family to be safe. When the British invade the Mohawk Valley and her father and brother don’t return from the...
View ArticleREVIEW: To the Farthest Shores by Elizabeth Camden
It has been six years since army nurse Jenny Bennett’s heart was broken by a dashing naval officer. Now Lieutenant Ryan Gallagher has abruptly reappeared in her life at the Presidio army base but...
View ArticleREVIEW: Too Pretty by Andrea Grigg
When being beautiful means you are constantly criticised, how would you react? Ellie Paxton has endured more than her fair share of criticism – simply because she’s beautiful. Frustrated by a long...
View ArticleREVIEW: The Mark of the King by Jocelyn Green
Sweeping Historical Fiction Set at the Edge of the Continent After being imprisoned and branded for the death of her client, twenty-five-year-old midwife Julianne Chevalier trades her life sentence...
View ArticleREVIEW: The Scarlet Coat by Angela K. Couch
Surrounded by the musket fire of the American Revolution, Rachel Garnet prays for her family to be safe. When the British invade the Mohawk Valley and her father and brother don’t return from the...
View ArticleREVIEW: To the Farthest Shores by Elizabeth Camden
It has been six years since army nurse Jenny Bennett’s heart was broken by a dashing naval officer. Now Lieutenant Ryan Gallagher has abruptly reappeared in her life at the Presidio army base but...
View ArticleREVIEW: A Song Unheard (Shadows Over England Book #2) by Roseanna M. White
Willa Forsythe is both a violin prodigy and top-notch thief, which makes her the perfect choice for a crucial task at the outset of World War I–to steal a cypher from a famous violinist currently in...
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