The clocks went back an hour this weekend, and the nights are drawing in. If you’re looking for a good book to snuggle up with this month, here are some of my favorites from previous Novembers.
2011Wings of a Dream – Anne Mateer
Restless in Carolina – Tamara Leigh
The First Gardener – Denise Hildreth Jones
2013The Church Builder – A.L. Shields
2014Motherless – Erin Healy
Surprised by Love – Julie Lessman
The Patmos Deception – Davis Bunn
Publisher’s Overview:The Harrison lodge is full of hiding places where young Kate can discover all the secrets no one wants her to know.
Eleven-year-old Kate keeps her knowledge to herself—one sister’s stash of marijuana, the other’s petty cash pilfering, her grandfather’s contraband candy bars. She protects her mother and Gran, too, screening out critical comments from the hotel suggestions box. But suddenly the stakes are raised; her grandfather’s best friend is murdered the day after Kate heard the two men arguing.
At the same time, far from the quiet mountain resort, a homeless man sees a robbery gone wrong . . . a gang member seeks revenge for the death of his son . . . and a boy chooses the worst time to wield spray paint on a store window. In a strange and spiraling sequence of events, their disparate worlds collide at Harrison Lodge.
Kate offers shelter to one of them, unaware of the terrible consequences to the family she loves. But people can hide in all kinds of ways, sometimes even in plain sight . . . and some secrets are just waiting to be exposed. Continue reading
I read a lot of books in 2014. According to Goodreads, I’ve read 116, although I think I forgot to record one or two! The majority of these were Christian fiction titles. While most were good, if not excellent, I’ve somehow managed to come up with a list of 10 that were the absolute best. These are all books I’ve reviewed, and they’re the ones that either left me with something to think about or impacted me emotionally.
Proverbial Reads 