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  Phooey Kerflooey has finally found a home of her own. Too bad a raging squirrel found it first! Rasputin the squirrel spends his time stealing snacks, pooing on the counters, and biting tender noses. Phooey’s perfect home has become a perfect storm of chaos! Phooey will do anything for her boys. Almost step on the shiny floor. Mostly go potty outside. Bite a baby carrot in half. Maybe two carrots, or even three! The boys want Phooey to chase Rasputin and save the day, but it’s hard when so many scary things stand in her way. If only Phooey had her pink dolly to boost her bravery. Can Phooey find her courage and chase that bad squirrel out of their lives forever? Maybe tomorrow. Or the day after that. For sure by next week. Phooey will be very brave . . . someday. Theme verse: Isaiah 32:18--My people will live in peaceful dwelling places, in secure homes, in undisturbed places of rest. My review:  Phooey is back in this wonderful story of the puppy v the battle squirrel. Havi...

  Blurb: Blurb:  Caleb Daniels returns home to Texas after his wife has an affair and asks him for a divorce. When he temporarily goes to work for an ex-fraternity brother, he ’ s assigned to share an office with Aurora Prentiss. There ’ s only one problem: Rory and Caleb were high school sweethearts, but to please her father, Rory ended her relationship with Caleb soon after graduation. Aurora Prentiss never stopped loving Caleb, but has always felt a filial respect to her father that makes her bend to his will. When Caleb returns, Rory thinks this may be her chance to make things right with him. The only problem? She's engaged to a man chosen by her father. Will Caleb be able to forgive the woman who broke his heart years ago? And if he does, will Rory be willing to risk her relationship with her father, cancel the wedding to the fianc é  she doesn't love, and finally make a life with the only man she ’ s always loved? Extract:           Th...

  Union soldier, Ian O'Reilly, must find his brother who's been captured by Confederate forces. While Ian's company occupies New Bern, North Carolina, the town holds many dangers for him...as well as many treasured memories including those of the lovely southern belle, Olivia Coltrane, who stole his heart before the war. Ian isn't sure he'll be able to face those memories and find and free his brother.   Olivia Coltrane tries not to think about the war...the war that stripped almost everything from her: Ian, the love of her life, the lives of her parents, and her innocence. Forced by circumstance to work as a nurse to support herself and her daughter, she's surrounded by destruction and sickness every day, but the work keeps her hands and her mind busy.   When a group of Yankee soldiers comes under her care, she is devastated to find Ian among the wounded. Can their love be rekindled or does this Union sergeant have a hidden agenda that doesn't include her? ...

  LOVE’S GIFT by Penelope Marzec   In 1903, Amaranth Beach is burdened by her ethnicity due to the Chinese Exclusion Acts. Abandoned on a beach as a newborn and raised in an orphanage, she is a skilled secretary, but the threat of deportation looms constantly and all employers turn her away… until Mrs. Tildon of Sea Haven, New Jersey, hires her. Soon after Amaranth’s arrival, she discovers that the Tildon family secrets run deep—a reprobate father, a long-lost brother, an obnoxious maid who is never fired for her behavior, and William the son who worries too much about what people will think. When a series of alarming events occur, it’s up to Amaranth and William to unravel the secrets that threaten to destroy the Tildon family.   Can Amaranth heal the family’s divisions with her faith? Or will a greater danger threaten them all.     Amazon:  https://www.amazon.com/Loves-Gift-Penelope-Marzec-ebook/dp/B0D49BZ5P4   Apple:  https://books.apple.com/us...

  Only 1 more day to go….. have you bought your sprouts yet? Do you have enough mince pies to see you through to New Year? Are you ready for Christmas Day? Christmas has been described by John Piper as “the dawning of indestructible joy, because the joy Jesus was bringing into the world was like no other kind in history.” The joy that Jesus brings us is the very joy he has in God the Father, which he had for all eternity and will have forever. Speaking to his disciples, Jesus said: “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.” (John 15 v9-11) If the coming of Jesus is the dawning of indestructible joy, no wonder Luke begins and ends his gospel with great joy. Zechariah is told that his son John will be a joy and delight (1 v14) John leaps for joy in Eliza...

  The Christmas Child Penny Musco   Blurb:             A barren couple. A baby who needs a home. A husband adamantly opposed to adoption.             Infertility casts a shadow over Robert and Hannah’s marriage in 1891 New York City. So does her newfound Christian faith, a result of Dwight L. Moody’s evangelistic campaign. Their world is further rocked by their immigrant maid’s pregnancy, and by Jacob Riis’ exposé on life in the city’s tenements.              The Christmas Child  intertwines the themes of childlessness and cultural differences in an exciting inspirational story.   Excerpt from the book: “Tell me, Mr. Jessup, were you born into your family?” “Of course! What other way is there?” “Adoption.” Robert stopped with the spoon halfway to his mouth. That Mr. Halsmith would raise tha...