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I Don't Dance by Jesseca Wheaton - Review
Book Synopsis: Ty and Jen have been friends for nearly as long as anyone can remember. But when Ty goes off to college and leaves her...
Lyra Thompson
Jan 141 min read
Counted Worthy by Leah E. Good - Review
Book Synopsis: Heather Stone lives in fear of repeating the past, yet she continues doing the one thing that could trigger another...
Lyra Thompson
Jan 102 min read
Live Your Truth and Other Lies by Alisa Childers - Review
Book Synopsis: Are you tired of feeling like you have to check social media to find out what you're supposed to think? Are you weary of...
Lyra Thompson
Jan 62 min read
The Screwtape Letters (Annotated Edition) by C. S. Lewis - Review
Book Synopsis: A masterpiece of satire, this classic has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic...
Lyra Thompson
Jan 63 min read
Last Christmas in Paris by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb - Review
Book Synopsis: August 1914. England is at war. As Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend, Thomas Harding, depart for...
Lyra Thompson
Dec 29, 20243 min read
I Still Believe by Jeremy Camp - Review
Book Synopsis: A leading artist on the contemporary Christian scene, Jeremy Camp has gained a sizable fan following. I Still Believe...
Lyra Thompson
Dec 22, 20242 min read
(SPOILERS) What Child is This? A Christmas Story by Caroline B. Cooney - Review
Book Synopsis: Not everyone is lucky at Christmas. Some people would call 16-year-old Liz Kitchell and her family truly fortunate, but it...
Lyra Thompson
Dec 20, 20242 min read
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens - Review
Book Synopsis: A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens. It was first published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December...
Lyra Thompson
Dec 12, 20242 min read
(SPOILERS) The Atonement Child by Francine Rivers - Review
Book Synopsis: Dynah Carey knew where her life was headed. Engaged to a wonderful man, the daughter of doting parents, a faithful child...
Lyra Thompson
Dec 12, 20243 min read
The Extraordinary Deaths of Mrs. Kip by Sara Brunsvold - Review
Book Synopsis: Aidyn Kelley is talented, ambitious, and ready for a more serious assignment than the fluff pieces she’s been getting as a...
Lyra Thompson
Dec 11, 20243 min read
Summerlost by Ally Condie - Review
Book Synopsis: It's the first real summer since the devastating accident that killed Cedar's father and younger brother, Ben. But now...
Lyra Thompson
Nov 20, 20242 min read
Revolutionary (Anomaly #3) by Krista McGee - Review
Book Synopsis: Back in the underground State against her will, Thalli is no longer the anomaly she was before. She has proven herself to...
Lyra Thompson
Nov 14, 20243 min read
Luminary (Anomaly #2) by Krista McGee - Review
Book Synopsis: She was an anomaly with a death sentence. Now she's free. Thalli was scheduled for annihilation. She was considered an...
Lyra Thompson
Oct 26, 20243 min read
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys - Review
Book Synopsis: Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys....
Lyra Thompson
Oct 24, 20242 min read
(SPOILERS) Every Other Weekend by Abigail Johnson - Review
Book Synopsis: Adam Moynihan’s life used to be awesome. Straight As, close friends and a home life so perfect that it could have been a...
Lyra Thompson
Oct 7, 20244 min read
Love Finds You in Sunset Beach, Hawaii by Robin Jones Gunn - Review
Book Synopsis: Sierra came to Sunset Beach for relaxation—not for world-class surfing and certainly not for romance! When a wealthy...
Lyra Thompson
Sep 27, 20242 min read
Why Pro-Life by Randy Alcorn - Review
Book Synopsis: So much is at stake in the abortion debate. If pro-choicers are right, precious freedoms are in jeopardy. If pro-lifers...
Lyra Thompson
Sep 14, 20242 min read
The Traitor's Wife by Allison Pataki - Review
Book Synopsis: Everyone knows Benedict Arnold--the Revolutionary War general who betrayed America and fled to the British--as history's...
Lyra Thompson
Sep 11, 20243 min read
Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero by Michael Hingson and Susan Flory - Review
Book Synopsis: First came the boom the loud, deep, unapologetic bellow that seemed to erupt from the very core of the earth. Eerily, the...
Lyra Thompson
Sep 9, 20242 min read
(SPOILERS) Swing by Kwame Alexander - Review
Book Synopsis: Things usually do not go as planned for seventeen-year-old Noah. He and his best friend Walt (aka Swing) have been cut...
Lyra Thompson
Aug 29, 20243 min read
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