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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
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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
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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
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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
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(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
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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
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(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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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(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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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(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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Graduation Day (The Testing #3) by Joelle Charbonneau - Review
Book Synopsis: In a scarred and brutal future, The United Commonwealth teeters on the brink of all-out civil war. The rebel resistance...
Lyra Thompson
Aug 24, 20242 min read
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Independent Study (The Testing #2) by Joelle Charbonneau - Review
Book Synopsis: In the series debut The Testing, sixteen-year-old Cia Vale was chosen by the United Commonwealth government as one of the...
Lyra Thompson
Aug 15, 20242 min read
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