Posted by Melissa on August 4, 2010
It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason [...]
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Posted by Melissa on May 13, 2010
David C. Cook (September 1, 2009) The girls return after their “vacation” of sorts in Maui. Two of them have or will soon have new members of their families joining them at Bloomberg Place. The two mothers will also be adding husbands to their families shortly as well. Their children will have fathers to love [...]
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Posted by Melissa on May 11, 2010
David C. Cook (March 1, 2009) Melody gives us a glimpse into the lives of these four girls as different as the seasons we see them through in the books. Here we are nearly three-fourths of the way through their year together. This Spring we find them planning or avoiding making plans for their Spring [...]
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Posted by Melissa on May 8, 2010
David C. Cook (September 1, 2008) In this book we return to 86 Bloomberg Place and four young women you would have thought could never share living space peaceably much less become friends along the way. Let Them Eat Fruitcake finds our girls celebrating their first Christmas as roommates and for some the first one [...]
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Posted by Melissa on May 6, 2010
David C. Cook (April 1, 2008) While these characters are around 10 years my juniors and living a much plusher life than what I have experienced, their friendship and adventures still prove to be something I can identify with in some ways. Megan is just out of college with an education degree but doesn’t start [...]
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Posted by Melissa on February 2, 2010
It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason [...]
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Posted by Melissa on July 2, 2008
Originally Posted at Bibliophile’s Retreat by Melissa Meeks Waterbrook Press (June 17, 2008)Throw together a labrador mix puppy, an itty bitty apartment, a broken engagement, umpteen episodes of house flipping shows on HGTV with the daughter of a retired contractor and what do you get? An amateur house flipper with more guts and gumption than [...]
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Posted by Melissa on July 1, 2008
Originally Posted at Bibliophile’s Retreat by Melissa Meeks It is July FIRST, time for the FIRST Blog Tour! (Join our alliance! Click the button!) The FIRST day of every month we will feature an author and his/her latest book’s FIRST chapter! Today’s feature author is:Melody Carlson and her book: A Mile in My Flip-FlopsWaterbrook Press [...]
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Posted by Melissa on June 21, 2008
Originally Posted at Bibliophile’s Retreat by Melissa Meeks It’s June 21st, time for the Teen FIRST blog tour!(Join our alliance! Click the button!) Every 21st, we will feature an author and his/her latest Teen fiction book’s FIRST chapter! The feature author is: Melody Carlson and her bookMixed Bags Carter House Girls Book #1Zondervan (May 1, [...]
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Posted by Melissa on June 19, 2008
Originally Posted at Bibliophile’s Retreat by Melissa Meeks Zondervan (May 1, 2008)Whether you are fashion challenged or a high designer IQ and a tweener to an adult who enjoys good books with a lighthearted story you’ll love this new series from Ms. Carlson. DJ’s grandmother belonged to the world of the fashion elite as the [...]
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