Originally Posted at Bibliophile’s Retreat by Melissa Meeks Waterbrook Press (May 20, 2008)This debut novel set in the California wine country outside San Francisco is a family saga of three generations of women whose lives are forever turned upside down […]
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Tuesday Night at The Blue Moon by Debbie Fuller Thomas – My Review
Originally Posted at Bibliophile’s Retreat by Melissa Meeks Dreams put on hold, the chance to change a 13year old mix-up, changes and loss are just some of the ingredients to this touching story of lessons in letting go. Marty and […]
Continue reading »House of Dark Shadows by Robert Liparulo – My Review
Thomas Nelson (May 6, 2008) Liparulo starts this series and book off with the eerie tone you’ll find so well executed in his work. Rarely does a page go by without some strange and creepy mysterious event being described with […]
Continue reading »A Whisper of Freedom by Tricia Goyer – My Review
Originally Posted at Bibliophile’s Retreat by Melissa Meeks Tricia has once again transported readers into the lives of characters living in another era. The third installment of her Spanish Civil War series is another emotionally rich story of people’s lives […]
Continue reading »Sincerely Mayla by Virgina Smith – My Review
Originally Posted at Bibliophile’s Retreat by Melissa Meeks While I don’t recommend reading series out of sequence, if you end up getting ahold of Sincerely, Mayla first you won’t be lost if you haven’t read Just As I Am. Even […]
Continue reading »Finding Hollywood Nobody by Lisa Samson – My Review
Originally Posted at Bibliophile’s Retreat by Melissa Meeks We catch up with Scotty and Charley after the location shooting in Hollywood Nobody has wrapped and everyone’s skeedaddled from the quaint little island town where they were filming the final shots. […]
Continue reading »The Betrayed by Lisa T Bergren – My Review
Originally Posted at Bibliophile’s Retreat by Melissa Meeks This second book was even more suspenseful than the first and I am now thoroughly caught up in the story of The Gifted. I can’t wait for book 3 – The Blessed […]
Continue reading »A Tendering in the Storm by Jane Kirkpatrick – My Review
Originally Posted at Bibliophile’s Retreat by Melissa Meeks This is a heart rending historical novel taking a look at Emma Wagner Giesy’s life in our beautiful Northwest during its beginnings as a civilized territory. In this second book of the […]
Continue reading »A Clearing in the Wild by Jane Kirkpatrick – My Review
Originally Posted at Bibliophile’s Retreat by Melissa Meeks In this first of three books of her Change and Cherish Series, Jane Kirkpatrick combines history from the perspective of those who lived it with vivid characterization of both the historical figures […]
Continue reading »The Begotten by Lisa T Bergren – My Review
Originally Posted at Bibliophile’s Retreat by Melissa Meeks This is a wonderfully rich historical fiction adventure that takes the reader to the midst of 14th Century Italy with all the religious and political strife of medieval times in the air […]
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