Earlier this week I shared that my word for 2022 is reclaim. 2020 was rough and 2021 just about broke me. I feel like I’m slowly crawling out of that deep pit, clutching the edges with my weary, filthy fingers, and ready to rise up and fight. First up: the house. I love the Christmas…
Trumpet Tuesday: The Fire of Eden (Book 3 in The Harwood Mysteries) Antony Barone Kolenc My award-winning inspirational historical fiction series, The Harwood Mysteries, tells the ongoing story of Alexander (“Xan”), a peasant boy in twelfth-century England who—along with his friends, Lucy and Christina—must solve spooky mysteries and go on adventures even as historical events…
Merriam-Webster defines reclaim as follows: Definition of reclaim transitive verb1a: to recall from wrong or improper conduct : REFORM b: TAME, SUBDUE 2a: to rescue from an undesirable state also: to restore to a previous natural state reclaim mining sites b: to make available for human use by changing natural conditions reclaim swampland 3: to obtain from a waste product or by-product : RECOVER reclaimed plastic 4a: to demand or obtain the return of b: to…
January 2022 New Releases More in-depth descriptions of these books can be found on the ACFW Fiction Finder website General Contemporary: Grace Across the Miles by Christine Dillon — How can you belong when you don’t know who you are? Gina Reid is surrounded by people getting married or having babies. She’s under pressure to…
Set in the German Hill Country of Texas during World War II, Land That I Love is a sweeping literary novel of love and loss; friendship and animosity; fathers and sons; and coping during times of war and peace. Yet it is more than a love story. It is about the racism and bigotry that still exist…
Q&A with Leslie L. McKee: Where did you get the inspiration for your book? Hope Amid the Pain is based on my own experience of living with chronic pain and illness for over twenty-five years. Friends often told me that I needed to share my story, but I was always reluctant to do so, until…