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Emily
I read anything and everything. I love the smell of books. My kids giggle at me when I open a new box of books from Amazon and I inhale the new pages and rub the shiny new spine against my face! 🙂 My husband just rolls his eyes at me and is grateful he has me on a budget! 🙂

A Celtic Childhood

A Celtic Childhood is a lovely memoir that reads as if you’re sitting at the feet of a grandfather full of stories!  This book is full of charming vignettes and hilarious antics as we follow a boy fro…
Emily

Mercy Come Morning

There are times when we are hard on ourselves and don’t allow ourselves to have happiness because we don’t feel that we deserve it.  This is Krista Mueller’s life motto—she’s successful in her job, bu…
Emily

Recipes for a Perfect Marriage

Recipes for a Perfect Marriage showcases the difficulties and hardships that arise in marriage—especially when people (mistakenly) think that as soon as you say ‘I do’, it’s peaches and cream from now…
Emily

Gregor and the Marks of Secret

Gregor and the Marks of Secret doesn’t begin with the reciting of a prophecy—in fact, no one even imagines there is one!  Now that Gregor’s mother is stuck in the Underland recovering from the plague,…
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Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods

If I were pulled into an Underland with my kids, would I treat them like little kids even though they were considered warriors?  I think I would!  And I LOVED watching Gregor’s reaction to having his …
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Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane

Get ready for more intense fun as we follow Gregor and Boots on another incredible adventure!  At the end of the first book, another prophecy is mentioned, but only just.  (The prophecies are riddles …
Emily

The Girl Who Could Fly

How many of us have dreamed we could fly?  (How many of us tried as children only to find—the painful way—that we can’t?)  What if you found that you could fly?  What would you do?  Piper has floated …
Emily

Yankee Invasion

It’s always an interesting experience to read a novel from the point of view of someone who is borderline insane.  Yankee Invasion is very interestingly written, as it alternates between the feeling o…
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Unlovable (Port Fare Series #1)

Unlovable grabbed my attention from the first page and didn’t let go!  It’s very well written and kept me turning the pages and thinking about it even when I wasn’t reading!  It is stark and realistic…
Emily

Haunting Violet

How would you react if suddenly you could see all the spirits wandering around us…and they could see you?  Violet’s mother is pretending to be someone she’s not, and forces her daughter to go alo…
Emily

The Seven Laws of Learning

In The Seven Laws of Learning, we take a journey through history in order to learn how to be a better leader and teacher.  I really enjoyed all the stories—which I think was part of the poin…
Emily

HOOT

I know very well what it’s like to be the new kid in school.  I wish I would have had Roy’s courage and presence of mind as he stood up to all the bullies and stuck to his ideals and new friendsh…
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