Book Review of "Brushstrokes from the Past" by Heidi Eljarbo

Welcome to the Bookstagram + Review Tour for Brushstrokes from the Past by Heidi Eljarbo, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!

ABOUT THE BOOK

Title: Brushstrokes from the Past

Series: Soli Hansen Mysteries #4

Author: Heidi Eljarbo

Release Date: September 20, 2022 

Genre: Historical World War II Fiction

WWII and the mid-seventeenth century are entwined in this fourth dual timeline novel about Nazi art theft, bravery, friendship, and romance.

April 1945. Art historian Soli Hansen and her friend Heddy arrive at an excavation site only to find Soli’s old archeology professor deeply engrossed in an extraordinary find in a marsh. The remains of a man have lain undisturbed for three centuries, but there’s more to this discovery…

As Soli tries to understand who the baroque man was and discovers what he carried in a sealed wooden tube, problems arise. A leak reveals the finds to the notorious Lieutenant Colonel Heinz Walter, and soon, both Nazi elite and the Gestapo are after the treasure.
When Heddy and the professor disappear along with the artwork, Soli and her resistance group must find them before it’s too late.

1641. In Amsterdam, French musketeer Claude Beaulieu has had his portrait done by his close friend and artist Rembrandt van Rijn. When a band of thieves steal the precious painting, Claude and his wife Annarosa Ruber pick up their swords and a few belongings and go after the culprits.

Set in Norway during the tumultuous last days of the second world war, as well as the peak of the glorious baroque art period, these two stories are a must for readers who love historical fiction with adventure, suspense, and true love that conquers all.

Perfect for fans of Kate Morton, Lucinda Riley, Kathleen McGurl, Rhys Bowen, and Katherine Neville.

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Spotlight: The Secrets of Emberwild by Stephenia H. McGee

Welcome to the Takeover Blitz for The Secrets of Emberwild by Stephenia H. McGee, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!

ABOUT THE BOOK

Title: The Secrets of Emberwild 

Author: Stephenia H. McGee 

Publisher: Revell 

Release Date: October 4, 2022 

Genre: Christian Historical Fiction

A gifted trainer in a time women are not allowed to race, Nora Fenton prefers horses to men. They're easier to handle, they're more reliable, and they never tell her what to do. After her father's passing, Nora is determined to save her struggling horse farm, starting with entering her prize colt into the harness races at the 1905 Mississippi Fair. If she wins, she may have a chance at independence. But when a stranger arrives and starts asking disconcerting questions, she suspects he may have other motives than unseating her in the training job that is rightfully hers.

Silas Cavallero will do whatever it takes to solve the mystery of his father's death--even if it means training an unwieldy colt for Nora, who wants nothing more than to see him gone. But when mysterious accidents threaten their safety and circumstances shrouded in secrets begin unlocking clues to his past, Silas will have to decide if the truth is worth risking ruining everything for the feisty woman he's come to admire.

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Reviewer Tour: Abduction Cold Case by Connie Queen

Welcome to the Reviewer Tour for Abduction Cold Case by Connie Queen, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!

ABOUT THE BOOK

Title: Abduction Cold Case

Author: Connie Queen

Release Date: October 25, 2022

Genre: Clean Romantic Suspense

An unsolved case. A family secret.

Getting to the truth could be deadly…

Finding a mysterious file on her desk sends psychologist Kennedy Wells chasing down clues to solve a twenty-six-year-old kidnapping—and straight into a violent assault. When Texas Ranger Silas Boone comes to Kennedy’s rescue, he can’t help but wonder at her resemblance to the long-missing girl. With someone willing to kill to end the investigation, can they uncover the truth…and live to see Christmas?

From Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith.

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Book Review of "Declutter" by Barbara Canon

ABOUT THE BOOK

Title: Declutter: Cleaning Out Your Spiritual Basement

Author: Barbara Sanon

Publisher: LakeView Publication

Release Date: March 28, 2022

Genre: Spiritual Growth

Is your life overwhelming you?

Do you struggle with believing for better in your future when all you see reminds you of your past? Do you find it difficult to find peace? Barbara has a word for you!

While seeking God about a circumstance in her life, with no warning, God addressed another issue in her life. Her past. God showed Barbara a visual picture analogy of her past being like a basement. A basement is where a homeowner places things they don’t need or have room for in their house, but over time, if not dealt with, a basement can become a place of cluttered defeat. If Barbara wanted a life of victory, God needed to help her clean out the clutter she had accumulated in her spiritual basement. Barbara documents this journey and shows you through the steps she learned from God how you too can live your life empowered and DECLUTTERED! 

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Book Review: Tap Talk, Tidbits, and Tips for Dilettante Tappers by Bernard M. Patten

ABOUT THE BOOK

Title: Tap Talk, Tidbits, and Tips for Dilettante Tappers

Author: Bernard M. Patten

Publisher: Identity Publications

Release Date: April 12, 2022

Genre: Neurological and Dance

If you're looking for an old-fashioned honest chapbook about the experience of being an amateur tap dancer, look no further!

Welcome to the world's first and only tap book written by a student of the art-not a teacher, a studio owner, or an expert. Delve into these real-life tap adventures and let them inspire you to bring the magic of the dance into your own life. This humble chapbook will open your mind to the world of this unique form of dance in ways that only a student of the art could.

Tap Talk, Tidbits, and Tips for Dilettante Tappers will help your brain direct your heart, nerves, muscles, sinew, and soul to serve your tap-dancing goals and increase your tapping fun. Here you will find ideas, suggestions, and discussions about tap, including the fundamental idea that dance is mainly a task of the mind and not just the body. Dr. Patten shows us how the brain and memory benefit hugely from learning dance, backed up by real psychological studies and personal experience with the Silver Star Tappers of Pasadena, Texas.

So, quit delaying, and read what amounts to a satisfying mix of deep scientific fact, real research results, tap tips, tap talk, chit-chat, chatter, and amusing anecdotes. Whet your appetite, and get a head's up on what to expect from tap dancing should you decide to give it a try.

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Book Review: Bentonsport - A Christmas Story by Lisa Schnedler

 

Welcome to the Review + Blog Tour for Bentonsport - A Christmas Story by Lisa Schnedler, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!

ABOUT THE BOOK

Title: Bentonsport - A Christmas Story 

Series: Bentonsport #1 

Author: Lisa Schnedler 

Publisher: Scrivenings Press 

Release Date: September 27, 2022 

Genre: Clean Romance/Christmas/Time Travel

What if you found the love of your life right in your hometown—in another century? Bentonsport—two different eras in one special town, two lonely persons, and one miraculous Christmas...

For Bentonsport Academy Headmaster Thomas Barton, Christmas emphasizes his loneliness. He has given up hope of discovering a woman to share his heart and life and plans to return to his hometown for the holidays. But when his friend’s preposterous prophecy comes true, he finds himself having traveled not by train, but through time, from 1869, to Bentonsport today! Now he must navigate a modern world for the two weeks before Christmas and discover what he was sent to find. 

Baker Sarah Peterson has everything she wants in the small historic town of modern-day Bentonsport—everything but a man with whom to share her dreams and future. And, in a town of under fifty residents, where’s she going to encounter a soulmate? But when Thomas walks into her bakery, seemingly odd and out of place, but handsome and charming, she finds herself hoping something special might happen this Christmas.

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Takeover Blitz: A Quilt for Christmas by Melody Carlson

Welcome to the Takeover Blitz for A Quilt for Christmas by Melody Carlson, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!

ABOUT THE BOOK

Title: A Quilt for Christmas: A Christmas Novella 

Author: Melody Carlson 

Publisher: Revell 

Release Date: September 6, 2022 

Genre: Christian Romance 

Recently widowed Vera Swanson is having a hard time getting in the Christmas spirit in her new town. When asked to make a quilt for an ailing neighbor, she pulls together a diverse circle of quilters, including freespirited Tasha Ellison. The group becomes stitched together through shared stories, trust, and a little romantic weaving. 

Christmas should be celebrated with family. But for Vera Swanson, that's not an option this year. Widowed and recently relocated, she is lonely in her condo-for-one--until little Fiona Albright knocks on her door needing help. With her mother seriously ill and her father out of town, Fiona enlists Vera's help, and when she finds out her new neighbor is a quilter, she has a special request--a Christmas quilt for Mama. 

Vera will have to get a ragtag group of women together in order to fulfill the request. Between free-spirited artist Tasha, chatty empty nester Beverly, retired therapist Eleanor, and herself, Vera has hopes that Christmas for the Albright family will be merry, after all--and she may find herself a new family of friends along the way. 

Bestselling and award-winning author Melody Carlson invites you to cuddle up this holiday season with this cozy story of giving, forgiving, and a little bit of romance. 

PURCHASE LINKS*: Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository | Indiebound | Christianbook | BookBub 

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Social + Review Blitz: An Amish Proposal for Christmas by Vannetta Chapman

Welcome to the Social + Review Blitz for An Amish Proposal for Christmas by Vannetta Chapman, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!

ABOUT THE BOOK

Title: An Amish Proposal for Christmas

Series: Indiana Amish Market #1

Author: Vannetta Chapman

Publisher: Love Inspired 

Release Date: 2022

Genre: Contemporary Christian Romance

Her deepest Christmas wish will bring more than she imagined…in this novel by USA TODAY bestselling author Vannetta Chapman.

The only way she’ll find home

is by leaving it…

The one thing Becca Yoder loves more than Christmas is her dream of leaving her Amish community and traveling the world. Becca has her father’s reluctant permission to leave—if she trains Gideon Fisher to run the family’s enormous outdoor market. But Gideon is homesick for Texas. Can Becca make him fall in love with her hometown…without falling for the handsome bachelor herself?

From Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope.

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Takeover Blitz: Art of Writing Conference organized by ECPA

Welcome to the Takeover Blitz for the Art of Writing Conference organized by ECPA, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!

A QUICK NOTE ABOUT THE CHRISTY AWARD FINALISTS

Christian fiction fans are invited to register and watch the free webcast announcement of The Christy Award finalists in each category live on October 11 at 11 am (CDT), featuring award-winning novelist and radio host Chris Fabry and ECPA president Jeff Crosby.

Registration is available at ecpa.org/event/Christy22Finalists

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Blog Tour: The Bookshop of Secrets by Mollie Rushmeyer

 

Welcome to the Blog Tour for The Bookshop of Secrets by Mollie Rushmeyer, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!

ABOUT THE BOOK

Title: The Bookshop of Secrets 

Author: Mollie Rushmeyer 

Publisher: Love Inspired Trade 

Release Date: October 25, 2022 

Genre: Contemporary Inspirational Romance

A collection of lost books holds the clues to her family's legacy...and her future.

Hope Sparrow has mastered the art of outrunning her tragic past, learning never to stay anywhere too long and never to allow anyone control over her life again. Coming to Wanishin Falls in search of her family's history already feels too risky. But somewhere in the towering stacks of this dusty old bookshop are the books that hold Hope's last ties to her late mother—and to a rumored family treasure that could help her start over. 

Only, the bookshop is in shambles, and the elderly owner is in the beginning stages of dementia and can’t remember where the books lie. To find the last links to the loved ones she's lost, Hope must stay and accept help from the townsfolk to locate the treasured volumes. Each secret she uncovers brings her closer to understanding where she came from. But the longer she stays in the quaint town, the more people find their way into the cracks in her heart. And letting them in may be the greatest risk of all...

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Book Review+Bookstagram Tour: The Prayer Jar Devotional: Hope by Wanda Brunstetter

 

Welcome to the Review + Bookstagram Tour forThe Prayer Jar Devotional: Hope by Wanda E. Brunstetter hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!

ABOUT THE BOOK

Title: The Prayer Jar: Hope

Series: The Prayer Jars

Author: Wanda E. Brunstetter 

Publisher: Barbour

Release Date: September 1, 2022 

Genre: Devotionals

Inspired by New York Times bestselling author Wanda E. Brunstetter’s The Prayer Jars series. . .

The Prayer Jar Devotional: Hope delivers the same life-changing inspiration as Wanda E. Brunstetter’s unforgettable stories. Every reading will help you draw closer to your heavenly Father.

Your prayer life will be transformed as you read through these dozens of encouraging devotional readings centered around the theme of hope. With each turn of the page, you’ll discover unchanging truths of God’s Word alongside meaningful prompts that guide you to write out your personal prayers or favorite, hope-filled Bible verses and then add to your very own prayer jar. (Simple instructions are included in the introduction.)

Once you’ve finished reading the last page, you’ll have a full prayer jar of your very own. Use it to infuse your heart with inspiration and encouragement when you need it—or share it with a friend who could use some faith restoration of her very own!

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Blog Blitz: Getting Past the Publishing Gatekeepers by Hope Bolinger, Linda Fulkerson, Rowena Kuo, and Carrie Schmidt

 

Welcome to the Blog Blitz for Getting Past the Publishing Gatekeepers by Hope Bolinger, Linda Fulkerson, Rowena Kuo, and Carrie Schmidt, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!

ABOUT THE BOOK

Title: Getting Past the Publishing Gatekeepers 

Authors: Hope Bolinger, Linda Fulkerson, Rowena Kuo, and Carrie Schmidt 

Publisher: Scrivenings Press LLC 

Release Date: October 11, 2022 

Genre: Nonfiction / Writing

Remember when Dorothy finally reached the Emerald City only to be halted by the Gatekeeper, blocking her hopes of seeing the Great and Powerful Wizard?

The path to publication is like that. Agents, and Editors, and Publishers, oh, my! 

Each one is a barrier between you and a publishing contract. 

 But what if you understood what agents, editors, publishers, and readers really want? 

 If you’re struggling to get past the publishing gatekeepers, this book will give you a behind-the-scenes peek at how to win the heart of each type of publishing professional. In fact, Getting Past the Publishing Gatekeepers won’t just give you a peek—it will give you a guided tour. In this book, four publishing professionals—an agent, a publisher, an editor, and an influencer—share what it takes to unlock each “gate” within the publishing industry. 

 Getting Past the Publishing Gatekeepers is a must-have resource for all aspiring authors, and it offers insights to help multi-published authors as well. 

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Blog Tour: Elite Guardians Collection by Lynette Eason, Kate Angelo, Sami A. Abrams, and Kelly Underwood

 

Welcome to the Blog Tour for the Elite Guardians Collection by Lynette Eason, Kate Angelo, Sami A. Abrams, and Kelly Underwood, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!

ABOUT THE BOOKS

Dive into the exciting ignition to the Elite Guardians Collection.

Title: Driving Force 

Series: Elite Guardians Collection #1 

Authors: Lynette Eason and Kate Angelo 

Publisher: Sunrise Publishing 

Release Date: March 22, 2022 

Genre: Christian Romantic Suspense 

He’s the last client she wants to protect… 

Elite Guardians bodyguard/former sniper CHRISTINA SHERMAN has protected uncooperative clients before—but this time, well her client is bossy, headstrong and occasionally eats off the floor. Yes, he’s a highly trained military working dog, but certainly her skills could be put to better use, right? 

Not according to former Special Forces Air Commando GREY PARKER. He needs her help to protect his dog while he undergoes an experimental surgery that could restore his ability to walk. He just needs someone to keep his canine partner safe. Most of all, Grey wants back on his feet so he can track down a deranged scientist known as The Scavenger who unleashed a nerve agent that left Grey sidelined in a wheelchair. 

When an attempt is made on Grey’s life, and dead bodies begin piling up—with evidence the same toxin is responsible—suddenly Christina is tasked with keeping both dog and soldier alive…and with them, the secrets that could stop a terrorist attack. But this time, even Christina might be in over her head.

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