Book Review
Finding Harmony
by Karen Rigby
A talented vocalist and a frustrated worship team leader find love through music in Alyssa Roat and Hope Bolinger’s lighthearted romance novel. The Vine Community Chapel’s worship team needs help with its lineup. Elijah, its new...
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Prepare for Departure
by Karen Rigby
With pathos and aplomb, travel writer Mark Chesnut’s enchanting book "Prepare for Departure" gathers essays about his aging mother and growing up in the 1970s as part of a single-parent household. Chesnut’s road trips and flights are...
Book Review
Finding Moon Rabbit
by Karen Rigby
Heart Mountain, an internment camp in Wyoming, is brought to heartbreaking life in "Finding Moon Rabbit", J. C. Kato and JC²’s sensitive historical novel about surviving injustice with hope. Because of Executive Order 9066, Koko and...
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Hearts of Briarwall
by Karen Rigby
A spirited maverick with a passion for cars meets her match in Krista Jensen’s ebullient Edwardian romance, "Hearts of Briarwall". Lydia, whose parents died in her youth, is shepherded by her conscientious brother, Andrew, though...
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Mission Improbable: Vietnam
by Karen Rigby
In Nancy Nau Sullivan’s cozy mystery novel "Mission Improbable: Vietnam", two women in search of their families’ stories forge a sisterhood—and consider the human impacts of wars. Jean’s mother was Vietnamese, but Jean doesn’t...
Book Review
The Griefmaker
by Karen Rigby
Set in a small Midwestern town, the novel "The Griefmaker" follows two men through their family trials. In George Gurley’s novel "The Griefmaker", a small town is polarized over plans for the local land. The Tenbrooks once owned a...
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An Open Door
by Karen Rigby
"An Open Door" is a sensitive, intelligent historical novel focused on an unraveling marriage. A wife yearns for more substance in Anne Leigh Parrish’s "An Open Door", an insightful postwar novel about reconciling one’s sense of duty...
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The Sunshine Shenanigan
by Karen Rigby
In the medical thriller "The Sunshine Shenanigan", public servants rally to combat white collar crimes. John M. Whiddon’s multi-perspective thriller "The Sunshine Shenanigan" follows a case of Medicaid fraud in Florida. Inspired by...