A Candle in the Window DVD: Blog Tour Review and Giveaway{Win a FREE copy of A Candle in the Window on DVD}

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Product Details Actors: Darin Southam Directors: John Lyde Format: NTSC, Widescreen Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.) Number of discs: 1 Studio: Covenant DVD Release Date: October 1, 2019 Run Time: 34 minutes DVD Summary

"Papa, would it be okay if we put a candle in the window so Mama can find her way home?"

John's family is struggling to face Christmas without his loving wife. However, six-year-old Emily is full of faith. Even though her older sisters try to gently lower her expectations, the young girl truly believes her mother will visit on Christmas Eve. In fact, she is so certain her mother will come that she puts a candle in the window to guide her mother on her journey home. Before she passed away, their mother made sure the most cherished holiday traditions would still be there—beautiful handmade dresses, new patent-leather shoes, and a lovingly crafted doll for little Emily. But on the way to a Christmas Eve celebration, the doll is lost, and Emily is heartbroken. Emily—and her grieving sisters—need their mother more than ever. Inspired by true events, A Candle in the Window is a beautiful reminder that our loved ones never leave us and prayers really do get answered—especially when you have the faith of a child.    

My Review: 
Oh, how I loved this story and the DVD! It's so tender right from the first scene. How can anyone not feel the tug of heartstrings as you see little Emily missing her mother and believing that her mom will visit her on Christmas Eve? This sweet story of faith from a six-year-old is not only inspiring but shows the strength of family love. This story is based on true events from the life of Michele Ashman Bell's grandmother and aunts' experience. This darling DVD portrays how even while dealing with grief can bring healing through faith and love as we mourn our loved ones. This DVD is the perfect addition to Christmas celebrations helping us remember what is most important as we celebrate Christ's birth. This DVD is recommended for families and individuals of all ages. It's a perfect gift for loved ones. 

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Based on the Picture Book: A Candle in the Window

           

Product Details

• Author: Michele Ashman Bell
• Hardcover
• Publisher: Covenant Communications; First Edition edition (2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591565707

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Book Summary

"Papa," Emily asked in a soft voice, "Would it be okay if we put a candle in the window?" Her father's forehead wrinkled with confusion at her question. "Why do you want to do that?" "So Mama can find her way home," she said innocently.— This is the first Christmas without Mama, and John's family is struggling to face the holiday without his loving wife. However, eight-year-old Emily is convinced her mother will come and visit her on Christmas Eve. And right now, Emily needs her mother more than ever. Bring the magic and wonder of Christmas into your heart with this heartwarming picture book that is perfect for a wintry evening read-aloud. It just may begin a new tradition in your family. 

Published October 2006 32 pages

Meet Author Michele Ashman Bell

Michele Ashman Bell grew up in St. George, Utah. In fourth grade, her
teacher wrote on her report card that she had a tendency to daydream
and would probably do well with creative writing. Her love for books
and learning about people and places has helped her make her teacher's
prediction come true. Michele is the author of many books and Christmas stories. She is married and is the mother of four children,
and a grandma of one. Aside from supporting her children in all of
their many activities, she loves to travel, do research for her
books and eat chocolate.   

Find out more about Michele HERE:http://www.micheleashmanbell.com

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Autumn/Halloween Countdown Blitz & Giveaway 2019 Day 2: The Murray's Hidden Treasure By Emily-Jane Hills Orford

An avid gardener, artist, musician and writer, Emily-Jane Hills Orford has fond memories and lots of stories that evolved from a childhood growing up in a haunted Victorian mansion. 

Told she had a ‘vivid imagination’, the author used this talent to create stories in her head to pass tedious hours while sick, waiting in a doctor’s office, listening to a teacher drone on about something she already knew, or enduring the long, stuffy family car rides. The author lived her stories in her head, allowing her imagination to lead her into a different world, one of her own making. As the author grew up, these stories, imaginings and fantasies took to the written form and, over the years, she developed a reputation for telling a good story. 

Emily-Jane can now boast that she is an award-winning author of several books, including King Henry’s Choice (Clean Reads 2019), Mrs. Murray’s Ghost (Telltale Publishing 2018), Mrs. Murray’s Hidden Treasure (Telltale Publishing 2019), Queen Mary’s Daughter (Clean Reads 2018), Gerlinda (CFA 2016) which received an Honorable Mention in the 2016 Readers’ Favorite Book Awards, To Be a Duke (CFA 2014) which was named Finalist and Silver Medalist in the 2015 Next Generation Indie Book Awards and received an Honorable Mention in the 2015 Readers’ Favorite Book Awards and several other books. 

A retired teacher of music and creative writing, she writes about the extra-ordinary in life and her books, short stories, and articles are receiving considerable attention. For more information on the author, check out her website at: http://emilyjanebooks.ca

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There is a hidden treasure in the grand old mansion on Piccadilly Street, in a place called London, but not the real London of English fame. There’s also a lot of mystery and a murder that’s been unsolved for decades. But it’s the treasure that captures Mary’s interest. 

Mary lives in this house along with her family, her Brownie friends, and a ghost. When the ghost reveals her secret about the hidden treasure, there’s no stopping Mary, her Brownie friends, or her enemies from searching for this treasure. 

Why the intrigue? Apparently, there’s a little bit of magic connected to this treasure. And so the adventure begins. Who will find the treasure first?

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Q & A With the Author:

1.     When did you write your first novel? In the late 1970s? I did manage to finish it, and I probably still have a copy of the novel somewhere, but it was a very weak attempt at writing and not something I'd want to publish. It was a good exercise, though. My next novel was my grandmother's story, "Personal Notes". I wrote it in first-person narrative, from my grandmother's point of view. The publisher commented that when he read it, he could almost see my grandmother sitting in her rocking chair telling her stories, which she often did. I started writing "Person Notes" in 1995, just after my grandmother passed away. It helped me heal from the feeling of loss. She and I were very close.

2.     What drove you to write / why did you become an author? I come from a family of storytellers, but being the youngest, I often didn't have a chance to share my stories in the oral tradition, so, as soon as I could write, I started writing my stories. My mother saved most of my stories and, after she passed away, I was surprised to find them tucked away in a box in the storage space underneath the stairs. 

3.     How do you create your characters? A lot of my characters are people from real life. The saying that goes around on Facebook that you should be nice to a writer because they have the power to do anything with your character in their novels, is very true. But none of my characters is an exact copy of a real-life person. I mix and match characteristics from people I know, people I've studied in history and people I read about in the news. The only character that remains the same is my grandmother, who surprisingly or not, is in most of my novels as Gran, Granny, Grandma or Grandmother. In "Mrs. Murray's Hidden Treasure", she's Granny. My grandmother always claimed we'd soon forget her after she passed away. I've proved her wrong with all the stories I've written in the past 24 years. 

4.     What is one thing you love about Fall / Autumn? I have mixed feelings about Fall, as it always free-falls into winter, which I don't like at all. I guess what I do like, though, are the colors. Living in eastern Ontario, we enjoy a very colorful display of leaves each fall. Living in the country, a walk along our country road is almost magical, the bees are still humming in the hedges along the road (one of our neighbors is a bee-keeper) and the apples are ripe and falling onto the road, along with the bright reds and golds of the maple leaves. 

5.     Who is the person or group of people that most support you in your writing? My husband. My parents, when they were alive, were also supportive. 

6.     What is your favorite Halloween Memory? I remember my best friend's birthday party. She was turning 6. We dressed in costumes made up of this and that from around the house, not the store-bought variety that is a must today. I dressed as a princess in a pink satin gown my mother had cut down from one of her old dresses. She had done up my hair fancy with a crown she created from some old costume jewelry and as we bobbed for apples at the party, I remember being annoyed when my 'crown' kept slipping into the bucket of water. 

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Six Ingredients with Six Sisters' Stuff: 100+ Fast and Easy Family Meals: Book Review

Product Details

• Title: Six Ingredients with Six Sisters' Stuff: 100+ Fast and Easy Family Meals
• Authors: Six Sisters
• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Shadow Mountain (September 3, 2019)
• Genre: Cookbook 
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1629725994
• ***I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy from the publisher. All opinions are my own***

Book Summary

With only six ingredients or less per recipe, making dinner has never been easier.
 
Six Sisters’ Stuff is one of the most popular blogs for quick and easy cooking and entertaining at home for families. In their eighth cookbook, they tackle how to master meals for any cook with any skill level with more than 100 easy recipes made with incredible flavor combinations from just six ingredients or less.
 
From beginning cooks learning the basics to busy parents looking to save time in the kitchen, this cookbook is loaded with entrees, side dishes, and desserts. Whether it’s a one-pot wings dish or a no-bake peanut butter bar this cookbook is a fool-proof solution to meal planning and features “Kid Favorites” recipes. 

My Review

Once again, I'm thoroughly impressed with the recipes found in the new Six Sisters cookbook. This cookbook though is going to the top of my list. Each recipe is six ingredients or less. To this single, working mom recipes like this are gold to me. Any time I can get dinner ready quickly and inexpensively is a win for me. Some of the recipes that my family loved and we will use again were...

• Barbecue Biscuit Cups
• Slow Cooker Swiss Chicken
• Oven-Baked Chicken Tacos 
• Slow Cooker Chicken Alfredo (My daughter's favorite!)
• Maple-Pecan Pork Tenderloin
• Ravioli Lasagna
• Twice-Baked Bacon & Chive Sweet Potatoes
• Watermelon Feta Salad
• Greek Yogurt Fruit Salad
• No-Bake Peanut Butter Corn Flakes Bars
• Nutter-Butter Cookie Truffles
• Snickers Cheese Ball

There are many others that I will be trying soon. Overall, there were recipes that all of my family members liked, many recipes that my kids marked that they still want to try, and a few that I took to group events that people loved and wanted the recipe. I can highly recommend this new Six Sisters cookbook. If you want easy and yummy recipes that won't take long to fix, Six Ingredients with Six Sisters' Stuff: 100+ Fast and Easy Family Meals is a cookbook just for you.

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Meet the Authors: The Six Sisters

The Six Sisters—Camille, Kristen, Elyse, Stephanie, Lauren, and Kendra—started the blog SixSistersStuff.com in 2011 as a way to keep in touch after they moved out of their house and started lives and families on their own.  In just a few years, their blog has become one of the top blog sites for women with millions of visitors each month enjoying the Sisters’ family stories, recipes, and tips for running a home.  The sisters live in California, Texas, and Utah.

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Autumn/Halloween Countdown Blitz & Giveaway 2019 Day 1: Copper Lake By Ann Swann

Ann has been a writer since junior high, but to pay the bills she has waited tables, delivered newspapers, cleaned other people's houses, taught school, and had a stint as a secretary in a rock-n-roll radio station. She also worked as a 911 operator and a police dispatcher. 

Her fiction began to win awards during her college days. Since then she's published several short stories, novels, and novellas. She’s always reading and always writing, but even if she never sold another story, Ann would not stop writing. For her it's a necessity, like breathing. Most of the time, it even keeps her sane.

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They call him the Killer Cartographer because he carves the map coordinates of each victim on the femur of the one before. Then he tattoos the information on his skin. 

Can Detective Kendra Dean bring him in, or will she become his next tattoo?

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Q & A With the Author:

1.         What drove you to write / why did you become an author? I wrote my first novel, STEVIE-GIRL AND THE PHANTOM PILOT after winning a short fiction contest at the Abilene Writer’s Guild. A new small press requested it and once it was done, it went on to become a 4 book series.

I’ve always loved reading so it seemed natural to start writing as a teenager.

2.         How do you create your characters? I don’t create characters intentionally. They come to life in my head and then I let them out.

3. What is one thing you love about Fall / Autumn? I love everything about Autumn; the colors, the smells, the cooler weather, and Halloween.

4.         Who is the person or group of people that most support you in your writing? My family is very supportive of my writing, although my biggest supporter was my sister (also an avid reader) who recently passed away. I also have three writing groups whose members are awesome.

5.        What is your favorite Halloween Memory? Halloween is one of my favorite times of year. When I was a kid, my siblings and I would traipse up and down the streets of our small hometown, trick-or-treating. We basically had the run of the entire town. On a scarier note, a man came in our house one Halloween night after we were all asleep (Dad was out of town) and my mom hit him in the head with a hammer when he appeared in our bedroom door. We made our escape and he went to the hospital then jail. We kids just knew he had broke in to steal our Halloween candy. It had been a banner trick-or-treating night that year.

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Mistaken Reality: A Novel By Traci Hunter Abramson: Blog Tour Review and Giveaway

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Book Summary

Hadley Baker can’t believe her boyfriend finally invited her on a fancy hotel dinner date only to break up with her in public. Even more unbelievable is the moment FBI Agent JD Byers finds her crying in the women’s restroom and demands she evacuate. Seconds after JD ushers Hadley outside, an explosion shatters the building. Could her life be any more disastrous?

Hadley Baker can’t believe her boyfriend finally invited her on a fancy hotel dinner date only to break up with her in public. Even more unbelievable is the moment FBI Agent JD Byers finds her crying in the women’s restroom and demands she evacuate. Seconds after JD ushers Hadley outside, an explosion shatters the building. Could her life be any more disastrous?

JD didn’t anticipate seeing Hadley, the beautiful schoolteacher, again after he saved her from the hotel attack. But soon after her ex-boyfriend became a lead suspect of the hotel bombing, the man turned up dead—and now it seems that Hadley herself is a target. Determined to keep her safe, JD shelters Hadley as they join forces to put together the pieces of the perplexing case. When they discover the horrifying truth behind her ex-boyfriend’s nefarious work, Hadley realizes her life is far from the only one being threatened. Countless others are in danger, and she and JD may hold the key to saving them.

My Review

Mistaken Reality has been one of my most anticipated books to read this year. In this novel, it brings together so many characters that have been in Traci's other novels. This was very exciting to have the Saint Squad Series and The Guardian Series characters working together. Of course, I made the same mistake of first picking up the book to start reading and four hours later finally giving in to sleep. This book hooked me from the first page and really never let up.

One of the main characters, Hadley, is a third-grade teacher. Being a teacher myself, this character held special interest for me. Poor Hadley one minute is living a normal life dating a rich, handsome man. Within a few pages, her world is turned upside down and her life is threatened. The plot involves a harsh subject of human trafficking. Government agencies FBI, CIA, The Guardians, and the Navy Seals Saint Squad end up working together to bring down a very dangerous organization.

This story has a lot of action, angst, and romance too. I carried my book around everywhere hoping to read at least a chapter or two when I could. This is not a book you'll want to put down and I suggest spending an afternoon to enjoy it all at once. Traci Abramson's books get better and better with each new offering. She knows how to write suspense and handles hard subjects in a non-glorified way that speaks the truth. Mistaken Reality is a well-woven tale that will keep you up late into the wee hours of the night. This could be a stand-alone read but like I always suggest, read the previous books first to get the most out of this gathering of loyal reader's favorite characters. 

Meet Author Traci Hunter Abramson

Traci Hunter Abramson was born in Arizona, where she lived until moving to Venezuela for a study-abroad program. After graduating from Brigham Young University, she worked for the Central Intelligence Agency for several years, eventually resigning in order to raise her family. She credits the CIA with giving her a wealth of ideas as well as the skills needed to survive her children's teenage years. She is a five-time Whitney Award winner and has written more than twenty-five bestselling novels. Follow Traci on BookBub at shorturl.at/ewDJ5

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Berlin Butterfly Release By Leah Moyes: Official Cover Reveal and Giveaway

Leah Moyes is from Arizona but experienced many parts of the world in thanks to a career in the airlines. Now most of her time, aside from writing, is spent with her family, reading Historical Fiction novels or studying ancient cultures as a student of Archaeology.

She always believed she was born in the wrong time period, but since she doesn’t have access to a time machine she must write and read intriguing stories of the past. 

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Treachery, heartache, and loneliness led Ella Kühn to take her first drink of alcohol ten years ago. When the delusions begin, images from her past threaten to challenge her state of mind. Ironically, the very thing that haunts her, is the thing that has kept her alive—the butterfly tattoo covering the gunshot wound to her right shoulder. It’s physical and emotional reminder not only symbolizes her courage, but also signifies Stefan’s absence . . . which now spans twelve years.

It’s 1983 in the Deutsch Democratic Republic. Trust remains a fragile ally as the Communist Bloc begins to crumble. Ella’s involvement in the rising opposition and underground punk movement puts her more at risk than any escape plan ever could. She is followed, watched and hunted . . .  but by whom? An old enemy? The Secret Police? Or her new employer?

In Release, the third and final installment of the Berlin Butterfly Series, Ella battles her inner demons as she struggles to survive the ever-growing darkness in the East. Will she regain her former strength and find a way to flee to the thinning borders of Czechoslovakia and join Anton and Josef? Or will ties to her precarious past keep her bound—her only release found in the freedom of pain and guilt while embracing life without her family in East Berlin?

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