For Such a Time As This: My Faith Journey through the White House and Beyond, book #37

 

So I was looking for another biography to read and found this one on my list.  Man, it blew my socks off!  I remember watching her on TV when she was the press secretary during those "unprecendented" times and being impressed. But reading and finding out about all the "behind the scenes" stuff blew my mind.  Her big soap box was the fact that the main stream media never gave Trump a fair shake and she was doing all she could to get the TRUTH out about all the lies they were telling about him.  It really reminded me about how we can no longer believe anything MSM tells us, because it is only what they want you to know ~ which is not necessarily the truth.

If you would have told me that in the year 2020 I would stand at the White House podium and communicate with the American people as COVID-19 ravaged the globe and violent protests beset the nation, I would have told you that you were crazy. But Jesus Christ had this very plan for my life.  From White House intern to White House press secretary, from production assistant to national television host, from Catholic all-girls high school to Harvard Law School, God has guided my path through uncharted territory. In For Such a Time as This, I will chronicle my journey to the White House and offer never-before-told anecdotes about what really happened within the Trump administration. You will experience some of the most high stakes moments in the West Wing right alongside me as I reveal how faith got me through. (picture and description from Amazon)

November usually  means its time to start reading Christmas books, but others have caught my eye so I'm not sure what to do!

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Melissa

Hearts Stolen, book #36

 

I really liked this book until the last 3 pages.  I had a dream the night before I finished it that one character would not get resolution in book and sure enough she did not!!!  :(  Then I realized it was a series, but not even in the next book does it talk about the girl in question!  Katie says that means I get to decide how it ends, but I don't like books like that -- or movies!!

Unbeknownst to loved ones, a headstrong young wife is snatched off the prairie by two Comanche braves, carried north of the Red River, and traded to their war chief for ponies. After five years, a small detail of Texas Rangers rides into camp, and she determines that day will bring freedom or death. She’ll remain captive no more. Sassy Nightengale almost gives up hope until a company of Texas Rangers rides into Bold Eagle’s peace camp. She learns they’ve come for the negotiated exchange of stolen white women, except her name isn’t on their list. Purposing in her heart to escape captivity with her blue eyed, four- year-old that day, she does everything she can to be noticed.  Famed Texas Ranger Levi Baylor spots the red headed beauty and agrees to the war chief’s price adding his personal horse and weapon to the Republic agents’ offerings. The trade propels the couple on a trail of joy and sorrow. Sweet love blossoms but must be denied. His integrity and her faith in God keep them at arm’s length, not allowing even a kiss. Sassy’s still married to her son’s father, and Levi’s honor-bound to deliver her home—to her husband. Can their forbidden love be made holy? God hates divorce. Is it wrong to hope, expect Nightengale to relinquish his wife and son? Will Sassy and Levi find the redemption they seek for their troubled souls?  (Picture and description from Amazon)

I'm trying to find a biography to read next ...

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Melissa

The Sandcastle Sister, book #35

 

Lisa Wingate, you are a tricky one!  After just reading this book I thought Lisa was also a "deep" writer.  But this book tricked me!  It was a novella, related to these books.  

New York editor Jen Gibbs knew when she bought Evan Hall's next blockbuster book, it would change her career. She didn't know it would change her life. But after being sent along on the European book tour, at Evan's request, she has made a promise she's not sure she can keep--she's crossed professional lines and accepted Evan's surprising engagement proposal. Now she's scared to death. In Jen's family, marriage represents the death of every dream a woman holds for herself.  Can the revelation of her mother's long-held secret open the doors to Jen's future and change her beliefs about life and love?  (Picture and description at Amazon)

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Melissa

Hole in My Life, book #34

 

I read a biography!  And this one was quite eye opening.  As a former children's librarian of sorts, I was familiar with his books about Joey Pigza and others.  His stories were filled with laughter and humor, and to read about his troubled youth made me sad.  But he learned his lesson, and it was through his time in jail that he really started focusing on writing.  Today his books have won many awards, including the coveted Newbery Award.

In the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an aspiring writer looking for adventure, cash for college tuition, and a way out of a dead-end job. For ten thousand dollars, he recklessly agreed to help sail a sixty-foot yacht loaded with a ton of hashish from the Virgin Islands to New York City, where he and his partners sold the drug until federal agents caught up with them. For his part in the conspiracy, Gantos was sentenced to serve up to six years in prison.  In Hole in My Life, this prizewinning author of over thirty books for young people confronts the period of struggle and confinement that marked the end of his own youth. On the surface, the narrative tumbles from one crazed moment to the next as Gantos pieces together the story of his restless final year of high school, his short-lived career as a criminal, and his time in prison. But running just beneath the action is the story of how Gantos – once he was locked up in a small, yellow-walled cell – moved from wanting to be a writer to writing, and how dedicating himself more fully to the thing he most wanted to do helped him endure and ultimately overcome the worst experience of his life. (description and picture from Amazon)

Be wild and crazy and pick up a different book today!

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Melissa

Faith, Hope & Love, book #33

 

Six years after rebels took her missionary husband hostage, Cassie MacIntyre gets word that Quinn has been released and is on his way home. While initially excited to have her husband back, it isn’t long before joy turns to heartache as Cassie realizes that his time in captivity have robbed Quinn of his faith in God and, apparently, his love for her. Quinn has lost more than weight while being held captive in the jungles of Colombia. As days turned to months, he struggled and failed to keep his faith alive. As months turned to years, hope for a rescue faded. Quinn's heart and emotions hardened as he faced a daily battle to stay alive and to understand why God had abandoned him.The man who has come back to Cassie is a stranger. She struggles to keep alive the hope that there is a future for their marriage, their family and the love and faith they once shared.  (Picture and description for Amazon)

I'm starting a biography next, I need to get those in before the end of the year!  

Book Count:  33/55

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Melissa