The crunch of newly fallen snow, the weight of wartime
Siblings forging new paths and finding love in three stories, filled with the wonder of Christmas
Turn back the clock to a different time, listen to Bing Crosby sing of sleigh bells in the snow, as the realities of America’s involvement in the Second World War change the lives of the Turner family in Lafayette, Indiana.
In Cara Putman’s White Christmas, Abigail Turner is holding down the Home Front as a college student and a part-time employee at a one-of-a-kind candy shop. Loss of a beau to the war has Abigail skittish about romantic entanglements—until a hard-working young man with a serious problem needs her help.
Abigail’s brother Pete is a fighter pilot hero returned from the European Theater
in Sarah Sundin’s I’ll Be Home for Christmas, trying to recapture the hope and peace his time at war has eroded. But when he encounters a precocious little girl in need of Pete’s friendship, can he convince her widowed mother that he’s no longer the bully she once knew?
In Tricia Goyer’s Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Meredith Turner, “Merry” to those who know her best, is using her skills as a combat nurse on the frontline in the Netherlands. Halfway around the world from home, Merry never expects to face her deepest betrayal head on, but that’s precisely what God has in mind to redeem her broken heart.
The Turner family believes in God’s providence during such a tumultuous time. Can they absorb the miracle of Christ’s birth and His plan for a future?
my thoughts:
the book has a great cover so pretty and christmasy. i thought i'd try out this book even though i'm not a fan much of sarah sundins. i tried to read the whole book. though none of it really caught my attention and made me want to keep reading. it was super disappointing since i generally love Tricia Goyer but not even her portion got to me. i wouldn't say it was horrible just didn't catch me.
thanks to litfuse for providing me with the book my thoughts are my own i wasn't compensated in any way.
About the book: In
1951, Frankie Chasing Bear is a Lakota caught between cultures. She
wants to raise her son Harold to revere his Lakota heritage, but she
knows he will need to become as a white man to succeed. After his
father's killed in a barroom brawl, Harold and Frankie move to Arizona,
where she begins a Lakota Star pattern quilt for Harold with tribal
wisdom sung, sewn and prayed into it.
About the Author: Linda S. Clare is an award-winning coauthor of three books, including Lost Boys and the Moms Who Love Them (with Melody Carlson and Heather Kopp), Revealed: Spiritual Reality in a Makeover World, and Making Peace with a Dangerous God (with Kristen Johnson Ingram). She is also the author of The Fence My Father Built.
She has taught college-level creative writing classes for seven years,
and edits and mentors writers. She also is a frequent writing conference
presenter and church retreat leader. She and her husband of thirty-one
years have four grown children, including a set of twins. They live in
Eugene, Oregon, with their five wayward cats: Oliver, Xena the Warrior
Kitty, Paladine, Melchior, and Mamma Mia!
