Setting: Australia Time Period: 1871 Suddenly orphaned and left penniless, Boston born Rebecca marries Aussie Daniel Thornton and leaves for Australia with her new husband. In this first novel in the Queensland Chronicles, author Bonnie Leon takes a marriage of convenience to the outback where Rebecca is put to the test on whether she has…
Setting: Antarctica Time Period: Modern Day “ICE” by Kevin Tinto is a fun, contemporary read with a bit of sci-fi thrown in! When Leah Andrews finds a rock in a cave dwelling in New Mexico that can only be found in Antarctica, she’s convinced the only one who can help her is her estranged mountaineering…
Setting: Australia Time Period: 1800’s At the beginning of “To Love Anew,” we meet two ordinary people living in England. All too soon, one mistake brings their lives to a screeching halt. Shackled and chained, they are arrested, tried and sentenced to live out their days in a prison colony in Australia, then, New South…
Setting: US Virgin Islands Time Period: Modern Day “Crystal Blue” by John H. Cunningham is an action adventure novel about a pilot who helps a concert promoter with a show in the US Virgin Islands. But before Buck even has a chance to fly the husband and wife team out of Key West to the…
Setting: Berkshire, England Time Period: 1819 I don’t typically read murder mysteries, but when I do, I want them to be just like this one… In “The Bridge To Belle Island,” Julie Klassen took motive, a “Downton Abbey” feel and a little island on the Thames River to give readers a believable, yet magical tale…
Setting: Arabia Time Period: 1880 Historical Fiction, missionary work and overseas adventure fill “An Unusual Adventure” by Anne Perreault. Judith has been in love with Austin her whole life, but being a rather plain girl and him being sent off to school, she had no hopes for them as a couple or marriage in general….
Setting: Iraq Time Period: Modern Day Author Stephen Mansfield has lived a once in a lifetime opportunity. Where most people are lucky to travel outside the US and form an attachment to another land in a temporary fashion, Mansfield not only traveled to Northern Iraq often, but formed friendships with the people of that land,…
Setting: Sudan Time Period: 2000 “Sudan” by Art Ayris and Ninie Hammon is the story of a father’s unrelenting love and sacrifice to find his daughter who was kidnapped by Muslim human traffickers. This novel of war between Muslim gorilla’s against Sudanese Christians is based on a true story. May we all learn to appreciate…
Setting: Peru Time Period: 1919 I was in desperate want of a book set in Peru for the “Around The World In 80 Books” reading challenge when I found this short, sweet biography from the Assemblies of God in a used bookstore. The volume was written by one of the Assemblies of God pioneer missionaries…
Setting: China Time Period: 1936 This story totally intrigued me! Jewish families moving to China during WWII? I never knew China accepted Jewish refugees until this book came into my hands! (Or, more realistically, my Kindle. lol) But here we are, in China with a Jewish refugee family establishing a medical practice in Shanghai during…
