Thanks to the Revell review program, I was able to read The House on Malcolm Street. It's the story, set in the '20s, of Leah and her precocious 6-year-old daughter Eliza. They have no place to go after the untimely death of Leah's husband, so they move in with his kindly older Aunt Marigold.The ...
First in the Wortham Family series by new-to-me author Leisha Kelly. This is good old-fashioned Christian fiction at its best, at least for me. Sweet, charming, quaint, old-fashioned, simple, heart-warming. No action, just lots of details about life and faith.The premise - the Wortham Family (...
The Fourth of July delivers more than just the local display of fireworks for Samuel and Julia Wortham. They return from the festivities in Dearing, Illinois, to find Samuel's brother Edward, out of prison and on their doorstep. Surprise turns to shock and confusion as Edward introduces a young g...
The Wortham family has been tested through hard times. But with the world on the brink of war, they are about to be tested again. Just days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Robert Wortham and Willy Hammond enlist. As they head off to fight, their families are left behind to deal with fears of wh...
It is December of 1932, just one year after the Worthams and the Hammonds lost Wilametta Hammond and Emma Graham in one terrible night. The Christmas spirit seems largely absent again this year. George Hammond has disappeared, and Julia Wortham's house is filled with the Hammond children, several...
In Leisha Kelly's well-received novel, Julia's Hope, Samuel and Julia Wortham and their two children charmed readers as they found shelter in the home-and heart-of a grandmotherly woman named Emma Graham. Now, in Emma's Gift, the Wortham family is struck down by the deaths of two close friends, ...
The Worthams and Hammonds are close friends and neighbors, sharing almost everything on their Illinois farms during the Depression era. When a fire breaks out and threatens to destroy the Hammond farm, both families are affected by it. Was it an accident or set on purpose? Some of the kids know, ...
I don’t know why. He had no reason to come back. It’d been surprise enough that he’d hung around as long as he did yesterday, when it would have been easier just to leave us and go. Maybe he’d wanted to know how it was with Franky. Or maybe he’d just been waiting for his chance to knock me in the...
Thelma served us chicken dinner afterward. But I couldn’t keep my mind off that Camp Point church. Why would the man want me to come? The church wasn’t really in town, just close to it. I’d had Thelma read the address for me, which included directions along a road called the Cannonball. Sam said ...