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Grand Prize Winner | Kelly Irvin Marathon

  CAROLYN I will be contacting you via e-mail to let you know what you need to do to collect your prize. THANK YOU to everyone for entering!   God bless you! Giveaway © 2016 DJ Mynatt

The Honeybee Sisters Cookbook | Jennifer Beckstrand

      Aunt Bitsy says buying this cookbook is risky, but who can resist! – Tweet this!   My Thoughts WOW! A cookbook full of recipes — and each recipe includes honey! I love this cookbook! If you want to know why, keep reading . . . I can’t wait to try the Honey Crashed Sweet Potatoes. Even if you don’t like sweet potatoes, you will like this recipe. Of course, I don’t know of anyone who doesn’t…

Kelly Irvin . . . Author Spotlight

  Thank you for joining me for this special Author Spotlight! First, a bit about Kelly… Kelly is the author of more than a dozen Amish books. Her latest release, The Saddle Maker’s Son, is the third novel in the Amish of Bee County series. She is also the author of the Bliss Creek Amish series and the New Hope Amish series. Among her other works are novellas in two collections, including An Amish…

Sweeter Than Honey | Kelly Irvin Marathon

Today I am reviewing Sweeter Than Honey, one of four Amish novellas found in An Amish Market, by Kelly Irvin. Here is a brief synopsis: Shattering a jar of pickled beets wasn’t the impression Isabella hoped to make on her first trip to the local Combination Store of Bee County, Texas. But as embarrassed as she was by the accident, she didn’t think it warranted the frosty reaction from the…

A Christmas Visitor | Kelly Irvin Marathon

Today I am reviewing A Christmas Visitor, one of the three Amish novellas found in An Amish Christmas Gift, by Kelly Irvin. Here is a brief synopsis: Frannie Mast returns to Bee County for Christmas, but her heart stays back in Missouri with an Englisch farm boy. Frannie knows her parents have the best of intentions when they send her back to Bee County, Texas, to live with her aunt Abigail and…

Week #3 Winner | Kelly Irvin Marathon

  LINDA I will be contacting you via e-mail to let you know what you need to do to collect your prize. THANK YOU to everyone for entering!   God bless you! Giveaway © 2016 DJ Mynatt

The Saddle Maker’s Son | Kelly Irvin Marathon

Today I am reviewing The Saddle Maker’s Son, the third book in The Amish of Bee County series by Kelly Irvin. Here is a brief synopsis: Rebekah Lantz feels imprisoned by circumstances she didn’t create. Tobias Byler is haunted by regret. Can two young runaways from half a world away teach them the healing power of true family? Rebekah isn’t like her sister who left the Amish faith, but the…

The Bishop’s Son | Kelly Irvin Marathon

Today I am reviewing The Bishop’s Son, the second book in The Amish of Bee County series by Kelly Irvin. Here is a brief synopsis: Two men offer Leila two very different futures. Will she choose with her heart or with her faith? Leila Lantz has been in love with Jesse Glick from the day she first saw him at his father’s store, but she can’t make sense of his intentions. One day he wants to come…

The Beekeeper’s Son | Kelly Irvin Marathon

Today I am reviewing The Beekeeper’s Son, the first book in The Amish of Bee County series by Kelly Irvin. Here is a brief synopsis: A strange, mystical place allows Deborah and Phineas to see themselves and others with new eyes. When Deborah Lantz arrives in Bee County, Texas, she expects to find a great oasis of citrus groves and olive trees. Instead, she finds a tiny Amish district struggling…

Week #2 Winner | Kelly Irvin Marathon

  VIRGINIA I will be contacting you via e-mail to let you know what you need to do to collect your prize. THANK YOU to everyone for entering!   God bless you! Giveaway © 2016 DJ Mynatt

A Plain Love Song| Kelly Irvin Marathon

Today I am reviewing A Plain Love Song, the third book in The New Hope Amish series by Kelly Irvin. Here is a brief synopsis: Adah Knepp wants nothing more than to make music. It’s all she’s ever desired–to sing and play the guitar and write her own songs. That’s a dream that will never come true in the confines of her strict Amish community. But then she meets Jackson Hart, and all of a sudden…

Love Redeemed | Kelly Irvin Marathon

Today I am reviewing Love Redeemed, the second book in The New Hope Amish series by Kelly Irvin. Here is a brief synopsis: In the second book of the New Hope Amish series, acclaimed author Kelly Irvin spins a tale of romance, grief, and redemption deep in Amish country. Phoebe Christner is thrilled when the families of her close-knit Amish community decide to spend a week at the lake. She feels…

Love Still Stands | Kelly Irvin Marathon

Today I am reviewing Love Still Stands, the first book in The New Hope Amish series by Kelly Irvin. Here is a brief synopsis: Readers of Kelly Irvin’s Bliss Creek Amish novels will be overjoyed to discover her new series for lovers of Amish fiction: The New Hope Amish. In the first installment, Love Still Stands, a group of dedicated families leaves Bliss Creek to establish a new community in…

Week #1 Winner | Kelly Irvin Marathon

  BRITNEY I will be contacting you via e-mail to let you know what you need to do to collect your prize. THANK YOU to everyone for entering!   God bless you! Giveaway © 2016 DJ Mynatt

Love’s Journey Home | Kelly Irvin Marathon

  Today I am reviewing Love’s Journey Home, the third book in The Bliss Creek Amish series by Kelly Irvin. Here is a brief synopsis: It’s been seven years since her husband died, but Helen Crouch is doing just fine. She’s selling her jams and canned goods at the bakery and making a tidy living. But her whole world goes topsy-turvy when a new family moves to town. Gabriel Gless has brought his…

A Heart Made New | Kelly Irvin Marathon

  Today I am reviewing A Heart Made New, the second book in The Bliss Creek Amish series by Kelly Irvin. Here is a brief synopsis: Annie Shirack is trying to fight her feelings for David Plank, a young Amish man who’s struggling with an aggressive case of Hodgkin’s lymphoma. David loves Annie too much to let her into his life, only, he fears, to leave her. When a homeless young woman named…

The Honeybee Sisters Series | Jennifer Beckstrand

  About the Books Sweet as Honey … Smart, kind, and good-hearted, the three Christner girls are affectionately known as The Honeybee Sisters in the beloved Wisconsin Amish community where, under the care of their aunt, they’ve grown into skilled beekeepers–and lovely, sought-after young women. . . Though she has blossomed into a beauty, Lily Christner doesn’t really believe it. Deep down, she…