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  THE LOVE NOTE by Joanna Davidson Politano Genre: Christian / Historical Fiction / Romance Publisher: Revell Publication Date: October 20, 2020 Number of Pages: 400 Scroll down for the giveaway! Focused on a career in medicine and not on romance, Willa Duvall is thrown slightly off course during the summer of 1859 when she discovers a never-opened love letter in a crack of her old writing desk. Compelled to find the passionate soul who penned it and the person who never received it, she takes a job as a nurse at the seaside estate of Crestwicke Manor. Everyone at Crestwicke has feelings—mostly negative ones—about the man who wrote the letter, but he seems to have disappeared. With plenty of enticing clues but few answers, Willa's search becomes even more complicated when she misplaces the letter and it passes from person to person in the house, each finding a thrilling or disheartening message in its words. Laced with mysteri...

    SIX FEET UNDER TEXAS:   Unique, Famous, & Historic Graves in the Lone Star State (Cemetery Tales Book 1) by TUI SNIDER    Genre: Nonfiction / Texana / History / Texas Travel Publisher: Castle Azle Press Date of Publication: August 15, 2020 Number of Pages: 250 pages  Scroll down for Giveaway! Explore the cemeteries of Texas with Tui Snider as she reveals overlooked history in these fascinating open-air museums.  Along the way, you’ll meet fascinating characters, including a whistleblower who died in suspicious circumstances, an oilman who added a phone line to his mausoleum, and the events that caused two “frenemies” to be chained together in death. CLICK TO PURCHASE! Unique. That is the best word to describe this book. When I first picked up this book, I thought the author was going to talk more so about unique headstones and the stories behind them. While Snider does have some chap...

  A VOTE IS A  POWERFUL THING By  CATHERINE STIER Illustrated by Courtney Dawson Children's Picture Book / American Historical Fiction / Elections and Voting  Ages 4-7   Publisher: Albert Whitman and Company Date of Publication: September 1, 2020 Number of Pages: 32 Scroll down for the giveaway! Callie knows there’s a presidential election coming up, and people will soon vote to decide the country’s leader.  Her class is having an election too, about an issue that affects them all–the class field trip. Should they choose the cookie factory or the wilderness park?  Join Callie as she campaigns for the wilderness park she loves and learns how people have organized, marched, and protested for the right to vote. And find out how a vote–even just one vote–can make a difference! PRAISE FOR A VOTE IS A POWERFUL THING :  "Gets the job done....