
Episode 13 - Author Chat with Amy Lynn Green
12/22/20 • 28 min
Debut author Amy Lynn Green joins us to chat about life, writing, and her new novel, Things We Didn't Say.
Headstrong Johanna Berglund, a linguistics student at the University of Minnesota, has very definite plans for her future . . . plans that do not include returning to her hometown and the secrets and heartaches she left behind there. But the US Army wants her to work as a translator at a nearby camp for German POWs.
Johanna arrives to find the once-sleepy town exploding with hostility. Most patriotic citizens want nothing to do with German soldiers laboring in their fields, and they're not afraid to criticize those who work at the camp as well. When Johanna describes the trouble to her friend Peter Ito, a language instructor at a school for military intelligence officers, he encourages her to give the town that rejected her a second chance.
As Johanna interacts with the men of the camp and censors their letters home, she begins to see the prisoners in a more sympathetic light. But advocating for better treatment makes her enemies in the community, especially when charismatic German spokesman Stefan Werner begins to show interest in Johanna and her work. The longer Johanna wages her home-front battle, the more the lines between compassion and treason become blurred--and it's no longer clear whom she can trust.
Purchase a copy of Things We Didn't Say.
Find out more about Amy Lynn Green.
Purchase a copy of Liz Tolsma's book The Refrain Within.
Find out more about author Liz Tolsma.
Debut author Amy Lynn Green joins us to chat about life, writing, and her new novel, Things We Didn't Say.
Headstrong Johanna Berglund, a linguistics student at the University of Minnesota, has very definite plans for her future . . . plans that do not include returning to her hometown and the secrets and heartaches she left behind there. But the US Army wants her to work as a translator at a nearby camp for German POWs.
Johanna arrives to find the once-sleepy town exploding with hostility. Most patriotic citizens want nothing to do with German soldiers laboring in their fields, and they're not afraid to criticize those who work at the camp as well. When Johanna describes the trouble to her friend Peter Ito, a language instructor at a school for military intelligence officers, he encourages her to give the town that rejected her a second chance.
As Johanna interacts with the men of the camp and censors their letters home, she begins to see the prisoners in a more sympathetic light. But advocating for better treatment makes her enemies in the community, especially when charismatic German spokesman Stefan Werner begins to show interest in Johanna and her work. The longer Johanna wages her home-front battle, the more the lines between compassion and treason become blurred--and it's no longer clear whom she can trust.
Purchase a copy of Things We Didn't Say.
Find out more about Amy Lynn Green.
Purchase a copy of Liz Tolsma's book The Refrain Within.
Find out more about author Liz Tolsma.
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Episode 12 - What Is Your Favorite Time Period to Read
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We chat about what some of our favorite time periods are to read. Here are some of the books and authors I mentioned for each era.WWI
Terri Wangard, Roll Back the Clouds
J'nell Ciesielski Beauty Among Ruins
Carrie Turanksy, No Ocean Too Wide
Vietnam Era
Jennifer Lynn Cary, Relentless Heart
Great Depression
Michelle Shocklee, Under the Tulip Tree
Cathy Gohlke, Night Bird Calling
Civil War
Lynn AustinJocelyn Green, Wedded to War
Tamara Alexander, With This Pledge
Revolutionary War
Heidi Chiavaroli, The Tea Chest
Laura Frantz, An Uncommon Woman
Biblical Fiction
Francine Rivers
Lynn Austin
Barbara Britton, Hannah's Journey
Regina Rushing, Seal of the Sand Dweller
Late 1800s
Jeanette Oke
Elizabeth Camden, The Spice King
Tracie Peterson and Kimberly Woodhouse, In the Shadow of Denali
Regency
Sarah Ladd, The Light at Wyndcliff
Julie Klassen, Castaway in Cornwall
Erica Vetsch, The Lost Lieutenant
WWII
Sarah Sundin, When Twilight Breaks
Kristy Cambron, The Paris DressmakerAmanda Barratt, The White Rose Resists
Amanda Dykes, Whose Waves These Are
Liz Tolsma, The Refrain Within
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Episode 14 - Best Reads of 2020
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The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous era of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Hannie, a freed slave; Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now destitute plantation; and Juneau Jane, Lavinia’s Creole half sister. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following roads rife with vigilantes and soldiers still fighting a war lost a decade before. For Lavinia and Juneau Jane, the journey is one of stolen inheritance and financial desperation, but for Hannie, torn from her mother and siblings before slavery’s end, the pilgrimage west reignites an agonizing question: Could her long-lost family still be out there? Beyond the swamps lie the limitless frontiers of Texas and, improbably, hope.
Louisiana, 1987: For first-year teacher Benedetta Silva, a subsidized job at a poor rural school seems like the ticket to canceling her hefty student debt—until she lands in a tiny, out-of-step Mississippi River town. Augustine, Louisiana, is suspicious of new ideas and new people, and Benny can scarcely comprehend the lives of her poverty-stricken students. But amid the gnarled live oaks and run-down plantation homes lie the century-old history of three young women, a long-ago journey, and a hidden book that could change everything.
The Edge of Belonging by Amanda Cox
When Ivy Rose returns to her hometown to oversee an estate sale, she soon discovers that her grandmother left behind more than trinkets and photo frames--she provided a path to the truth behind Ivy's adoption. Shocked, Ivy seeks clues to her past, but a key piece to the mystery is missing.
Twenty-four years earlier, Harvey James finds an abandoned newborn who gives him a sense of human connection for the first time in his life. His desire to care for the baby runs up against the stark fact that he is homeless. When he becomes entwined with two people seeking to help him find his way, Harvey knows he must keep the baby a secret or risk losing the only person he's ever loved.
In this dual-time story from debut novelist Amanda Cox, the truth--both the search for it and the desire to keep it from others--takes center stage as Ivy and Harvey grapple with love, loss, and letting go.
The Shepherd's Wife by Angela Hunt
Yeshua of Nazareth has two sisters: Damaris, married to a wealthy merchant's son, and Pheodora, married to a simple shepherd from Bethlehem. When Pheodora's husband suffers an unexpected reversal of fortune and is thrown into debtor's prison, she returns to Nazareth, where she pins her hopes on two she-goats who should give birth to spotless white kids that would be perfect for the upcoming Yom Kippur sacrifice.
In the eighteen months between the kids' birth and the opportunity to sell them and redeem her husband from prison, Pheodora must call on her wits, her family, and her God in order to provide for her daughters and survive. But when every prayer and ritual she knows is about God's care for Israel, how can she trust that God will hear and help a lowly shepherd's wife?
A Portrait of Loyalty by Roseanna M. White
The Land Beneath Us by Sarah Sundin
Fragments of Light by Michele Phoenix
The Haunting at Bonaventure Circus by Jamie Jo Wright
To Steal a Heart by Jen Turano
A Gilded Lady by Elizabeth Camden
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