Podcast for fiction readers and history lovers
The audio version of this Pinch of the Past was first shared in Episode 38: Guest Tracie Peterson and a Review of This Hallowed Ground by Donna E. Lane
Today’s Pinch of the Past once again visits a historic landmark in my hometown. It’s over four hundred years of history, so I’m only going to touch on a few high points in the story of the St. Augustine Lighthouse.
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Join KyLee and Darcy for a chat with author Naomi Craig– an avid reader, and pastor’s wife who loves reading and writing Biblical fiction. When she’s not serving in various areas at church or trying to stay on top of mountains of dishes, you’ll most likely find her enjoying a good book and a cup of coffee. Learn more about her latest release, Ezekiel’s Song here.
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The audio version of this review was first shared in Episode 37: Guest Naomi Craig and a Review of Diamond in the Rough by Jen Turano
THE BOOK
To save her family from financial ruin, Miss Poppy Garrison accepts an unusual proposition to participate in the New York social season in exchange for her grandmother settling a family loan that has unexpectedly come due. Ill-equipped to handle the intricacies of mingling within the New York Four Hundred, Poppy becomes embroiled in one hilarious fiasco after another, doomed to suffer a grand societal failure instead of being deemed the diamond of the first water her grandmother longs for her to become.
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The audio version of this Pinch of the Past was first shared in Episode 37: Guest Naomi Craig and a Review of Diamond in the Rough by Jen Turano
“This special Branch of our business is in the charge of competent chemists and Regis Country and Europe in handling and compiling drugs and chemicals. That have strict instruction to examine thoroughly.”
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The audio version of this Pinch of the Past was first shared in Episode 36: Guest Parker J. Cole & a Review of Hope Between the Pages by Pepper Basham
House Hold Items
“Sears, Roebuck and Company is a retail giant with 19th-century roots as a mail-order business operating in rural America.”
You’ve seen the old hurricane lamps. Well, they weren’t run on nothing. Kerosene oils were in high demand back then. Sears and Roebuck sold this as well. According to one ad: “We do not sell less than a barrel of kerosene oil… no charge for parrels. Barrels contain about 52 gallons.”
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Interview: Our featured book today is A Chance for Genevieve. Parker J. Cole is an author, speaker, and radio host with an obsession with the Lord, Star Trek, K-dramas, anime, romance books, old movies, speculative fiction, and knitting. An on-and-off Mountain Dew and marshmallows addict, she writes to fill the void the sugar left behind. (Enter the giveaway for her book here.)
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The audio version of this review was first shared in Episode 36: Guest Parker J. Cole & a Review of Hope Between the Pages by Pepper Basham
THE BOOK
Clara Blackwell can’t lose her family’s one-hundred-year-old bookshop, but with the deed missing, there’s a chance her father’s legacy could fall into the hands of her greedy uncle. In an attempt to locate the missing deed, Clara uncovers an unusual love note which leads to the discovery of a long-lost romance. Forced to step outside her predictable bookish world, Clara embarks on an adventure with only the name Oliver as a hint of the man’s identity in her great grandmother’s unknown history. From the beautiful North Carolina Vanderbilt estate to a hamlet in The Lake District, England, can Clara put the pieces of an ill-fated romance together in order to save her bookshop…and maybe even find her own bookish happily-ever-after in the process?
Continue reading “Hope Between the Pages by Pepper D. Basham”The audio version of this review was first shared in Episode 35: Guest Elizabeth Musser & a Review of Lost in Darkness by Michelle Griep
THE BOOK
Enchanting Regency-Era Gothic Romance Intertwined with Inspiration from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Travel writer Amelia Balfour’s dream of touring Egypt is halted when she receives news of a revolutionary new surgery for her grotesquely disfigured brother. This could change everything, and it does… in the worst possible way.
Surgeon Graham Lambert has suspicions about the doctor he’s gone into practice with, but he can’t stop him from operating on Amelia’s brother. Will he be too late to prevent the man’s death? Or to reveal his true feelings for Amelia before she sails to Cairo?
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The audio version of this Pinch of the Past was first shared in Episode 35: Guest Elizabeth Musser & a Review of Lost in Darkness by Michelle Griep
“Sears, Roebuck and Company is a retail giant with 19th-century roots as a mail-order business operating in rural America. Sears grew into one of the nation’s largest corporations, redefining the American shopping experience in the process. Its 130-year history embodies the rise and fall of American consumer culture” from the History Channel article SEARS
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Interview: Our featured book today is By Way of the Moonlight. ELIZABETH MUSSER writes ‘entertainment with a soul’ from her writing chalet—tool shed—outside Lyon, France. Find more about Elizabeth and her novels at www.elizabethmusser.com and on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and her blog.
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