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Who Knew Reading about Cooking Old Family Recipes Would Be So Exciting?

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I've been looking forward to The Divine Proverb of Streusel since I heard about it last year. Listen in to hear why! via @chautonahavig

I’ve been waiting for the release of The Divine Proverb of Streusel since before I opened my copy of Sara Brunsvold’s first book!  Listen in to see what might make a woman cook her way through an old, family cookbook and how it could help her troubled heart.

The Divine Proverb of Streusel

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Who Knew Reading about Cooking Old Family Recipes Would Be So Exciting?

Sara Brunsvold’s The Divine Proverb of Streusel opens with heartbreak and ends with reconciliation. Inspired by events in the author’s life, this book rings with the truth of experience and the beauty of hope and forgiveness.  What more could you want from a great story?  I have high hopes to see Sara’s name on award lists this year.

Oh, and boy did I get hungry listening to her talk about recipes.  Also… a road trip bookstore crawl?  Yes, please!  I’m a bit giddy with all the excitement!

The Divine Proverb of StreuselThe Divine Proverb of Streusel by Sara Brunsvold

Shaken by her parents’ divorce and discouraged by the growing chasm between herself and her serious boyfriend, Nikki Werner seeks solace at her uncle’s farm in a small Missouri hamlet. She’ll spend the summer there, picking up the pieces of her shattered present so she can plan a better future. But what awaits her at the ancestral farm is a past she barely knows.

Among her late grandmother’s belongings, Nikki finds an old notebook filled with handwritten German recipes and wise sayings pulled from the book of Proverbs. With each recipe she makes, she invites locals to the family table to hear their stories about the town’s history, her ancestors–and her estranged father.

What started as a cathartic way to connect to her heritage soon becomes the means through which she learns how the women before her endured–with the help of their cooking prowess. Nikki realizes how delicious streusel with a healthy dollop of faith can serve as a guide to heal wounds of the past.

Learn more about Sara on her WEBSITE and follow her on BookBub and GoodReads.

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Episode 502: A Chat with Kelli Galyean
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I’m a sucker for a Christmas play novel, and second chances? Listen in to see why I’m eager for Kelli Galyean’s I Know the Feeling. #BecauseChristmas!

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Don’t we all know someone who doesn’t know when to quit? The shock that comes the one time they could keep pushing… and don’t? Yeah that! OY!

I Know the Feeling by Kelli Galyean

They say timing is everything.

ER Nurse Maddie Reed is barely keeping her head above water at work. She certainly doesn’t have time to take over directing the children’s Christmas play at church. But when the director is put on bedrest at the last minute, Maddie can’t say no. The children are counting on her!

Maddie agrees to step up, prepared for the worst. Turns out “the worst” is worse than she thought. Her new assistant director is Chris Calvert, the most obnoxious man on the planet. To say they have history is an understatement.

Maddie braces for a disastrous month of pranks and shenanigans, but something about Chris is different. Working with him wasn’t supposed to be good, much less great. And when Maddie’s painful past shows up, Chris’ friendship proves steady again and again.

Maddie wrote Chris off a long time ago, but now she wonders. Is it possible to leave behind the old and let something new grow?

Learn more about Kelli on her WEBSITE and follow her on GoodReads.

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