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November 2020 FREE BOOK!
Nothing gets me more into the holiday mood than reading a Christmas novel. I thought you might enjoy the same, and so we’re giving away a copy of Julie Klassen’s AN IVY HILL CHRISTMAS! Our copy is a new trade paperback. From the back cover: “Richard Brockwell . . . hasn’t been home for Christmas…
TINSEL!
Wild Word Friday! The word TINSEL comes to the English language from the Middle French word etinceller, which means to ornament with sparkling color. When I was a child, TINSEL was a very big part of our Christmas, and decorating the tree was something we all did as a family, Mom, Dad, and all us…
October 2019 FREE BOOK!
Our October 2019 Free Book is one of Lori Benton’s lovely historical novels, THE KING’S MERCY. From the back cover: “When captured rebel Scotsman Alex MacKinnon is granted the King’s mercy — transport across the Atlantic Ocean and exile to the colony of North Carolina — he’s indentured as a blacksmith to Edmund Carey…. Unwittingly,…
HORDE
Wild Word Friday! When you study languages and find an unusual looking or sounding word that is similar or the same in many languages, you’ve probably stumbled upon the verbal evidence of some widespread historic happening. HORDE is a just such a word. English: HORDE; German: HORDA; French: HORDA; Polish: HORDA. All come from the…