by Melissa J. Troutman | Jul 22, 2022 | Blogs/Podcasts, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
If you’re looking for a spunky, Christian, horse-riding, skirt-abhorring, lesson-learning heroine, may I present Andrea “Andi” Carter, star of the middle-grade Circle C Adventures and the YA Circle C Milestones by Susan K. Marlow. Andi has grown up...
by Melissa J. Troutman | Apr 22, 2022 | Blogs/Podcasts, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
A young woman fleeing the horrors of World War II is astonished to find an undiscovered medieval world when her plane crashes in the Bermuda Triangle. Forced to join forces with a gifted but troubled warrior prince to survive, El’s knowledge might just be the key to...
by Melissa J. Troutman | Feb 25, 2022 | Blogs/Podcasts, Fiction, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track, Mystery
In 1892, Bombay is the center of British India. Nearby, Captain Jim Agnihotri lies in Poona military hospital recovering from a skirmish on the wild northern frontier, with little to do but re-read the tales of his idol, Sherlock Holmes, and browse the daily papers....
by Melissa J. Troutman | Jan 28, 2022 | Blogs/Podcasts, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
Did you know Robert Louis Stevenson wrote more than Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? I love his other writings, so when I saw The Black Arrow at a used-book sale, I snatched it up. It sat on my shelf for a few years, however, until I recently...
by Melissa J. Troutman | Nov 26, 2021 | Blogs/Podcasts, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
I don’t usually like science fiction. I didn’t like Ender’s Game the first time I started it. The premise seemed a little too Out There: a forbidden third child was taken from his family at the age of six in order to be trained to command the world’s fleet of...
