The Boundless Bookshelf

  About the Book: ✦ Full title: Interrupted: A Life Beyond Words ✦ Author: Rachel Coker ✦ Genre: Christian fiction set in the 1930s & 1940s (w/ some romance but it's light) ✦ Series: Seems to be a standalone novel ✦ Recommend for: 14/15+ My Personal Rating 3⭐️ 📖 Synopsis Can love really heal all things? If Sam Carroll hadn't shown up, she might have been able to get to her mother in time. Instead, Allie Everly finds herself at a funeral, mourning the loss of her beloved mother. She is dealt another blow when, a few hours later, she is sent from Tennessee to Maine to become the daughter of Miss Beatrice Lovell, a prim woman with a faith Allie cannot accept. Poetry and letters written to her mother become the only things keeping Allie's heart from hardening completely. But then Sam arrives for the summer, and with him comes many confusing emotions, both toward him and the people around her. As World War II looms, Allie will be forced to decide whether hanging on to the p...

  About the Book: ✦ Title: Chasing Jupiter ✦ Author: Rachel Coker ✦ Genre: Christian fiction set in the 1960s (with lighter romance) ✦ Series: No, seems to be a standalone novel ✦ Recommend for: ages 14+ My Personal Rating 4.5 ⭐️ 📖 Synopsis Scarlett Blaine's life in 1960s Georgia isn't always easy, especially given her parents' financial struggles and the fights surrounding her sister Juli's hippie lifestyle. Then there's her brother, Cliff. While Scarlett loves him more than anything, there's no denying his unique behavior leaves Cliff misunderstood and left out. So when he wishes for a rocket to Jupiter, Scarlett agrees to make it happen, no matter how crazy the idea might be. Raising the rocket money means baking pies, and the farmer's son, Frank, agrees to provide the peaches if Scarlett will help him talk to Juli. The problem is, Scarlett really enjoys her time with Frank, and finds herself wondering if, someday, they could be more than friends. Just a...