The Boundless Bookshelf

About the Book: ✦ Title: Love Comes Softly ✦ Author: Janette Oke ✦ Genre: Christian Historical Romance ✦ Series: Book #1 of the Love Comes Softly series ✦ Recommend for: Ages 15+ My Personal Rating 3.5/4 ⭐️ 📖 Synopsis She ventured west with the man she loved, but in one day her whole world crumbled around her . . . Nineteen-year-old Marty Claridge starts west with her adventurous, boyish husband, Clem, seeking to claim land and hoping for good fortune. But when the venture turns suddenly to tragedy, Marty is left alone with her great loss. And coupled with her grief and heartache is the grim reality that there is no way to return home. Clark Davis and his little girl, Missie, are also in great need. Clark's wife has died, leaving him to care to Missie and the farm at the same time. His offer to Marty comes with good intention, but will courage and faith be enough to bring them to true love? 💭 My Thoughts  I wanted a short, simple book that I could read in a day, so I decided to ...

  About the Book: ✦ Title: 10 Questions About Salvation: 30 Devotions for Kids, Teens and Families ✦ Author: Champ Thornton ✦ Genre: Christian nonfiction/devotional ✦ Series: Part of an upcoming series on questions about various biblical topics. ✦ Recommend for: ages 8-14 My Personal Rating 4 ⭐️ 📖 Synopsis Everyone has questions about religion, but when you’re young, finding the answers can be difficult. Some books are too complex and others don’t dive deeply enough into the faith topics that matter most to kids and teens. So where can young readers go to grow in their understanding of God and his word? The 10 Questions series invites children ages 8–14 to investigate spiritual questions and provides reliable theological and practical answers on their level. The first book,  10 Questions about Salvation , helps readers find joy, security, and hope in God’s gracious love. Each 10 Questions book presents one main topic, poses 10 vital questions on the topic,...

  About the Book: ✦ Title: Plan to Fail ✦ Author: Perry Elizabeth Kirkpatrick ✦ Genre: Contemporary Spy-Comedy Novella ✦ Series: Book #2 of The Accidental Cases of Emily Abbot (see review for book #1 here !) ✦ Recommend for: ages 13/14 & up My Personal Rating 4 ⭐️ 📖 Synopsis They're on a date... but not really. When Brent asks Emily to be his date, she knows it doesn't mean anything. He has a mission requiring him to go undercover at a charity gala. After getting a makeover at his spy agency headquarters, she's ready to assume the role of an opinionated book reviewer from New York. The Gremlin is planning to steal and sell top-secret blueprints from the aerospace company for which he works. When Emily literally bumps into him at the gala, she is able to plant an ICS tracking chip on his glasses. But the Gremlin is smarter than they thought, and ICS finds themselves in the dark about his buyer. With time running out, and the sale imminent, Emily must rely on instinct a...

  About the Book: ✦ Title: A Lady's Guide to Marvels and Misadventure ✦ Author: Angela Bell ✦ Genre: Christian Historical Romance (with steampunk elements and nods to Around the World in 80 Days and the Nutcracker) ✦ Series: Currently a standalone novel ✦ Recommend for: Ages 14/15+ My Personal Rating 5 ⭐️ 📖 Synopsis Miss Clara Marie Stanton's family may be eccentric, but they certainly aren't insane. London, England, 1860 When Clara's ex-fiancé begins to spread rumors that her family suffers from hereditary insanity, it's all she can do to protect them from his desperate schemes, society's prejudice, and a lifetime in an asylum. Then Clara's Grandfather Drosselmeyer brings on an apprentice with a mechanical leg, and all pretense of normalcy takes wing. Theodore Kingsley, a shame-chased vagabond haunted by the war, wants a fresh start far from Kingsley Court and the disappointed father who declared him dead. Upon returning to England, Theodore meets clockma...