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WOW {Warm Oven Wednesday}

 

 Ingredients

6 mozzarella cheese slices

1 1/2 cups cooked chicken that has been shredded or grilled 1/4 cup cooked bacon (2-3 slices cooked)

a single tablespoon of low-carb ranch dressing

1 teaspoon finely sliced green onion

Instructions

Chicken, bacon, ranch, and green onions should all be combined and left aside.

Set your oven’s temperature to 350. Use a silicone baking mat to line a sizable baking sheet.

On the silicone baking sheet, arrange the slices of mozzarella. Cook for 5-7 minutes.

Remove from the oven when the cheese is bubbling and the edges are browned (see the video if you need some help).

Give them approximately a minute to cool so they are still extremely malleable but cool enough for you to handle.

On one piece, spread the chicken bacon ranch mixture down the edge. Tightly roll the slices up, seam side down.

The Girl From Tomorrow's Town (Enduring Hope) by Naomi Musch

 Book Description:  Lily Mae Dodge flees Wyoming by night to find her mother, who sent her west on an orphan train ten years ago. After she's arrested in Chicago, help comes from a man with a rare vision impairment whom she only just met on a train. Francis Basnett is a roustabout for the famous Hagenbeck-Wallace circus, where he helps Lily gain employment. Their friendship grows into more, and it seems Lily is closer than ever to finding her mother. . .until the night a rogue troop train slams into the stalled circus train, killing dozens and splintering hope.

My Thoughts:  This is a new to me author.  Naomi Musch tells a story of a lone girl in search of her birth mother with great compassion and detail.

Just when the reader decides all is lost and poor Lily Mae won't get back on track (yes, pun intended) Lily Mae meets Francis Basnett from the famous Hagnenbeck-Wallace circus.  Then when Lily thinks her life goals maybe coming to fruitation the train accident that takes place in the story is quite interesting.  Things I'd never thought or imagined  peak the reader's interest and curiosity.

The catastrophe from the fiery train accident makes Lily's life seem a shattered demise.  It seems all is lost because Francis is missing and dozens of people are dead and hundreds injured.  Oh my!  What a mess it seems that Lily is in,

This is where Lily Mae decides her only hope is in God and His provision for her life.  A great life lesson that Ms. Munsch brings out in the story.

Naomi Munsch does an excellent job of story telling about days gone by and God's love and provision.

A rather surprise ending, too.

*This book was provided for review by Barbour*

Letters to Katie {A Middlefield Family Novel} by Kathleen Fuller

Book Description:  Everything changed between them the first time he called her Katie.

Katherine Yoder has loved Johnny Mullet since the two were children, but he’s never returned her affections.

Now Johnny is trying to forge a new life for himself by purchasing a farm and building a business of his own. But times are tough, and he soon learns that he can’t take anything for granted—especially Katherine.

Before Johnny has the opportunity to tell Katherine his true feelings, she’s struck by a serious illness. While Katherine struggles to recall recent memories of Johnny, a surprise visitor comes back into her life, claiming that his letters speak of a history and a future for the two of them.

With the two men vying for her attention and her memory still elusive, Katherine has never felt so torn. But will the solutions to both Johnny’s and Katherine’s problems lie in places neither one has ever considered?

My Thoughts:  This is the third book in the Middlefield Family reads.  Unfortunately, I didn't read the previous two books but I can't see that this affected the content of this story.  However, I think if the reader read these books in order the "sense" of who's who and family would be more clear.

This read was great!  I love  Kathleen Fuller's writing!  The mystery of the letters and the love that is forgotten and the new love make for a grand what is happening?!

Katie's loss of memory and her subsequent illness and memory loss takes the reader into an elusive part of because Katie loved Johnny but never felt the love was returned....then comes a young man from her past who claims that HIS letters spoke of love for Katie and he wants a future with Katie.

Katie is frustrated but the mystery.of.it.all takes on a "story" all its own.

If you love Amish fiction then you'll love this wonderful gut read!

Hostage In Havana by Noel Hynd

 

Book Description:  When Alexandra LaDuca illegally enters Cuba on the trail of an unsolved mystery, she gets more than she imagined. The stakes? Her life … plus a decades-old mystery to be solved, a pile of cash, and an unlikely defector. Espionage and unexpected romance smolder together in this exciting thriller set in Cuba’s isolated capital.

My Review:  Noel Hynd brings another great read in Hostage In Havana the first book in the Cuban Trilogy!  

Fiesty U.S. Treasury agent, Alexander LaDuca (Alex for short) has found out that "The Dosi family is planning a counterattack....They've been hired to kill you." (p. 72) In the next few pages the action, the adventure and the romance are all spell bounding!

Alex has two missions that she must accomplish:  First, she must meet up

with Roland Violette, an exiled agent, who has traded names of undercover spies around the world for money, and bring him back to the United States. Secondly, she'll pose as Paul Guarneri's wife so that he can relocate hundreds of thousands of dollars that were hidden somewhere in Cuba by his father before the family escaped  "The Regime."

Then there's that assassin who uses the "a new bullet that was a head of the glass technology used by Mercedes Benz . . . Quite an efficient bit of shooting from a about four hundred meters at a fast-movingcar." (p. 73)

This read is a wonderful mix of smooth talking agents and rough cohorts that creates quite a spicy adventure!

If you've read the Russian Trilogy then you'll be familiar with Alex and the people she met that helped her with her spiritual journey.  If you haven't read the Russian Trilogy you won't be lost when you read this book.

This is one of those GREAT suspense novels that is a must read for summer!

The Russian Trilogy:

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About the Author:

Noel Hynd lives in Culver City, California. He has over four million books in print throughout the world and is the bestselling author of the highly acclaimed novels The Enemy Within, Flowers from Berlin, and Cemetery of Angels, and the previous titles in the Russian Trilogy, Conspiracy in Kiev, Midnight in Madrid, and Countdown in Cairo.

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Fun Friday!

 

WOW {Warm Oven Wednesday}