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13 Reasons to Support Your Local Independent Bookstore

By Elizabeth H. Cottrell

13 reasons to support your local independent bookstore
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Your local authors want you to know how important local independent (“indie”) bookstores are to the book-selling industry, the books worthy of a wide audience, and the authors who write them. And no less important are their positive impact on the local economy and their cultural impact on the neighborhoods they serve.  The struggle The […]

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Book Review: The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride

By Elizabeth H. Cottrell

Heartspoken Book Review: The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride
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The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBrideby Joe Siple Published 2018, 233 pages5 stars out of 5 What’s not to love about a book that left me with a heart about to burst and adoring the characters so much I wish I could meet them in person. It’s amazing to finish a book feeling as […]

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Offbeat Holiday Reading Ideas

By Elizabeth H. Cottrell

Offbeat Holiday Reading Ideas
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I know this is a busy time of year, but all the more reason not to neglect some enjoyable reading that will either help you escape from the frenzy or put you more in the holiday spirit. Here are some off-beat, holiday-themed books you might enjoy. Letters from Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien The English […]

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Get In The Flow Of Simply Enough

By Elizabeth H. Cottrell

Get in the flow of Simply Enough: book cover and author headshot
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A book that delivers on its promise This book really delivers on the promise of its subtitle. I found it both inspiring and practical, and that’s a combination hard to achieve. Simply Enough: Create space for what matters is a fresh and important contribution to today’s popular conversations about simple living and decluttering. Instead of […]

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Life Is Beautiful…and Hard

By Elizabeth H. Cottrell

Everything Happens For A Reason by Kate Bowler Book Review
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Thanks to a recommendation from my highschool friend Becky Russell, I recently finished reading Kate Bowler’s remarkable and moving book Everything Happens For A Reason: and other lies I’ve loved. (Amazon link) When Kate Bowler was diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer, she was 35, happily married, and had a newborn son named Zach. She was […]

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Book Review: The Book Of Longings

By Elizabeth H. Cottrell

Heartspoken Book Review: The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
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Author: Sue Monk KiddPublished 20205 stars There were so many marvelous layers to this book! First, it is a fascinating and well-researched story based on the premise that for ten years before his ministry, Jesus had a wife named Ana and she was both a writer and a feminist of her time. Viewing the life […]

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Book Review: A Gentleman In Moscow

By Elizabeth H. Cottrell

Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Heartspoken Book Review
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Book author: Amor TowlesPublished 2016 In 1922 at age 30, the protagonist, Russian Count Alexander Rostov, finds himself sentenced by a Bolshevik tribunal to house arrest for the crime of being an unrepentant aristocrat. His reputation and popularity allow him to escape execution, but he must move from an elegant suite in a grand hotel […]

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Book Review: Everything Is Figureoutable

By Elizabeth H. Cottrell

Heartspoken Book Review: Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo
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Everything is Figureoutableby Marie ForleoPublished 2019 I didn’t think I was going to like this book, because I was sure it was going to be fluffy, re-hashed self-help material. But I kept hearing people I respected talk about how good it was, so I finally bought and read it for a business book club to […]

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