I think reading that will give insight into why they are there and into the different leading families. You can get some of that information as you read the other stories as they allude to their beginnings.

I'm still working on the ones I mentioned before!

I'm enjoying THE COLLECTOR OF BURNED BOOKS by Roseanna M White. The female main character and her mother have saved a number of banned books, in fact, all the books in their library have been banned by the Nazi's. They use these books to send information to the Allies through patrons and students willing to receive and send information. A professor of literature is conscripted to go through the libraries of France and remove all the banned books. He hates what he is doing but feels he has no choice. He is being as kind and patient as he can be with the hard-liners watching him. Very interesting.

I'm also listening to THE RISE AND FALL OF MISS FANNIE'S BISCUITS by Wanda Brunstetter. This story is so funny. Miss Fannie is Amish and she has asked Mr. Foster, a private detective she has worked with before, to help her find out who is causing the disappearance of the contestants in the baking contest. Just a fun and easy read.

I'm re-listening to JONATHAN GOFORTH and re-reading the last book in THE ELVES OF ELDERLAN series.

I finished the first book in the UNCHARTED BEGINNING series by Keely Brooke Keith - ABOARD PROVIDENCE - and started the second one - ABOVE RUBIES.

I looked at the publishing dates and this prequel series was published after the first 5 books of the UNCHARTED series. I really don't mind that I'm reading this series after the other one. The first book didn't shed light on anything I was wondering about except for who and how something was discovered about the flora of the Land. (Don't want to give anything away.) A lot of things had been mentioned in the main series (why and how they settled there, etc.).

What's funny is the Cotters aren't really that prominent in the primary series. (Which I enjoyed more than the prequel.)

I finished the UNCHARTED BEGINNINGS anthology and read a couple of books in a series by Katherine Karrol - SECOND CHANCE IN SUMMIT COUNTY and TRUSTING AGAIN IN SUMMIT COUNTY. They were good (I liked the first one better than the second), but I chose not to move on in the series. Yesterday I started a re-read of Ribbon of Years: A Timeless Journey of Love, Loss, and Unwavering Grace (Women of Hope) by Robin Lee Hatcher. I was going to read book 2, but since I read the first one so many years ago, I thought I'd start with that. (Glad I did - it feels familiar, but I don't remember anything about the storyline.)

I'm about halfway done with the second book in the UNCHARTED BEGINNINGS anthology and am sweating it out where Olivia, Gabe, and Christopher are concerned! She hadn't been very wise and I think Mrs. Cotter is going to make trouble for them if they make trouble for her!

I'm reading/listening to OBEDIENCE TO CHRIST by AW Tozer. Very good and fairly easy to understand.

I started BRAVING STRANGE WATERS. It's about what the book is calling Time Sailors. Three friends are on a cruise and one of them disappears - showing up on an 1856 River Boat called Arabia. She must complete her mission to be able to go home, but she has to be on a boat to leave and will go back to the boat she left. The story goes back and forth between the girls on the cruise and our Riverboat Girl. There is quite a bit of slang, a couple uncomfortable ones, and a girl who is beautiful, does Pilates videos and is trying to get a TV program - she thinks that people only see her looks and believe there is nothing upstairs - but in the story she acts like there is nothing upstairs! I'm going to continue reading but only the part on the Riverboat. There hasn't been anything questionable in that part. I like the story, just not the stupid and junky stuff.

I'm working my way through THE FIRST TO FORGIVE, the second in a fantasy series. It's not a Christian story, but it is clean (so far). I'm also still working on the two fantasy ARC reads. One of them I am enjoying, the other not so much, just having trouble staying into it.

I started A CHRISTMAS CONSPIRACY by Jimmy Gear, the second story in this suspense series. I had so many ARC's this one got set aside, but I do want to get back into it.

HIS MASTER'S DAUGHTER by Christina Rich is the one about the Temple Soldier who has gone into indentured servitude to protect the future king of Israel against Queen A (any day I could remember this, but not now!) wicked army spread out through the countryside.

I finished the second story in the UNCHARTED BEGINNINGS. Phew, she got out of that one. I'm going to try and finish a couple of other things before I start the next one.

I'm still working on the same stuff!

I am re-reading the first book again in the UNCHARTED series. I downloaded the first three books from Kindle.

I downloaded a missionary re-read from Hoopla and am going to work on finishing a fantasy that I started last month but had to set aside because of some ARC reads.

I will probably go on to the 3rd book in the Jimmy Gear series. Each one is a separate read too.

I also have the third book in a mild fantasy series that I will eventually get to this month.

It's amazing how many books we can get for free! I wish my library had more to offer. Our State Library seems to only be a research library, I never could find any fiction there! The little library we had Down East looks like it closed its doors! I rarely go into a library any more, usually just to renew my card.

I'm re-listening to a missionary bio, as well as continuing a fantasy that I started last month but my 21 days ran out, so I reloaded it and am finishing that. I'm about 2/3 of the way through the first book in the continuation of UNCHARTED LAND series. I had two of the books, but decided to go through KU and get them in three book bundles, so I have books 1-3 now, or is that 4-6 since there are the three Beginnings books!?

We don't have a library in our community. We used to have a share-agreement with a neighboring township, but they rescinded that a while ago. 😞