The Change and Cherish series~ A Bloggy Giveaway!

Update** A winner has been chosen! It was #6 on the random number generator! Congratulations, Sandra! She has been emailed.

Have I ever mentioned that I have the best job in the world? I get to stay home with my 7 kids AND review books and products! I am so glad to have the Bloggy Giveaways going on to share this book with you.

A Tendering in the Storm is the third book in the Change and Cherish series by Jane Kirkpatrick. The day the books got to my house I holed up in my room and started reading. My family was getting quite peeved because I could not put the books down! I was so emotionally vested in the life of Emma Giesy, a feisty pioneering woman. The books are based on the real life of Emma Giesy who grew up in a commune and then helped lead the way for the commune to move out west. She struggled with the sharing everything with the commune over the years, but her husband was quite devoted to it in the beginning. In the end, Emma found a way to live there but to still keep a piece of herself.

The first two books were tear-jerkers and very exciting. I could not wait to devour A Mending at the Edge. In this book you found relationships restored, and peace found. Not that Emma had complete happiness, but she found a way to be happy with the way her life was.

A Clearing in the Wild
Spirited young Emma Wagner chafes at the constraints of her 1850s religious community, which values conformity over independent thought, especially in women. Skeptical of the colony’s growing emphasis on preparing for “the last days,” Emma clashes with their increasingly autocratic leader—and faces the unexpected consequences of pursuing independence.

A Tendering in the Storm
This lyrical novel, based on an historical figure of the 1800s, follows the spirited and intelligent Emma Giesy, who achieves her goal of separating her family from the repressive religious community in which she grew up. But unexpected and dire consequences leave her family—and her faith—struggling to survive.

A Mending at the Edge
This richly textured novel, the third in the acclaimed Change and Cherish series, follows the historical figure of Emma Wagner Giesy, who chafes under the restrictions of her 1860s religious colony. When her bid to belong in her unique way unravels her most precious relationships, she seeks new ways to stitch meaning into her life.


Author Bio: Jane Kirkpatrick is the best-selling author of two nonfiction books and fourteen historical novels, including the popular Kinship and Courage series. Her award-winning writing has appeared in more than fifty publications, including Sports Afield and Decision. She’s won the coveted Western Heritage Wrangler Award, an honor shared by such writers as Larry McMurtry and Barbara Kingsolver. Jane is a licensed clinical social worker as well as an internationally recognized speaker. She and her husband, Jerry, ranch 160 acres in eastern Oregon.


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I will close comments late Friday April 25. I will announce the winner over the weekend. You know, after I make up for the week of ignoring my family because I am entering 889 giveaways or so.