Return of the Song by Phyllis Clark Nichols Review & Giveaway

Welcome to the Blog Tour & Giveaway for Return of the Song by Phyllis Clark Nichols, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!

ABOUT THE BOOK

Title: Return of the Song
Series: The Rockwater Suite #1
Author: Phyllis Clark Nichols
Publisher: Gilead Publishing
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Genre: Contemporary Women’s Fiction

When Caroline lost her love, she lost the music too.

Caroline Carlyle’s dreams were crushed when her fiancé died six weeks before their wedding. For years she wrestled with aching loss and shattered faith, struggling to find the inspiration that once came so easily. Abandoning her half-finished piano compositions, Caroline trades her old ambitions for the comfort and familiarity of life as the town’s piano teacher.

But Caroline’s world turns upside down when a mysterious stranger enters her life. Filled with courage and fresh purpose, Caroline embarks on a quest to track down the beloved, rare piano she played as a child. Her search leads her to Rockwater, the Kentucky estate of a wealthy gentleman, where Caroline finds her heart may be composing a surprising new song.

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My Thoughts:

Return of The Song is a wonderful story about a woman named Caroline who lives in a small Georgia town. She is a piano teacher and a professional musician who does different events for a living. (Funerals, weddings, parties, etc) She has experienced a significant loss, but Caroline is bound and determined to use her gift of music for something good. 

Caroline discovers that she will do anything to help Bella and she is amazed at the musical gift that Bella has. While this book has it's up and downs, it definitely has emotional moments too. 

The author knows the power of music and uses that to drive home that theme in this book. As a reader,  got to the end of the book and discovered that I was left with excitement, hope and some frustration as everything is left up in the air. We do not have resolution in this book, but just wait, book two will be release next year! I highly anticipate the next book in this series and recommend that it will be a great book. If you are looking for a book that has a little bit of romance, with clean reading and the passion of music behind it, look no further. This is a great fiction novel you will enjoy! 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Phyllis Clark Nichols’s character-driven Southern fiction explores profound human questions using the imagined residents of small town communities you just know you’ve visited before. With a strong faith and a love for nature, art, music, and ordinary people, she tells redemptive tales of loss and recovery, estrangement and connection, longing and fulfillment . . . often through surprisingly serendipitous events.

Phyllis grew up in the deep shade of magnolia trees in South Georgia. Born during a hurricane, she is no stranger to the winds of change: In addition to her life as a novelist, Phyllis is a seminary graduate, concert pianist, and cofounder of a national cable network with health- and disability-related programming. Regardless of the role she’s playing, Phyllis brings creativity and compelling storytelling.

She frequently appears at conventions, conferences, civic groups, and churches, performing half-hour musical monologues that express her faith, joy, and thoughts about life—all with the homespun humor and gentility of a true Southern woman.

Phyllis currently serves on several nonprofit boards. She lives in the Texas Hill Country with her portrait-artist husband.

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TOUR GIVEAWAY

(1) winner will receive (US only)

• a print copy of Christmas at Grey Sage
• a print copy of Return of the Song

Enter via the Rafflecopter giveaway below. Giveaway will begin at midnight November 12, 2018 and last through 11:59pm November 19, 2018. US only. Winners will be notified within a week of close of the giveaway and given 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen.

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Silencing Insecurity: Believing God's Truth about You by Donna Gibbs

Silencing Insecurity: Believing God's Truth about You

by 

Donna Gibbs

About:

Insecurity is easily the most pervasive struggle of women in America today. We have more ways than ever to compare ourselves to others--who are all prettier, thinner, smarter, more successful, and more put together than we are--and our sense of self-worth takes a serious beating on an almost daily basis. We're tired of simply commiserating with writers and bloggers who share their own struggles--we want real, workable solutions about how to find peace with ourselves.

This is what professional Christian counselor Donna Gibbs gives women with Silencing Insecurity. Drawing from her twenty years of experience counseling women, she exposes the many lies that produce insecurities in us starting from a young age, the result of letting those insecurities get the best of us, and, most importantly, the way out of insecurity--for good. Anyone who is tired of letting insecurity snatch away the joy from her life will welcome this practical and freeing book.

My Thoughts:

"Silencing Insecurity: Believing God's Truth about You"  is a practical book that is a great tool and resource with amazing information and resources to help people with their identities. This book does a great job at helping the reader understand that having a right identity is so important. We need to accept our identity in Christ, first. Once we do that, we are able to move towards have a right identity. However, there are so many things in this world that will try to derail us and give us a mistaken identity for something else. Often events in our lives will form as a attachments and those can be the things that we grab on and make our identity. 

We need to go to God about our identity. He has so many things to say about who we are and we want to have a right identity. When we believe God for who He is, we will believe God for who He says we are and that is something that is paradigm to be all that He has created us to be and to walk out our purpose. 

This book is a great book for all readers who struggle with identity and understanding who God says they are. It also serves as a great reminder. 

 

This Season of Angels: Angelic Assignments During This Prophetic Season by Perry Stone

This Season of Angels: Angelic Assignments During This Prophetic Season

by 

Perry Stone

About:

Based on over forty years of study and experience, bestselling author and internationally known minister Perry Stone explores the significance of angels and how they are activated during major prophetic seasons.

Incorporating deep truths from Scripture, and even personal supernatural experiences from his own life, THIS SEASON OF ANGELS peels away the veil of mystery from the subject of angels to reveal their divine missions. Perry also devotes a chapter to answering twenty controversial questions about angels others may be afraid to tackle. THIS SEASON OF ANGELS will leave you feeling refreshed, more informed, and evenmore protected by God. 

My Thoughts:

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Perry Stone has over 40 years of experience in study, writing and preaching. He is very active in the prophetic and incorporating scriptural truth. In This Season of Angels: Angelic Assignments During this Prophetic Season, Perry explores the significance of angels, the visitation of them and why God sends Angels to us. This book is full of information about angels and Perry answers different questions with scripture. 

During each chapter, Perry looks at the functions of Angels, their roles, dreams, revelations, healing, protection, salvation, death of believers, spiritual warfare and so much more.  He uses many stories from his personal life, experiences and those from the Bible. 

I thought the information about the fragrance of angels in the room was very interesting. I was very surprised by this information and I found it intriguing. 

Overall, I thought this book was interesting, especially as I never thought about how angels functioned in the Bible. I found this book to very informative, helpful and encouraging. 

About the Author:

Perry Stone directs one of America’s fastest growing ministries - Voice of Evangelism. From its 70,000 square foot International Ministry Center, Voice of Evangelism is striving to reach the world with the gospel of Christ through revivals, television, audio/video media, printed material, and missionary sponsorship. Perry has authored over forty books and booklets; produced over one hundred videos and DVDs, and hundreds of audio teaching albums series. Perry publishes The Voice of Evangelism magazine. Manna-Fest with Perry Stone, a weekly television program, can be seen nationally and internationally via cable and satellite systems around the world.

Odd(ly) Enough: Standing Out When the World Begs You To Fit In by Carolanne Miljavac

Odd(ly) Enough: Standing Out When the World Begs You To Fit In

by 

Carolanne Miljavac

About:

Humorous. Authentic. Relatable.

That's Carolanne Miljavac in a nutshell.

And those qualities are just what her nearly half a million social media followers adore about her. Her Odd(ly) Enough is a message that your heart needs to hear: It's time to embrace the "you" God made you to be. 

Tune out the naysayers of the world and jump into His loving arms. He'll walk alongside you as you passionately pursue your God-given purpose. With chapters like “Who Do You Think You Are?,” “Control Freak,” and “Mistakes and Grace,” you will find yourself becoming a little more courageous. . .and a lot more confident about God’s purpose for your life. 

My Thoughts:

Carolanne writes about the freedom she has found in Christ. From an authentic perspective, as a reader we get the glimpse into how God has wired Carolanne and how He has restored her from a difficult past. This book gives hope to any reader who has struggled to find freedom. 

From giving up control, to all the allowing the Lord to take control, Carolanne knows what it's like to spend time daily in the presence of God. When we grow for ourselves, we grow for others. This book isn't just about the journey Carolanne went on with God, but the journey that each readers goes on with God as well. I highly encourage you to give this book a read. I really enjoyed the read and give this book 5/5 stars. 

Win from Within: Finding Yourself by Facing Yourself by John W. Gray III

Win from Within: Finding Yourself by Facing Yourself

by 

John W. Gray III

About:

Mega-Pastor and media personality John Gray uses powerful Biblical principles to help you become your best self -- the person God created you to be. In WIN FROM WITHIN, John Gray helps readers identify how best to handle the most difficult, challenging and yet necessary battle that we all face-our inner struggle to overcome the worst versions of ourselves. He offers biblical lessons to aid in combatting bad habits and limiting patterns so that the best version of ourselves emerges.

WIN FROM WITHIN gives practical application to the story recorded in Genesis of Jacob wrestling with the man at the River Jabbok, and through it readers will learn how to become the persons they were created to be. The persons God intended each of us to be develops as we face our inner battles. With examples from his own life as well as his ministerial counseling, Gray provides a pathway to awakening. He includes strategies for confronting the past, how we have been labeled, who people have said we are, even who we think we are, so that we can win the battle and be who God intends us to be. Jacob spent much of his life running and hiding from himself. At a certain point we, like Jacob, cannot run from our true selves anymore. We must stop and face ourselves if we are to become great. 

WIN FROM WITHIN helps us conquer our inner darkness and overcome such hindrances as fear, shame and guilt. This powerfully biblical self-help guide will push us toward victory over our inner struggles. Winning will make us the persons we have always wanted to be, the persons we have dreamed about becoming, the persons God created us to be.

My Thoughts:

"Win From Within - Finding Yourself by Facing Yourself" is John Gray's second book. I had the opportunity to read his first book, "I am number 8," which was a great book. However, I really enjoyed "Win from Within" more. 

Win from Within" is based on the story of Jacob and Esau from the Bible. We are taken through the stolen birth right of Esau. John writes in great detail of this book how man has struggled with integrity and how we each have to examine ourselves. If we truly want to win, we must leave it all. We must leave a legacy that lasts beyond us. We must pursue a life that lasts beyond us and is for the glory of God. Wining means gaining it all for Christ. 

I love that Gray writes about his own weaknesses and even is transparent enough to be vulnerable in this book about them. I love how he goes there. Gray doesn't leave us there though, he shows us to pick ourselves up and go to the dream and plan that God has for our lives. This book is compelling, inspiring and incredibly insightful. I highly recommend reading it. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this book.  

About the Author:

JOHN GRAY is the associate pastor of America's largest church, Lakewood Church, in Houston, Texas. He preaches at Lakewood's midweek service, where attendance has quadrupled in the last several years. He is also a featured keynote speaker, emcee, and comedian for "Acquire the Fire" youth rallies held in arenas all over the U.S. He resides in Houston with his wife and their children.