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Lynne Basham Tagawa

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Lynne Tagawa got her start in writing when a small school needed a Texas history curriculum. Later she branched out into historical fiction. She loves to write about both the spiritual and cultural heritage of our country, and this inspired the 18th century series, the Russells. She's a wife, mother, and grandmother in sunny south Texas. ...more

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	The Shenandoah Road: A Novel of the Great Awakening (The Russells, #1) 4.44 avg rating — 691 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Fallen Sparrow: A Novel of the American Revolution (The Russells, #3) 4.62 avg rating — 279 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Heart of Courage (The Russells, #2) 4.53 avg rating — 243 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Widow's Cloak (The Russells, #2.5) 4.66 avg rating — 138 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Root of the Matter (The American Puritans #1) 4.42 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Twisted Strand: A Story of Faith and Second Chances 4.23 avg rating — 81 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Design of Providence by Lynne Basham Tagawa (Goodreads Author), Jayna Baas (Goodreads Author), Avellina Balestri (Goodreads Author) 4.58 avg rating — 24 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Root of the Matter: The American Puritans Book One 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sam Houston's Republic 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Keg o'Gold 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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notable books of 2022

I went down my Goodreads list of reviewed books. I don't review every single book I read--typically notable ones. I've read about 50 significant books by that metric. Let's see if I can whittle that down to a dozen.

Christian fiction:

Only the Beautiful by Susan Meissner. Her books are outstanding, this one really shone.

A Hundred Crickets Singing by Cathy Gohlke. This is the sequel to Night Bird Ca Read more of this blog post »

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I thought this book would feel sadder. It's the author's journey in dealing with grief, but that statement strips the beauty from what this is. It's a devotional, with each entry beginning with a psalm. Then the writer takes you through a location in ...more
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Lynne Tagawa rated a book it was amazing Sugar Birds by Cheryl Grey Bostrom (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is a beautifully written, poignant story that lingers in your mind. I suppose it is a YA, as the protagonists are 10 and 16, respectively, and while there is adult thematic content that requires a PG-13 rating, I appreciate that nothing is graph ...more
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Lynne Tagawa rated a book it was amazing The Widow's Honeymoon: Suspense on the Rhine by Diane E. Tatum (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is a clean, sweet romance like the author's other books, but with a twist: the young heroine is recently widowed, her husband's long illness concluding with the gift of a trip on the Rhine. She meets someone, but at first, her grief blinds her t ...more
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Lynne Tagawa rated a book it was amazing Frontier Circuit: A Story of the Creek War by Jack Cunningham	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A unique story! What struck me even in the opening pages was the feel of this book. I have read parts of Peter Cartwright's Autobiography, and this account of a circuit-riding minister rings true to the actual primary source documents. The frontier of ...more
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This is a book for children, but I am devouring it myself. Part of the reason I purchased it was to evaluate it as a potential gift for my grandkids. It's about the internment camps, and in some ways that experience is not glossed over, but because h ...more
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Lynne Tagawa rated a book it was amazing The Living Room by Robert Whitlow	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I'm giving this semi-legal drama a 4.5 rating. The premise about the dream of the "living room" drew me in for sure. And since I'm a writer, the character wrestling with starting a new book resonated with me. The story does deal with "edgy" matters b ...more
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“I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.”
― Abigail Adams

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“The Baptists argued that the Church of God should be a community of godly men; that faith is the gift of God, and not to be compelled by force of arms; that only those rites sanctioned or commanded by Christ and His Apostles are binding upon His people; and that the only Lawgiver of the Church is Christ Himself. Each party [Roman Catholics, Anglicans, and Presbyterians] had, therefore, its own reason for hating the Baptists; and as each had yet to learn the true nature of religious freedom, each oppressed and persecuted in turn.”9 Baptists protested that they were not Anabaptists, because they did not see baptizing believers who had been sprinkled as infants as re-baptizing and because they did not want the radical, anti-state label hung on them as earned by some Anabaptist and 5th Monarchy activists. It appears that after some time of such protests, in answer to the inevitable question, “If you're not Anabaptists, what are you?” 10 the name “Baptist” emerged.”
― Stuart L Brogden, Captive to the Word of God: A Particular Baptist Perspective on Reformed and Covenant Theology

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