Gina Rae Mitchell

Welcome to Gina’s Friday Finds – April 10, 2020. This week I’m continuing the Indie Author Showcase. Since we are mostly still staying at home, I also have a few delicious recipes, as well as a fun craft project for the entire family. I hope you enjoy it. Leave me a comment to let me know what you are doing to help make this “stay at home” situation work for you.

 

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Gina’s Friday Finds – April 10, 2020 – Indie Author Showcase

    Children’s Kitty Series by Sarah Linx   

Counting Kitties – Emerging young readers can count their way up from numbers 1-10 while rhyming their way through situations that our beloved furry family members could get themselves into throughout the day!

Kitty’s First Day of School – Kitty the Calico, is a young and energetic kitten who is going to school for the very first time. While at first she was scared to be away from home for so long, Kitty quickly learns that school is nothing to be afraid of.

A Sparrow Alone by Mim Eichmann  – Historical Fiction

The 1890s, Colorado. Following her mother’s sudden death, thirteen-year-old Hannah Owens is hired as domestic help by a wealthy doctor’s family in Colorado Springs. When the doctor declares bankruptcy and abandons his family to finance his mistress Pearl DeVere’s brothel, Hannah is thrown into a world of gold mining bonanzas and busts, rampant prostitution, and the economic, political and cultural upheavals of the era. Two of Cripple Creek’s most colorful historic characters, Winfield Scott Stratton, the eccentric owner of the richest gold mine in Cripple Creek, and Pearl DeVere, the beautiful madam of The Old Homestead come to life as this old-fashioned, coming-of-age saga unfolds, a tribute to the women who set the stage for women’s rights.

   Resilience Road by Beth Koritz – Memoir/Self-Help

How many times have you taken a look at your life and thought these words? “Things have got to change.” Well, Beth had said them before, but when she opened her eyes in the ICU, paralyzed from the neck down and facing a tremendous fight to regain very basic functions, she knew she finally meant them. Her story is one of resilience: in the face of disease, life’s unexpected curves, and a journey that veers off the track. With total honesty and refreshing humor, Beth reflects on the checklist-style life she’d been living and conquering. Career. Husband. Kids. House in the suburbs.

But then her body tells her in no uncertain terms that it’s time to slow down and take a hard look at what she has… and what she really wants. In sharing her own deeply personal experiences, Beth introduces us to the tools and philosophies she has developed along the way and now uses in her therapy practice. This is the story of a courageous comeback that is really a breakthrough to living an authentic life on your own terms.

Flight of the Spark by Evelyn Puerto, Book 1 of the Outlawed Myth Fantasy series – Dystopian YA

How far would you go to be safe… to be free…to be loved?

Iskra doesn’t question the rules. The rules are there to keep her safe from those who are deemed unsafe or unfair. Anyone who breaks the rules is taken, never to be heard from again. But that’s the price everyone gladly pays for peace and safety. And no one wants to live like the Riskers–barbarians who reject order and justice and could kill or be killed at any moment.

When a friend is taken because of Iskra, the guilt forces her to do the unthinkable: seek out the Riskers. Iskra’s quest to save her friend quickly entangles her fate with a cryptic prophecy and a young Risker named Xico, who ensnares her heart and is willing to put it all on the line to win her.

Gina’s Friday Finds – April 10, 2020 – Highlights from the Blog

The Die of Death, Book 2 of The Great Devil Wars by Kenneth B. Andersen

Deceptions of Chenille, Book 1 of the Chenille series by Sally Dallas

Palimpsest & Winter, Books 1 & 2 of the Multiple Dimensional State series by Craig Herdern

Gina’s Friday Finds – April 10, 2020 – Recipes

Niky from The House on Silverado wanted to try a BBQ chicken burger recipe and didn’t have ground chicken or buns. She went back to basics and made the entire meal from scratch. Here is her recipe for Homemade Hamburger Buns and BBQ Chicken Burgers.  She has a wonderful website. If you visit her, please tell her I sent you. Thanks.

The LouLou Girls is another great website for finding delicious recipes. Their Chicken Fried Chicken with Country Gravy looks delicious.

Erin from Our Table for Seven hares her No Churn Vanilla Ice Cream– No Sweetened Condensed Milk Required-Creamy, not too sweet and no sweetened condensed milk or ice cream maker required! Add your favorite topping or stir in (s) and easily make your own ice cream creation.

Gina’s Friday Finds – April 10, 2020 – Creative Fun

If you are looking for a fun project to entertain all ages of bored people, check out these Tissue Paper Suncatchers.

Got a little time on your hands? Check out this fun pattern book.

The Unofficial Harry Potter Knits from Long Thread Media

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That wraps up this week’s edition. Be sure you leave a comment letting me know how you are coping with our current situation.