Winner of Allison Pittman Book Giveaway!!!

Our congratulations go out to Nicole, who has won herself a copy of With Endless Spirit by Allison Pittman.



Thanks to all who entered.

If you would like to purchase any or all of the three books in the Crossroads of Grace series, you'll find them at Amazon.com

I also encourage you to visit Allison Pittman's website to learn more about the series and this wonderfully talented author who is also a public speaker and teacher.

Only A Few More Days Until the Winner is Announced

Don't forget we'll be giving away a copy of Allison Pitman's inspirational novel, With Endless Spirit, the third book in her Crossroads of Grace series at the end of the month.

You can enter here.

February Book Giveaway--Allison Pittman's With Endless Spirit

In February, The Book Connection will once again be participating in National Blog Posting Month. I thought it would be a great idea to start off this month with a book giveaway.



This month we're giving away With Endless Spirit, Book Three from Allison Pittman's Crossroads of Grace series--which we reviewed here.

Crossroads of Grace remains one of my favorite Christion fiction series. The historical detail, the challenges each character faces, and the moral complexity of each situation, comes together to inspire and move the reader.

Here are the rules for this contest:

1) Comment here with your working email address so that we can contact you if you win.

2) Get an additional entry for blogging about this contest. Leave a comment here telling us where you are blogged about it.

Contest ends on February 27, 2009. The winner will be announced at this blog on February 28, 2009.

This contest is open to residents of the United States and Canada only.

Good luck!

Speak through the Wind by Allison Pittman--Book Review

A moving and compelling story of the power of God's love and forgiveness is what you'll discover in Allison Pittman's Speak through the Wind, Book 2 in the Crossroads of Grace series.

When a young orphan living in the impoverished Five Points District of Manhattan is gravely injured by a horse and driver, Reverend Joseph nurses her back to health. He also tends to Kassandra's soul, helping her to learn Bible verses and sending her off to school. Now a teenager, Kassandra decides to flee the only real home she's ever known for the promise of a young man's love.

Living a life so far from the one she knew with Reverend Joseph, she fears neither God, nor the Reverend, will ever forgive her. Kassandra heads off to California and is transformed into a woman known as Sadie. Will she ever find her way back home?

Allison Pittman has done it again. She's delivered a powerful, gripping novel that is sure to win the hearts of Christian fiction fans everywhere. Just as with Ten Thousand Charms--which I reviewed here--Pittman's attention to detail, complex characters, and inspiring message blend together to create an amazing reading experience.

Beginning in 1841, we are introduced to Kassandra, who we know as Sadie from Ten Thousand Charms. Sadie is such an interesting character in Ten Thousand Charms, that the reader is granted a wonderful opportunity to discover her full story in Speak through the Wind. It makes her actions in Ten Thousand Charms crystal clear once you know who she was before the mining camp in Wyoming.

But you needn't read Book 1 to enjoy this novel, as it truly stands on it's own. Pittman provides just the right amount of material from Book 1 in Speak through the Wind; and those who have read both books will not feel they are reliving information already known. But instead, they will feel as if they are in familiar territory, but reading it all again for the first time as it revolves around Sadie, and not Gloria--the main character from Book 1.

I said at the end of my review for Ten Thousand Charms that I wasn't sure how Pittman would top such a strong introductory novel, but she has raised the bar with Speak through the Wind, and now I am eager to dive into With Endless Sight, the third and final book of the Crossroads of Grace series.


Title: Speak through the Wind
Author: Allison Pittman
Publisher: Multnomah Books
ISBN: 1-59052-625-2
U.S. Price: $12.99