Welcome to the Weekend Book Buzz! Forgive the tardiness of this week’s edition, but there was a thirteenth birthday in our house this week, and it’s taken up a lot of my time and energy. First of all, congratulations to the Christy Award™ winners: Contemporary Romance:  True to You by Becky Wade First Novel:  Missing Isaac by Valerie Fraser Luesse General Fiction:  Life After by Katie Ganshert Historical Fiction:  Isaiah’s Daughter by Mesu Andrews Historical Romance:  The Lacemaker by Laura Frantz Suspense/Mystery/Thriller: The House on Foster Hill by Jaime Jo Wright Short Form:  12 Days at Bleakly Manor by Michelle Griep Visionary:  The Man He Never Was by James L. Rubart Young

Welcome to the Weekend Book Buzz! I hope you’ve had an enjoyable weekend. We got to spend the weekend catching up with old friends as we celebrated 65 years of service for one of the organists at Christ Church Cathedral in Newcastle (Australia), the church where my husband and I met and spent ten years of our lives worshipping. What an amazing accomplishment! Perhaps your weekend didn’t hold quite as much excitement and celebration, but I hope you at least had the chance to pick up a good book! If not, you’ll find plenty of suggestions here for next weekend.