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Christian Fiction March 2020 Calling All Patrons. . . Do you have a book you would love to recommend to other patrons? We would like to hear from you! Please click on the link below and fill out the form. (Your title should be part of the Avon Lake Library collection.) The review may be posted in the library for patrons who are looking for book suggestions.
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The Fifth Avenue Story Society
by Rachel Hauck
When five New Yorkers receive an anonymous, mysterious invitation to the Fifth Avenue Story Society, they suspect they’re victims of a practical joke. No one knows who sent the invitations or why. No one has heard of the literary society. And no one is prepared to bear their deepest secrets to a roomful of strangers.
Yet curiosity and loneliness bring them back week after week to the old library. And it’s there they discover the stories of their hearts, and the kind of friendship and love that heals their souls.
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Two Steps Forward
by Suzanne Woods Fisher
Back and broke in Stoney Ridge, Jimmy Fisher has coasted as long as he could through life on charm, good looks, and deep-set dimples. They always worked just fine for him--until they didn't. His smile has no effect on the violet-eyed beauty he met at the Bent N' Dent, the one with that stunning horse. She's offered him a job, but nothing else.
The last thing Sylvie Schrock King needs around Rising Star Farm is a grown boy working for her, especially her neighbor Edith's son. The woman holds a serious grudge against Sylvie and her son, and hiring Jimmy Fisher will only fan the flames of Edith's rancor. But Sylvie is desperate for help on the farm, and Jimmy understands horses like no one else.
While Jimmy's lazy smile and teasing ways steal Sylvie's heart, Edith is working on a way to claim her land. Has Sylvie made another terrible mistake? Or is it too late to outfox the fox? More importantly . . . just who is the fox?
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Lake Season
by Denise Hunter
When their parents die in a tragic accident, Molly Bennett and her siblings pull together to fulfill their parents’ dream: turning their historic home back into an inn.
Adam Bradford (a.k.a. bestselling author Nathanial Grey) is a reclusive author with a bad case of writer’s block. Desperate for inspiration as his deadline approaches, he travels to a North Carolina lake town, the setting of his next novel. There he immediately meets his muse, a young innkeeper who fancies herself in love with his alter ego.
When Molly finds an old letter in the walls of her inn she embarks on a mission with Adam to find the star-crossed lovers and bring them the closure they deserve. But the guest she invites along has secrets of his own. Past and present collide as truths are revealed, and Molly and Adam will have to decide if love is worth trusting.A reclusive author with a bad case of writer's block bonds with a North Carolina innkeeper who would bring closure to a pair of star-crossed lovers, an agenda that is complicated by the secrets of another guest.
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Matchmaking Can Be Murder
by Amanda Flower
When widowed Millie Fisher moves back to her childhood home of Harvest, Ohio, she notices one thing right away—the young Amish are bungling their courtships and marrying the wrong people! A quiltmaker by trade, Millie has nevertheless stitched together a few lives in her time, with truly romantic results. Her first mission? Her own niece, widowed gardener Edith Hochstetler, recently engaged to rude, greedy Zeke Miller. Anyone can see he’s not right for such a gentle young woman—except Edith herself. Pleased when she convinces the bride-to-be to leave her betrothed before the wedding, Millie is later panicked to find Zeke in Edith’s greenhouse—as dead as a tulip in the middle of winter. To keep her niece out of prison—and to protect her own reputation—Millie will have to piece together a patchwork of clues to find a killer, before she becomes the next name on his list . . .
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| The Ringmaster's Wife by Kristy CambronWhat happens: At the turn of the 19th century, farm girl Mabel marries John Ringling and becomes the queen of the circus, though life isn't always easy. In the 1920s, England's Lady Rosamund Easling arrives in the U.S. hoping to locate the beloved horse that her father has sold to the Ringlings and becomes a circus bareback rider.
Why you might like it: Juggling two story lines in two time periods, author Kristy Cambron's lyrical novel has romantic elements and blends fact and fiction to show two very different women leaving their regular worlds behind as their journeys take them to the Big Top. |
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| The Ladies of Ivy Cottage by Julie Klassen1820 England: After her father dies, impoverished gentlewoman Rachel Ashford stays at Ivy Cottage with her friend Mercy Groves, who runs a school for girls. Resolving to earn her own livelihood, Rachel uses the books she inherited from her father to start a circulating library, but there's trouble ahead for both Rachel and Mercy.
Series alert: This heartwarming 2nd entry in a sweet trilogy features a large cast of characters and offers fans of English villages and Regency fiction a delightful read. Newcomers may want to start with the 1st book, The Innkeeper of Ivy Hill. |
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| In the Shadow of Denali by Tracie Peterson and Kimberley WoodhouseThe prologue: In 1917, led by local John Ivanoff, Henry Brennan dies while climbing Alaska's Denali with his greedy business partner Frank.
Six years later: Cook's assistant Cassidy Ivanoff and her recreational guide father John, who's not been himself since Henry's death, work at the luxurious Curry Hotel at the base of Denali. Meanwhile, Allan Brennan makes his way to the hotel seeking the truth about his father in this well-researched 1st in the Heart of Alaska trilogy.
Read this next: any of Tracie Peterson's other Alaska-set novels; Karen Barnett's Vintage National Park series, which combine historical romance and mystery in richly detailed western U.S locations. |
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