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Christian Fiction November 2018
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| Thief of Corinth by Tessa AfsharA compelling, lyrical work of Biblical fiction that's set in 1st-century Corinth and features Paul the Apostle. Sixteen-year-old Ariadne, who flees her abusive mother's Athens home to live with her father in Corinth, where she not only learns that he’s an infamous thief, but also joins him as his assistant.
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| Freedom's Light by Colleen CobleHannah Thomas, who is troubled by her husband's death fighting in George Washington's army, the strictness of her Puritan community, her disapproving in-laws, her sister's wild ways, and a deceptive old friend. Hannah continues her husband's work as a Massachusetts lighthouse keeper, which finds her helping (and developing feelings for) a kind shipwreck survivor who may be a spy.
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The Stones of My Accusers
by Tracy Groot
In the aftermath of Jesus's crucifixion, a prostitute named Rikvah struggles with her past, while Rikvah's son Nathaniel's friend and a former Zealot who witnessed his last moments travel to tell Rikvah about Nathaniel's death.
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Remembrance
by Mary Monroe
Volunteering at a soup kitchen during the Christmas season to navigate midlife doubts, a family woman finds unexpected comfort in a relationship with a homeless man. By the award-winning author of God Don't Make No Mistakes.
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| Everything She Didn't Say by Jane KirkpatrickA biographical novel imagining the life of Carrie Strahorn, who followed her strong-willed husband (a Union Pacific Railroad investor and writer) across the American West between 1877 and 1925. Jane Kirkpatrick writes well-researched historical novels showcasing real women; she based this novel on Strahorn's memoir Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage.
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More Than Meets the Eye
by Karen Witemeyer
Nineteen-year-old Evangeline Hamilton, an orphan with one blue eye and one brown (which causes some to think she's a witch or cursed), whose only family is the two other orphans she bonded with as a child, Zach and Seth. In 1894 Texas, determined Logan Fowler arrives in town looking for revenge against Evangeline's gambling brother, Zach, whom he thinks ruined his father.
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The Outside Child
by Tiffany L. Warren
After her newborn son succumbs to a terrible heart ailment, Chenille Abrams is forced to pick up the pieces of her life and marriage. By the Essence best-selling author of What a Sista Should Do.
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| Ours for a Season by Kim Vogel SawyerChildless Mennonites Martha and Anthony leave their family-oriented Indiana community for Kansas to help an old friend turn a ghost town into a resort -- but all three of them confront unexpected challenges. Told from multiple points of view and addressing difficult topics like fertility problems, terminal illness, and even human trafficking, this well-wrought novel is a moving, powerful read. |
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Christmas Cake Murder
by Joanne Fluke
Juggling the responsibilities of opening her shop with the demands of Christmas, Hannah Swensen is surprised by the writing talents of an elderly local whose murder story chillingly comes true.
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Falling to Pieces
by Vannetta Chapman
Coming together to organize an online quilt auction, two women--one Amish, one English--find their alliance moving beyond the short-term business venture after the town's newspaper editor is murdered and an unexpected prime suspect is identified.
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| The Gift by Shelley Shepard GrayThe Vance family is forced to sell their Kentucky farm after bad decisions and their father's gambling leave them in debt. The Schwartz family buys it and moves in just before the holidays, but a series of suspicious accidents plague them. Is someone trying to scare them away? Susanna Schwartz hopes it's not handsome Neil Vance.
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| The Angel of Forest Hill: An Amish Christmas Romance by Cindy WoodsmallRose Kurtz, the insecure, emotionally abused 21-year-old only daughter in a large Pennsylvania Amish family, who, at her bishops' request, goes to West Virginia to aid a young family. When Ruth arrives, the wife has just died, leaving behind an infant, two toddlers, and a grieving husband. Rose agrees to a platonic marriage, partially to avoid going home again.
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The Christmas Visitor : An Amish Romance
by Linda Byler
Grieving the sudden loss of her husband during the holiday season, young Amish widow Ruth struggles to care for her six high-spirited children and receives unexpected help from a stranger who she discovers is a kind newcomer to her community.
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An Amish Christmas Love: Four Novellas
by Beth Wiseman, Amy Clipston, Kelly Irvin, and Ruth Reid
A heartwarming anthology of Christmas stories celebrating the Christmas season and love in various forms.
Novelllas include: "Winter Kisses" by Beth Wiseman (featuring three generations of women and their suitors), "The Christmas Cat" by Amy Clipston (starring a grieving widow and a stray cat), "Snow Angels" by Kelly Irvin (which has characters from her Bee County series), and "Home for Christmas" by Ruth Reid (with an English woman, an Amish man, and a poodle named Lulu).
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The Beloved Christmas Quilt : Three Stories of Family, Romance, and Amish Faith
by Wanda E. Brunstetter
"Readers will enjoy this gift of romance from New York Times bestselling author Wanda E. Brunstetter, along with stories by her daughter-in-law and granddaughter. Three generations of Pennsylvania Amish women are bound by an heirloom quilt embroidered with the scripture from Psalm 31:3, as told in three Christmas romances."
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Forsyth County Public Library 660 West Fifth Street Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27101 336-703-2665www.forsythlibrary.org |
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