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Christian Fiction September 2019
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| Ever Faithful: A Vintage National Parks Novel by Karen BarnettPark ranger's daughter Elsie, who longs to attend college, and Brooklynite Nate, who conceals the illiteracy that would bar him from President Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps. To earn more money, Elsie takes a job teaching at CCC and falls for Nate even as a series of fires occurs in this sweet historical romance with a touch of mystery set in 1933. |
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| Cross My Heart by Robin Lee HatcherA dual timeline novel that weaves the main story, a contemporary romance featuring five-years-sober Ben who teams up with horse-lover Ashley to create an equine therapy barn, with the 1940s tale of Ben’s great-great-grandfather and his son who went to war. |
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Whose Waves These Are by Amanda DykesIn the wake of WWII, a grieving fisherman submits a poem to a local newspaper: a rallying cry for hope, purpose . . . and rocks. Send me a rock for the person you lost, and I will build something life-giving. When the poem spreads farther than he ever intended, Robert Bliss's humble words change the tide of a nation. Boxes of rocks inundate the tiny, coastal Maine town, and he sets his calloused hands to work, but the building halts when tragedy strikes.
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| The Enlightenment of Bees by Rachel LindenAfter a terrible week in which her boyfriend of six years dumps her and she loses her job as a baker’s apprentice, 26-year-old Mia West agrees to go with her roommate on a humanitarian trip, funded by a reclusive billionaire, that takes her to India and Hungry. Mia's dreams often include honeybees and they are a continuous motif throughout the richly detailed romantic novel. |
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Driftwood Bay
by Irene Hannon
"Jeannette Mason swore off relationships of any kind when she moved to Hope Harbor to start a new life--but a single dad with a grieving little girl and an unruly pup may test that resolve."
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Window on the Bay: A Novel
by Debbie Macomber
Encouraged by her best friend to start dating again, a Seattle intensive care nurse and empty nester unexpectedly catches the attentions of her injured mother's stoic surgeon. By the best-selling author of the Rose Harbor Inn series.
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Mending Fences
by Suzanne Woods Fisher
Luke struggles to reenter his Amish community after rehab, but agrees to make amends by listening to how his choices hurt his community
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| Wherever You Go by Tracie PetersonMary, a talented sharpshooter in the all-female Brookstone Wild West Extravaganza who wants to bring her brother's killer to justice, and Chris, a journalist with a secret who's covering the show. The two fall for each other as they travel from Kansas to England in 1901 in this entertaining, well-plotted historical romance.
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The Patient One
by Shelley Shepard Gray
Seven childhood best friends—some Amish, some Mennonite and some English—reunite in the wake of the wrenching suicide of one of their own and resolve for his sake to look out for each other.
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If You Like: Downton Abbey
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| A Most Noble Heir by Susan Anne MasonStainsby Hall stable hand Nolan Price, whose mother died in childbirth and who's never known his father, learns that he is the heir to the overbearing Earl of Stainsby. What does his future hold? And does it include lovely kitchen maid Hannah?
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| Flights of Fancy by Jen TuranoIn 1885 New York, heiress Isadora Delafield's mother expects her to marry a sinister, obnoxious English Duke, so she runs away, finding work as a housekeeper on the rural Pennsylvania farm of Ian MacKenzie, his elderly adoptive parents, and four orphans.
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| The Governess of Highland Hall by Carrie TuranskyAfter 12 years away, Julia Foster returns to Edwardian England with her missionary parents and becomes the governess at Highland Hall....where widower Sir William Ramsey notices her. Sir William -- who has two small children and is responsible for two teenage cousins -- needs to marry a wealthy bride or he may lose the family estate forever.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Forsyth County Public Library 660 W 5th Street Winston Salem, North Carolina 27101 336-703-3030www.forsythlibrary.org |
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