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Christian Fiction January 2020
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Forever Hidden
by Tracie Peterson
Taking a job at the local roadhouse to help support her family in the wake of her grandfather’s failing health, a woman in a gold-rush Alaskan boomtown attracts dangerous attention while pursuing a relationship with an enigmatic hired man.
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| Smoke Screen by Terri BlackstockRecently divorced Brenna, who's in an ugly custody battle with her wealthy ex and has turned to alcohol to cope; her high school sweetheart, injured fire jumper Nate, who's come home to recover. Nate's dad went to prison for murdering Brenna's pastor father 14 years ago. Now, Nate's dad has been pardoned, shocking Brenna's family. As Nate tries to help Brenna keep her kids, he also reluctantly works with his dad, who wants to prove he's innocent.
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A Welcome At Our Door
by Amy Clipston
A conclusion to the series that began with A Place at Our Table finds a grieving youngest Riehl sibling, Cindy, facing difficult choices when a cow's fateful escape introduces her to a man outside her community.
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Big Lies In A Small Town
by Diane Chamberlain
Imprisoned for a crime she did not commit, an artist is offered a chance to complete her remaining time by restoring a post office mural in a sleepy Southern town where another artist confronted violent prejudice decades earlier.
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Delayed But Not Denied
by Teresa B. Howell
| "Selina and Joseph were madly in love during their college years. They married and created a picture-perfect family. But, after only a few years of love and happiness, Selina discovers a horrible secret about her Mr. Right's past. It was hidden in the most unexpected place, his Bible." |
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Country Strong
by Linda Lael Miller
When Shallie Fletcher, a woman from his past, returns to Painted Pony Creek in need of his help in learning how to train horses, Cord Hollister, agreeing to help her for two weeks, finds himself drawn to her and wanting her to stay—forever.
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The Confession Club : A Novel
by Elizabeth Berg
Invited to join a supper club where friends in their community support each other throughout private setbacks, two women enduring difficult relationships discover the power of friendship and sharing their secrets.
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The Bridge to Belle Island
by Julie Klassen
Investigating a mysterious death on a remote island on the Thames, a disgraced lawyer is unexpectedly drawn to the case’s chief suspect, an enigmatic woman who has been having recurring nightmares about the victim.
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| A Distance Too Grand by Regina ScottAfter her photographer father's death, strong-willed Meg Pero escapes her staid aunt's home in the east to take his place as part of a U.S. Army survey of the Grand Canyon. Meg finds the crew is led by the man she once loved, Captain Ben Coleridge, and that he has a secondary motive for the journey -- locating his own father, who went missing months ago.
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Shamed : A Kate Burkholder Novel
by Linda Castillo
Investigating a brutal murder and kidnapping in a once-peaceful Amish community, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder uncovers an Old Order settlement that hides a tragic secret.
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Books You May Have Missed
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| Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti CallahanJoy Davidman, an atheist, writer, and housewife with two small children and an unfaithful alcoholic husband in 1940s New York, reaches rock bottom and prays. Wanting to know more about God, she writes to Christian apologist C.S. Lewis, beginning years of correspondence that eventually leads to love and marriage.
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| A Bound Heart by Laura FrantzScotland, 1752: Though they grew up together and both are Christian, Scottish laird Magnus MacLeish and beekeeper and herbalist Lark MacDougall live very different lives as adults. A tragedy sees both pushed away from their homeland and making a long sea voyage as indentured servants, heading to Colonial Virginia and the West Indies.
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| The Persian Gamble by Joel C. RosenbergFormer U.S. Secret Service agent Marcus Ryker forms a precarious alliance with a Russian double agent -- who happens to be the son-in-law of Russia's president -- to halt a world-threatening nuclear war involving enemy nations Russia, North Korea, and Iran.
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| A Silken Thread by Kim Vogel SawyerLaurel, a naive 18-year-old who longs for her own family but is committed to helping her aging mother; Langdon, a spoiled playboy; Willie, a night watchman with an ill father, who falls for Laurel; Quincy, a groundskeeper, the son of a former slave, and Willie's friend. Laurel works at a silk loom at the 1895 Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition where she meets the others and is courted by Langdon, who's using her to secure his inheritance.
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The Loyal One
by Shelley Shepard Gray
When Katie Steury hires her old friend Harley Lambright to remodel her rundown old house into a charming bed and breakfast, she does so with trepidation.
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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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