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Christian Fiction March 2023 |
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The Alaska saga : 3 best-loved historical romances
by Tracie Peterson
"Surviving the rugged frontier of Alaska is a daunting task. But even in that hostile wilderness God allows the tender flower of love to bloom. Follow the adventures and romances of Julie, Beth, and Rita, women of different generations who share a commonhome. Nurse Julie Eriksson cares for the victims of the 1925 diphtheria epidemic while Sam waits quietly, willing to give anything to see her save their own struggling relationship. Where is hope when they need it most? Beth Hogan loses her beloved husband in World War II and returns to Alaska with her two sons only to find their remote village overrun by soldiers and civilians coming to build the Alcan Highway. Will she find a second chance at love when she meets August Eriksson? Confident, independent Rita Eriksson travels to her hometown of Tok, Alaska, to enter the dogsled race. Her coach, Mark, hopes and prays against all odds that he'll become part of her dreams too. Can their relationship survive the Iditarod race? Each must surmount the obstaclesin her life, and perhaps, with God's help, find true love as well"
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The Amish matchmaker
by Amy Lillard
Struggling with writers block, Astrid Kauffman, who pens romance novels and donates her profits to her beloved Amish community, agrees to play matchmaker for a widowed mother, finding just the right match in a handsome widower until she realizes hes perfectfor herself. Original.
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Beyond the Desert Sands
by Tracie Peterson
The setup: In 1911, 25-year-old Isabella Garcia must leave her comfortable California life with her aunt for a Christmas visit with her parents. To get to their remote New Mexico town, she's accompanied by Aaron Bailey, a Christian business associate of her father.
What happens: Aaron and Isabella grow close on the trip, but he has reservations about her faith. Then, she learns news that permanently changes her life.
Reviewers say: This 2nd historical romance in the Rio Grande series offers a "poignant rendering of transformation through faith" (Publishers Weekly).
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Spring for Susannah
by Catherine Richmond
"When Susannah goes to Dakota territory as a mail-order bride she finds something she never dreamed she would-true love. With no prospects for marriage and her parents recently deceased, Susannah Freemont agrees to go west to the Dakota territory to marry her minister's homesteading brother, Jesse. But Susannah is painfully shy, doesn't see herself as worthy of love from either a husband or from God, and lives in constant fear that Jesse is going to ship her back to Detroit. In spite of her petite size and the fact that Susannah doesn't look like she could survive on the prairie, Jesse quickly discovers that his new wife is a greater blessing than he even hoped for. The years she spent as her father's veterinary assistant allow her to save Jesse's ox and twin calves and to help neighboring farmers with their animals. But Susannah's feelings of unworthiness are deeply rooted, and she can't believe that Jesse's praise-or the tenderness and love he shows-could possibly last. The thawing of her heart seemsalmost as distant as Spring in the midst of the winter blanketing the Dakota prairie"
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Spring's renewal
by Shelley Shepard Gray
As a flash flood threatens everything they hold dear, Time Graber and Clara Slabaugh must determine how much they'll sacrifice for a chance at true love. By the author of Winter's Awakening. Original. 60,000 first printing.
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To the moon and back : a novel
by Karen Kingsbury
Meeting a bereft and smitten son of an Oklahoma City bombing victim who bonded with, and then lost contact with, the daughter of another bombing victim, Ashley struggles to help the man find the girl at the same time she tries to get her skeptical husband to understand why she feels strongly compelled to get involved. By the author of In This Moment.
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New beginnings at Promise Lodge
by Charlotte Hubbard
"Recently widowed after twenty years of marriage, Frances Lehman is only just tasting the freedom and opportunity that her Promise Lodge friends enjoy. So she's not about to be pressured into marriage by her widowed brother-in-law, even if she and her daughter have no real means of support. Much more promising is her new friendship with Preacher Marlin Kurtz, though their respective families don't see their relationship as proper . . . When Frances suffers a serious injury, she's determined to prove she can recover--and remain independent--without burdening Marlin. Now, with his steadfast belief in real love tested, Marlin's hope is that Promise Lodge's irrepressible residents can help him restore Frances's joy--and that faith will show them a way to turn their fragile second chance into a blessed and abiding future together . "
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