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Christian Fiction September 2019
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Two weeks
by Karen Kingsbury
"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a heart-wrenching and redemptive new story in the Baxter Family series about a couple desperately waiting to bring their adopted child home and a young mother about to make the biggest decision of her life. Tender and deeply moving, Two Weeks is a story about love, faith, and what it really means to be a family"
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The Kitchen Marriage
by Gina Welborn
When French immigrant Zoe de Fleur is forced out of her position as household cook for a high society New Yorker, the pretty and talented chef seizes an unexpected chance to head west for a new beginning. She pursues what she thinks is a prestigious job in the frontier's "finest kitchen," but instead finds herself in a matchmaker's agency... Isaak Gunderson is one of Helena, Montana's most eligible bachelors, but he's too focused on running for mayor and his family's business to think about a wife and family. His twin brother, Jakob, is supposed to be too busy as well, yet sends for a mail-order bride anyway. Isaak doesn't want to fuel an ongoing rivalry with his twin, but this tempting newcomer can't be ignored. If only she'd come to Helena a different way and loving her wasn't a betrayal...
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Jerusalem's Queen: A Novel of Salome Alexandra
by Angela Hunt
Starring: Salome Alexandra, an intelligent child who moves to Jerusalem with her mother to live with wealthier cousins after the deaths of her father and sister...and eventually becomes queen of Judea.
Series alert: This is prolific author Angela Hunt's 3rd Silent Years novel, set during the 400-year period between the Old and New Testaments; look for the concluding volume, King's Shadow, this summer.
Read it for: a clever heroine and a richly detailed historical story.
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The Amish cookie club
by Sarah Price
While working for widower Ezekiel Riehl and his four young children, 20-year-old Myrna Bontrager falls in love with her employer who vows to prove to her that he is not looking for a marriage of convenience but a union to last a lifetime.
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If You Like: Downton Abbey
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The lacemaker
by Laura Frantz
Lady Elisabeth Lawson, daughter of the British lieutenant governor of the Virginia Colony, sees tensions rise in her colonial Williamsburg home and begins to develop feelings for Noble Rynallt, who carries a passion for revolution
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| Flights of Fancy by Jen TuranoWhat it's about: In 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.
Series alert: This is the 1st entry in the American Duchesses series; the 2nd, Diamond in the Rough, came out earlier this month.
Why Downton Abbey fans might like it: the romance between characters of different social classes; the humor; the bits of suspense. |
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| The Governess of Highland Hall by Carrie TuranskyWhat it's about: After 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.
The problem: 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.
Why Downton Abbey fans might like it: This 1st in the Edwardian Brides trilogy offers a faith-filled look at upstairs-downstairs relationships. |
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Hometown girl
by Courtney Walsh
"Beth Whitaker isn't supposed to be a small-town girl. She's always dreamed of leaving Willow Grove, Illinois, for the big city, but she feels trapped, struggling to make up for a mistake that's haunted her for years. Just when Beth is finally ready to break free, her sister impulsively buys a beloved but run-down farm on the outskirts of town, and she begs Beth to help with the restoration. Reluctantly, Beth agrees to help--and puts her own dreams on hold once again. Drew Barlow hasn't been back to Fairwind Farm since he was a boy, and he's spent all these years trying to outrun the pain of a past he thought he buried long ago. When he learns that the owner has passed away, his heart knows it's finally time to do the right thing. Returning to Willow Grove, Drew revisits the old farm, where he attempts to piece together his memories and the puzzle of the crime he witnessed so long ago. Both on a journey to find peace, Beth and Drew are surprised when they begin to experience a restoration of their own. But when long-buried secrets break through the soil and the truth unfurls, will it threaten their budding relationship--and the very future of the farm?"
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