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Christian Fiction March 2020
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This Little Light
by Lori Lansens
Taking place over 48 hours in the year 2023, this is the story of Rory Ann Miller, on the run with her best friend because they are accused of bombing their posh Californian high school during an American Virtue Ball. There's a bounty on their heads, and a social media storm of trolls flying around them, not to mention a posse of law enforcement, attack helicopters and drones trying to track them down. Rory's mom, a social activist and lawyer, has been arrested and implicated in her daughter's "crimes" whereas her dad (who betrayed his wife and daughter in a nasty divorce) is cooperating with the authorities. The story exists in a universe of gated communities, born-again Christians, Probationary Citizens (once known as "Dreamers"), re-criminalized abortion and birth control, teenage virginity oaths and something called the Red Market, which is either a Conservative bogey-man created to further polarize the "base" or a criminal network making money from selling unwanted babies to whomever wants them and fetal tissue to cosmetics and drug companies.
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To the Moon and Back
by Karen Kingsbury
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a brand-new love story in the Baxter Family collection about two people who lost their parents in the same national tragedy--two people desperate to find each other and the connection they shared for a single day...a day that changed everything.
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What Blooms from Dust
by James Markert
What happens: During the 1930s Dust Bowl, "Coin-Flip Killer" Jeremiah Goodbye escapes death and prison after a devastating tornado damages the penitentiary while he's in the electric chair. Heading home to Nowhere, Oklahoma (where he plans to exact revenge on his twin brother), he meets an odd young boy and the two find Nowhere in need of help.
For fans of: author Billy Coffey, whose atmospheric novels also beautifully incorporate elements of magical realism.
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The Lightkeeper's Daughter: A Mercy Falls Novel
by Colleen Coble
Historical Romance. When she was just a toddler, Addie Sullivan was in a shipwreck. A California lighthouse keeper found her and raised her as his own child, though his wife disapproved. Now, in 1907, a long-lost and wealthy blood relative finds her and enlists her to work as a governess at the family's lavish estate in Mercy Falls, California. As he gathers definitive proof that she is his niece, she gets to know the family (without them knowing who she is). But Addie finds danger there -- and the man who may be the love of her life. Brimming with intrigue and plot twists, The Lightkeeper's Daughter is the 1st book in the author's Mercy Falls novels.
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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 kitchen marriage
by Gina Welborn
Heading west to start a new life, French immigrant and chef Zoe de Fleur arrives in Helena, Montana, as a mail-order bride for Jakob Gunderson, but finds herself falling in love with his twin brother, Isaak.
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Liza's second chance
by Molly Jebber
Determined to concentrate on her bakery and remain unwed, widow Liza Schrock unexpectedly gets a second chance at love when newly arrived widower and his troubled teenage daughter come into her life, but a wrenching secret from her past could destroy their newfound relationship.
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A reluctant bride
by Jody Hedlund
In 1862, Mercy escapes a bleak future in London and joins a bride ship. Wealthy and titled, Joseph becomes the ship's surgeon to avoid the pain of losing his family. He has no intention of settling down, but when Mercy becomes his assistant, they must fight against a forbidden love
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