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Christian Fiction May 2021
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A blessing to cherish
by Lauraine Snelling
Enjoying the support and friendship from the Blessing, North Dakota community, Ingeborg Borklund feels content and grateful for all she’s been given as she tries to help her recently-widowed stepson deal with his grief and raise his two children. (religious fiction).
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A Galway epiphany
by Ken Bruen
After a hit and run, Jack Taylor finds himself in the middle of a frenzy over two children seen tending to him post-accident, who people performed a saintly miracle in the latest novel in the series following Galway Girl.
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| When Twilight Breaks by Sarah SundinStarring: Evelyn Brand, a spirited American journalist who's determined to write about the troubling things she sees in 1938 Germany; Peter Lang, a Harvard PhD student studying German and teaching at the University of Munich.
What happens: After Evelyn interviews Peter for a story, they become close, but find themselves pulled into danger -- especially Evelyn, whose grandfather was Jewish -- as Germany heads toward war.
Reviewers say: Sarah Sundin's "most brilliant and important work to date" (Booklist); "positively crackles with tension" (Library Journal). |
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Brother, sister, mother, explorer : a novel
by Jamie Figueroa
After their mother’s death, two siblings in a tourist town deal with depression and try to make enough money performing for the wealthy visitors to afford a plane ticket out while dealing with the ghosts of their ancestors.
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| On a Summer Tide by Suzanne Woods FisherStarring: Camden Grayson, a driven business woman and the adoptive mom of seven-year-old Cooper, the son of her deceased best friend; Seth Walker, the kind-hearted teacher at a small school on a remote island off the coast of Maine.
What happens: Camden's widowed dad gathers his three daughters together and announces that he's bought the summer camp he and their mom worked at years ago -- and everyone in the family finds themselves heading to derelict Camp Kicking Moose on Three Sisters Island.
Series alert: On a Summer Tide begins the entertaining Three Sisters Island trilogy; the final book, At Lighthouse Point, comes out this month. |
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Three o'clock in the morning : a novel
by Gianrico Carofiglio
Visiting Marseilles to seek medical care, an estranged father and his epileptic son endure two caffeine-imbued nights of bonding in the culturally rich city while encountering a diverse array of remarkable locals. 20,000 first printing.
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| Someone Like You by Karen KingsburyWhat it's about: Dawson Gage is devastated when the best friend he's in love with dies. When he learns that she may have a sister thanks to a donated embryo, he searches out Maddie Baxter West. Stunned by Dawson's news and her parents' lack of honesty, Maddie meets her biological parents and grows ever closer to Dawson.
Series alert: This faith-filled 8th standalone book in the bestselling Baxter family series is followed by Truly, Madly, Deeply. (Those wanting Karen Kingsbury's latest novel should look for the just-released A Distant Shore, which is not part of the Baxter series.) |
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