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Inspirational Fiction stories of faith
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The vicar's daughter
by Josi S Kilpack
Waiting for her turn to enter society after her five older sisters, Cassie begins to write letters to a clerk in East London in the name of her incredibly shy sister, Lenora, but finds she herself is falling in love with him.
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Cold shot
by Dani Pettrey
After ending his career as a SWAT-team sniper, Griffin McCray is working as a park ranger at Gettysburg when skeletal remains are unearthed, and the FBI agent put on the case is Declan Gray, a friend Griffin lost touch with after a tragic loss.
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The masterpiece
by Francine Rivers
A successful Los Angeles artist hides behind a veneer of fame his secret activities as an anonymous graffiti artist, an alter ego that his new personal assistant fears could destroy his career before they bond over their mutually tragic pasts in ways that transform their relationship and lives.
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Her secret
by Shelley Shepard Gray
A young woman and her family are forced to move from their bustling Amish town to a new community to escape a threatening stalker who challenges her faith and makes her afraid to trust her growing feelings for a kindhearted neighbor.
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Three daughters of Eve
by Elif Shafak
A tale by the internationally best-selling author of The Architect's Apprentice is set over an evening in contemporary Istanbul and follows the efforts of a woman to navigate cultural, religious and economic tensions during a seaside mansion dinner party while enduring painful memories of her deep multicultural friendships during her Oxford years.
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To be where you are
by Jan Karon
Father Tim Kavanagh struggles to find meaning in an unexpected new job, while newlyweds Dooley and Lace are stricken by a crisis that overshadows their happiness, and 4-year-old Jack Tyler looks forward to the biggest day of his young life.
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The promise of dawn
by Lauraine Snelling
Emigrating from Norway to early-20th-century Minnesota in the hopes of running their own farm, Signe and her family are met by demanding relatives who test their faith by forcing them to endure harsh labor to repay their passage.
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A blessing & a curse
by ReShonda Tate Billingsley
Baptist church first ladies and sworn frenemies Rachel and Jasmine find their rivalry further complicated by a murky murder cover-up, an outrageous reality television show and a shocking revelation about their shared family ties.
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The innkeeper of Ivy Hill
by Julie Klassen
When the innkeeper of Ivy Hill's coaching inn, The Bell, dies suddenly, his genteel wife, Jane, becomes the reluctant owner, but with a large loan due, can Jane and her resentful mother-in-law, Thora, find a way to save the inn—and discover fresh hope for the future?
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Monster
by Frank E. Peretti
During a hike into the beautiful, unspoiled wilderness of the Northwest woods to escape the noise and tumult of the hectic city, Reed and Rebecca come face to face with a mysterious and deadly creature that is out to destroy everything and everyone it encounters.
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Wild Montana skies : a novel
by Susan May Warren
Home on leave, search and rescue pilot Kacey Fairing hopes to reconnect with the now-teenage daughter she sees only between deployments while dealing with the return of her old flame, Ben King, whom she is forced to work with as the town falls into a state of emergency due to flash floods.
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The proving
by Beverly Lewis
Having left the Amish life for the outside world, Amanda is shocked to learn that her mother has passed and left her Lancaster County's most popular Amish bed-and-breakfast under the condition that she run it herself for a year.
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A.D. 30 : a novel
by Ted Dekker
Fleeing across the harsh desert to seek an alliance with King Herod, the daughter of a powerful first-century Arabian sheikh unexpectedly encounters an enigmatic teacher who invites her to become his follower.
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The Sea Before Us
by Sarah Sundin
As D-Day approaches, American naval officer Lt. Wyatt Paxton is teamed up with Dorothy Fairfax, a British officer. Once they piece together family and reconnaissance photos to map Normandy, will Wyatt's bombardment plans destroy what Dorothy loves most?
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The writing desk
by Rachel Hauck
After producing an acclaimed first book, Tenley Roth develops a bad case of writer's block, but when she devotes time to being with her sick mother, she comes across a story from the past that is just what she needs.
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Traces of guilt
by Dee Henderson
Gabriel Thane is the sheriff and lifetime resident of Carin County, Illinois, committed to upholding the law and keeping the residents safe. Lieutenant Evie Blackwell is a State Police Detective skilled at investigations. She launches a new task force to reexamine unsolved crimes across the state. She begins work with the sheriff's department on two of its most troubling missing-persons cases. As she examines old evidence, she finds a connection to a third cold case.
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A Light in the Wilderness
by Jane Kirkpatrick
A New York Times best-selling novelist weaves the dramatic story of a freed slave who has lost her husband and her freedom papers and must find a way to survive in the wilderness of the Oregon Territory.
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The Kremlin conspiracy
by Joel C. Rosenberg
When a rising czar in the Kremlin feverishly consolidates power and plots a lightning-fast military strike to rupture the NATO alliance, former U.S. Secret Service agent Marcus Ryker is challenged to save an America on the brink of war by using the skills he mastered to protect one world leader to take down another.
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Love story : a novel
by Karen Kingsbury
Asked to share the story of his decades-long marriage to the wife he lost to cancer, a reluctant John Baxter reflects on the secret heartbreak that bonded them together while a family friend pursues a second chance in the wake of a difficult breakup.
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The golden legend
by Nadeem Aslam
Hiding her past, Nargis feels her life crumbling around her when someone begins broadcasting local people’s secrets from the minaret of a local mosque.
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Where we belong
by Lynn N Austin
Adventurously atypical Victorian ladies Rebecca and Flora Hawes travel from Chicago to the Sinai desert with their young butler and maid in training on an expedition in search of a rumored biblical manuscript.
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Sin of a woman
by Kimberla Lawson Roby
Using the methods of her vindictive ex-husband to fix her damaged reputation after a humiliating public divorce, Raven Black is horrified when her choices have consequences for innocent people.
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A dangerous legacy
by Elizabeth Camden
Lucy, a telegraph operator in turn-of-the-century New York City, agrees to help her rival Sir Colin Beckwith when his reputation is threatened in exchange for helping her recover her family's inheritance, and must confront unexpected danger in this task.
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The five people you meet in heaven
by Mitch Albom
Killed in a tragic accident, Eddie, an elderly man who believes that he had an uninspired life, awakens in the afterlife, where he discovers that heaven consists of having five people explain the meaning of one's life.
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Behind the scenes
by Jen Turano
When perpetual wallflower Permilia Griswold, who writes an anonymous society gossip column, learns of a threat to department store owner Asher Rutherford, she is determined to warn him, despite his stubborn refusal to believe her.
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In places hidden
by Tracie Peterson
Teaming up with two women in turn-of-the-20th-century San Francisco to search for her missing attorney brother, Camri bonds with a handsome Irishman her brother once saved from a false murder charge before she is targeted by the dangerous forces behind her brother's disappearance.
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Wildwood Creek
by Lisa Wingate
While working as a costuming assistant on a docudrama, Allie Kirkland has discovered strange connections between herself and Bonnie Rose, a teacher who disappeared a century ago in the legendary frontier settlement of Wildwood.
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