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Christian Fiction March 2024
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| All My Secrets by Lynn AustinWhen businessman Arthur Stanhope III dies and leaves his fortune to a male relation, his widow, Sylvia, seeks a wealthy husband for their 19-year-old daughter, Adelaide, in the hope of maintaining their opulent Gilded Age lifestyle. But Junietta, Sylvia's mother-in-law and Adelaide's grandmother, who understands the price of society's approval, encourages Adelaide to follow her heart. Read-alikes: Susan May Warren's Daughters of Fortune series. |
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Double take
by Lynette Eason
Lainie Jackson survived her fiance's murder plot and her attacker is dead--isn't he? Now, with the help of former Army Ranger James Holton, it's time to find out if the past has come back to haunt her--or if the recent attempts on her life come from a new threat
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| The Gardins of Edin by Rosey LeeMeet the Gardin family of Edin, Georgia: sisters Mary and Martha, their widowed aunt Ruth, who runs the family business, and Ruth's mother-in-law, Naomi, who cares for everyone and tries to hold the family together. Well-drawn characters and their complex relationships anchor this debut novel inspired by the lives of Biblical women. You might also like: Vanessa Miller's What We Found in Hallelujah. |
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| The American Queen by Vanessa MillerIn 1865, formerly enslaved Louella Bobo and her pastor husband, William, leave Mississippi with a group of other newly free people and settle in North Carolina, where they found a utopian community known as The Kingdom of the Happy Land. Inspired by true events, this novel by Vanessa Miller (The Light on Halsey Street) illuminates a fascinating chapter of Black history. |
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Books You Might Have Missed
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The Lady's Mine
by Francine Rivers
What it is: a charming historical romance and the latest novel by Francine Rivers, author of the ever-popular Redeeming Love.
Thrown out: In 1875, after her wealthy stepfather maneuvers her exit, well-to-do Bostonite Kathryn Walsh has little to her name except a mysterious inheritance from her uncle that's all the way in California.
A fish out of water: In a rough mining town located in the Sierra Nevadas, she obtains her property (a mine claim, a printing press, and a shack), learns her uncle may have been murdered, and gets help from a handsome saloon/hotel owner. But trouble really arrives after she relaunches her uncle's newspaper and makes powerful men unhappy.
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Until Leaves Fall in Paris
by Sarah Sundin
Americans in 1940s Paris: Lucie Girard, who's lived in the city for years as a ballerina, buys a bookshop from fleeing Jewish friends, and uses it to pass messages for the resistance; Paul Aubrey, a newly widowed father and automotive manufacturer who stays in Paris because he's asked to by the U.S. military, in order to pass on information.
They meet... and feel drawn to each other, but neither knows if they can trust the other.
Read this next: For other well-researched historical novels set during World War II, pick up Lynn Austin's Chasing Shadows, Kristy Cambron's The Paris Dressmaker, or Tracy Groot's Maggie Bright.
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Remember me
by Tracie Peterson
Haunted by heartbreak and betrayal, Addie Bryant escapes her terrible circumstances with the hope she can forever hide her past and with the belief she will never have the future she's always dreamed of. When she's reunited with her lost love, Addie must decide whether to run or to face her wounds to embrace her life, her future, and her hope in God
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God spare the girls : a novel
by Kelsey McKinney
The discovery that their father, the head pastor of an evangelical Texas megachurch, has been having an affair causes sisters Abigail and Caroline to flee to the ranch they inherited from their grandmother to discuss their family.
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Two weeks : a novel
by Karen Kingsbury
A heart-wrenching and redemptive new story in the Baxter Family series features an infertile couple desperately waiting to bring their adopted child home and the young mother who is about to make the biggest decision of her life.
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