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Christian Fiction July 2019
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The Amish cookie club
by Sarah Price
What it is about: 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.
Why you might like it: Sarah Price has created a wonderful cast of characters in this book, and her setting is warm, engaging and inviting. A fun book full of emotions and lessons.
Series alert: The Amish Cookie Club by Sarah Price is book one in her series of the same name.
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| Summer by the Tides-[Ebook] by Denise HunterWhat it's about: Restaurant manager Maddy Monroe has just lost her boyfriend and her job. So, when handsome marina owner Connor Sullivan leaves a message saying Maddy's grandmother is missing, she immediately heads to Gram's North Carolina beach house, where her two sisters (who've barely spoken since a betrayal years earlier) also show up...a reunion that has Gram's fingerprints all over it.
For fans of: lighthearted women's fiction featuring charming beach locations, sisters, and sweet romances. |
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Mending Fences
by Suzanne Woods Fisher
What it is about: Targeted with distrust after rehab, Luke agrees to make amends by listening to how his choices hurt his Amish community. Simple, Luke thinks. Offering apologies is easy. But discovering the lasting effects his careless actions have caused isn't so simple. It's gut-wrenching.
Series alert: This funny, heartwarming novel is book one in the Deacon's Family series.
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The patient one
by Shelley Shepard Gray
What it is about: Seven childhood best friends—some Amish, some Mennonite and some English—reunite in the wake of the wrenching suicide of one of their own and resolve for his sake to look out for each other.
What happened: When word had gotten out that Andy Warner had committed suicide, everyone in Walnut Creek, Ohio, had been shocked. particularly, it had been extremely painful for each of whom had once counted his or herself as one of Andy's best friends.
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| The House at Saltwater Point by Colleen CobleWhat happens: House flipper Ellie Blackmore goes to her sister Mackenzie's boat in Puget Sound for a birthday celebration -- and finds blood on the deck and Mackenzie missing.
Where could she be? Coast Guard intelligence officer Grayson Bradshaw thinks Mackenzie stole a cocaine shipment and faked her own death. Ellie believes her sister is innocent, but where is she?
Look for: Shauna from the 1st Lavender Tides book, The View from Rainshadow Bay, who reunites with her long-lost brother in this 2nd series entry. |
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| Sandpiper Cove: A Hope Harbor Novel by Irene HannonWhat happens: Police chief Lexie Graham stays busy raising her son and keeping Hope Harbor, Oregon safe, but finds herself intrigued by handsome church-going ex-con Adam Stone when the two try to stop the vandalism suddenly plaguing their small town.
Series alert: This is the heartwarming 3rd romance in veteran author Irene Hannon's Hope Harbor series. All of the books in the series feature themes of renewal and can be read on their own. The 5th book, Driftwood Bay, came out in April. |
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| The Sea Before Us-[Ebook] by Sarah SundinWhat it's about: In 1944 London, American naval officer Lt. Wyatt Paxton and Dorothy Fairfax of the Women's Royal Navy Service grow close as they create maps of Normandy's coast to aid the Allied invasion -- but both have personal insecurities and family issues to resolve.
Series alert: This is the 1st novel in the Sunrise at Normandy trilogy by Sarah Sundin, who writes compelling, well-researched WWII romances featuring realistic characters who find strength in faith. The final entry, The Land Beneath Us, will come out in February 2020. |
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The solace of water
by Elizabeth Byler Younts
What it is about: After leaving her son's grave behind in Montgomery, Alabama, Delilah Evans enveloped by grief and doubt, is becoming friends with her reclusive Amish neighbor, Emma Mullet--yet the secrets that keep Emma isolated from her own community bond her to Delilah in delicate and unexpected ways.
Why you might like it: The Solace of Water offers a glimpse into the turbulent 1950s and reminds us that friendship rises above religion, race, and custom--and has the power to transform a broken heart.
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