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Christian Fiction May 2020
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| A Long Time Comin' by Robin W. Pearson
This book will be availble when libraries open.Featuring: stubborn, secret-keeping Granny B, who raised multiple children alone but isn't close to them now; her pregnant granddaughter Evelyn, who's contemplating leaving her husband who betrayed her.
What happens: After finding a tucked-away box filled with old letters at Granny B's small North Carolina house, Evelyn becomes determined to help Granny mend fences with her far-flung family before it's too late.
For fans of: amusing, heartfelt debuts; Southern fiction with authentic characters; African American fiction. |
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This book will be availble when libraries open.
What it's about: In 1873, after they're forced off their land by a ruthless cattle baron, Mitch Warden follows his family to the mountain, but he doesn't expect to fall smitten with a woman dressed like Robin Hood. To reclaim his land, he must journey to the city-and when Ilsa insists on joining, they embark on an adventure they'll never forget.
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This book will be availble when libraries open.
Why you might like this: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Dress comes a captivating new novel about the healing power of story, community, and love.
Introducing the characters: An invitation to join The Fifth Avenue Story Society gives five New York strangers a chance to rewrite their own stories. Executive assistant Lexa is eager for a much-deserved promotion, but her boss is determined to keep her underemployed. Literature professor Jett is dealing with a broken heart, as well as a nagging suspicion his literary idol, Gordon Phipps Roth, might be a fraud. Uber driver Chuck just wants a second chance with his kids. Aging widower Ed is eager to write the true story of his incredible marriage. Coral, queen of the cosmetics industry, has broken her engagement and is on the verge of losing her great grandmother''s multimillion-dollar empire.
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This book is available as an eBook on Freading, a new CMRLS app. Follow the link to the Freading page. If you do not already have the Freading app, you will need your library card to set up your FREE account, just download the Freading app to your electronic device and the FREE Adobe account. There are NO waiting lists when using Freading!
What it's about: When the tribal elders make marriage a requirement for claiming her land, Milcah bat Zelophehad must find a betrothed straightaway. The only problem in finding a husband is that all her suitors were slain while conquering the land of Canaan. Men avoid her in order to stay alive.
What happens: After praying to God to send her a bold suitor, a man from her father's clan plummets from a tree right on top of her. Is this God answering prayer, or a foolish antic by Eli, the war-scarred brother from one of her clan's rival families.
Will settling in Canaan sort out Milcah's troubles?
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This book is available as an eBook on Freading, a new CMRLS app. Follow the link to the Freading page. If you do not already have the Freading app, you will need your library card to set up your FREE account, just download the Freading app to your electronic device and the FREE Adobe account. There are NO waiting lists when using Freading!
Why you might like this: A woman’s empty pursuit of happiness leads to a crisis before finding redemption in the Lord in this challenging and gritty Christian novel. What it's about: Twenty-nine-year-old novelist and blackjack dealer Cami Taylor seems to have it all—but just underneath her confident exterior and newfound celebrity is a young woman in trouble. Cami’s boyfriend, Joel, wants to get married, buy a house on Long Island, and raise a family—a life that’s a million miles from Cami’s idea of happiness. Her therapist suggests compromise and trust, but Cami would rather bolt like a deer. What happens: Breaking things off with Joel, Cami launches herself on a new quest for happiness. But her pursuit of pleasure only takes her further from herself—and toward a harrowing new reality unlike anything she’s faced before. What follows for Cami is a fight to the death that can only be waged with God’s love.
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This book is available as an eBook on Freading, a new CMRLS app. Follow the link to the Freading page. If you do not already have the Freading app, you will need your library card to set up your FREE account, just download the Freading app to your electronic device and the FREE Adobe account. There are NO waiting lists when using Freading!
What it's about: Manderley Jessup is having enough trouble squeezing into last summer's dresses, and now her mother expects her to save the family honor? A film crew has invaded her Tennessee hometown to research a duel, and the duelists' descendants, who are still feuding after 200 years. Manderley's one of those descendants. Heartily sick of the rivalry, she decides to do something about it. She approaches Abram Coventry, descended from the opposing duelist, with a marvelous plan. Abram will design buttons as a gift for Manderley's mother.
What happens: But a button catastrophe threatens to make the original duel look like a kindergarten squabble. What can Manderley do with those dreadful buttons? Worse, what can she do about the hopeless crush she's developed on Abram?
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| This book is available as an eBook on Freading, a new CMRLS app. Follow the link to the Freading page. If you do not already have the Freading app, you will need your library card to set up your FREE account, just download the Freading app to your electronic device and the FREE Adobe account. There are NO waiting lists when using Freading! Featuring: Adele von Bron, a gifted Austrian violinist during World War II, and Sera James, a modern-day Manhattan art dealer searching for the beautiful painting of a female musician she saw as a child.
What happens: Teaming with wealthy William Hanover, who owns a copy of the portrait she remembers, Sera tries to find out more. Meanwhile, in the 1940s, Adele, a Third Reich general's daughter, is caught helping Jewish people and sent to Auschwitz.
Want more? The sequel to this moving novel is A Sparrow in Terezin, which continues Sera's story, once again using dual timelines.
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This book is available as an eBook on Freading, a new CMRLS app. Follow the link to the Freading page. If you do not already have the Freading app, you will need your library card to set up your FREE account, just download the Freading app to your electronic device and the FREE Adobe account. There are NO waiting lists when using Freading!
From the book jacket: "Life's true beauty is found when the heart is set free Caroline Carlyle has finally shed the heavy shackles of grief and rediscovered her heart's song. Between her return to making music and a budding relationship with the charming Roderick Adair, Caroline's life is full of fresh inspiration and new hope. But just as she begins to experience this freedom, Caroline discovers that one of her piano students is carrying a painful burden of her own. Bella, a prodigious musical savant, and her caretaker, Gretchen, share a dark, hidden past--more dangerous and complex than Caroline ever could have anticipated. The more Caroline uncovers, the deeper her loyalty to the two women grows. Can Caroline help Bella and Gretchen find the same freeing power of love to break the hold of secrets and oppression"
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| Because You're Mine by Colleen CobleWhat it is: a gothic-tinged romantic suspense story set in Charleston, South Carolina, featuring a rising-star Irish fiddler and singer.
What it's about: After her husband is killed while their Irish band is on tour in the U.S., pregnant Alanna is devastated when her in-laws threaten to fight for child custody. Quickly marrying her American manager to thwart them, Alanna is unnerved by her new husband's possessive behavior and odd occurrences at his decaying family estate. |
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| This book is also available here as an eBook on Freading, a new CMRLS app. Follow the link to the Freading page. If you do not already have the Freading app, you will need your library card to set up your FREE account, just download the Freading app to your electronic device and the FREE Adobe account. There are NO waiting lists when using Freading! Starring: musician Cooper O’Connor, who wants all that the world has to offer, causing him to leave home at 18, taking the guitar he's stolen from his tent-preacher father.
What happens: Making it big in Nashville, Cooper falls in love with a talented singer, but events leave him injured, both spiritually and physically, which lead him home again.
What sets it apart: An imaginative, musical version of the prodigal son story that covers Cooper's childhood, absence, and return, Long Way Gone reminds readers that it's never too late to come home again.
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This book is also available here as an eBook on Freading, a new CMRLS app. Follow the link to the Freading page. If you do not already have the Freading app, you will need your library card to set up your FREE account, just download the Freading app to your electronic device and the FREE Adobe account. There are NO waiting lists when using Freading! What it's about: Struggling to make her mark on the Nashville music scene, talented singer/songwriter Parker James finds the competition can be fierce--even deadly--when a young woman is murdered at the studio where Parker works. Original.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Central Mississippi Regional Library System
100 Tamberline Street
Brandon, Mississippi 39042
601-825-0100
http://www.cmrls.lib.ms.us
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