|
Christian Fiction March 2019
|
|
|
|
|
Perfectly Matched: A Novel
by Maggie Brendan
What it's about: A free-spirited young woman agrees to be a mail-order bride in order to escape the drudgery of farm life—and gets more than she bargained for.
Series alert: This is the concluding story of the Blue Willow Brides trilogy. If you would like to read the whole series, be sure to pick up Deeply Devoted and Twice Promised.
|
|
|
The Forgiving Jar
by Wanda E Brunstetter
What it's about: When Sara Murray first meets her Amish grandparents in Lancaster County, she learns that someone else has been living with them and pretending to be Sara. Original.\\When Sara Murray first meets her Amish grandparents in Lancaster County, she learns that someone else has been living with them and pretending to be Sara.
Series alert: The Forgiving Jar is the sequel to The Hope Jar in a new series from Wanda E. Brunstetter.
|
|
| The Bride of Ivy Green by Julie KlassenWhat happens: In a Regency England village, several women face change and choices. First, Mercy Grove is forced to close her girls' school and ponders life as a spinster governess; Jane Bell is in love, but to marry means giving up her inn; and a new seamstress has arrived, but there's something she's hiding.
Series alert: This is the sweet 3rd entry in the Tales from Ivy Hill series. Newcomers may want to start with the 1st book, The Innkeeper of Ivy Hill, to see characters develop over the course of the trilogy.
For fans of: Jane Austen and regency romances. |
|
|
Mending Fences
by Suzanne Woods Fisher
What it's about: Targeted with distrust after rehab, Luke agrees to make amends by listening to how his choices hurt his Amish community, a challenge that is complicated by a boarder's surprising identity.
Want more?: This is one of many great titles from Suzanne Woods Fisher. Stop in at the library or search our online catalog to discover more.
|
|
|
A Harvest of Hearts: A Novel
by Laura V. Hilton
What it's about: "Shanna Stoltzfus thought she'd turned her back on the Amish for good, but handsome newcomer Matthew Yoder forces her to reconsider where her home and heart lie"
Series alert: This is the second of the three book Amish of Seymour County series. To read the whole set, pick up Patchwork Dreams and Promised to Another as well.
|
|
| Whenever You Come Around: A Kings Meadow Romance by Robin Lee HatcherWhat it is: a fast-paced, Western-flavored romance with appealing characters; the 2nd in the Kings Meadow trilogy.
Starring: author Charity Anderson, whose house in Boise, Idaho, floods, sending her and her sweet dog Cocoa to her childhood home.
What happens: With her parents on a long trip, Charity should have time to write -- but when Cocoa causes her high school crush (and only neighbor) to break his ankle and wrist, Charity's obliged to help him. |
|
| The Proving by Beverly LewisWhat happens: Having left the Amish life five years ago after a disagreement with her twin sister, Amanda is shocked when her widowed mother dies and leaves Amanda her popular bed-and-breakfast.
The catch: In order to keep the Lancaster County B & B, she must return home and run the business for a year...and it must remain profitable.
Read this next: Shelley Shepard Gray's Florida-set Amish Brides of Pinecraft series, which has plots often revolving around a B & B. |
|
| The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. WrightFeaturing: siblings Malcolm (a businessman with a failing marriage), Matthew (who's had trouble with the law and is in love with an engaged woman), and Samantha (a single mom and police officer).
What happens: After the deaths of their parents, they return home and find boxes of love letters that their father wrote to their mother each Wednesday -- and inside the letters, they discover shocking truths.
For fans of: Hallmark movies or emotional, leisurely paced stories about marriage, family, and forgiveness. |
|
Contact your librarian for more great books!
|
|
|
|
|
|