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Christian Fiction November 2020
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| Something Worth Doing by Jane KirkpatrickWhat it is: an inspiring, well-researched biographical novel about 19th-century women's rights advocate Abigail "Jenny" Scott Duniway.
What it's about: Born in Illinois, Jenny travels the Oregon Trail with her family to the Willamette Valley, where she becomes a teenaged school teacher. She then marries, has six children, supports her family by opening a millinery shop after her husband is injured, and in 1871 starts a newspaper focused on women's rights.
For fans of: novels featuring determined women dealing with life-changing events and societal constraints. |
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Nine
by Rachelle Dekker
A young woman trying to escape her past collides with a girl trying to escape her future, both carrying secrets they're terrified to share. Can they abandon it all--secrets, past, and future--for the freedom they've been offered?
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The Librarian of Boone's Hollow
by Kim Vogel Sawyer
A traveling librarian who delivers books on horseback to the superstitious coal-mining communities of Depression-era Kentucky bonds with a local man who has been shunned for pursuing an education.
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| The Stone Wall by Beverly LewisStarring: Anna, who's part of the Beachy Amish (they drive and use electricity), who spends the summer with her more-strict Lancaster County Amish relatives, like her grandmother did decades ago.
What happens: Anna works with a handsome Mennonite giving tours and looks for a stone wall her grandmother, who has Alzheimer's, cryptically mentioned. She also volunteers at a horse-riding therapy barn and makes friends with a young Amish widower there.
Reviewers say: "a resplendent tale of love, loss, and faith" (Publishers Weekly). |
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Two Reasons to Run
by Colleen Coble
A sequel to One Little Lie finds Police Chief Jane Hardy reuniting with her presumed-dead teenage son and his documentarian father before racing to prevent an environmental terrorist’s plot to flood Mobile Bay with crude oil.
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An Inspirational Christmas |
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An Ivy Hill Christmas : A Tales from Ivy Hill Novella
by Julie Klassen
Returning to his family’s London estate for the holidays, a younger son haunted by past mistakes reconnects with an orphaned apprentice who rebuffs his efforts to rekindle their romance. By the award-winning author of The Secret of Pembrooke Park.
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The Christmas Swap
by Melody Carlson
Organizing a vacation trade during the holidays, a talented songwriter poses as a caretaker at his Colorado Rockies house upon meeting his houseguest, a young teacher whose friend would exploit the truth. By the award-winning author of Finding Alice.
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The Gift of Family
by Mary Monroe
A middle-aged couple who has never been able to have children and an elderly widow who maintains a grueling schedule to support her grandkids come up with a solution to help both families during the holiday season, with unexpected results.
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