September 2019 list by Bonnie Bradford
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Ayesha at Last
by Uzma Jalaluddin
A modern Muslim adaptation of Pride and Prejudice finds a reluctant teacher, who would avoid an arranged marriage, falling in love with her perpetually single cousin's infuriatingly conservative fiancé.
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The Enlightenment of Bees
by Rachel Linden
Sometimes a shattered dream leads to an amazing journey. At twenty-six, Mia West has her entire life planned out, but when her boyfriend declares he “needs some space,” Mia’s carefully planned future crumbles. Feeling adrift, Mia joins a humanitarian trip around the world. As she grapples with how to make a difference in a complicated world, Mia realizes she can choose between the life she thought she wanted and the life unfolding before her.
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The Faith of a Wife
by L. A. Pattillo
After her husband, Amulek, is thrown in prison for preaching of God in the town square, Tabitha flees with her children in order to save their lives. Not knowing if she will ever see Amulek again and with no possessions to her name, she fears they will never find a place to settle. Are there other believers with whom they can find refuge? Women of Faith series.
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Hope on the Inside
by Marie Bostwick
With both her marriage and savings strained by forced early retirement, Hope Carpenter gets a new lease on life when she begins teaching crafts to inmates at a local women's prison.
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Paris, 7 a.m.
by Liza Wieland
Paris, 7 A.M. imagines 1937—the only year poet Elizabeth Bishop, a meticulous keeper of journals, didn’t fully chronicle—in vivid detail. In Normandy Elizabeth becomes involved with a group rescuing Jewish “orphans”, and delivering them to convents where they will be baptized as Catholics and saved from the impending horror their parents will face.
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Surfside Sisters
by Nancy Thayer
Returning to her Nantucket childhood home in the wake of personal and professional setbacks, Keely must confront the mistakes of the past if she has any chance of finding true happiness in the place she will always call home. Nancy Thayer shines yet again in this uplifting tale of forgiveness and self-discovery.
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An Unorthodox Match
by Naomi Ragen
After years fruitlessly searching for love, marriage, and children, Lola decides to take the radical step of seeking spirituality and meaning in the insular, ultraorthodox enclave of Boro Park, Brooklyn. There, fate brings her to the home of newly-widowed Jacob, a devout Torah scholar, whose life is also in turmoil. While her mother direly predicts she is ruining her life, Lola’s heart tells her something far more complicated.
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