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Christian Fiction November 2019
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An Amish Reunion: Four Stories
by Amy Clipston, Beth Wiseman, Kathleen Fuller, and Kelly Irvin
What it's about : Enjoy four sweet and heartwarming stories about home, heart, and reuniting with the ones you love. Their True Home by Amy Clipston A Reunion of Hearts by Beth Wiseman A Chance to Remember by Kathleen Fuller Mended Hearts by Kelly Irvin
Each story in this sweet, contemporary collection can be read as a standalone, but the stories are best enjoyed together.
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The Healing Jar
by Wanda E Brunstetter
What happens:
Lenore Lapp is an Amish schoolteacher in her late 20s still living at home with her parents and grandparents. She thought love had passed her by until she meets Jesse Smucker, a widower with a baby daughter. She quickly falls in love with them both and accepts Jesse's proposal of marriage, but Jesse breaks off their engagement when he realizes he can't marry only for convenience.
Resigned to living single, Lenore throws herself into caring for her elders. While working in her grandmother's garden, she digs up an old jar. Will Lenore find healing for her broken heart and solve long-buried family secrets by reading the note contained inside?
This title is book 3 in the Prayer Jars series. Don't Miss: Book 1 - The Hope Jar Book 2 - The Forgiving Jar
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The Printed Letter Bookshop
by Katherine Reay
What you can expect: Madeline Cullen no longer loves her aunt's old bookshop and intends to sell it when her aunt dies and leaves it to her, but the two bookshop employees, Janet and Claire, have other ideas. Amid literature and lattes, the three women come together and find that sharing one’s journey with best friends makes life richer.
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| Catching Christmas by Terri BlackstockFeaturing: rookie lawyer Sydney, whose firm is laying off employees; her grandmother Callie, who's in a wheelchair and has dementia; and Finn, a down-on-his-luck cab driver and former chef.
What happens: With Sydney busy trying to keep her job, Callie calls on Finn to drive her to appointments, and to help her with her Christmas project: finding a date for Sydney.
For fans of: sweet, fresh Christmas romances with bits of humor. |
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| The Christmas Star by Donna VanLiereFeaturing: Maddie, a precocious seven-year-old foster child; Gabe Rodriguez, a kind maintenance worker at her school; and Amy Denison, her new after-school teacher.
What happens: Maddie finds out that Gabe isn't married and decides to find him a girlfriend. What she doesn't know is that the lady she's picked out for him is someone he already knows.
For fans of: spunky matchmaking kids, second-chance romances, and feel-good Christmas stories. |
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| His Promise: An Amish Christmas in Hart County by Shelley Shepard GrayWhat it's about: Amish pet sitter Grace King is spending a lonely Christmas season with a dachshund named Snooze, who's quicker than his name would indicate. Then she meets her closest neighbor, an Amish firefighter who broke her sister's heart three years earlier (and whom she had a crush on), as suspicious fires plague the area.
Series alert: This is the 6th and final entry in the Amish of Hart County, a romantic suspense series set in Kentucky that began with Her Secret. |
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| The White Christmas Inn by Colleen WrightThe place: Vermont's picture-perfect Evergreen Inn, owned by Jeanne and Tim, who have grown apart amid financial troubles. They are helped by Iris, the elderly former owner, and Luke, her visiting grandson.
Guests include: Hannah, who's been coming to the inn since she was a girl, whose groom cancels their Christmas wedding; her best friend, Audrey, whose military husband can't get there due to the snow; children's book author Molly, suffering from writer's block; and widower Marcus and his two daughters, forced to stop there by a blizzard.
For fans of: Hallmark Christmas movies; charming romances featuring multiple couples. |
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