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Christian Fiction March 2025 |
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With This Ring
by Amy Clipston
As proprietor of the Fairytale Bridal Shop in Flowering Grove, Dakota has moved on from her painful breakup with Hudson, her high school sweetheart, but when he returns to derail his sister's wedding, old feelings resurface.
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Love Overboard: A Novel
by Shannon S. Dunlap
When a group of quirky "golden girls" retire on a never-ending round of cruises, they dub themselves the Shippers because they're all about relationships. Boss matchmaker, Emily Windsor, crafts an intricate battle plan as her unwilling targets, hostess Lacey Anderson and handsome director Jonathan King, dig in their heels. The Shippers may sneak around with walkie talkies and orchestrate "coincidental" meetings, but the couple rebuffs every outlandish plot. They've already tried and failed at romance. No need to repeat a voyage that's doomed from the start. It's rough waters ahead as the matchmakers chart the young people's course to true love, all while inadvertently tracking down a group of drug smugglers who threaten to ruin their floating home-sweet-home. Fans of toe-curling kisses and belly-shaking hilarity will enjoy this vacation for their soul.
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The Life of Herod the Great: A Novel
by Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston's unpublished novel offers a reimagined portrayal of Herod the Great, not as the notorious villain of the New Testament, but as a philosophical and visionary king who brought prosperity to Judea during a tumultuous period of war and imperial expansion in the first century BCE.
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| With All Her Heart by Kelly IrvinBonnie Yoder runs a busy Amish craft shop with friends and is happy to have shy Elijah Miller's handmade wooden items to sell. The two grow closer as Elijah navigates leaving his family's auction business and Bonnie dreams of a man who'll see her instead of her physical disability. Fans of Shelley Shepard Gray's Her Heart's Desire will enjoy this charming 3rd entry in the Amish Calling series. |
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| The Seaside Homecoming by Julie KlassenA failed elopement leaves Claire Summers living an isolated life helping a controlling aunt in 1820 Edinburgh. After her aunt's death, Claire finds employment at a seaside boarding house in Devon owned by a young widower. While she's now near her sisters, whom she desperately misses, she struggles with feelings of unworthiness and shame. Read-alike: Tracie Peterson's In Times Gone By. |
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| Cloaked in Beauty by Karen WitemeyerFor most of her life, Scarlett Radcliffe has secretly lived with her grandmother, roaming the woods with her pet wolf. An heiress set to inherit on her upcoming 21st birthday, she's in dire danger from her uncle, who wants her money. Luckily, her mother hires Pinkerton detective Philip Carmichael to help protect her as she travels home. Though this is the enchanting fairy tale-inspired 3rd in the Texas Ever After series, it can be enjoyed on its own. |
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Books You May Have Missed
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| The British Booksellers by Kristy CambronIn dual timelines, this well-researched novel follows two childhood friends, farmer's son Amos Darby, who fights in World War I, and Lady Charlotte Terrington, who's left a widow by the war. In the 1940s, they're rival bookstore owners in Coventry as bombs rain down and an American lawyer shows up with life-changing news. Read-alike: Sarah Sundin's Until the Leaves Fall in Paris. |
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| The Hudson Collection by Jocelyn GreenIn 1926 New York, American Museum of Natural History ornithologist Elsa Reisner, who limps due to polio, is sent to catalog a stuffed bird collection at a country home that's to be torn down. She bonds with other workers, including a kind World War I vet, and helps search for a missing heirloom that's been willed to the gardener's daughter. This evocative 2nd in the On Central Park series follows The Metropolitan Affair. |
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| One Wrong Move by Dani PettreySecurity expert Christian O'Grady, whose parents were con artists, and insurance investigator Andi Forester, who was forced out of the F.B.I., team up to figure out who subverted Christian's intricate security measures and pulled off multiple Southwest art gallery heists. Fans of faith-filled romantic suspense will enjoy this action-packed series starter; the 2nd book, Two Seconds Too Late, is out in April. |
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| A Run at Love by Toni ShilohWanting to prove herself, Piper McKinney leaves her adoptive parents' horse business to start her own with trainer Tucker Hale. The two childhood friends develop strong feelings for each other while dreaming of a Kentucky Derby win. But a horse doping scandal means they must lean on their faith and each other in this 2nd Love in the Spotlight novel, which works well for series newcomers. |
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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NORTH KANSAS CITY LIBRARY
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North Kansas City, Missouri 64116
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