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Christian Fiction May 2025 |
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| Welcome to the Honey B&B by Melody CarlsonWith multiple narrators, including 60-something Honey, her husband CT, and their artist daughter Jewel, this moving story follows the family as they deal with CT's worsening dementia. To help out, Jewel and her 14-year-old daughter move to Oregon where they work to turn the family farmhouse into a bed-and-breakfast. Read-alikes: Katie Powner's A Flicker of Light; Pat Simmons' Lean On Me.
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| Whispers of Fortune by Mary ConnealyIn 1874, recent Harvard Medical School graduate Brody MacKenzie has finally found his missing teen brothers after his widowed dad kicked them out. They're in California at Ellie Hart's ranch that educates and cares for orphans, but Brody's family's long obsession with hidden treasure soon finds them all on a suspenseful adventure. This romantic series starter is followed by Legends of Gold, out in June. |
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| The Filling Station by Vanessa MillerIn Oklahoma’s Black Wall Street area, high school senior Evelyn plans to study fashion in New York while her sister, new college graduate Margaret, is going to teach at a local school. But the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre destroys their neighborhood and their sense of safety. Finding refuge at a local filling station, they struggle with their faith and look for answers in this "novel that should be required reading" (Library Journal). |
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A Run at Love
by Toni Shiloh
Wanting 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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| The Long March Home by Marcus Brotherton and Tosca LeeIn 1941, three Alabama friends (including a 16-year-old lying about his age) enlist in the military and are sent to the Philippines for basic training. The Japanese soon invade, leaving the trio fighting to survive the Bataan Death March as flashbacks depict their lives back home. Well-researched and action-packed, The Long March Home has realistic violence, mild profanity, and talk of mature subjects. "Stunning...a must-read literary triumph," raves Booklist. |
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The light after the war : a novel
by Anita Abriel
"It is 1946 when Vera Frankel and her best friend Edith Ban arrive in Naples. Refugees from Hungary, they escaped from a train headed for Auschwitz and were hidden by farmers until the end of the war while the rest of their families perished. Now, they want to start new lives abroad, and armed with a letter of recommendation from an American general, Vera finds work at the United States embassy and falls in love with Captain Anton Wight. But as Vera and Edith grapple with the aftermath of the war, so toodoes Anton, and when he disappears, Vera is forced to change course, trying to find refuge first in America (where she and Edith are turned away) and then in Venezuela. Their quest for a better life takes Vera and Edith from Naples to Ellis Island to Caracas as they start careers, reunite with old friends, and rebuild their lives after terrible loss."
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The lost girls of Paris
by Pam Jenoff
After finding an abandoned suitcase filled with photographs, Grace Healey soon learns the case belonged to the leader of a network of female secret agents deployed during World War II
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| Embers in the London Sky by Sarah SundinFleeing the Netherlands after the Germans invade, Aleida Martens' cruel husband, Bas, abandons his three-year-old son, whose right hand didn't form properly, to an English couple to get rid of him. After Bas is killed, Aleida makes it to London in search of her son and gets help from a kind-hearted BBC radio correspondent. Try this next: Cathy Gohlke's The Medallion.
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