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Christian Fiction November 2026 |
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| We Wish You a Messy Christmas by Melody CarlsonHaving grown up next door to each other, Olivia Bradshaw and Malcolm McEntire end up dating as adults. But her perfectionist mother can't stand his unorganized, go-with-the-flow family. Fearing her mother's attitude will ruin her romance, Olivia teams up with her dad to make their family's perfect Christmas messier. But will that really solve their problems? For another amusing Christmas romance, try Toni Shiloh's Matchmaking Christmas. |
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| Things We Cannot Keep by Amanda CoxTess left her Alabama mountain home at 18, changed her name, and landed near the coast. With help from two kind-hearted siblings, she built a life and a watch repair business. But when she's 36, a package addressed to her old name arrives, containing a watch and an anonymous note. Then her high school boyfriend, now a journalist, shows up, and together they look for the mysterious watch's owner. For fans of: heartfelt stories of faith, forgiveness, found family, and healing. |
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| Twilight Tactics by Lynette EasonFBI agent Collin Sullivan needs to protect a 14-year-old girl who witnessed a mob hit. He takes her to a friend's remote ranch that houses veterans with PTSD, where he encounters survival instructor Elena Thompson, whom he's met before. When outsiders suddenly siege the peaceful haven, Collin and Elena fight to keep everyone safe as danger closes in. Fans of this twisty, action-packed 1st in the Soldiers in Shadows series will want to pick up books by Susan May Warren or Irene Hannon. |
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| Every Given Day by Cathy GohlkeIn 1918 New York City, amidst the Spanish flu outbreak, teacher Gwendolyn Armstrong arrives at her ill sister Marion's stately home to tutor her young niece and nephew. With her sister getting sicker and her nephew newly diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, Gwen works with a caring doctor to help them, struggles with her faith, and wonders what her secretive brother-in-law is up to. Inspired by real events, this is a moving story that will please fans of hopeful historical fiction. |
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Return to the Shack: A Journey Into Redemption
by Wm Paul Young
In the long-awaited sequel to one of the world's most beloved and widely read books of the last twenty years--The Shack--unrivaled storyteller Wm. Paul Young leads us back to the great questions of human existence: How does life go on in the face of irreconcilable loss? How can the irredeemable find redemption? Ten years after the devastating events of The Shack, Mackenzie Allen Phillips is still living in the shadow of loss. Though life has moved forward, grief continues to haunt his family, his relationships, his faith, and his very sense of self. Nan, his wife, carries her own hidden sorrow. They are two people bound together by love yet often divided by pain. On what would have been their daughter Missy's sixteenth birthday, Mack and Nan confront the unthinkable when Mack is asked to visit death row to speak with the serial killer who abducted and murdered her. In the stark silence of the prison, Mack encounters not only the brokenness of another human being but also the raw weight of his own anger, doubt, and disappointment with God. Where is God when unbearable suffering endures? How can a shattered heart ever heal? In Return to the Shack, William Paul Young invites readers on a profound journey into the depths of grief, the complexity of trauma, and the surprising humanity of those we most fear. With honesty and compassion, he explores the devastating impact of mental illness, abuse, and violence, the strain of loss on relationships, and the staggering cost--and unexpected freedom--of forgiveness. This long-awaited sequel dares to ask the hardest questions: What does it mean to forgive the unforgivable? How do we live with God's silence when our wounds cry out for answers? And can even the darkest prison and the most desolate wreckage of broken dreams become places where grace and redemption take root? Both tender and unflinching, Return to the Shack is a story of pain, faith, and the relentless possibility of hope.
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