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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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Heart of the Glen
by Jennifer Deibel
When Saoirse Fagan arrives at Drumboe Castle to start her new job as housemaid, she is dismayed to learn that the lord of the house passed away a week prior. Already running from the tragedy that claimed the lives of her family members, Saoirse wanders the road through the darkening glen with nowhere to go until Aileen McCready offers her a lift and a place to stay for the night. Aileen's brother, sheep farmer and weaver Owen McCready, is known for his intricate and impeccably woven tweed. But when he's injured, his entire livelihood is endangered. A new--and distracting--mouth to feed adds fuel to the fire, and Owen struggles to keep his family afloat. Though Saoirse is eager to help, even offering to learn the weaving craft, Owen is hesitant to accept aid from this strange young woman, no matter how inexplicably magnetic he finds her. But Saoirse is not one to give up easily. She's determined to convince the McCreadys that they need her--perhaps as much as she needs them.
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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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Hope's enduring echo : a novel
by Kim Vogel Sawyer
Spotting a fossil in a young woman's hands while riding a train through Colorado, a geology student, Leo, leads them on a thrilling hunt, sparking their unexpected friendship and offering them each a deeper understanding of their destinies.
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All We Thought We Knew
by Michelle Shocklee
When Mattie Taylor's twin brother was killed in Vietnam, she lost her best friend and the only person who really understood her. Now, news that her mother is dying sends Mattie back home, despite blaming her father for Mark's death. Mama's last wish is that Mattie would read some old letters stored in a trunk, from people Mattie doesn't even know. Mama insists they hold the answers Mattie is looking for. 1942. Ava Delaney is picking up the pieces of her life following her husband's death at Pearl Harbor. Living with her mother-in-law on a secluded farm in Tennessee is far different than the life Ava imagined when she married only a few short months ago. Desperate to get out of the house, Ava seeks work at a nearby military base, where she soon discovers the American government is housing Germans who they have classified as enemy aliens. As Ava works to process legal documents for the military, she crosses paths with Gunther Schneider, a German who is helping care for wounded soldiers. Ava questions why a man as gentle and kind as Gunther should be forced to live in the internment camp, and as they become friends, her sense of the injustice grows . . . as do her feelings for him. Faced with the possibility of losing Gunther, Ava must choose whether loving someone deemed the enemy is a risk worth taking, even if it means being ostracized by all those around her.
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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 Italian Ballerina by Kristy CambronIn the present day, a young Italian contacts Delaney Coleman saying he has something belonging to her recently deceased WWII veteran grandfather. Back in 1940s Rome, an English ballerina, American military medics, and a young Jewish orphan are connected to an Italian group that saves Jews using a fictional contagious illness. For fans of: romantic, atmospheric dual-timeline novels based on real events. |
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| The Foxhole Victory Tour by Amy Lynn GreenOutspoken trumpeter Maggie McCleod and beautiful violinist Catherine Duquette come from very different worlds, but both are relieved to be part of a small USO variety show for their own reasons. An unlikely friendship develops, though neither anticipates the difficult conditions and dangers they'll encounter performing so close to the front lines in 1943 North Africa. Try this next: Chasing Shadows by Lynn Austin. |
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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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Culpeper County Library271 Southgate Shopping Center, Culpeper, Virginia 22701 | 540-825-8691https://www.cclva.org |
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