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Christian Fiction May 2022
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Freedom's song : a novel
by Kim Vogel Sawyer
After falling overboard, a famous riverboat singer is rescued by a group of escaped slaves seeking freedom and poses as their owner while heading north in the new novel from the best-selling author of The Librarian of Boone's Hollow. Original
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| Meet Me in the Margins by Melissa FergusonThe setup: Editor Savannah Cade secretly writes a romance novel while working at an upscale Nashville publishing company where the boss' handsome son has just arrived from New York to be the new VP.
What happens: Savannah stashes her manuscript in a secret room, and when she returns for it, someone's edited her work. As the two editors communicate back-and-forth via the novel, Savannah realizes she's falling for her editor...even though she has no idea who he is.
Is it for you? Though faith doesn't play a role, this clean, sweetly charming romance offers an intriguing look at the publishing world and features a storyline reminiscent of You've Got Mail. |
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The Walnut Creek wish
by Wanda E. Brunstetter
In Walnut Creek, Ohio, Orley and Lois Troyer, the owners of “Memory Keepers” antique store who have a special talent, try to help a couple who recently moved to Amish country fix their already strained marriage. Original.
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Her darling Mr. Day
by Grace Hitchcock
"A very public jilting has Theodore Day fleeing the ballrooms of New York to focus on building his family's luxury steamboat business in New Orleans and beating out his brother to be next in charge. But he can't escape the Southern belles' notice, nor Flora Wingfield, who has followed him determined to win his attention"
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Secrets, Secrets Everywhere
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| Daughter of Rome by Tessa AfsharWhat it is: an evocative, well-researched historical novel based on the stories of New Testament figures Priscilla and Aquila, who traveled and worked with the Apostle Paul.
What happens: In 1st-century Rome, Priscilla, the daughter of a Roman general who died, leaving her in the care of a cruel elder brother, meets Aquila, who has traveled to the large city with his uncle. They fall in love -- but Priscilla has a secret that could change everything.
Reviewers say: "This is Afshar's strongest, most complex scripture-based story yet" (Publishers Weekly). |
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| The Secrets of Paper and Ink by Lindsay HarrelFeaturing: counselor and abuse survivor Sophia Barrett, who moves to Cornwall, England seeking a change; and Sophia's new boss, Ginny Rose, who's an American in Cornwall running a bookstore that she co-owns with her husband...who's just left her.
What happens: Sophia finds old letters from a woman who was in love with her upper-class friend and tries to find out more about the Victorian couple with help from Ginny and Ginny's brother-in-law.
For fans of: charming stories of friendship and healing; stories set in bookshops; novels that combine the past and the present. |
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| Secrets of My Heart by Tracie Peterson1879 Portland, Oregon: Though her marriage was loveless, Nancy Pritchard, who's struggling with her faith, is shocked that her newly deceased husband may have been killed due to his illegal activities.
What happens: Nancy gets help digging into her husband's business dealings from a childhood friend, lawyer Seth Carpenter (who has his own secrets), and turns her home into a boarding house for women.
Series alert: This series starter (which includes some characters from the Heart of the Frontier novels) wraps up the romance portion nicely, but those who want to see justice fully realized will want to read the rest of the Willamette Brides trilogy. |
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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