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Christian Fiction November 2021
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| The Healing of Natalie Curtis by Jane KirkpatrickWhat it's about: After an emotional breakdown leaves her unable to perform for years, classically trained pianist and singer Natalie Curtis travels west with her brother in 1902. She finds healing in the beautiful Native American music, but is disturbed that Indigenous culture is outlawed and sets out to change that and preserve the music.
Why you might like it: The Healing of Natalie Curtis is leisurely paced, richly detailed, and based on historical facts and a real person.
Reviewers say: "Kirkpatrick's reflective and informative novel inspires readers to consider their own motives and choices and the sometimes unintended consequences of the help they give" (Booklist). |
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The Cottage on Lighthouse Lane
by T. Davis Bunn
After an on-set accident leaves him shaken, Billy Walker leaves Hollywood behind and seeks refuge in Miramar Bay where he meets a special woman who has a seemingly divine ability to comfort — and who is everything he needs.
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The Seeds of Change
by Lauraine Snelling
Disguising herself as a man on a wagon train bound for Oregon, Larkspur Nielsen, on the run after outsmarting a gambler, finds that maintaining the ruse is more difficult than she imagined, as is protecting her headstrong, starry-eyed sisters from difficult circumstances and eligible young men.
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| An Ivy Hill Christmas by Julie KlassenMeet: Richard Brockwell, a selfish bachelor who's nearly 30, lives in his family's London townhouse, and must attend his mother's 1822 Christmas house party in Wiltshire or be cut off financially.
What happens: With the stray dog he's recently adopted in tow, Richard returns to the bucolic village of Ivy Hill and finds himself unexpectedly charmed by houseguest Arabella Awdry, who, planning to devote her life to charity work, finds Richard quite unsuitable.
Series alert: This delightful Tales from Ivy Hill novella will please series fans as well as anyone who enjoys Christmas romances with themes of redemption. |
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| Jingle All the Way by Debbie MacomberThe setup: Workaholic Everly Lancaster is forced to take December off by her Chicago business partner, and her assistant books a two-week cruise on the Amazon River instead of the luxury trip Everly expects.
What happens: At first Everly is upset, but then she falls for her surroundings and her Amazon naturalist guide, Asher Adams. As the tour ends and Christmas approaches, Everly heads to her Indiana family's farm, and both her and Asher ponder making room in their lives for love.
Is it for you? This sweet romance is primarily set in Brazil, so if you want a story with lots of snow, try one of Debbie Macomber's other bestselling Christmas books, such as Alaskan Holiday. |
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| The Christmas Table by Donna VanLiereMay 1972: A husband buys wood to make a dining table for his young family, while his wife tries to improve her cooking using the recipe cards her mother made -- but cancer puts both goals on the back burner.
May 2012: Newlywed and newly pregnant Lauren Mabrey, who grew up a foster child, buys a used table. Finding a secret drawer holding a stack of recipe cards on which personal notes have been written, Lauren knows she must reunite the cards with the family they came from.
Series alert: This heartwarming 11th in the Christmas Hope series includes familiar characters and locations (such as the charming Glory's Place), but can be read as a standalone -- and recipes are included! |
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The Gift
by Shelley Shepard Gray
When a series of suspicious accidents reveals that someone is trying to scare away her family, Susanna, a newcomer to Hart County, wonders about the guilt or innocence of a man who is grieving the loss of his farm to Susanna's family.
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A Baxter family Christmas
by Karen Kingsbury
John Baxter hopes to invite the transplant recipient of the heart of his daughter who died in a car accident two years prior, along with her husband and three of their four children to Christmas Eve dinner, but his family, hoping to protect the feelings of the accident's only survivor, don't think it's such a great idea.
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The Christmas Angel Project
by Melody Carlson
Inspired by their late friend's gifts for them, four members of a book club decide to become someone's Christmas angel and find their own lives changed in the process. By the award-winning author of The Christmas Bus.
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