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Christian Fiction May 2025 |
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| Welcome to the Honey B&B by Melody CarlsonWhat it's about: With 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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As Sure as the Sea
by Jamie Ogle
Meet our heroes: "A.D. 308. Demitria Caepio and her brother Theseus are expert divers, by day harvesting pearls and coral for a merchant who turns a blind eye to the fact that they are Christians, a dangerous identity in the face of the edicts Emperor Diocletian has passed to eradicate believers.
And then: By night, Demi and Theseus assume a far riskier and more difficult task: going upriver to trade goods on the underground Christian network, becoming the lifeline that supports the believers still living in Myra and its port village of Andriake.
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| The Filling Station by Vanessa MillerHow it starts: In 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 then: 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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Second Chance Season
by Emily March
How it starts: When young bride-to-be Zoey Hillcrest chooses the newly refurbished Inn at Mirror Lake for her destination wedding, life in the small Rocky Mountain town will never be the same for Genevieve Prentice and her sister Helen McDaniel.
What happens next: A chance run-in after Zoey's arrival turns the sisters' worlds upside down as they discover a family secret and a niece they never existed.
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| The Long March Home by Marcus Brotherton and Tosca LeeWhat it's about: In 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.
What you should know: 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 Socialite
by J'nell Ciesielski
What it's about: Assigned to watch over two English debutantes in Nazi-occupied Paris, Barrett Anderson, who secretly trains Resistance fighters, must win the trust of Kat, who is trying to tear her sister away from her Nazi boyfriend and bring her back home.
Reviewers say: "Readers looking for an immersive, high-stakes historical romance will be wowed." (Publishers Weekly)
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| The Foxhole Victory Tour by Amy Lynn GreenWhat it's about: Outspoken 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 SundinWhat happens: Fleeing 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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