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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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The pharisee's wife
by Janette Oke
Like most young women in ancient Israel, Mary has little control over her own destiny. When Enos, a rising Pharisee, sees her one day in the market--the most beautiful woman he has ever laid eyes on--and determines to make her his wife, Mary's fate is quickly sealed. His exorbitant bride price is the only hope her parents have of escaping abject poverty, but surely the fact that such a devout and esteemed man has chosen a girl of her station must be a sign of blessing. When Mary enters training to become the proper Pharisee's wife, it is as though she has been abandoned in a foreign land, where one misstep could cost her greatly. That feeling only deepens when she discovers Enos is all she feared he might be, treating her merely as a prize he has won-and worse. Then rumors of a miracle-working, traveling Prophet change everything, and Mary and Enos are swept up in events that will challenge all they hold dear and forever alter both their futures.
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The daughter of Rome
by Angela Elwell Hunt
"In Nero's Rome, a catastrophic fire leaves Calandra reliant on a group of Christians. She grapples with her mistrust but finds herself indebted to those who helped rebuild her shattered world. When Nero blames the tragedy on the Jewish Messiah's followers, Calandra is forced to choose between right and wrong, friends and family, love and death"
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Dawn of Grace : Mary Magdalene's story
by Jill Eileen Smith
All Mary has ever known is fear and loss-until she encounters a rabbi different than all the others. One touch from Jesus and she is never the same. Her new mission in life is to serve the one who set her free. But when the unthinkable happens, she must fight not to descend into darkness once again.
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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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| 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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| 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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