| All That We Carried by Erin BartelsStarring: Olivia, an atheist lawyer who spends her days prosecuting criminals; her younger sister, Melanie, who has a successful YouTube channel and takes what she likes from a variety of spiritual beliefs.
What happens: The estranged sisters, who haven't spoken in the decade since their parents' deaths in a car accident, embark on a week-long hiking trip in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
Who it's for: those who like stories that examine sibling relationships, have allegorical elements, or feature evocative natural settings. |
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| Beauty Among Ruins by J'nell CiesielskiWhat it is: a richly detailed historical romance that has a bit of mystery and is set in Scotland against the backdrop of World War I.
What it's about: After being shipped off to English cousins just before war breaks out, spirited American socialite Lily Durham finds herself nursing wounded soldiers at a Scottish castle turned convalescent home in 1915. When strange events occur, Lily works with a Scottish laird to sort out what's going on. |
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| The Dress Shop on King Street by Ashley ClarkWhat it is: a faith-filled novel with romance and vividly drawn characters that takes place over several decades in the Southern United States. This is the 1st in the Heirloom Secrets series; the 2nd book, Paint and Nectar, comes out in May.What happens: In 1946, teenage Millie Middleton, who's biracial, begins passing as white in order to have a career in dressmaking. In modern times, recent college grad Harper is at a crossroads and turns to Millie for help. When circumstances lead them both to Charleston, they fight fear and doubt to work toward owning their own dress shop. |
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What it is: a young woman searches for clues to the lives lost so she can write letters to next of kin and return keepsakes to rightful owners. What happens: when a man is washed ashore after a wreck, Laura acts quickly to protect him from a local smuggler determined to destroy him. With danger pursuing them from every side, and an unexpected attraction growing between them, will Laura ever find the answers she seeks?
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What happens: when all five New Yorkers receive an anonymous, mysterious invitation to the Fifth Avenue Story Society, they suspect they're victims of a practical joke. No one knows who sent the invitations or why. No one has heard of the literary society. And no one is prepared to reveal their deepest secrets to a roomful of strangers.
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What happens: When Ruth’s husband and father-in-law are killed overseas, she travels to Wisconsin to live in the Mennonite community. She encounters the possibility of new love with Elam, whose gentle encouragement awakens hopes and dreams she thought she’d lost forever. But an unexpected twist threatens to unseat the happy ending Ruth is about to write for herself.
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Fragments of light by Michèle PhoenixWhat its about: ripples that cascade seventy-five years into the present. and two lives transformed by the tenuous resolve to reach out of the darkness toward fragments of light. What happens: after cancer takes nearly everything away from Ceelie, except the support and love of her quirky elderly friend, Darlene, she decides to help her bestie find a WWII paratrooper who was the father she never knew.
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What it's about: the nine stories in this collection feature four generations of characters grappling with who they want to be in the world, caught as they are between the church's double standards and their own needs and passions. Why you might like it: with their secret longings, new love, and forbidden affairs, these church ladies are as seductive as they want to be, as vulnerable as they need to be, as unfaithful and unrepentant as they care to be, and as free as they deserve to be.
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What it is: in one incredible summer, Keely must confront the mistakes of the past if she has any chance of finding true happiness in the place she will always call home. What happens: returning to her Nantucket childhood home in the wake of personal and professional setbacks, she is forced to settle old scores with her former best friend and unfaithful ex.
Reviews: "An engaging tale about how childhood expectations can be transformed on the journey through adulthood." ~Kirkus Reviews - (Random House, Inc.)
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