June 2024 list by A. Mortensen
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For a Lifetime
by Gabrielle Meyer
Identical twin sisters Grace and Hope are time-crossers who simultaneously live in 1692, as daughters of a tavern owner during the Salem Witch Trials, and in 1912, as an aviatrix and a journalist. As their twenty-fifth birthday approaches, they will each have to choose one life to keep and one to leave behind forever--no matter the cost.
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The Garden Girls
by Jessica R. Patch
On a remote Outer Banks island, a serial killer collects his prized specimens. To stop him, an FBI agent must confront his own twisted past. FBI agent Tiberius Granger has seen his share of darkness. But a new case sets him on edge. It's not just the macabre way both victims--found posed in front of lighthouses--are tattooed with flowers that match their names. There's also the unsettling connection to the woman Ty once loved and to the shadowy cult they both risked everything to escape.
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Garment of Praise
by Linda Byler
The final book in the New Directions series delves into the complexities of a blended Amish family. Susan has been in Wyoming long enough to feel at home, but instead she finds herself still struggling to adapt to the dusty landscape, the different customs, and life so far from family. She knows she should be appreciating the big, beautiful log home that Isaac built, but sometimes even that feels like a burden.
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Liquid, Fragile, Perishable
by Carolyn Kuebler
Told through interconnecting storylines, this moving debut novel explores the shifting set of relations among the unforgettable residents of the small town of Glenville, Vermont, involving teenage pregnancy, drug abuse, poverty, thwarted dreams and missed connections.
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Loyally, Luke
by Pepper Basham
Sometimes love means embracing the good, the bad and even the impossible.
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Mary's Calico Hope
by Anne Blackburne
If God wills it, Mary Yoder will do it, even if that means using crutches for the rest of her life. She was badly injured in a buggy accident as a child. Still, she is content living in the Dawdi Haus connected to her parents’ farmhouse and with her work weaving baskets and raising specialty roosters whose feathers she uses to make excellent trout lures. She is truly happy at twenty-nine, but. . .she wouldn’t mind finding a husband—if the Lord wills it. Along comes Reuben King, a Mennonite doctor. They are attracted to one another, but how could they ever be together?
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Midnight Harbor
by T. Davis Bunn
When his Aunt Amelia, his closest friend and greatest supporter, passes away, leaving him her home in Miramar, classical guitarist Ian Hart uses this opportunity to reflect and move forward after a scandal destroyed his career. He instead finds himself drawn to another newcomer, artist Kari Langham, who changes everything.
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The Mysterious Amish Bachelor
by Vannetta Chapman
After paying the price for a crime he committed ten years ago, Noah Beiler wants a fresh start-which means hiding where he's been for the last decade from his Amish community. But Sarah Yoder is determined to uncover his past. As Noah and Sarah work together and grow close, Noah's history is the only thing standing in their way. Will revealing the truth set them free, or are some secrets best kept buried?
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The Roads We Follow
by Nicole Deese
Aspiring writer Raegan Farrow learns about a tell-all on her famous mother's life that could tear their family apart but keeps it a secret as they embark on a cross-country road trip. While trying to uncover who's behind it, she learns their handsome driver has his own connection to her mother's past, and all their lives will be changed by journey's end.
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These Tangled Threads
by Sarah Loudin Thomas
When a betrayal tears apart three young friends living in the shadow of Biltmore Estate, their friendship may be fractured forever. Years later, one of them risks exposure as a fraud unless she can mend the relationships and solicit help to create an original woven design for Cornelia Vanderbilt's 1924 wedding.
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