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The Bookshop of 99 Doors
by Jaime Jo Wright
In 1888 Pennsylvania, 25-year-old Minnie Tipton adapts to her new home, Ambrose Field manor, and cares for her ill father, who claims to see the Civil War soldier ghost who supposedly haunts the place. In the present day, Triss Bellamy starts a new job managing a bookshop in Minnie's old home, which is now a historic site. Then her professional ghost hunter brother shows up. For fans of: suspenseful paranormal-tinged, dual-timeline novels.
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Mists Over the Channel Islands
by Sarah Sundin
As World War II rages, the Germans invade the English Channel island of Jersey. With her physician father at war, Dr. Ivy Picot provides care to locals and helps the resistance as best she can. Meanwhile, Dutch engineer Gerrit van der Zee signs on to work with the Nazis as part of a secret plan to help the resistance. Unfortunately, instead of France, he's sent to Jersey, where he has no contacts. Try this next: From the Valley We Rise by Elizabeth Musser; The Warsaw Sisters by Amanda Barratt.
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| The Spy Keeper of Marseille by Roseanna M. WhiteIn Nazi-occupied France, newly widowed Zelie Bellerose joins the Resistance, becoming a leader against all odds. She works with pianist Marcel Laurent, who gathers intelligence from loose-lipped music patrons and airs coded messages during radio performances. Zelie and Marcel grow close, but their world is steeped in danger. "Profound and masterful," raves Booklist. Read-alikes: Elizabeth Musser's From the Valley We Rise; Sarah Sundin's Until Leaves Fall in Paris. |
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Andrew
by Jennifer Beckstrand
"Andrew, Abraham, and Austin Petersheim's family business has earned them the nickname The Peanut Butter Brothers. But if their matchmaking younger siblings have their way, all three may soon bear another title- husband . . . Handsome, hardworking, and godly, Andrew Petersheim has always been sure of his place in his Wisconsin Amish community. He'll be a welcome catch for the local girl who finally captures his heart. Mary Coblenz certainly isn't that girl. Two years after "jumping the fence" for the Englischer world, she's returned, unmarried and pregnant. Yet instead of hiding in shame as others in the community expect, she's working at the Honeybee Farm, ignoring the gossips-and winning over Andrew's eight-year-old twin brothers . . . For all Andrew'scertainty about right and wrong, it seems he has a lot to learn from Mary's courage, grace, and resilience. She's changing his notions about forgiveness and love, but will she in turn accept the challenge of starting over and choose to stay-with him?"
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| The Brunswick by Callie MurrayIn 1939 Georgia, Cora runs her father's old hotel turned general store. But it's struggling and so is her dad, who's depressed. When Thomas Watkins arrives in town, Cora hires him, and the two connect, especially when they team up to help children displaced by the war in Europe. Meanwhile, in Austria, ten-year-old Charlotte's Jewish family face persecution from the Nazis, so they send her to America. Try these next: Michelle Shocklee's The Women of Oak Ridge; Lynn Austin's Long Way Home. |
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| Don't Upstage the Body by Naomi StephensIn 1957 England, Hippolyta Halfpenny and her family of professional mourners are working a reclusive and unpopular lord's funeral. Discretion is paramount, so they conceal their identities and connections to each other. But when Hippolyta finds the undertaker murdered in the library with a letter belonging to her in his hand, she retrieves it and finds herself teaming up with his son, the new earl, to find a killer. For fans of: Julie Klassen; Alan Bradley's Flavia de Luce mysteries. |
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