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by Tracey Bateman - Christian, Christian Fiction, Fiction, Romance, Suspense

Six months after her Army husband Jarrod’s death, Corrie retreats to the family home he inherited deep in the Missouri Ozarks, hoping that somehow he will come back to her. Corrie begins to wonder if she can feel Jarrod's presence, but when Jarrod's cousin Eli comes to help with the house's restoration, he knows that his dead cousin is not what Corrie senses.

by Carla Stewart - Christian, Christian Fiction, Fiction

An East Texas widow, determined to start over, inherits a rundown motel. When her first guest is her dead husband's mistress, pregnant and stricken with polio, a change of plans leads to a change of heart.

by Rachel Hauck - Christian, Christian Fiction, Fiction, Romance

Charlotte owns a chic Birmingham bridal boutique. Dressing brides for their big day is her gift --- and her passion. But with her own wedding day approaching, why can’t she find the perfect dress --- or feel certain she should marry Tim? Then Charlotte purchases a vintage dress in a battered trunk at an estate sale. It looks brand-new, shimmering with pearls and satin, hand-stitched and timeless in its design. But where did it come from? Who wore it? Charlotte’s search for the gown’s history --- and its new bride --- begins as a distraction from her sputtering love life. But it takes on a life of its own as she comes to know the women who have worn the dress.

by Jane Kirkpatrick - Christian, Christian Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction

What begins as a hobby to create an easy-peeling apple for her pies becomes German immigrant Hulda Klager's driving purpose: a time-consuming interest in plant hybridization that puts her at odds with family and community, as she challenges the early 20th-century expectations for a simple housewife.

by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas - Biography, International Relations

These are the leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar chaos: Averell Harriman, Dean Acheson, George Kennan, Robert Lovett,  John McCloy,  and Charles Bohlen.

by M. C. Beaton - Fiction, Mystery

Attempting to lure tourists to a sleepy Scottish town, a tourist director renames the local woods “The Fairy Glen.” But when heartbreaking acts of vandalism begin plaguing the forest, Hamish Macbeth investigates --- and the case turns from animal cruelty to murder.

by Olaf Olafsson - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Having grown up in a circle of wealthy British ex-pats in Florence in the 1920s, Alice Orsini shocks everyone when she marries the son of a minor Italian landowner. But her restlessness pulls her a reckless affair that will have devastating consequences.

by Anne Berry - Fiction

Naomi was orphaned and placed in a children’s home and cruelly abused. Swimming offered her an opportunity to cleanse, to escape, and she reveled in the ocean’s power. But Naomi has another secret, buried deep within her, and during one searing hot summer she will be the catalyst for the coming together --- and tearing apart --- of the water children.

by Tinsley Mortimer - Chick Lit, Fiction

Small town girl Minty Davenport always dreamed of skyscrapers and yellow cabs. So upon graduation from college, she bids adieu to Charleston and makes a beeline for the Big Apple. But it’s a long way from the deb balls of Charleston to Fashion Week in Lincoln Center, and the gatekeepers to New York society upper echelons aren’t easily charmed.

by Charlene Ann Baumbich - Christian, Christian Fiction, Fiction

When ballerina Sasha Davis suffers a career-ending injury, she retreats to the home of her youth in Minnesota, where her injuries limit her as much as her mother's recent death haunts her. She hires a temporary live-in aide, and the two women form an unlikely alliance.