Contemporary Fiction embraces today's current issues and features some of your favorite authors including Karen Kingsbury, Robin Jones Gunn, Lisa Samson, Neta Jackson, Lori Copeland, Robert Whitlow, James Scott Bell, Kim Vogel Sawyer, Dale Cramer, Lauraine Snelling, and Tracey Bateman just to name a few!
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Out of Her Hands, Linda Revere Series #2
Megan DiMaria
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Linda Revere continues to struggle with the turmoil of contemporary life. Linda has been praying for her children's future spousessince they were very small. Confident that her prayers will be answered, Linda is not prepared for the young woman her son brings home. But Linda soon learns that while everything she once controlled is out of her hands, God is still in control.
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My Sister Dilly
Maureen Lang
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Hannah Williams couldn't get out of her small town fast enough, preferring the faster pace, trendy lifestyle and beauty of California's Pacific Ocean coast. Only when her younger sister Dilly, makes a desperate choice and commits the unthinkable, does Hannah realize she never should have left her behind in rural Illinois. Hannah returns home to make up for letting Dilly down, leaving the one man she's ever loved in California. But Dilly is a changed woman, and when Hannah's plans don't go as expected, the bonds of sisterhood are tested like never before.
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John 3:16
Nancy Moser
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Recently widowed, Roman Paulson's life revolves around his son, Billy, a college football hero with a promising future. So he's completely unprepared for what lies ahead. One bright fall day, the stands are full when somebody flashes a "John 3:16" sign. This simple act of faith intersects and changes the lives of five souls---forever! 350 pages, softcover from Tyndale.
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Dogwood
Chris Fabry
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In the small town of Dogwood, West Virginia, Karin has buried her shattered dreams by settling for a faithful husband whose emotional distance from her deep passions and conflicts leaves her isolated. Loaded with guilt, she tries to raise three small children and "do life" the best she can. Will returns to Dogwood intent on pursuing the only woman he has ever loved--only to find there is far more standing in his way than lost years in prison. The secrets of Will and Karin's past begin to emerge through Danny Boyd, a young boy who wishes he hadn't survived the tragedy that knit those two together as well as tore them apart. The trigger that will lay their pain bare and force them to face it rather than flee is the unlikely figure of Ruthie Bowles, a withered, wiry old woman who leads Karin so deep into her anger against God that it forces unexpected consequences.
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Winter Turns to Spring, Four Seasons Series #4
Catherine Palmer, Gary Chapman
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Opposite work schedules, differing views on finances and when to start a family, and Brad's selfish and immature habits are forcing the young couple apart, causing them to question why they ever got married in the first place. It will take a whole lot of help--mostly from their nosy but well-meaning neighbors--for Ashley and Brad to pull their marriage out of the winter blues and into a hopeful spring. As usual, the residents of Deepwater Cove will pop in and out of the story to delight readers. They'll encounter Cody and see his continued independence and growing friendship with Jennifer; Patsy and Pete's escalating romance; and Charlie, a recent widower who is taking on the challenges and excitement of his golden years with zeal.
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The Summer the Wind Whispered My Name, David Connors Series #2
Don Locke
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In the summer of 1959, life's idyllic for 8-year-old Davy Connors---he's working his paper route and hanging out with his pals. But when a new family moves to the neighborhood, racial prejudice ignites---within Davy's own home. A riveting story of fears, family, and friendships. The prequel to The Reluctant Journey of David Connors.
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A Month of Summer
Lisa Wingate
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Rebecca Macklin returns home when her aging father is found wandering the streets alone and his wife becomes ill. When Hanna Beth Parker hears of her estranged stepdaughter's arrival, she realizes that the last person she'd ever ask for help is the only one she can count on. A story of betrayal---and forgiveness! 384 pages, softcover from Penguin Putnam.
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Single Sashimi, Sushi Series #3
Camy Tang
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Venus Chau is a high-powered video game developer. Now she might be working for the man she’s always hated … but what if he’s no longer the man she thought she knew? The third book in the Sushi series offers romance with the spice of ginger.
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The Secret's in the Sauce, Potluck Catering Club Series #1
Linda Evans Shepherd, Eva Marie Everson
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Saucy, spicy, and well-seasoned, the women of the Potluck Club are looking forward to launching their own catering business. But a steamy past threatens a marriage, a scalding truth exposes personal secrets, and dicey situations overheat a trip back home. Will their collaboration turn into a concoction for disaster---or a recipe for success? 368 pages, softcover from Revell.
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Rain Song
Alice J. Wisler
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Unspoken secrets surround Nicole Michelin's childhood as a missionary kid in Japan, but she's quite satisfied with her American lifestyle. She enjoys writing about fish on her online column---where she meets Harrison Michaels. When he hints at having connections to her past, will Nicole listen? Is she ready to know the truth? 320 pages, softcover from Bethany.
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Until We Reach Home
Lynn Austin
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Life in Sweden seems like an endless winter for three sisters after their mother's and father's suicide. Ellin feels the weight of responsibility for her sisters' welfare and when it circumstances become unbearable, she writes to her relatives in Chicago, pleading for help.
Joining siteen million other immigrants who left their homelands for America between 1890 and 1920, Ellin, Kirsten, and Sophia begin the long,difficult journey. Enduring the ocena voyage in steerage and detention on Ellis Island, their story is America's story. And in a journey fraught with hardships, each woman will come to understand her secret longings and the meaning of home.
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A Constant Heart
Siri L. Mitchell
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Born with the face of an angel, Marget Barnardsen is blessed. Her father is a knight and now she is to be married to the Earl of Lytham. Her destiny is guaranteed...at least, it would seem so. But when her introduction to court goes awry and Queen Elizabeth despises her, Marget fears she's lost her husband forever. Desperate to win him back, she'll do whatever it takes to discover nwo she failed and capture the love of a man bound to the queen.
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Stepping Into Sunlight
Sharon Hinck
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After Penny Sullivan witnesses a shocking crime, even the routines of daily life become more than she can handle. But with her husband away at sea and a 7-year-old son depending on her, hiding isn't an option! So she formulates a restoration plan---do one kind thing for somebody every day. The healing results will surprise you! 320 pages, softcover from Bethany.
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A Cut Above, Shop-Til-U-Drop Series #3
Ginny Aiken
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* Despite her negligible negotiating skills, gemologist Andie Adams's is sent to Colombia to broker a deal on emeralds for her home shopping network. And the best part---she gets to go alone! But when her guide---and her Spanish---disappear and a taxi driver "kidnaps" her, can cute cohost Max get her out alive? 304 pages, softcover from Revell.
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Sunset, Sunrise Series #4
Karen Kingsbury
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As John Baxter makes plans to marry Elaine, one of the Baxters enters into the most trying season of all. During a time of renewed love and hope for the future, the Baxters try to come together to establish the sacred ground of marriage and to chart a course for the future. Memories of times gone by meet with the changes of today in a story that proves only the support of faith and family can take a person into the sunset years of life.
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One Perfect Day
Lauraine Snelling
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This is the story of two mothers, strangers to one another. The first has two children--twins, a boy and girl, who are seniors in high school. She wants their last Christmas as a family living in the same home to be perfect, but her husband is delayed returning from a business trip abroad. And then there's an accident--a fatal one involving a drunk driver. Meanwhile, the other mother has a daughter who needs a new heart, and so the loss of one woman becomes the miracle the other has desperately prayed for. While one mother grieves, and pulls away from her family, the other finds that even miracles aren't always easy to receive.
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Summer Snow, Threads of Change Series #2
Nicole Baart
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Julia DeSmit is finally learning to accept her new life. Optimistic and anxious to begin again after dropping out of college, she is taking fumbling steps down a challenging yet hope-filled road.But the careful existence Julia has begun to build falls hopelessly to pieces when her estranged mother, Janice, appears on the front porch one icy March night. Mother and daughter have not seen or talked to each other in ten years, and a decade of anger, resentment, and bitterness follows in Janice's wake, along with a surprise Julia could never have anticipated. Julia is convinced that which is broken cannot be mended. Yet when she faces the very decision her mother did years before, she begins to realize what it means to truly accept grace. Will it be her undoing or the impetus for a change she'd never dared hope for?
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Good Hope Road
Lisa Wingate
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After reading a smuggled newspaper article about life beyond North Korea, widowed and pregnant Young Soon is determined to flee her beloved country with her son and baby to find food and safety in neighboring China...across the river. How could the daily messages blaring from the loud speakers be wrong? Loyal communists believe government announcements that North Korea is the only country prospering, as the rest of the world is depressed and starving. Was it all a lie? I'll Cross the River is a true-life novel that depicts the incredible human tragedy occuring today inside North Korea. The prayers of many bring two families together in a story you will never forget.
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Sisterchicks Go Brit!, Sisterchicks Series #7
Robin Jones Gunn
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The Sisterchicks are back---and they're headed to jolly old England! "Midlife Mamas" Kellie and Liz tour the land of Lewis and Tolkien, sail over the Cotswolds in a hot air balloon, and enjoy high tea at the Ritz. But it's their unexpected detours that yield the wildest adventures---and greatest lessons---of all. 304 pages, softcover from Multnomah.
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A Mile in My Flip-Flops
Melody Carlson
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With a freshly broken heart, Gretchen Hanover swaps her wedding plans for home improvement shows---she's going to flip a house! But when the place turns out to be in worse condition than she realized, her retired contractor father needs help and calls in carpenter Noah Campbell. A whimsical look at building relationsips and renovating hearts!
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Faking Grace
Tamara Leigh
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Struggling journalist Maizy Grace Stewart isn't really a believer, but she manages to "fake it" in order to land a part-time job at a Christian publishing house. When the newspaper editor commissions her to write an undercover expose of her new employer, will her conversations with churchgoing colleagues lead to success---or second thoughts?
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That's (Not Exactly) Amore, Drama Queen Series #3
Tracey Bateman
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When Laini Sullivan lands a job designing Nick Pantalone's coffee shop, there are two problems: one, Nick's nephew Joe hates all of her ideas and two, Laini has to admit he's right--she's a disaster at design. Still, she can't risk losing the job. To compromise, Joe brings in help on the project, while Laini continues to bake the goodies that keep his customers lining up.Their relationship is moving along, so when new guy Officer Mark Hall implies that Joe's family is tied to the mob, Laini doesn't want to believe it. But things spin out of control when she meets the family, including "the uncles," who seem to confirm Mark's suspicions. To make things worse, Nana Pantalone makes it clear Laini isn't the kind of girl she has in mind for her grandson. Laini's not sure if she should give Joe the benefit of the doubt or just set her sites on Mark and fuhgetaboutit.
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We Have This Moment
Diann Hunt
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The crisp autumn air brings beautiful foliage to Acorn Hill and romance to Grace Chapel Inn. When one of the Inn's guests reunites with a long lost beau, the former high school sweethearts get a second chance at love. But will their families accept the rekindled romance?
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Love Starts with Elle, Low Country Series #2
Rachel Hauck
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She's the last of six Lowcountry sisters to tie the knot, so when Elle Garvey's quarterback-turned-minister boyfriend Jeremiah pops the question, the family resolves to give them the send off of the century. But as Jeremiah leaves Elle to plan the wedding and moves ahead to Houston for a large pastorate there, Elle listens for her own call to the ministry-but none seems forthcoming. And with the influx of new residents in coastal Beaufort, South Carolina, Elle's art gallery business has never been more fruitful. She's even begun to successfully show her own paintings-paintings she created after Jeremiah left town. Soon Elle's widowed tenant, Frank, arrives, throwing a real wrench in the works, and offering a new kind of love that soon takes hold…and blossoms.
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Now and Always
Lori Copeland
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Kate Addison loves a challenge and helping others is her passion. She's opened a home for abused women, rehabs injured horses, helps mend Warren's broken heart, but her least favorite part of her life is to manage her finances. That's where gorgeous Warren Tate steps in and decides to help her. However, she may prove to be far more independent and stubborn that he bargained for, particularly when he deletes her daily lattes from her budget.
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Daring Chloe
Laura Jensen Walker
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When Chloe Adams is left at the altar, her girlfriends know the antidote to her post-rejection funk. After all, why let a honeymoon cruise go to waste? Play-it-safe Chloe isn't sure she's up for it. But when she travels to exotic places, she blossoms. Will her newfound daring prepare her for her greatest adventure yet?
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Bella
Lisa Samson
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Bella tells the story of a single waitress in New York City who becomes pregnant and is conflicted over her predicament. Her distress is exacerbated when she loses her job, only to meet a mysterious Latino chef, whose warm, caring heart helps her see her way clearly.
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Wagered Heart
Robin Lee Hatcher
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When Bethany Silverton left the sheltered life of Miss Henderson’s School for Young Ladies back in Philadelphia for the raw frontier town of Sweetwater, Montana, she had no idea how much she would enjoy the freedom and danger of this wild country.
A conservative preacher’s daughter, Bethany can’t resist the challenge of charming the most unregenerate cowboy in town into attending her father’s new church. She never dreamed that the cowboy would charm the lady. Now she’s wagered her heart on love and gotten more—much more—than she bargained for.
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Roses Will Bloom Again
Lori Copeland
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When Emma returns home to Serenity following her sister's untimely death, she must confront Sam and the feelings she never fully dealt with after their broken engagement. A strange clause in her sister's will forces Emma to stay and work with Sam to restore her sister's old house. As they work side by side, the promise of love blooms again.
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Tuesday Night at the Blue Moon
Debbie Fuller Thomas
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When single mom Marty Winslow discovers that her deceased child was switched at birth, she sues for custody of her orphaned biological daughter. But winning in court is the easy part of the battle! Andie won't fit in, one of her "sisters" hates her, and she's worried about her grandparents. Can anything heal this tattered family? 320 pages, softcover from Moody.
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Painted Dresses
Patricia Hickman
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Crushed by a failed marriage, Gaylen Syler-Boatwright flees to her late aunt's mountain cottage. There, while seeking solace for life's disappointments, she discovers a mysterious gallery of framed painted dresses---enshrined with meaning known only to Aunt Amity. Joined by her capricious sister, Delia, Gaylen embarks on a search for far-flung family and forgotten secrets.
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Finding Stefanie, Noble Legacy Series #3
Susan May Warren
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Stefanie Noble feels like "happily ever after" has passed her by---until three needy kids show up in town. Movie star Lincoln Cash has one last chance to start a new career---in Phillips, Montanta. When Lincoln accuses one of Stefanie's charges of arson, neither of them realizes that somebody is out to get them!
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Allison's Journey, Brides of Webster County Series #4
Wanda E. Brunstetter
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Allison Troyer is of marriageable age and needs to learn how to manage an Amish household. Can a girl who feels as faceless, purposeless, and neglected as her tattered Amish doll, find her way among strangers? James Esh likes what he sees when Allison Troyer walks into the barn. Will anything keep this brash young Amish man from stealing her affections? Aaron Zook has vowed never to lose his heart to another. Yet when James makes advances on Allison, Aaron can't help but intercede. Can threads of faith and love unite tattered hearts?
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Wanda Brunstetter
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Along Came a Cowboy
Christine Lynxwiler
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When Rachel Donovan, a strong-willed chiropractor with a past, meets Jack Westwood, a bull-headed cowboy looking for a future, it looks like hate at first fight. But when the dust settles, it may be love. Can the chiropractor and the cowboy bridle their growing attraction, or will love ultimately have free reign?
Christine Lynxwiler
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Ruby Among Us
Tina Ann Forkner
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A sweeping saga of three generations of women set among the lush vineyards of Sonoma Valley! Scarred by grief, Kitty strives to keep hidden secrets buried with her daughter Ruby. But her granddaughter Lucy yearns to learn about the mother she barely remembers. Will Lucy's discovery of betrayals and longings tear the family apart? 336 pages, softcover from Waterbrook.
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I Heart Bloomberg, 86 Bloomberg Place Series #1
Melody Carlson
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Kendall’s managed to wrangle her grandmother’s house—free and clear—except for the rules. No male roommates. But that’s ok, with the right ad she’ll pull in some girls, their rent and if she’s lucky, she won’t have to go to work any time soon.
For their part, Anna, Lelani, and Megan all have their reasons for wanting to move in: Anna has got to get out from under her overprotective parents; Lelani can’t take another day in her aunt’s tiny crackerbox house overflowing with toddlers and Megan needs a place free of her current roommate from Hades. Though they come with assorted extra baggage filled with broken hearts and dreams, they will discover they also have a vast array of hidden strengths.
As they struggle to become the women they want to be, they’ll find new hope and maybe even Kendall will learn a thing or two about life, love and the true meaning of friendship.
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White Lightning
Minton Sparks
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When her grandmother dies, Mary Wallace inherits a set of four diaries---but the box only contains three. As notes arrive in the mail with instructions on how to retrieve the missing journal, disaster-prone Mary follows a circuitous path laid out for her from beyond the grave. Will it help her reclaim her voice and place in the world? 128 pages, hardcover from Nelson.
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The Forbidden, The Courship of Nellie Fisher #2
Beverly Lewis
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Caleb Yoder's father has forbidden him to court Nellie Fisher, but words alone cannot stop Caleb's love. Yet he knows that if he continues to meet Nellie at their secret place, he risks losing everything he would inherit.Nellie, too, is torn. She longs to marry her Old Order beau but cannot ignore the gentle pull she feels toward the faith of her new Order family. Still struggling to come to terms with the death of her beloved sister, Nellie visits the Mennonite friends who were with Suzy on the day she drowned. Will Nellie find the missing pieces of her sister's life-and her own future as well?
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A Minute Before Friday, Lightfoot Trilogy Series #3
Jo Kadlecek
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Religion reporter Jonna Lightfoot is facing the greatest challenge of her career: explore the elements of good and evil in New York City! Along the way, she encounters deceitfulness from Ivy League universities and Chinatown evangelicals to Wiccan gatherings and . . . her own mirror. Will her faith survive---and romance flourish? Includes a discussion guide.
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Match Point, Lauren Holbrook Series #3
Erynn Mangum
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Now that she's successfully matched four couples, Lauren Holbrook is wondering if she'll always be the bridesmaid and never the . . . or will she finally admit that she and Ryan are more than "good friends?" But handsome Keller Stone may try to convince her otherwise. A riotous, romantic conclusion to Mangum's caffeine-laced series!
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