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September 13, 2026 · In: 20th

Connolly, Rebecca – Three Queens

Abigail Adams, Queen Charlotte, and Marie Antoinette—three women form an unlikely sisterhood, navigating revolutions, royal pressures, and personal losses as they shape their own legacies. After the end of the…

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September 13, 2026 · In: 20th

Krieg, T.M. – The Isaiah Chronicles — The Year the King Died

Jerusalem, in the last years of a hidden king. Uzziah has reigned for half a century — and for the last decade, behind cedar doors, as a leper no one…

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September 13, 2026 · In: 20th

Johnson, Jen Geigle – All For Love

Sarah Siddons gave her heart to her family and her life to the stage. History remembers her brilliance; this is the story of what it cost her. When her London theater burns…

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September 13, 2026 · In: 20th

Bentley, Elizabeth Petty – A Work in Progress

Lori wants to overcome her social anxiety. Her friend Eva’s idea of support turns out to be giving Lori a list of seven women, all single and members of their…

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August 30, 2026 · In: 20th

Brown, Deb L, – To Have and To Hold

When life doesn’t go according to plan, perfectionist Amelia must trade control for faith—and find joy in the beautiful mess of becoming a mother. To Have and to Hold is a…

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August 30, 2026 · In: 20th

Smith, Tracy D. – Threads of Faith

In a world torn by hatred, hope becomes the greatest act of defiance as the lives of three men are forever connected through a series of unforeseen events. Hungry, rejected,…

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August 30, 2026 · In: 20th

Moyes, Leah – Soul Thief

“Death will slay with his wings whoever disturbs the peace of the pharaoh.”-Egyptian Curse of the Pharaohs. 1184 BCE. Raised in a world of privilege and nobility, eighteen-year-old Akl can…

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August 30, 2026 · In: 20th

Davis, Kiylee – Eliza’s Fire

Experience the pioneer trail in a different way as you get the perspective of a pioneer mother with young children written by her fourth-great-granddaughter, who also happens to be a…

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August 30, 2026 · In: 20th

Moore, H.B. – Elisabeth: Mother of John the Baptist

Her greatest sacrifice became her greatest legacy. Zacharias has loved Elisabeth all his life. When negotiations are made for their marriage, the childhood friends trust thattheir future will be bright….

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August 30, 2026 · In: 20th

Lark, Melissa – Fresh Start

Meet Kate Chen. She’s got a loyal heart, eyeliner sharp enough to cut a man, and a vendetta against her college fling-turned-foe-turned-coworker, Brandon Roberts. Thanks to the devastating trifecta of…

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August 30, 2026 · In: 20th

Seeley, Mengxi – Silk and Sensibility

Two sisters with conflicting attitudes on passion and restraint must each choose between the traditions that bind their hearts and pursuing the love that could save them. Nineteen-year-old Ailin is…

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October 3, 2025 · In: 19th

Melior, Marla – Somebody’s Rose

When the manuscript arrives at the office of a small publishing company, it has no return address. The required postage is affixed and is made up of a hodgepodge of…

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October 3, 2025 · In: 19th

Boyd, H. R. – Paint the Town

Keep moving. One day at a time. One foot in front of the other.And before long . . . you’ll be walking in a life you love. Bethany Taylor found…

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October 3, 2025 · In: 19th

Sowards, A. L. – Beyond the Crescent Sky

Helena is a healer. Ivan is her prisoner. Caught in the crossfire of war, they must choose: loyalty, or love. The Balkans, 1383 A sudden conflict between Serbs and Greeks…

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September 22, 2025 · In: 19th

Richards, Sharolyn – Secrets Beneath the Saddle

Macie Call never expected her new nanny position at the remote Martin Estates in England to feel more like a test of survival than a fresh start. Determined to prove…

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August 30, 2025 · In: 19th

Lark, Melissa – Fresh Canvas

Meet Amantha Adams. She despises her name, women’s shapewear, and her ex. After a decade of crusty minivans, mom buns, and PTA meetings for her son, Amantha has faded into…

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August 28, 2025 · In: 19th

Moore, Heather B. – Julia

Before she stepped into the spotlight as a master of French cooking, Julia Child navigated the shadows as a WWII intelligence officer. On the sunny shores of California, Julia McWilliams…

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August 19, 2025 · In: 19th

Bessey, Sian Ann – A Time Traveler’s Masquerade

Romance blossoms when Isla Crawford steps into McQuivey’s Costume Shop in London and is swept back in time to 1605, where she and Lord Bancroft attempt to thwart Guy Fawkes’s…

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July 9, 2025 · In: 19th

Bricker, Angela – The Silent Canary

Casting light onto the once hidden tragedy of the 1918 Chilwell, England ammunition factory explosion, The Silent Canary tells of the catastrophic incident that resulted in the largest loss of…

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November 7, 2024 · In: 18th

Bentley, Elizabeth Petty – The Sandwich Generation

When Bella suddenly becomes part of the sandwich generation, caught between caring for her young family and her aging in-laws, her Old World sensibilities rebel at the idea that anyone…

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October 24, 2024 · In: 18th

Borrowman, Jerry – An Ocean of Courage and Fear

Based on survivor accounts, this gripping novel opens days after the attack on Pearl Harbor and details three years of sea battles that spanned between Hawaii and the shores of…

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October 11, 2024 · In: 18th

Connolly, Rebecca – Hidden Yellow Stars

Based on the true story of two World War II heroines who risked everything to save Jewish children from the Gestapo by hiding them throughout Belgium. Belgium, 1942 Young schoolteacher…

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October 11, 2024 · In: 18th

Moore, Heather B. – Lady Flyer

Based on a true story and set against the backdrop of WWII, a young woman’s love of flying becomes an epic fight for identity and equality. In the quiet town…

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October 11, 2024 · In: 18th

Moore, H. B. – Rebekah and Isaac*

Despite multiple offers of marriage, Rebekah has yet to find the man she wants to spend her life with. Desperate for guidance, she turns to prayer—and her supplication is answered…

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October 11, 2024 · In: 18th

Harmon, Amy – The Outlaw Noble Salt

When infamous outlaw Butch Cassidy decides to go straight, he discovers that too many of the powerful men he crossed won’t let bygones be bygones. To have a chance at…

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September 25, 2024 · In: 18th

Shumway, Peggy Ann – When a Stranger Knocks

After witnessing a stranger murder her father and brother, twenty-two-year-old Joaquina Souza struggles to trust an old hobo, Noah Gabriel, and his young companion, Michael McCallister, who come to the…

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September 16, 2024 · In: 18th

Hiller, Lindsay – Bailey in the Corner

It’s okay to say no when someone tries to walk all over you. But what if that person’s your best friend? Bailey Dupree keeps to her corner. It’s safer that way. No…

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September 16, 2024 · In: 18th

Sowards, A.L. – Beneath a Crescent Shadow

After an arranged marriage, Konstantin and Suzana must find a way to meet the demands of a conquering Ottoman sultan amid a torrent of setbacks and dangers much closer to…

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September 16, 2024 · In: 18th

Bessey, Sian Ann – A Kingdom to Claim

Aisley lost everything in a Viking attack. Now, working alongside the one man she trusts, she is ready to fight for her people—and for love. Wessex, AD 878 Aisley’s young…

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August 12, 2024 · In: 18th

Melior, Marla – When Walls Talk

I am 132 Maple Drive, the 1928 two-story craftsman with the gabled roof and welcoming front porch. I have been many colors throughout the years—different hues of paint, layers of…

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November 17, 2023 · In: 17th

Brower, Beth – The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion Vol. 7

“The image of Pandora’s Box being opened by my own hand flashed across my mind. A sobering and somewhat disappointing realisation when one understands they are their own worst enemy….

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November 17, 2023 · In: 17th

Sabey, Joshua – Ali: The Iraqi

Josh Sabey’s Ali is a masterful depiction of friendship and faith, tradition and culture, and the very real power of storytelling itself. It brilliantly shows what it means to call…

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November 11, 2023 · In: 17th

Moulton, Ali Benson – Time or Tide

Dundee, Scotland, 1842 Nae man can tether time or tide…–Robert Burns Midwife Deborah Hasley finds happiness in delivering other women’s babies, swooning over the poetry of Robbie Burns, and stealing…

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October 3, 2023 · In: 17th

Moore, Heather B. – Under the Java Moon

Based on a true story, this gripping WWII novel captures the resilience, hope, and courage of a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the…

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September 25, 2023 · In: 17th

Harmon, Amy – A Girl Called Samson

In 1760, Deborah Samson is born to Puritan parents in Plympton, Massachusetts. When her father abandons the family and her mother is unable to support them, Deborah is bound out…

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September 6, 2023 · In: 17th

Connolly, Rebecca – Under the Cover of Mercy

November, 1914. The Great War has come to Brussels, the Germans have occupied the city, and Edith Cavell, Head Nurse at Berkendael Medical Institute, faces an impossible situation. As matron…

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August 17, 2023 · In: 17th

Sowards, A. L. – A Waltz with Traitors

Czech soldier Filip Sedlák never wanted to fight for the Austro-Hungarian Empire. So at the first opportunity, he defected to the Russians. Now he and others like him have formed…

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August 16, 2023 · In: 17th

Bessey, Sian Ann – The Call of the Sea

On the eve of her betrothal to a nobleman she’s never met, Rhiannon seeks comfort on the shores of the sea she loves so well. But instead of offering peace…

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August 14, 2023 · In: 17th

Boyd, H. R. – Paint the Grass

“You have to lose something first, before you can find it . . .” Bethany Taylor has been missing for twenty years. She just doesn’t know it. She does know…

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August 14, 2023 · In: 17th

Bentley, Elizabeth Petty – Facing Grace

Grace’s horrid childhood experiences, being taunted, teased, and tricked, have made her reluctant to let anyone know she has severe face blindness. She often can’t recognize her own children. Or…

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November 10, 2022 · In: 16th

Sears, Gale – The Sister Preachers

The year is 1898, and Jennie Brimhall and Inez Knight have been called to be the first single female missionaries in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serving…

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November 10, 2022 · In: 16th

Brighton, R.W. – Trek Through Fire

“We can’t leave him here alone, he will die.” Indecision washes over me like a cold bucket of water splashed in my face. We need to get back to camp…

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November 10, 2022 · In: 16th

Brower, Beth – The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 6

The Year is 1884 and Emma M. Lion has, at long last, gained her majority. Entering a golden age of friendship with Pierce, Islington, and Hawkes, Emma is confident she will…

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November 10, 2022 · In: 16th

Peck, Steven L. – Heike’s Void

Heike’s Void is probably best read blind to the details of its plot. Available on Amazon.

November 1, 2022 · In: 16th

Monson, Marianne – The Opera Sisters

Based on the true story of the Cook sisters, who smuggled valuables out of 1930s Nazi Germany to finance a daring, secret operation to help Jews find hope for a…

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October 21, 2022 · In: 16th

Wright, Jason F – Even the Dog Knows

A family’s old, beloved dog takes a final road trip to help his people find forgiveness and healing.  Meg Gorton finds herself alone and lonely in Florida. Three years earlier,…

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October 4, 2022 · In: 16th

Harmon, Amy – The Unknown Beloved

Chicago, 1923: Ten-year-old Dani Flanagan returns home to find police swarming the house, her parents dead. Michael Malone, the young patrolman assigned to the case, discovers there’s more to the…

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October 3, 2022 · In: 16th

Moore, Heather B. – In the Shadow of a Queen

Based on the true story of the free-spirited daughter of Queen Victoria. As a young woman, Princess Louise is considered the most beautiful and talented daughter of Queen Victoria and…

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September 13, 2022 · In: 16th

Baker, B. E. – The Bequest

Two widows, six kiddos, and a will that leaves them a massive cattle ranch, but only if they work it for a year. Abigail and Amanda may have married brothers,…

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September 2, 2022 · In: 16th

Sowards, A.L. – Before the Fortress Falls

When rumors reach Vienna that an attack by the Ottoman army is imminent, Wilhelm von Schor, one of the emperor’s courtiers, prepares to evacuate his family—including his sister, Katja. But…

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September 2, 2022 · In: 16th

Lewis, L.C. – The Letter Carrier

When the German march across Europe reaches France, young Michelle Naget and her family join the throngs fleeing for safety. But their flight ends in capture by the Nazis, with…

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August 17, 2022 · In: 16th

Connolly, Rebecca – A Brilliant Night of Stars and Ice

Shortly after midnight on April 15, 1912, the captain of the Carpathia, Arthur Rostron, wakes to a distress signal from the Titanic, which has struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage. Though…

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November 14, 2021 · In: 15th

Brower, Beth: The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion

“I’ve arrived in London without incident. There are few triumphs in my recent life, but I count this as one. My existence of the last three years has been nothing…

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November 6, 2021 · In: 15th

Iona, Alta: The Shadow of Wildflowers

Montana, 1890. Lainie set out to find her father. She didn’t expect he’d be a killer. She escapes his murderous intent and finds refuge in Idaho’s panhandle on a farm…

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October 31, 2021 · In: 15th

Beeson, Emily – In Ellen’s Shoes

A novel based on the life of Ellen Breakell Neibaur, a Victorian-era pioneer who, despite unending trials, kept trekking forward. Ellen has made the most reprehensible choice of her life…

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October 6, 2021 · In: 15th

Abramson, Traci Hunter; Bessey, Sian Ann; Edwards, Paige; Sowards, A. L. – Heirs of Falcon Point

In the early days of World War II, the Lang family lost everything. Eighty years later, it’s time to take it back. The Nazis have taken control of Austria, and…

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September 12, 2021 · In: 15th

Elliott, Joani – The Audacity of Sara Grayson

What happens when the world’s greatest literary icon dies before she finishes the final book in her best-selling series? And what happens when she leaves that book in the hands…

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August 28, 2021 · In: 15th

Hinrichsen, Ronda Gibb – A Revolution of Hearts

Born to a life of wealth and status, Mademoiselle Dacia de Prideux is every inch the glittering aristocrat. However, her brother, Marcel, is an outspoken political activist, and with the…

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August 23, 2021 · In: 15th

Moore, Heather B. – The Slow March of Light

July 29, 2021 · In: 15th

Bell, Michele Ashman – The Crown of Rosemund

Anduron, 1498 The king and queen are dead, murdered by one who will stop at nothing to rule. But the young princess—Rosemund—has survived, spirited deep into the forest by her…

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June 20, 2021 · In: 15th

Sowards, A.L. – Of Sword and Shadow

She is known by many names, none of them her own. In truth, she is an unnamed slave, nothing more than a weapon in the hands of her owner in…

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