Historical Fiction
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The Friday Review: The Love Note
By Joanna Davidson Politano Willa Duvall has turned down four marriage proposals. She has no desire to become a proper society wife. She wants to be a doctor. And she wants an authentic, passionate, and devoted love, like the one… Continue reading
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The Friday Review: A Rumored Fortune
By Joanna Davidson Politano Tressa Harlowe returns from abroad to her beloved Trevelyan Castle grieving the unexpected loss of her father. The estate needs tending, the workers need payment, and the vineyard requires work. The last thing she wants to… Continue reading
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The Friday Review: We Three Kings
By Crystal Caudill, Cara Putman, and Angela Ruth Strong Looking for an entertaining Christmas collection that’s not on the Hallmark Channel? Check out the We Three Kings novella collection from Kregel Publications. Three Christian Christmas stories set across different times,… Continue reading
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The Friday Review: In This Moment (Timeless #2)
By Gabrielle Meyer Maggie is a timecrosser. She lives in 1861, 1941, and 2001. When she goes to sleep in one life, she wakes up in another. But when she turns 21 on January 1st, she will have to decide… Continue reading
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The Girl From the Papers
By Jennifer L. Wright “My mama always told me I would live and die as a nobody. Here at the end… I couldn’t help but wish she’d been right.” And with that opening line, I was completely hooked. Beatrice Carraway… Continue reading
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Specters in the Glass House
By Jaime Jo Wright Knives Out meets The Great Gatsby! Rhemy Crenshaw had been in the foster system since an arsonist took the lives of her family. Determined not to be another statistic, she shoves aside her past trauma and… Continue reading
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The Broken Weathervane
By Laura DeNooyer This story started out straight-forward enough, but turned into an absolute tangled knot – to the point where I wasn’t even sure how it was going to end! 1950s: The Buckwalter Brothers Grocery Store is a Wisconsin… Continue reading
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The Friday Review: A Fierce Devotion
By Laura Frantz One of the few things that made the end of my vacation tolerable was the knowledge that this novella was waiting for me back home. I binge read almost all of it in one afternoon! Gabrielle Farrow… Continue reading
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The Friday Review: The Seamstress of Acadie by Laura Frantz
As Mary at the Covenant Christian Resource Center in Randolph knows, I have been waiting for this book for a year. Laura Frantz releases these historical fiction gems every January and I clear my reading schedule for them. Each book… Continue reading
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The Friday Review: The Lacemaker
By Laura Frantz To celebrate the start of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, I decided to reread this gem in (almost) real time. This was the first Laura Frantz book I read. Quite a few years ago, my… Continue reading
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