We Hope for Better Things
By: Erin Bartels
4.22
Format: 393 pages, Paperback
When Detroit Free Press reporter Elizabeth Balsam meets James Rich, his strange request--that she l…
Want to Read $ 9.30"I’d always had mixed feelings about maples. While others pointed them out as happy harbingers of the cozy season to come, they had always seemed to me to be reckless—the first small flames of fall, each dropping leaf a burning ember that spread the fire until every tree was bare and dead and the November snows came like ash. I’d learned not to share this opinion with others, as it was universally judged as incomprehensible. Everyone loved fall."-Erin Bartels, We Hope for Better Things
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1. The Roads We Follow (Fog Harbor, #2)
By: Nicole Deese
4.39
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
As the youngest daughter of a country music legend, Raegan Farrow longs to establish an identity aw… read more
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2. Appalachian Song
By: Michelle Shocklee
4.49
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Forever within the memories of my heart. Always remember, you are perfectly loved. Bertie Jenkins… read more
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- christian
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- historical fiction
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3. For a Lifetime (Timeless, #3)
By: Gabrielle Meyer
4.55
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Grace and Hope are identical twin sisters born with the ability to time-cross together between 1692… read more
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4. The Edge of Belonging
By: Amanda Cox
4.45
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
When Ivy Rose returns to her hometown to oversee an estate sale, she soon discovers that her grandm… read more
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"I guess the longer you hold a secret, the harder it is to let it go."-Amanda Cox, The Edge of Belonging
"You find a use for everything. Yet you discard yourself at every opportunity."-Amanda Cox, The Edge of Belonging
"It was freeing in a way, to have a family built on love by choice and not relational obligation."-Amanda Cox, The Edge of Belonging
"She’d memorized the verse about peace that passes all understanding, but all she felt was the weight of depression."-Amanda Cox, The Edge of Belonging
5. Before I Called You Mine
By: Nicole Deese
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Lauren Bailey may be a romantic at heart, but after a decade of matchmaking schemes gone wrong, the… read more
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- romance
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"God is always on time."-Nicole Deese, Before I Called You Mine
"God's way is rarely easy, but it's always better than mine."-Nicole Deese, Before I Called You Mine
"None of us are strong enough to hand the hard apart from God."-Nicole Deese, Before I Called You Mine
"None of us are strong enough to handle the hard apart from God."-Nicole Deese, Before I Called You Mine
6. The Extraordinary Deaths of Mrs. Kip
By: Sara Brunsvold
4.37
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Aidyn Kelley is talented, ambitious, and ready for a more serious assignment than the fluff pieces … read more
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- christian fiction
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- adult
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"Ours is a God of new life~Mrs. Kip"-Sara Brunsvold, The Extraordinary Deaths of Mrs. Kip
"Keep the fight in your veins, honey. Never let it fade."-Sara Brunsvold, The Extraordinary Deaths of Mrs. Kip
"Hard things usually end in the biggest blessings. ~Mrs. Kip"-Sara Brunsvold, The Extraordinary Deaths of Mrs. Kip
"Lord, you are so good, and your love holds everything together."-Sara Brunsvold, The Extraordinary Deaths of Mrs. Kip
7. Count the Nights by Stars
By: Michelle Shocklee
4.24
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
A 2023 Christianity Today Book of the Year Award-winner! Count your nights by stars, not shadows… read more
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8. The Lost Boys of Barlowe Theater
By: Jaime Jo Wright
4.28
Format: 379 pages, Paperback
Barlowe Theater stole the life of Greta Mercy's brother during its construction. Now in 1915, the c… read more
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9. Facing the Dawn
By: Cynthia Ruchti
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Mara Jacobs does her best to hold everything together, despite three detention-prone kids, an unrew… read more
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10. He Should Have Told the Bees
By: Amanda Cox
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Beekeeper Beckett Walsh is living her dream, working alongside her father in their apiary, until hi… read more
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11. The Secret Keepers of Old Depot Grocery
By: Amanda Cox
4.27
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Present Day. After tragedy plunges her into grief and unresolved anger, Sarah Ashby returns to her … read more
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12. Stories That Bind Us
By: Susie Finkbeiner
4.20
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Betty Sweet is still recovering from the loss of her husband when she becomes the temporary guardia… read more
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- christian fiction
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13. The Nature of Small Birds
By: Susie Finkbeiner
4.03
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In 1975, three thousand children were airlifted out of Saigon to be adopted into Western homes. Whe… read more
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14. The All-American
By: Susie Finkbeiner
4.22
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
2024 Michigan Notable Book It is 1952, and nearly all the girls 16-year-old Bertha Harding knows… read more
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- adult
15. We Hope for Better Things
By: Erin Bartels
4.22
Format: 393 pages, Paperback
When Detroit Free Press reporter Elizabeth Balsam meets James Rich, his strange request--that she l… read more
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- romance
- christian fiction
- christian
- historical
- civil war
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"I’d always had mixed feelings about maples. While others pointed them out as happy harbingers of the cozy season to come, they had always seemed to me to be reckless—the first small flames of fall, e…"-Erin Bartels, We Hope for Better Things
16. These Tangled Threads: A Novel of Biltmore
By: Sarah Loudin Thomas
3.84
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Seven years ago, a hidden betrayal scattered three young friends living in the shadow of Biltmore E… read more
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17. All Manner of Things
By: Susie Finkbeiner
4.42
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
When Annie Jacobson's brother Mike enlists as a medic in the Army in 1967, he hands her a piece of … read more
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- adult
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18. Almost Home
By: Valerie Fraser Luesse
4.29
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
With America's entrance into the Second World War, the town of Blackberry Springs, Alabama, has exp… read more
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19. The Sowing Season
By: Katie Powner
4.35
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
After he's forced to sell the family farm he's labored on his whole life, 63-year-old Gerrit Laning… read more
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20. Born of Gilded Mountains
By: Amanda Dykes
4.42
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
When newcomer Mercy Windsor arrives in Mercy Peak in 1948 after a scandal shatters her gilded world… read more
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"Spatts is strong. - Rusty"-Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains
"I sometimes think, when our dreams seem impossible to us, perhaps we just haven't seen yet how God will chase after our hearts with those very dreams, in the unlikeliest ways."-Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains
"Sunsets here were more an experience than a sight. They marked the soul. Pierced it, rearranged things with all that shifting color and light, and sealed it up again, a little more whole than it was …"-Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains
"On a stage of earth, beneath a canopy of stars, with a score of scattered laughter, Mercy watched a story unfold more enchanting than any the Dream Factory of Hollywood could have produced. Even the …"-Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains
21. Missing Isaac
By: Valerie Fraser Luesse
4.37
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
2018 Christy Award Winner *** There was another South in the 1960s, one far removed from the … read more
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