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Contemporary
by Francine Rivers
At eighty-three, Leota Reinhardt lives alone, estranged from her daughter, her once-beautiful garden gone to weeds. When her granddaughter Annie comes to know her, old wounds begin to heal. A moving story of faith and family from the author of Redeeming Love.
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Contemporary
Katie Powner
Eighteen-year-old Bri Marshall loses her newborn son, Providence, to foster care while she fights an addiction she cannot yet beat. Laura Gambler, thirty-nine and already a mother of three, takes the baby in. Told from both women's sides, it is a tender story about what it really means to be someone's mother.
Contemporary
Johanna Rojas Vann
After a loss that upends her life, Sandra leaves New York for East Nashville, hoping distance will quiet her grief. Next door lives Mark, a widowed retired pastor who spends his days in his garden. Their unlikely friendship becomes a slow, gentle path back toward hope.
ContemporaryRomance
Katherine Reay
Lucy Alling sells rare books out of a Chicago design shop, until a client, James, catches her in a lie that could cost her career. His grandmother Helen invites Lucy to England anyway, and their tour of literary landmarks, all the way to the Brontë home at Haworth, makes Lucy face her own past before she can move forward.
