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Mossy Creek

Deborah Smith, Sandra Chastain, Donna Ball, Debra Dixon, Virginia Ellis, Nancy Knight · 370 pages

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Garden Spells

Sarah Addison Allen · 290 pages

A successful caterer in Bascomb, North Carolina, Claire has always remained tied to the legacy of the Waverley family, until her peaceful life is transformed by Tyler Hughes, an art teacher and new next-door neighbor, and by the return of her prodigal sister, Sydney.

CozySmall TownAmerican SouthWomen's Fiction
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Circle of Friends

Maeve Binchy · 560 pages

It began with Benny Hogan and Eve Malone, growing up, inseparable, in the village of Knockglen. Benny--the only child, yearning to break free from her adoring parents...Eve--the orphaned offspring of a convent handyman and a rebellious blueblood, abandoned by her mother's wealthy family to be raised by nuns. Eve and Benny--they knew the sins and secrets behind every villager's lace curtains

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Home to Harmony

Philip Gulley · 220 pages

Come home to Harmony, Indiana, a peaceful slice of small-town America, as Sam Gardner, Harmony-born and raised, begins his inaugural year as pastor to a new flock of old friends, family members, and outrageous eccentrics -- in this unforgettable place where earth-shattering events rarely occur, but small life-altering ones happen daily.

CozyChristian FictionSmall TownReligious Identity
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The Christmas Bus

Melody Carlson · 176 pages

The people of Christmas Valley always celebrate Christmas to the fullest extent. The mayor plays Santa, every business is holiday themed, and there's a nativity for the kids each Christmas Eve. This town knows Christmas. But this year nothing goes according to plan. Shepherd's Inn is full of strangers, Mad Myrtle is causing problems, and a young couple with a baby due any minute rolls in to the

CozyChristian FictionSmall TownCharming
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Gone to Green

Judy Christie

Christian FictionCozyAmerican SouthSmall Town
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The Sweetgum Knit Lit Society

Beth Pattillo · 342 pages

Sometimes life has to unravel before you can knit it together...On the third Friday of each month, Eugenie, Ruth, Esther, Merry, and Camille meet at the Sweetgum Christian Church to enjoy the two things that connect them: a love of knitting and a passion for books. Their camaraderie remains unthreatened until Eugenie, the town librarian, introduces an angry teenager into their midst. Eugenie also

Women's FictionChristian FictionAmerican SouthHeartwarming
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The Awakening of Miss Prim

Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera · 296 pages

"Prudencia Prim is a young woman of intelligence and achievement, with a deep knowledge of literature and several letters after her name. But when she accepts the post of private librarian in the village of San Ireneo de Arnois, she is unprepared for what she encounters there. Her employer, a book-loving intellectual, is dashing yet contrarian, always ready with a critique of her cherished Jane Au

CozySmall TownSlow-PacedReligious Identity
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Affairs at Thrush Green

Miss Read · 226 pages

CozySlow-PacedSmall TownCharming
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Where the Heart Is

Billie Letts · 368 pages

Talk about unlucky sevens. An hour ago, seventeen-year-old, seven months pregnant Novalee Nation was heading for California with her boyfriend. Now she finds herself stranded at a Wal-Mart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma, with just $7.77 in change. But Novalee is about to discover hidden treasures in this small Southwest town--a group of down-to-earth, deeply caring people willing to help a homeless, jobles

American SouthWomen's FictionSmall TownSlow-Paced
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Cannery Row

John Steinbeck · 183 pages

Cannery Row is a novel by American author John Steinbeck, published in 1945. It is set during the Great Depression in Monterey, California, on a street lined with sardine canneries that is known as Cannery Row. The story revolves around the people living there. Steinbeck revisited these characters and this milieu nine years later in his novel Sweet Thursday.

Small TownSlow-PacedAmerican SouthCharming
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Standing in the Rainbow

Fannie Flagg · 502 pages

Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the local news, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, destined to live a thousand lives, most of them in his imagination; Norma and Macky Warren and their ninety-eight-year-old Aunt Elner; the oddly sexy and charismatic Hamm Sparks, who starts off in life as a tr

CozySmall TownSlow-PacedHeartwarming
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The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Real

Neta Jackson · 406 pages

Christian FictionReligious IdentityWomen's FictionEnsemble Cast
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The Dead Don't Dance

Charles Martin · 317 pages

Christian FictionSlow-PacedAmerican SouthReligious Identity
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A Walk to Remember

Nicholas Sparks · 240 pages

There was a time when the world was sweeter....when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats.... Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two, and even once sworn that he'd been in love. Certainly the last person he thought he'd fall for was Jamie, the s

Christian FictionSmall TownAmerican SouthHeartwarming
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CozySmall TownWomen's FictionCharming
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The Pumpkin Spice Café (Deluxe Edition)

Laurie Gilmore · 384 pages

CozySmall TownCharmingHeartwarming
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Murder Before Evensong

Richard Coles · 352 pages

CozySmall TownCharmingSlow-Paced
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Blue Dahlia

Nora Roberts · 375 pages

A Harper has always lived at Harper House, the centuries- old mansion just outside of Memphis. And for as long as anyone alive remembers, the ghostly Harper Bride has walked the halls, singing lullabies at night... Trying to escape the ghosts of the past, young widow Stella Rothchild, along with her two energetic little boys, has moved back to her roots in southern Tennessee--and into her new

CozyEnsemble CastHeartwarmingCharming
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The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

Katarina Bivald · 394 pages

Warning: once you let books into your life, the most unexpected things can happen… This is a book about books. All sorts of books, from Little Women and Harry Potter to Jodi Picoult and Jane Austen, from to Stieg Larsson to Joyce Carol Oates to Proust. It’s about the joy and pleasure of books, about learning from and escaping into them, and possibly even hiding behind them. It’s about whether o

CozySmall TownWomen's FictionCharming
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Waltzing at the Piggly Wiggly

Robert Dalby · 309 pages

CozySmall TownAmerican SouthCharming
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Murder in the Rue Dumas

M.L. Longworth · 296 pages

When Dr. George Moutte is found murdered, Judge Antoine Verlaque is stumped. Certainly, the director of theology at the Universite d'Aix had his enemies. Moutte was just about to name the recipient of an elite fellowship as well his own successor--a hightly coveted position that includes a lavish apartment in the seventeenth-century mansion--when his lips were sealed permanently. Yet, Verlaque isn

CozySlow-PacedCharmingEnsemble Cast
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The Potluck Club

Linda Evans Shepherd, Eva Marie Everson · 384 pages

Christian FictionWomen's FictionEnsemble CastHeartwarming

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