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The Amish Midwife

Mindy Starns Clark, Leslie Gould

Christian FictionFamily SecretsAdoptionSecret Past
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When Joy Came to Stay

Karen Kingsbury · 393 pages

Maggie Stovall is trapped inside a person she's spent years carefully crafting. Now the truth about who she is--and what she's done--is bursting to the surface and sending Maggie into a spiral of despair. Will she walk away from everything, or can Maggie allow God to take her to a place of ultimate honesty--before it's too late? Maggie Stovall. One of the golden people. She has it all together. A

Christian FictionFamily SecretsAdoptionFemale Lead
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The Lightkeeper's Daughter

Colleen Coble · 311 pages

Christian FictionFamily SecretsAdoptionFemale Lead
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The Sisterhood

Helen Bryan · 402 pages

Reeling from a broken engagement, adopted 19-year-old Menina Walker flees to Spain to bury her misery by writing her overdue college thesis on a 16th century Spanish artist. When she discovers that a tiny swallow in the artist's painting is the same one on a medallion that is Menina's only link to her birth family, Menina digs deeper into the swallow's significance and uncovers an adventure involv

Family SecretsChristian FictionAdoptionSecret Past
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The Hope of Refuge

Cindy Woodsmall

Raised in foster care and now the widowed mother of a little girl, Cara Moore struggles against poverty, fear, and a relentless stalker. When a trail of memories leads Cara and Lori out of New York City toward an Amish community, she follows every lead, eager for answers and a fresh start. She discovers that long-held secrets about her family history ripple beneath the surface of Dry Lake, Pennsyl

Christian FictionFamily SecretsReligious IdentityFemale Lead
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The Last Sin Eater

Francine Rivers · 331 pages

Christian FictionFamily SecretsSecret PastFemale Lead
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The Headmistress of Rosemere

Sarah E. Ladd · 316 pages

When the master of Rosemere School returns to protect his birthright, putting Patience Creighton's job as headmistress in jeopardy, Patience must seek God's plans for her future--especially when the master's past is brought to light.

Christian FictionFamily SecretsFemale LeadSlow Burn Romance
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The Undoing of Saint Silvanus

Beth Moore · 468 pages

Jillian Slater hadn't seen her father or his mother in almost 20 years until, on the news that her father had finally drunk himself to death, Adella Atwater, the manager of her grandmother's apartment house, calls and says Jillian's expenses would be paid if she'd fly in to New Orleans for the burial. What Adella didn't tell her was that the apartment house bears the dead weight of a long and pain

Christian FictionFamily SecretsReligious IdentityFemale Lead
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The Story Keeper

Lisa Wingate · 515 pages

When successful New York editor Jen Gibbs discovers a decaying slush-pile manuscript on her desk, she has no idea that the story of Sarra, a young mixed-race woman trapped in Appalachia at the turn of the twentieth century, will both take her on a journey and change her forever. Happy with her life in the city, and at the top of her career with a new job at Vida House Publishing, Jen has left her

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The Outcast: a modern retelling of The Scarlet Letter

Jolina Petersheim · 424 pages

Rachel Stoltzfus is a strong-willed single woman, content in her Old Order Mennonite community until whispers stir the moment her belly swells with new life. Refusing to repent and name the partner in her sin, Rachel is shunned by those she loves most and is eventually coerced into leaving by her brother-in-law, the bishop. Secrets run deep in this cloistered community, but when the life of Rachel

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Leaving Lancaster

Kate Lloyd · 357 pages

"More than anything else, thirty-something Holly Fisher longs for family. Growing up in Seattle without a dad or grandparents, she wonders what it would be like to have a heritage, a place of belonging. Holly is furious when her mother, Esther, reveals a long-kept secret: Holly's grandmother and uncles are still alive and begging Esther to return. And Holly is shocked when she learns that the fami

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Shadows of Lancaster County

Mindy Starns Clark

Anna Bailey thought she left the tragedies of the past behind when she took on a new identity and moved from Pennsylvania to California. But now that her brother has vanished and his wife is crying out for help, Anna knows she has no choice but to come out of hiding, go home, and find him. Back in Lancaster County, Anna follows the high-tech trail her brother left behind, a trail that leads from t

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Distortion

Terri Blackstock · 362 pages

When Juliet Cole's husband of 15 years is murdered before her eyes, she thinks it was a random shooting. Devastated and traumatized, she answers hours of questioning, then returns home to break the tragic news to her boys. But a threatening voicemail takes this from a random shooting to a planned, deliberate attack. Juliet realizes that she and her children are in danger too, unless she meets the

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Rejoice

Karen Kingsbury, Gary Smalley · 369 pages

Brooke Baxter has achieved everything this world has to offer--a prestigious career, a beautiful home, and two wonderful children. Her recent return to her faith is an encouragement to her family. But if she faces tremendous loss, can her fledgling faith and her rocky marriage survive?

Christian FictionFamily SecretsReligious IdentityTeenagers
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The Scent of Lilacs

Ann H. Gabhart

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The Oak Leaves

Maureen Lang

Two time periods--Regency England and contemporary Chicago--are woven together when Talie Ingram finds an old journal belonging to her great-great-great grandmother, Cosima Escott. Through Cosima’s entries, Talie learns that her family was once considered cursed with feebleminded offspring, the result of a genetic disorder (Fragile-X) that may have been passed down to Talie and her sister. Unwilli

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The Wood's Edge

Lori Benton · 467 pages

"A pre-Revolutionary epic of identity, action, and romance. While their mothers slept, Major Reginald Aubrey trades his own still-born son for one of an Oneida's mother's newborn twin sons. When the truth comes to light years later, can an unlikely friendship forged at the wood's edge provide a way to healing and forgiveness?"--

Family SecretsChristian FictionAdoptionHistorical Fiction
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Like Gold Refined

Janette Oke · 284 pages

After many years of turmoil and mistakes, Virginia Lewis is finally satisfied with her life. God has blessed her with her husband Johnathon, and four wonderful children. Ten year old Mindy, the daughter of the red haired rebel Jenny Wood was dropped in Johnathan and Virginia's laps when she was just a baby. By now she has grown into a faithful little girl, surrounded by God's love and faith. But w

Christian FictionAdoptionFemale LeadRural Farm
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Gilead

Marilynne Robinson · 256 pages

**WINNER OF THE 2005 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION** In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames’s life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the son of an Iowan preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young man in Maine, saw a vision of Christ bound in chains and came west to Kansas to fight for abolition: He “preached men into the Civi

Christian FictionFamily SecretsReligious IdentityHistorical Fiction
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Secrets

Kristen Heitzmann · 410 pages

Long-hidden secrets unveiled at a lovely old villa. Antonia stared out the Studebaker's rear window as it sped away from her grandfather Quillan's Sonoma villa, leaving behind the vineyard that had been life to her family, a life now lost. The old villa needed what Rese Barrett could do as well as any man on the crew. Trained by the best, she had honed her skills with a passion for quality, an eye

Christian FictionFamily SecretsFemale LeadRural Farm
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Glamorous Illusions

Lisa Tawn Bergren

Christian FictionFamily SecretsFemale LeadHistorical Fiction
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Mark of Distinction

Jessica Dotta · 437 pages

London is said to be the glittering jewel of society, a world unto itself--but to Julia Elliston it is a city of shadows. Her life is swiftly dissolving into scandal. And in Victorian society, even a whisper of scandal--substantiated or not--can be the death of a young woman's reputation. Now under the watchful eye of Lord Roy Pierson, one of the most influential men in England, Julia begrudgingly

Christian FictionFamily SecretsFemale LeadHistorical Fiction
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Lethal Legacy

Irene Hannon

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Looking for Jane

Heather Marshall · 400 pages

Family SecretsAdoptionEmotional AbuseSecret Past

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