By Karen Kingsbury
Series Angels Walking

When former national baseball star Tyler Ames suffers a career-ending injury, all he can think about is putting his life back together the way it was before. A series of small miracles leads Tyler to a maintenance job at a retirement home and a friendship with Virginia Hutcheson, an old woman with Alzheimer’s who strangely might have the answers he so desperately seeks.

By Thorton Wilder

After Brother Juniper witnesses the death of five people when a rope suspension bridge collapses, he goes about seeking some sort of cosmic answer to the question of why each had to die.

By Richard Paul Evans
Recommended By Nancy Lowenstein, Library Page

“The Carousel is about what happens when life doesn't turn out the way that we planned. Beyond a love story, it is about faith, loyalty, and sacrifice (From the Publisher).”

By Melody Carlson
Recommended By Nancy Lowenstein, Library Page

“Christmas is approaching, and Lena Markham finds herself penniless, friendless, and nearly hopeless … When a secondhand red coat unexpectedly lands her a job as Mrs. Santa at a department store, Lena finally thinks her luck is changing. But can she keep her past a secret (From the Publisher).”

By Melody Carlson
Recommended By Nancy Lowenstein, Library Page

“When an abandoned dog finds its way to Betty Kowalski's house during the Christmas season, she reluctantly takes it in and learns that Christmas is truly the season of giving (From the Publisher).”

By Melody Carlson

It is 1937, and Lucy knows better than to wish for a pony this Christmas. Her mother has assured her in no uncertain terms that asking for a pony is the same as asking for the moon. Then an interesting pair of strangers comes to town, and Lucy's world changes forever. 

By Willa Cather
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

“In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour becomes the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico, and over the next forty years he faces the lawlessness and loneliness of the frontier as he tries to spread his faith (From the Publisher).”

By Deeanne Gist
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk

“There is an immediate attraction when lady doctor Billy Jack Tate and a Texas Ranger Hunter Scott meet at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, but when the Fair is over, the conservative lawman and the progressive doctor face difficult choices (From the Publisher).”

By James Frey
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Written from the perspective of his family, friends, and followers, in the same way the story of Jesus Christ was told in the New Testament, The Final Testament of the Holy Bible is the story of Ben Zion Avrohom, also known as Ben Jones, also known as the Messiah, also known as the Lord God.

By Adrian Plass

Mourning the death of his wife, David Herrick reluctantly accepts a reunion invitation by his former youth group members at a haunted house, at which the attendees share stories of lost faith, broken hearts, and compromised ideals.

By Richard Paul Evans
Recommended By Nancy Lowenstein, Library Page

"An uplifting tale of hope and faith celebrates the joy of the holiday season and follows a theme of the redemptive power of love (From the Publisher)."

By Marilynne Robinson
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

As the Reverend John Ames approaches the hour of his own death, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets.

By Joshilyn Jackson

Arlene Fleet finds she still has not escaped her hometown when an old classmate turns up asking questions about her past.

By Francine Rivers
Series Marta's Legacy
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

“The first in an epic two-book saga, this sweeping story explores the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters over several generations… Each woman is forced to confront her faulty but well-meaning desire to help her daughter find her God-given place in the world (From the Publisher).”

By Fern Michaels
Series Sisterhood
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

The vigilantes of the Sisterhood reorganize as a secret group called the CIC and dedicated to serving their friend, and the president of the United States, Martine Connor.

By Dan Walsh
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

“A reluctant war hero returns home and encounters a new chance at love….Dan Walsh does not disappoint in this tender story of family ties and the healing of a broken heart (From the Publisher).”  

By Frank Peretti

Two stranded couples find shelter in an inn but find themselves trapped in a game with rules setting up a life-or-death situation.

By Richard Paul Evans
Series Christmas Box Trilogy
Recommended By Nancy Lowenstein, Library Page

“David and MaryAnne Parkin find a mysterious letter at the base of their child Andrea's grave that eventually returns joy to their marriage, which had been strained in the nineteen years since her death (From the Publisher).”

By Marilynne Robinson

Abandoning her homeless existence to become a minister’s wife, Lila reflects on her hardscrabble life on the run with a canny young drifter and her efforts to reconcile her painful past with her husband’s gentle Christian worldview.

By Richard Paul Evans
Series The Locket
Recommended By Nancy Lowenstein, Library Page

“An ex-minister, sometime gambler, and fugitive from justice, Hunter Bell comes to the aid of Quaye MacGandley, a beautiful young Irish woman, abused and abandoned by a brutal husband, and together these two lost and wounded people find a way to bring healing to each other (From the Publisher).”

By Alena Dillon
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Inside a century-old row house in Brooklyn, renegade Sister Evelyn and her fellow nuns preside over a safe haven for the abused and abandoned. Gruff and indomitable on the surface, warm and wry underneath, little daunts Evelyn, until she receives word that Mercy House will be investigated by Bishop Hawkins, a man with whom she shares a dark history.

By Beverly Lewis
Series Courtship of Nellie Fisher Series

An Amish Romeo and Juliet find themselves on opposite sides of a cultural evolution within their community.

By Patti Callahan Henry

After a song he writes catapults him to country stardom, former drifter Jimmy Sullivan finds his thirst for wealth and fame overshadowing his devotion to his brother and love for his girlfriend, and it will take a Christmas miracle to get him to save what really matters.

By Jodi Picoult

An unmarried Amish teen gives birth to a baby she is accused of then smothering.

By John Irving

While playing baseball in the summer of 1953, Owen Meany hits a foul ball that kills his best friend's mother.

By Richard Paul Evans
Recommended By Nancy Lowenstein, Library Page

"Beth Cardall faces the need to reveal a secret she has been keeping for eighteen years since Christmas Day of 1989, when she encountered a mysterious, handsome stranger named Matthew who changed the course of her life (From the Publisher)."

By Dan Walsh
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

“Aaron Miller, once appreciated for his heroics in battle, now works in obscurity as a handyman, but discovers that the love that he lost can be restored (From the Publisher).”

By Shusaku Endo
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

Sustained by dreams of glorious martyrdom, a seventeenth-century Portuguese missionary in Japan administers to the outlawed Christians until Japanese authorities capture him and force him to watch the torture of his followers, promising to stop if he will renounce Christ.

Became the movie: Silence

By Steve Berry

Haunted by the secrets revealed in 1917 in Fatima, Portugal, the obsession of Pope Clement XV leads to intrigue at the Vatican as Alberto Cardinal Valendrea, the Vatican's Secretary of State, plots to bring down the troubled pontiff.

By Tim F. LeHaye
Series End Series

Set in the near future, describes the events that lead up to the Apocalypse which were prophesized in the book of Revelation.

By Richard Paul Evans
Series Christmas Box Trilogy
Recommended By Nancy Lowenstein, Library Page

"Follows the love story of MaryAnne and David Parkin as they struggle with the lessons of love, loyalty, and forgiveness and cope with tragedy, in a story about the gifts we pass on to our children (From the Publisher)."

By Lynn N. Austin
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“Leaving their homeland for America, Elin, Kirsten, and Sofia begin a difficult journey where they endure the ocean voyage in steerage and detention on Ellis Island — a journey where each woman will come to understand her secret longings and the meaning of home (From the Publisher).”

By Debbie Macomber
Series Angelic Intervention
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

“Three angels with a penchant for trouble bring some much-needed Christmas magic into the lives of three people-an elderly man searching for peace of mind, a young woman afraid of commitment, and a little boy with a special holiday wish (From the Publisher).”

By Emma Donoghue
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

Hired to care for a small Irish village girl said to have miraculously survived on nothing but “manna from heaven” for months, a journalist and nurse veteran of Florence Nightingale’s Crimean campaign quickly finds herself fighting to save the child’s life.