September 2010 Top Ten Christian Fiction
Discover the top 10 Christian fiction books of September 2010! Explore inspiring stories, faith-filled plots, and bestselling titles for your reading list.
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Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
by Danielle Evans
A volume of short works includes "Harvest," in which an unplanned pregnancy prompts an African-American college student's self-evaluation; "Jellyfish," in which a father realizes how little he knows his daughter and "Snakes," in which a mixed-race girl recounts a fateful summer with white relatives. A first collection.
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Faithful
by Kim Cash Tate
Three lifelong friends experience life-altering struggles. Will they find the strength to be faithful to the covenants they've made with God and each other? With life falling apart around them, can they trust God like never before?
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The Bridge of Peace
by Cindy Woodsmall
Love alone isn’t enough to overcome some obstacles. Lena Kauffman is a young Old Order Amish schoolteacher who has dealt all her life with attention raised by a noticeable birthmark on her cheek. Having learned to move past the stares and whispers, Lena channels her zest for living into her love of teaching. But tensions mount as she is challenged to work with a rebellious young man and deal with several crises at the schoolhouse that threaten her other students. Her lack of submission and use of ideas that don’t line up with the Old Ways strengthen the school board’s case as they begin to believe that Lena is behind all the trouble. One member of the school board, Grey Graber, feels trapped by his own stifling circumstances. His wife, Elsie, has shut him out of her life, and he doesn’t know how long he can continue to live as if nothing is wrong. As the two finally come to a place of working toward a better marriage, tragedy befalls their family. Lena and Grey have been life-long friends, but their relationship begins to crumble amidst unsettling deceptions, propelling each of them to finally face their own secrets. Can they both find a way past their losses and discover the strength to build a new bridge?
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Do Not Blame the Devil
by Pat G'Orge-Walker
Singer Delilah Dupree Jewel, who is more concerned about keeping up appearances than anything else, must rely on her faith in God when her old flame, an ex-convict who has traded in his gangster ways for a Bible, threatens to expose Delilah's shocking past. Original.
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Medical Error
by Richard L. Mabry
Dr. Anna McIntyre's life is in chaos after a patient dies because of an identity mix-up, her medical career is in jeopardy because of forged prescriptions, and her credit is in ruins. Just when she thought things couldn't get worse, she receives an envelope with a positive HIV test bearing her name.
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Soon After
by Sherryle Kiser Jackson
The newly unified Pleasant Harvest Baptist Church is put to the test when its co-pastors, Willie Green and Vanessa Morton, are drawn into an arson investigation and an overzealous reporter sees this as an opportunity to make her career. Original.
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Reinventing Rachel
by Alison Strobel
God let Rachel Westing down. For twenty-six years she's done everything by the book; she figures He should have her back. But then she learns her fiancé is cheating on her. Her parents are getting a divorce. And her Christian mentor has a pill addiction. Where is God in all this? Nowhere, as far as Rachel can see. Wounded, bitter, and with a shattered faith, she quits her job and goes across the country to live with Daphne--her childhood best friend whose soul Rachel once thought she was meant to save. Confident, successful, fun-loving Daphne sets about helping Rachel reinvent herself, and for a while it's exciting. But when another tragedy shakes Rachel to the core, what little bit of self-possession she has left begins to unravel. A true-to-life story that will draw you in and keep you biting your nails until the end.
