Welcome to my Fan Girling with Narelle podcast and YouTube show. In this episode, I’m talking about why I recommend THE DOGWOOD GOSPEL by CINDY MORGAN to historical fiction readers who like Christian coming of age novels. Here are the links to my recommendations for Cindy Morgan’s books. The Dogwood Gospel by Cindy Morgan The …
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Book Recommendation – The Dogwood Gospel by Cindy Morgan
Book Description: A talented young trick rider finds unexpected community in a traveling carnival, only to discover secrets in the shadow of the Big Top. Kentucky, 1954. Sixteen-year-old Charlie has no memory of being abandoned as a toddler―only the life she’s known with Mama Rose and Papa Arlo, the rigidly devout couple who raised her …
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Book Recommendation – Last Chance Joey by Meredith Resce
Book Description: No phone, no wi-fi, no friends and no options. Expelled from three schools, Joey is sent to the country to live with his aunt. She asks him to help an old man recovering from an accident, and now he has a choice. It sounds like a crazy idea, but he chooses to help. …
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Book Recommendation – How the World Turns by Jenny Glazebrook
Book Description: What do you do when your world is turned upside down? Ella Glade has chosen never to compete with her beautiful, talented half-sister Verity. Unfortunately, Verity spends their childhood and teenage years turning sibling rivalry into a sport that Verity must win at all costs. When loss and disappointment leave Ella broken-hearted, she …
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Book Recommendation – The Year of Jubilee by Cindy Morgan
Book Description: The Year of Jubilee is a lyrical coming-of-age novel set against the backdrop of the turbulent South in the early 1960s. The Mockingbird family has always lived peacefully in Jubilee, Kentucky, despite the divisions that mark their small town. Until the tense summer of 1963, when their youngest child, Isaac, falls gravely ill. Middle sister …
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Book Recommendation – Under the Magnolias by T. I. Lowe
Book Description: This night not only marked the end to the drought, but also the end to the long-held secret we’d kept hidden under the magnolias. Magnolia, South Carolina, 1980 Austin Foster is barely a teenager when her mama dies giving birth to twins, leaving her to pick up the pieces while holding her six …
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