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Wonderland Creek
Christian fiction
Wonderland Creek
385 pages · First published 2011
Alice Grace Ripley loses her library job and her boyfriend during the Great Depression and leaves Illinois for rural Kentucky, intending only a brief visit to deliver donated books. She becomes involved with a remote community and a traveling library project, where people value stories in ways her comfortable life never required her to understand. Strange events and a local mystery deepen her connection to the place while challenging her assumptions about poverty, usefulness, and faith. Lynn Austin blends Depression-era history, humor, mystery, and Christian fiction in a story about a book-loving woman discovering that reading can become service rather than escape.
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Gun violence and murder/crime; threats and pursuit; poverty and Depression-era hardship; grief; deception; Christian faith themes
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