Nesbit, TaraShea
Summary: "Ten years after the Mayflower pilgrims arrived on rocky, unfamiliar soil, Plymouth is not the land its residents had imagined. Seemingly established on a dream of religious freedom, in reality the town is led by fervent puritans who prohibit the residents from living, trading, and worshipping as they choose. By the time an unfamiliar ship, bearing new colonists, appears on the horizon one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NESKingsbury, Karen
Summary: School science camp is a few weeks away, but Ashley and Kari Baxter have very different feelings about going. With the help of their siblings, Kari and Ashley prepare for wild experiments and the challenges of the great outdoors, and together they learn what it means to plan for an experience they won't forget. In the process, all five Baxter Children learn how to make new friends and that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in JT Audio Books, Call number: JT CD Fiction KingsburyKhan, Rukhsana
Summary: Rabia tries fasting for the first time on Eid al-Fitr, the last day of Ramadan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN KHAHannibal, James R.
Summary: Darkness Looms in the Dragon Lands. War is brewing. New threats have emerged in Keledev. The watchmen of Thousand Falls and the Windhold find goblin tunnels in the slopes of the mountain barrier that may hold many dangerous creatures. At the same time, scouting missions into the Dragon Lands confirm that the dragons are building an army of tortured Aladoth villagers to destroy the Liberated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enclave Escape 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HANMarshall, Catherine
Summary: Christy Huddleston's dream is to teach poor mountain children. Join Christy as she crosses from the familiar world of parties and pretty things to the different world of Cutter Gap, located in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. There she meets the doctor who needs her help to save a life and the handsome minister who helps her face the challenges of teaching and loving the mountain people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Evergreen Farm 1995
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION MARBrown, Sharon Garlough
Summary: "In this sequel to Shades of Light, Katherine Rhodes finds her own grief tapped by Wren Crawford's struggles with depression and loss. Katherine reflects on the meaning of Christ's suffering and shares her own story of finding hope, while Wren moves forward in her commitment to paint the stations of the cross. Readers are invited into a similar journey of reflection through Katherine's words...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IVP, an imprint of InterVarsity Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROWoodsmall, Cindy
Summary: "A New York Times best-selling author releases her first southern novel, a Steel Magnolias-meets-Sweet Home Alabama story set on St. Simons Island. After losing two loved ones in a devastating tornado and suffering a head injury, Tara Abbott flees to St. Simons Island, where her disorientation causes the lines between imagination and reality, past and present to blur. There she encounters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION WOOHoffman, Paul
Summary: Follows the adventures of sixteen-year-old Thomas, one of thousands of imprisoned youths being trained in combat by warrior monks who becomes aware of his secret destiny after a daring escape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOFWeber, David
Summary: Those on the side of progressing humanity through advanced technology have finally triumphed over their oppressors.The unholy war between the small but mighty island realm of Charis and the radical, luddite Church of God's Awaiting has finally come to an end. However, even though a provisional veil of peace has fallen over human colonies, many secrets of Safehold's past still remain unearthed....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEBAfshar, Tessa
Summary: After years spent living with her mother and oppressive grandfather in Athens, Ariadne runs away to her father's home in Corinth, only to discover the perilous secret that destroyed his marriage: though a Greek of high birth, Galenos is the infamous thief who has been robbing the city's corrupt of their ill-gotten gains. Desperate to keep him safe, Ariadne risks her good name, her freedom, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AFSFellman, Isaac R.
Summary: Lamat Paed understands paradoxes. She's a great mountain climber who's never summited, the author of a tell-all that didn't really tell anything. For years she guided pilgrims up the foothills of the Sublime Mount, leading them as high as God would let them go. And then she partnered the apostate Southern priest Mother Disaine on the most daring, most blasphemous expedition in history -- an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aqueduct Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FELPerry, Sarah
Summary: "Thomas Hart and Grace Macaulay have lived all their lives in the small Essex town of Aldleigh. Though separated in age by three decades, the pair are kindred spirits--torn between their commitment to religion and their desire to explore the world beyond their small Baptist community. It is two romantic relationships that will rend their friendship, and in the wake of this rupture, Thomas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
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Summary: "Before Christmas comes... Martin Nightingale is no stranger to Cape Light. He spent many happy summers there as a boy. Now he has returned to fulfill the unusual terms of his grandfather's will. In order to collect his inheritance, Martin must spread joy throughout the town with anonymous gifts. A shy man who doesn't make friends easily, Martin is stumped by his new role as Secret Santa. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPETenney, Tommy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TENAlbom, Mitch
Summary: After a deadly ship explosion, nine people, adrift in a raft, struggle to survive at sea and pull a strange man from the sea who claims to be the Lord.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALBWarren, Susan May
Summary: Nick Noble hadn't planned on being the prodigal son. But when his father dies and leaves half of Silver Buckle-the Noble family ranch-to Nick's former best friend, he must return home to face his mistakes, and guarantee that the Silver Buckle stays in the Noble family. Award-winning journalist Piper Sullivan believes Nick framed her brother for murder, and she's determined to find justice. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2006
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Byler, Linda.
Summary: "The Witnesses is the third novel in Amish novelist, Linda Byler's current series, "Lancaster Burning." Byler takes readers inside the home of the leader of the local Amish community, Davey Beiler, who finds himself at the center of mounting fear and controversy. Fires have destroyed two more nearby Amish barns, and many of the farmers are ready to ask for police protection, an unheard of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Good Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BYLLewis, David (David Gerald)
Summary: Melissa James has a picture-perfect existence, or so it seems. In reality, she has been looking over her shoulder her entire life. Just as her secrets are about to catch up with her, she seeks a haven in Pennsylvania Amish Country. Will her stay bring her peace, or will it bring danger to the Plain community?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEWHarrison, Mette Ivie
Summary: "In the predominantly Mormon city of Draper, Utah, some seemingly perfect families have deadly secrets. Inspired by an actual crime and written by a practicing Mormon, The Bishop's Wife is both a fascinating look at the lives of modern Mormons as well as a grim and cunningly twisted mystery. Linda Wallheim is the mother of five grown boys and the wife of a Mormon bishop. As bishop, Kurt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARVanLiere, Donna
Summary: "In the small town of Grandon, five very different people discover the true meaning of Christmas. Jennifer and Ryan are both single parents, struggling with their own losses and heartache. Sixteen-year-old Kaylee is faced with a life-changing situation that has affected her whole family. Stephen and Lily are happily married and ready to start a family. All of them are facing their own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANEvans, Richard Paul
Summary: Chicago celebrity and successful pitchman Charles James is supposed to be dead. Everyone believes he was killed in a fiery plane cash. But thanks to a remarkable twist of fate, he's very much alive and ready for a second chance at life - and love. Narrowly escaping death has brought Charles some clarity: the money, the fame, the fast cars - none of that was making him happy. The last time he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EVACunningham, Elizabeth
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Publisher / Publication Date: Monkfish Book Pub. Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUNRivers, Francine
Summary: "Your God will be my God." It is with these words that Ruth the Moabitess turns her face away from her father's home and idols, and journeys to Bethlehem with Naomi, her mother-in-law. And it is because of that determination, that perseverance, faith, and loyalty that Ruth becomes the great-grandmother of David, king of Israel, and an ancestor of Jesus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIVVestal, Shawn.
Summary: Nine stories illuminate what it means to be Mormon and how faith serves to humanize, in a work that includes a seriocomic portrait of a young Joseph Smith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013