Summary: In nineteenth-century England, jilted by London's most eligible bachelor, Julia convinces her friend to play the role of his ideal match. Soon, Mr. Malcolm wonders whether he's found the perfect woman or the perfect hoax.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MRHahn, Erin
Summary: "18-year-old Meg Hennessey just found out her entire childhood was a lie. Instead of taking a gap year before college to find herself, she ends up traveling north to meet what's left of the family she never knew existed. While there, she meets Micah Allen, a former pastor's kid whose dad ended up in prison, leaving Micah with his own complicated relationship about the church. The clock is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Hahn 2021Goffney, Joya
Summary: As a preacher's daughter, Monique is expected to be an example at church although she hates its restrictive rules. When she discovers she physically cannot have sex, and after her boyfriend breaks up with her for that reason, two unexpected teens from church become her main supports as she desperately tries to break the rules against all the odds.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GOFEdwards, Eldonna
Summary: Grace Carter has the Knowing. It offers glimpses of people's pasts and futures, and allows Grace to talk to Isaac, her twin brother who died at birth. To Aunt Pearl, the Knowing is a family gift; to Grace's strict Evangelical pastor father, it's witchcraft. Her sisters Hope, Joy, and Chastity enjoy a normal life. It's Grace's friendships that keeps her afloat: Lyle, a gentle, homeless man, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Edwards 2018Robinson, Marilynne.
Summary: With her father ailing, Glory Boughton has returned home to Gilead to care for him. Shortly after she returns, her brother Jack shows up after a twenty year absence. As the family copes with the death of their patriarch, they learn valuable lessons about love, death, and the fortitude of familial bonds.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2008
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Summary: Returning to Gilead to care for her dying father, Glory Boughton is joined by her long-absent brother, with whom she bonds throughout his struggles with alcoholism, unemployment and their father's traditionalist values.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008
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Summary: Betsy Nelson reluctantly returns to her childhood home to care for her failing father, a faithful minister who served the town for years. William Covington, a confirmed bachelor, comes to town to become the new pastor and set aside the luxuries of his birth for service to God. Can Betsy and William find common ground on which to work together for the better of the townspeople?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Oasis Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRURobinson, Marilynne.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2005
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Summary: "Life changes drastically for Ruth Livingstone the day her father puts a young child in her arms and sends her under an assumed name to a small village in New Jersey. There she dutifully awaits his acquittal, certain that her father, Reverend Livingstone, soon will be cleared of the outrageous accusations against him. When tragic events transpire, Ruth finds solace tending a garden along the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BARRobinson, Marilynne.
Summary: In 1956, as a minister approaches the end of his life, 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sound Library/BBC Audiobooks America 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FICTION Robinson 2006Blackstock, Terri
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLAHill, Matt Rowland
Summary: "An electrifying debut memoir of a pastor's son chronicling his loss of faith, his addiction to heroin and our universal quest to find something to believe in"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HILL, MATT ROWLAND HILBrunstetter, Wanda E.
Summary: Relive the glory of a Pennsylvania canal town through the eyes of those who ministered to the needs of the workers. Betsy Nelson reluctantly returns to her childhood home to care for her failing father, a faithful minister who served the town for years. William Covington, a confirmed bachelor, comes to town to become the new pastor and set aside the luxuries of his birth for service to God. Can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BRUGoldsmith, Oliver
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLBarnes, Julian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Signet 2002
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Summary: To escape her religious father and bitter mother, Margaret Marsh roams the meadows and beaches of coastal England, where she meets childhood friends of her mother that expose her to a side of her mother Margaret has never known.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2010
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Summary: Ben Martin and Annie Zook, sweethearts from two different worlds, try to cope with the separation imposed by her Amish father. But after Ben's Kentucky parents tell him startling secrets about his past, he must return to Paradise, Pennsylvania, to answer some troubling questions. When he approaches Paradise's covered bridge, he wonders who's re-hung the old rope swing. Drawing closer, he sees a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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Summary: Annie Zook, the daughter of an Amish preacher, finds herself caught between her world and the outside world while living with her shunned friend Esther and longing for her forbidden art and her relationship with Ben Martin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEWRobinson, Marilynne
Summary: "A new Gilead novel that tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the beloved, erratic, and grieved-over prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister from Gilead, Iowa"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020