Chapman, Vannetta
Summary: "Amish bishop Henry Lapp eagerly awaits the annual arrival of 20,000 sandhill cranes to the San Luis Valley of Colorado. But his visit to the Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge reveals more than just a miracle of God's creation. Hidden among the bulrushes and cattails is the body of Sophia Johnson--one of Monte Vista's newest residents and a waitress at the local diner. As the local...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest House Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHAChapman, Vannetta
Summary: "Somewhere in the Embers Lies the Truth A wildfire blazes out of control in the San Luis Valley of Colorado, leaving an elderly, Amish bachelor dead. When Bishop Henry Lapp is told the bad news, he also learns the fire was no accident. Someone intended to kill Vernon Frey. But who would want to kill Vernon? Well, practically everyone--Amish and Englischa alike. When the police point the finger...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest House Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHAHouse, Silas
Summary: "When an evangelical preacher in Tennessee offers shelter to two gay men after a catastrophic flood, he's met with resistance by his wife and congregation, and eventually loses custody of his son. He decides to kidnap his son and flee to Key West, where he suspects his estranged gay brother is living"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction House 2018Robinson, Marilynne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004
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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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARRobinson, Marilynne.
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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sound Library/BBC Audiobooks America 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FICTION Robinson 2006Goldsmith, Oliver
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLKing, Cassandra
Summary: Follows minister's wife Dean Lynch, who, even after twenty years, has struggled to cope with the demands of being a Sunday wife, and whose friendship with the lively beautiful Augusta Holderfield transforms her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINNaylor, Phyllis Reynolds.
Summary: "Marty and his best friend, Shiloh are on another adventure. Marty learns when a secret is too dangerous to keep, and that hate can spread like fire"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2015
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Summary: In the wake of being sexually assaulted by her pastor, sixteen-year-old Amina struggles to regain her footing until she finds the strength within herself to confront her abuser in court.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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Summary: Abandoning her homeless existence to become a minister's wife, Lila reflects on her hardscrabble life on the run with a canny young drifter and her efforts to reconcile her painful past with her husband's gentle Christian worldview.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBRobinson, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROBBrunstetter, Wanda E.
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?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oasis Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRUGodwin, Gail.
Summary: An Anglican priestess in North Carolina finds her role threatened by a fiery evangelist, also a woman. It happens in a town in the Smoky Mountains where Margaret Bonner runs an Episcopal ministry. The area is plagued by social unrest and fundamentalist preacher Grace Munger is muscling in, claiming her brand of religion will bring hope. By the author of Father Melancholy's Daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1999
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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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Summary: Father Herman Hoffman, a gifted and innocent young priest who, during his first parish appointment, gets swept up in the "Crisis" after witnessing child abuse in the parish rectory. When he reports the abuse, he is rebuffed by the archbishop and, vilified for denouncing a priest who has been "cleared" by the police, learns the harsh fate of the whistleblower in the contemporary Catholic Church....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GREELPrice, Reynolds
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRIFurber, Rosemary.
Summary: A dark novel for adults that raises disturbing questions about faith and religion. Freelance journalist Patrick Price-Johnson reveals from prison, where he's remanded on a murder charge, how he became obsessed with the Rev. Helen Halberd.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Maia 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FURRoby, Kimberla Lawson.
Summary: Maintaining a cordial relationship with the unfaithful Charlotte while planning a divorce when their son graduates from high school, the Reverend Curtis Black resists his wife's efforts to reconcile and considers a proposition by a woman who desperately wants to marry him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBGoffney, 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.
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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 GOFGreeley, Andrew M.
Summary: When incompetent auxiliary Bishop Gus Quill mysteriously vanishes, Bishop Blackie Ryan is forced to turn sleuth to find a churchman that everyone would prefer to remain missing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREMacomber, Debbie
Summary: Troubled Shay and recently widowed Pastor Drew find the strength to overcome their painful histories. Now, they can face the challenge of learning to trust and love again-- together. But it will take courage and faith for her and Drew to find healing and open their hearts to a brighter future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017