Wallach, Tommy
Summary: "After their devastating journey from the Anchor to Sophia, Clive and Clover Hamill, Gemma Poplin, and Paz Dedios ... will be compelled to question everything they thought they believed--and the conclusions they reach could determine the fate of an entire civilization"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WALWallach, Tommy
Summary: On the verge of war, Paz Dedios, Athene, and brothers Clive and Clover Hamill, finally reunited, must make their last stand, which will determine the future of their civilization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WALChapman, 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 CHARobinson, Marilynne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION ROBParr, Delia.
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 PARHouse, 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 2018Wallach, Tommy
Summary: The first generation of man was brought low by its appetites, and the Lord sent his Daughter to bring fire and devastation to the world. The survivors formed a new civilization-- the Descendancy-- determined that the mistakes of the past never be repeated. Clive and Clover Hamill, sons of a well-respected Descendant minister, discover a community intent on rediscovering the blasphemous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WALKinkade, Thomas
Summary: Recovering from bypass surgery, Reverend Ben contemplates his last Christmas as pastor of the Cape Light church and giving his beloved job to the interim minister--Novelist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC KINRobinson, 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.
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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 2006Robinson, 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLRoby, Kimberla Lawson.
Summary: When he lands a new ministry and a third wife, Reverend Curtis Black is tempted to fall back into his old flirtatious ways, but his new wife has other ideas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sound Library/BBC Audiobooks America 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC Roby,King, 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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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION NAYRobinson, Marilynne.
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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 ROBMacomber, Debbie.
Summary: Cedar Cove is shocked after Pastor Dave Flemming is accused of stealing jewelry. His wife, Emily, doesn't know what to believe, especially since Dave is being so evasive. Then she finds an earring in his pocket. Could he have stolen it--or is he having an affair?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Macomber 2008Brunstetter, 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 BRUGreeley, Andrew M.
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 GREELRobinson, 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 Audio Disc, Call number: CD Fiction Robinson 2008Roby, Kimberla Lawson.
Summary: The Reverend Curtis Black's daughter, Alicia, reaches adulthood determined not to repeat her father's mistakes, but her love of money and the things it can buy threatens to destroy her marriage to Phillip, the assistant pastor of her father's church.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: Fic RobPrice, Reynolds
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRIBrunstetter, 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