Schreck, Karen Halvorsen
Summary: When Rose becomes a singer at a jazz club, she finds herself falling for the African American pianist and the two begin a relationship marked by prejudice and faith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHArcos, Carrie
Summary: Told in two voices, Nadja grows up in war-torn Bosnia in the 1990s and, in the present, refuses to discuss her youth with her daughter, Zara, until both are traumatized by a terrorist attack in Rhode Island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ARCMacomber, Debbie
Summary: Annie Marlow has been through the worst. Rocked by tragedy, she heads to the one place that makes her happy: Oceanside in the Pacific Northwest, the destintation of many family vacations when Annie was a teenager. Once there, Annie begins to restore her broken spirit, thanks in part to the folks she meets: a local painter, Keaton, whose large frame is equal to his big heart--and who helps Annie...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MACNielsen-Fernlund, Susin
Summary: Twelve-year-old Felix's appearance on a television game show reveals that he and his mother have been homeless for a while, but also restores some of his faith in other people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC NIEBerry, Julie
Summary: In mid-thirteenth century Provence, Dolssa de Stigata is a fervently religious girl who feels the call to preach, condemned by the Inquisition as an "unnatural woman," and hunted by the Dominican Friar Lucien who fears a resurgence of the Albigensian heresy; Botille is a matchmaker trying to protect her sisters from being branded as gypsies or witches--but when she finds the hunted Dolssa dying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BERKimmelman, Leslie
Summary: Together Eve and Adam experience their first day--and night-- in the Garden of Eden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Apples & Honey Press, an imprint of Behrman House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KIMGyasi, Yaa
Summary: "A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford school of medicine studying the neural circuits of reward seeking behavior in mice"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Gyasi 2020Harris, Robert
Summary: 1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts--coins, fragments of glass, human bones--which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to his death? Fairfax becomes determined to discover the truth.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARNelson, Marilyn
Summary: Through the power of faith, a monk named Abba Jacob and his loyal rat terrier, Snook, are reunited after being separated by a ferocious storm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2010
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JE FIC NELWiseman, Beth
Summary: "In the third and final novel of Beth Wiseman's Amish Bookstore series, two young people must find the courage to defy expectations and become who they're meant to be. Sixteen-year-old Eden Hale doesn't want to be defined by her current circumstances. Her mother is in prison, she doesn't know her father, and she's had her own run-ins with the law, but Eden refuses to become what people expect....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WISGrunwald, Lisa
Summary: "Dayton, Tennessee. 1925. It is in this sleepy mountain town where Annabel, a devout woman, falls in love with George Craig, a cosmopolitan defense attorney. Annabel's outlook on everything from life to love to the law is shaped by her faith; George sees the law something to bend to his will, and sees a world shaped by science and reason alone. By the end of the year, their marriage, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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Summary: "Spanning two thousand years, The Everlasting follows four characters whose struggles resonate across the centuries: an early Christian child martyr; a medieval monk on crypt duty in a church; a Medici princess of Moorish descent; and a contemporary field biologist conducting an illicit affair. Outsiders to a city layered and dense with history, this quartet separated by time grapple with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMIGohlke, Cathy
Summary: In the early days of WWII, American Claire Stewart smuggles five French Jewish children across the channel before the Nazis storm Paris, and brings them to her estranged aunt's Lake District estate as refugees. Lady Miranda Langford agrees to take them in, but only if Claire stays to help care for them. Though desperate to return to France and the man she loves, Claire agrees, and soon fellow...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOHWall, Cara
Summary: Charles and Lily, James and Nan. They meet in Greenwich Village in 1963 when Charles and James are jointly hired to steward the historic Third Presbyterian Church through turbulent times. Their personal differences however, threaten to tear them apart. Charles is destined to succeed his father as an esteemed professor of history at Harvard, until an unorthodox lecture about faith leads him to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Wall 2019Evans, Richard Paul
Summary: "After nearly two decades, Noel Post, an editor for a major New York publishing house, returns to her childhood home in Salt Lake City to see her estranged, dying father. What she believed would be a brief visit turns into something more as she inherits the bookstore her father fought to keep alive. Reeling from loneliness, a recent divorce, and unanticipated upheavals in her world, Noel begins...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Evans 2021Kingsbury, Karen.
Summary: Years ago, the day before Ellie moved from Georgia to California, she and her best friend Nolan sat beneath an ancient oak tree where they wrote letters to each other, and sealed them in a rusty metal box. The plan was to return eleven years later and read them. But as that date arrives, much has changed. Ellie, bereft of the faith she grew up with, is a single mom trying to make ends meet....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KINBlackstock, Terri
Summary: "Criminal attorney Jamie Powell will accept the consequences for defending her lifelong friend, Dustin, when he's accused of setting the bombs that killed dozens at a local political rally. But she hasn't seen him since he aged out of foster care, and he's always lived on the edge. Can she still trust him? As Jamie investigates his case and the people in his life, she realizes the facts coming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLALowe, T. I. (Tonya)
Summary: "When a damaged young woman is given a chance to reclaim her life in a small South Carolina town, she must reckon with the dark secrets she left behind in order to accept the love she deserves. On the run from a violent past, Leah Allen arrived in tiny Rivertown, South Carolina, battered and broken, but ready to reinvent herself. By a stroke of fate, Leah is drawn to the Southern hospitality of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Chiavaroli, Heidi
Summary: "An antique ring reunites a Boston Marathon bombing survivor and the man who saved her. Together, they unearth the two-hundred-year-old history of a woman who suffered tremendous loss in the Boston Massacre, a woman torn between the love of two men - one a Patriot, and the other a Redcoat. As both women seem to forgive the wrongs done to them, each must decide whether to face their future...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHIDonoghue, Emma
Summary: "In this beautiful story of adventure and survival from the New York Times bestselling author of Room, three men vow to leave the world behind them as they set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them. In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC DONPearson, Robin W.
Summary: "Paulette and Fred Baldwin find themselves wading through a new season of life in Hickory Grove, North Carolina. Their only son, McKinley, now works hundreds of miles away, and the distance between the husband and wife feels even farther. When their son returns home, his visit dredges up even more conflict between Fred and Paulette. McKinley makes it no secret that he doesn't intend to follow...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023