Summary: The sleepy village of Dibley was blindsided back in 1994 by the arrival of its new vicar, who dared to be a woman! Over the twelve ensuing years, with the help of sharp wit, a double dose of double entendre, and a healthy supply of chocolate, she gradually won the hearts of even the crustiest of the town's eccentric inhabitants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VICSummary: Country vicar Merrily Watkins is in training to be an exorcist, or "deliverance minister," for the Church of England. Although guided by the sardonic, no-nonsense Reverend Huw Owen, Merrily contends with self-doubt in her tough new role. When Merrily is called in to consult on a grisly murder investigation, the inexperienced exorcist finds herself battling supernatural terrors that threaten to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MIDTrent, J. Dana
Summary: "An unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer to earn a divinity degree from Duke University-and then realizes she must confront her past to truly find her way home. "Home, it turns out, is where the war is. It's also where the healing begins." Born to drug-dealing parents in rural Indiana, Dana Trent is a preschooler the first time she uses a razor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Convergent Books 2024
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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 FURRichards, Emilie
Summary: Reverend Analiese Wagner's judgment is called into question when she steps in to help a homeless family. Then Isaiah Colburn, the Catholic priest who was her mentor, reappears in her life, torn between the priesthood and his desire for a future with her. Analiese now must answer the question of how to define her own happiness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICSpencer-Fleming, Julia.
Summary: "On a frigid January night, Chief of Police Russ Van Alstyne and Reverend Clare Fergusson are called to the scene of a raging fire that quickly becomes a double homicide and kidnapping. Which is the very last thing Russ needs. Currently he's struggling with the prospect of impending fatherhood. And his new wife is not at all happy with his proposal for their long-delayed honeymoon: a week in an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M SPEEliot, George
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELIWalker, Laura Jensen
Summary: Hope Taylor, the newly-arrived pastor of Faith Chapel Episcopal Church in a small northern California town, becomes the prime suspect in the suspicious death of a church elder who was bitterly opposed to having a female pastor at the church.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALCharles, Kate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHASpencer-Fleming, Julia.
Summary: People die. Marriages fail. In the small Adirondack town of Millers Kill, New York, however, life doesn't stop for heartbreak.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPESpencer-Fleming, Julia.
Summary: Town cop Russ Van Alstyne and Episcopal priest Clare Fergusson are separated by guilt and grief over Russ's wife's death; when a Latino man is murdered, Clare is drawn into Russ's investigation through her good works in the migrant community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SPESpencer-Fleming, Julia.
Summary: At the Millers Kill Community Center, five veterans gather to work on adjusting to life after war. The Reverend Clare Fergusson has returned from Iraq with a head full of bad memories she's using alcohol to wipe out. Dr. George Stillman is denying that the head wound he received has left him with something worse than simple migraines. Officer Eric McCrea is battling to keep his constant rage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPESpencer-Fleming, Julia.
Summary: Episcopalian priest Clare Fergusson and married police chief Russ Van Alstyne have more to contend with than their mutual attraction when they investigate the strange disappearance of a woman in their small upstate New York town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPERickman, Phil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICSpencer-Fleming, Julia.
Summary: When a doctor from a local free clinic disappears, Episcopal priest Clare Fergusson and police chief Russ van Alstyne pursue an investigation with links to the jazz age, prohibition, and the Great Depression.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPERickman, Phil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quercus 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICSpencer-Fleming, Julia.
Summary: Having long concealed his feelings for the Reverend Clare Fergusson, Police Chief Russ Van Alstyne is stunned when he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his wife and risks everything in his investigation to find the real culprit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS FLESpencer-Fleming, Julia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M SPESummary: Oscar is an Anglican priest who gambles discreetly and donates his winnings to help the poor. Lucinda is an Australian businesswoman who boldly defies the rules of 19th-century society. When they meet over an innocent game of cards, their passion for gambling leads them both down a road of romance, chance and fate that changes their lives forever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE OSCMytting, Lars
Summary: "As long as people could remember, the stave church's bells had rung over the isolated village of Butangen, Norway. Cast in memory of conjoined twins, the bells are said to ring on their own in times of danger. In 1879, young pastor Kai Schweigaard movesto the village, where young Astrid Hekne yearns for a modern life. She sees a way out on the arm of the new pastor, who needs a tie to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MYTMatheson, Nadine
Summary: "Detective Anjelica Henley confronts a series of ritualistic murders in this heart-pounding thriller about race, power and the corrupt institutions that threaten us. When Detective Anjelica Henley is called to investigate the murder of a popular preacher in his own church, she discovers a second victim, tortured and tied to a bed in an upstairs room. He is alive, but barely, and his body shows...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATNovak, Brenda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA Books 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC NovakMacomber, Debbie
Summary: "Shay Benson adored her younger brother, Caden, and that got her into trouble. When he owed money, Shay realized she would do anything to help him avoid the men who were threatening him, and she crossed lines she never should have crossed. Now, determined to start fresh, she finds herself in search of a place to stay and wanders into a church to escape from the cold. Pastor Drew Douglas adored...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MACMacomber, 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