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1) Gilead
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In 1956, toward the end of his life, Reverend John Ames begins a letter to his young son, sharing the story of his life and explaining how his faith influenced his choices and actions.
2) Home
Author
Language
English
Description
Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Soon her brother, Jack--the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years--comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with tormenting trouble and pain.
3) Evensong
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Margaret Bonner, the young pastor of High Balsam's Episcopal church in the Smoky Mountains, enters a disturbing period of change when her life is invaded by a fiery female evangelist, a mysterious itinerant man, and a troubled boy.
Author
Language
English
Description
Married for 20 years to the Reverend Benjamin Lynch, a handsome, ambitious minister of the prestigious Methodist church, Dean Lynch has never quite adjusted her temperament to the demands of the role of a Sunday wife. When her husband is assigned to a larger and more demanding community in the Florida panhandle, Dean becomes fast friends with Augusta Holderfield, a woman whose good looks and extravagant habits immediately entrance her. As their friendship...
7) The brethren
Author
Series
Annie's people volume 3
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Annie's people volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Annie Zook, the only daughter of an Old Order Amish preacher, having passed up one chance at marriage, is torn between doing what is expected of her as a member of the Plain community, and her burning desire to be an artist.
11) Secret sins
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
2023 EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE, SUE GRAFTON MEMORIAL AWARD * APPLE BOOK OF THE MONTH SELECTION
"A high energy foray into cryptocurrency and government corruption."-First Clue
"This light and lively series launch introduces 75-year-old Ethel Fiona Crestwater...an elderly Nancy Drew: sure of herself and her convictions, and ready to bend a few rules to achieve her goal of seeing justice done." -Publishers Weekly
For fans of unexpected-yet-badass female...
12) Home to harmony
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories that describe the everyday adventures of the residents of the small country town of Harmony.
14) Lila
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church -- the only available shelter from the rain -- and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of the days of suffering that preceded her newfound security. Neglected as a toddler, Lila was rescued by Doll, a canny young drifter, and...
15) The tentmaker
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
When Lily Connor is asked to work as an interim pastor for a wealthy Boston parish whose pastor died from a heart attack, she accepts the job, but soon begins to suspect that the pastor's death was not an accident, but part of a murderous plot.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Father Tim and Cynthia travel to the west of Ireland where he plans to research his Kavanagh ancestry, but things go awry when Cynthia sprains her already-injured ankle, and a cherished painting is stolen from the lodge owners, putting another rift in their estranged family.
18) The Englisher
Author
Series
Annie's people volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Annie Zook struggles to keep her promise to her preacher father to abandon her art and prove her worthiness to "join church." At the same time she is dangerously close to succumbing to another forbidden desire--a relationship with the handsome Englisher whose interest in her is more than mere curiosity. Yet Ben Martin has secrets of his own...
Author
Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Reverend Stephen Drew is shattered when Alice Hayward is murdered by her husband just hours after being baptized and finds his faith in God slipping away, until he meets Heather Laurent, whose work studying angels helps Drew renew his spirituality in the face of a police investigation that suggests he may have been connected to Alice's death.
20) Doctor Thorne
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The breathtaking love story of an illegitimate girl and the young noble who would choose her above all. Gender issues and economic hardships are dealt with deftly in Doctor Thorne , the third novel in the Chronicles of Barsetshire, and arguably the saga's finest love story. Set in rural England in the fictitious county of Barsetshire, this Victorian novel is one of Anthony Trollope's most optimistic and engaging works. When Henry Thorne seduces local...
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