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"In the summer of 1951, Amishwoman Maggie Esh is struggling with a debilitating illness and few future prospects. When revival meetings come to the area, Maggie attends out of curiosity, and the words of the evangelist begin to stir something deep inside her. Dare she hope for a brighter future?"--
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Sister Holiday novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Sister Holiday, a chain-smoking, heavily tattooed, queer nun, puts her amateur sleuthing skills to the test in this “unique and confident” debut crime novel (Gillian Flynn). When Saint Sebastian’s School becomes the target of a shocking arson spree, the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and their surrounding New Orleans community are thrust into chaos. Patience is a virtue, but punk rocker turned nun Sister Holiday isn’t satisfied to just wait...
6) The Postcard
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Amish country crossroads volume 1
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Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[1999]
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English
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Philip Bradley, a New York journalist on assignment, comes to stay at a B and B run by an Amish family. Philip finds an old postcard written in Pennsylvannia Dutch and enlists the family's daughter Rachel Yoder to help in uncovering its mysteries. Rachel is trying to come to terms with the tragic loss of her husband, her son and her sight. Will the community succeed in keeping them apart and the postcard's secret hidden forever?
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2020.
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Inside a century-old row house in Brooklyn, renegade Sister Evelyn and her fellow nuns preside over a safe haven for the abused and abandoned. Gruff and indomitable on the surface, warm and wry underneath, little daunts Evelyn, until she receives word that Mercy House will be investigated by Bishop Hawkins, a man with whom she shares a dark history. In order to protect everything they've built, the nuns must conceal many of their methods, which are...
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In the Bible, Dinah's life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that tell of her father, Jacob, and his twelve sons. The Red Tent begins with the story of the mothers--Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah--the four wives of Jacob. They love Dinah and give her gifts that sustain her through childhood, a calling to midwifery, and a new home in a foreign land. Dinah's story reaches out from...
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Patchwork family volume 1
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English
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Many consider Evangeline Hamilton cursed. Orphaned at a young age and possessing a pair of mismatched eyes--one bright blue, the other dark brown--Eva has fought to find her way in a world that constantly rejects her. Yet the support of even one person can help overcome the world's judgments, and Eva has two--Seth and Zach, two former orphans she now counts as brothers. Seeking justice against the man who stole his birthright and destroyed his family,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"Anthony Spencer is egotistical, proud of being a self-made business success at the peak of his game, even though the cost of winning was painfully high. A cerebral hemorrhage leaves Tony comatose in a hospital ICU. He 'awakens' to find himself in a surreal world, a 'living' landscape that mirrors dimensions of his earthly life, from the beautiful to the corrupt. It is here that he has vivid interactions with others he assumes are projections of his...
11) Vatican waltz
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2013.
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English
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Manifesting intense religious episodes after losing first her grandmother and then her priest friend, Cynthia becomes convinced that God intends for her to become Catholicism's first female priest and pursues her belief all the way to the Vatican.
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Dalai Lama's cat volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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“Oh! How adorable! I didnt know you had a cat! she exclaimed. I am always surprised how many people make this observation. Why should His Holiness not have a cat? If only she could speak, continued the actress. Im sure shed have such wisdom to share. And so the seed was planted . . . I began to think that perhaps the time had come for me to write a book of my owna book that would convey some of the wisdom Ive learned sitting not at the feet of the...
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Amish of Bee County volume 1
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Zondervan
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English
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"Sometimes it takes a barren landscape to see the beauty of God’s creation. Phineas King knows better than to expect anything but shock and pity wherever he shows his face. Horribly scarred from the tragic accident that claimed his mother’s life, he chooses to keep his distance from everyone, focusing his time and energy on the bees his family raises. If no one sees him, no one can judge him. So why does he start finding excuses to seek out Deborah...
15) The oracle
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FrontLine
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"To know what the future holds, know what the past is hiding. Jonathan Cahn, author of the New York Times best sellers The Harbinger, The Mystery of the Shemitah, The Book of Mysteries, and The Paradigm, now unveils The Oracle, in which he opens up the jubilean prophecies and a mystery so big that it has determined everything from the rise and fall of world empires to two world wars, the current events of our day, the future, end-time prophecy, and...
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Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Tressa Harlowe's father did not trust banks, but neither did he trust his greedy extended family. He kept his vast fortune hidden somewhere on his estate in the south of England and died suddenly, without telling anyone where he had concealed it. Tressa and her ailing mother are left with a mansion and an immense vineyard and no money to run it. It doesn't take long for a bevy of opportunists to flock to the estate under the guise of offering condolences....
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Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"At twenty-six, apprentice baker Mia West has her entire life planned out: a Craftsman cottage in Seattle, a job baking at The Butter Emporium, and her first love--her boyfriend, Ethan--by her side. But when Ethan declares he 'needs some space,' Mia's carefully planned future crumbles. Feeling adrift, Mia joins her vivacious housemate Rosie on a humanitarian trip around the world funded by a reclusive billionaire. Along with a famous grunge rock star,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Mackenzie Allen Phillips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back...
20) The 49th mystic
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Beyond the circle volume 1
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English
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When Rachelle Matthews undergoes a procedure to restore her sight, she begins to dream of another world and learns that she is the one destined to find five seals in both worlds in order to bring them peace, but if she fails, both will fall into darkness.
Some say the great mystery of how one can live in two worlds at once died with Thomas Hunter many years ago. Still others that the gateway to that greater reality was and is only the stuff of dreams....
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