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61) Fair as a star
Author
Series
Victorian romantics volume 1
Publisher
Perfectly Proper Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a mysterious sojourn in Paris, Beryl Burnham has returned home to the village of Shepton Worthy ready to resume the life she left behind. Betrothed to the wealthy Sir Henry Rivenhall, she has no reason to be unhappy--or so people keep reminding her. But Beryl's life isn't as perfect as everyone believes. As village curate, Mark Rivenhall is known for his compassionate understanding. When his older brother's intended needs a shoulder to lean...
62) Revival: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a small New England town over half a century ago, a boy is playing with his new toy soldiers in the dirt in front of his house when a shadow falls over him. He looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Jamie learns later, who with his beautiful wife, will transform the church and the town. The men and boys are a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls, with the Reverend Jacobs--including Jamie's sisters and mother. Then tragedy...
63) The Englisher
Author
Series
Annie's people volume 2
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Annie Zook, the preacher's daughter, struggles to keep her promise to her father to abandon her art for six months; but her intention to join the Amish church is sidetracked by the attention of a handsome Englishman.
64) Devious
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the body of young novice Sister Camille is found garroted in St. Marguerite's cathedral, New Orleans Detectives Bentz and Montoya are called in. Bentz is sure Father O'Toole is their man. But there are other suspects, too, including a ruthless murderer believed to have died years ago.
65) Spotlight
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
[English/French/Spanish subtitled version]
Language
English
Description
The riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world's oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper's tenacious 'Spotlight' team of reporters delve into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment.
Author
Series
Rome escape line trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. Gestapo boss Obersturmbannführer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. Hunger is widespread. Rumors fester. The war's outcome is far from certain. Diplomats, refugees, and escaped Allied prisoners flee for protection into Vatican City, at one fifth of a square mile the world's smallest state, a neutral, independent country within Rome. A small band of unlikely friends led by a courageous Irish priest is drawn...
Author
Series
Culper Ring novels (Brad Meltzer) volume 2
Language
English
Description
Archivist Beecher White discovers a connection that may link the individuals responsible for the only four successful assassinations of American Presidents after discovering a modern-day killer who is recreating the assassins' crimes.
Author
Series
Mitford years volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Father Tim takes on a new challenge in this inspirational installment in the beloved Mitford series by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bathed in Prayer.
Father Tim Kavanagh has been asked to “come up higher” more than once. But he’s never been asked to do the impossible—until now. The retired Episcopal priest takes on the revival of a mountain church that’s been...
Father Tim Kavanagh has been asked to “come up higher” more than once. But he’s never been asked to do the impossible—until now. The retired Episcopal priest takes on the revival of a mountain church that’s been...
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The small town of Ballester owes its prosperity to the confluence of three big ranches -- Snowshoe, Mexican Hat, and Rainbow. It has a single lawman, Deputy Sheriff Percy Whittaker, known as Perc. Other than the occasional drunk on a Saturday night, there wasn't much law breaking. Then a drifter named Sam Logan rode into town, looking for work. Forrest Banning, a Snowshoe rider, provoked a gunfight with Sam Logan. Banning went for his gun first, but...
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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 ministry. How then, can he fall in love with Lily--fiercely...
74) The spirit woman
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An historian who is convinced that the memoirs of 19th Century Shoshone heroine Sacajawea are stashed somewhere on the reservation, has disappeared.
75) Saving Ruby King
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Ruby King's mother is found murdered in their home in Chicago's South Side, the police dismiss it as another act of violence in a black neighborhood. But for Ruby, it's a devastating loss that leaves her on her own with her violent father. While she receives many condolences, her best friend, Layla, is the only one who understands how this puts Ruby in jeopardy. Their closeness is tested when Layla's father, the pastor of their church, demands...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The canonical American masterpiece of sin, guilt, and revenge, in an authoritative new edition from Penguin Classics with a foreword by Tom Perrotta At once retrospective and radically new, The Scarlet Letter portrays seventeenth-century Puritan New England, a time period irreversibly encoded in the American identity. Hawthorne built one of the most incisive and devastating human dramas ever written out of a community and its outcasts: Hester Prynne...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass-market ed.
Language
English
Description
With the disappearance of a young man and his old friend Vicky Holden accused of murder, Father John O'Malley must prove his hunch that both events are connected to a dangerous sect leader known as Orlando--who has resurrected the old Shadow Dance religion.
79) In this mountain
Author
Series
Mitford years volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Father Tim Kavanagh, retired and living back in Mitford, finds himself becoming depressed and discontent with his idle life, especially as his wife Cynthia's career as a children's book author is taking off, and when a health crisis strikes, he finds himself depending on others for a change.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the achievements and lasting influence of the heroic civil rights leader covers topics ranging from his organization of the Montgomery Bus Boycott to his famed "I Have a Dream" speech.
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