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Arly Hanks mysteries volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 12
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1000L
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English
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Televangelist Malachi Hope is performing nightly miracles in Maggody, Arkansas, but his plan to build a Christian theme park in the small town plants seeds of greed in some hearts leading to the murder of one of the faithful and sending police chief Arly Hanks on a mission for truth.
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Stonewood Heights is the perfect place to raise children: it's got good schools, solid values and a healthy real estate market. Parents in the town are involved in their children's lives, and often in other children's lives, too―coaching sports, driving carpool, focusing on enriching experiences. Ruth Ramsey is the high school human sexuality teacher whose openness is not appreciated by all her students―or their parents. Her daughter's soccer...
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Set in the 1850s in London, England, this story, told through the interwoven voices of several narrators, relates the adventures of a troubled but charismatic prize-fighting evangelist whose career finally takes him to British Columbia and the greatest match of his life when he challenges the Devil to a battle in the ring.
6) Elmer Gantry
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Deals with a brazen ex-football player who enters the ministry and, through his half-plagiarized sermons, his physical attractiveness, and his unerring instinct for promotion, becomes a successful evangelist and later the leader of a large Middle Western church.
7) The Tent
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Teenage Steven and his father, Corey, take to the road with a Bible, an old army tent, and less than the best of intentions. Tired of being poor, Steven's father is certain that preaching the Word of the Lord is the easy way to fame and fortune. But just when they've got their act down pat and the money is rolling in, Steven and Corey begin to realize that what they'd originally thought of as a harmless lie is all about avarice and power and, ultimately,...
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A brother and sister return to their Southern hometown to rescue their younger sister from her marriage to an evangelical preacher-only to find their expectations turned completely upside down.
The Owen children long ago left their gracious family home in Point Clear, Alabama, in favor of points north. But, when their father takes ill, the youngest, Bonnie, who has spent a decade in Manhattan as an unsuccessful actress, returns to care for him. Soon...
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Eric Banyon, also known as Bedlam's Bard, managed to rescue his young brother Magnus from what seemed to be a killer demon (in Mad Maudlin), but now he must rescue Magnus again, this time from their tyrannical parents. Eric does not look forward to the battle, but is confident he can gain custody. His financial sources are virtually unlimited, his friend Ria Llewellyn heads the most high-powered law firm in New York, and in a pinch he and his friends...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Ronald Earl King, who has been a charismatic evangelist since he was ten years old, is about to preach at a huge revival meeting on the grounds of an old plantation, where, with confusing help from the ghost of a girl he could not heal, he becomes engaged in an epic battle between good and evil.
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This book is the story of the struggle for reconciliation by three men who return to their changed hometown along very different paths—Cappy Giberson from journalism school, Drayton Hunt, his biological father, from prison, and Tick Giberson from a traveling evangelist's life.
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Laundry files novels volume 4
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English
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"For outstanding heroism in the field (despite himself), computational demonologist Bob Howard is on the fast track for promotion to management within the Laundry, the supersecret British government agency tasked with defending the realm from occult threats. Assigned to External Assets, Bob discovers the company--unofficially--employs freelance agents to deal with sensitive situations that may embarrass Queen and Country. So when Ray Schiller--an...
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Westside novels volume 2
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English
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Early 1920s Manhattan detective Gilda Carr is cynical about a family of eccentric street preachers who believe in "electric resurrection," until her long-dead mother walks in her front door.
14) Saving Grace
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English
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An account of a young girl's childhood spent traveling through the south with her evangelist father.
15) Near enemy
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2015.
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When hit man, Spademan is about to close the deal to snuff out Lesser, Lesser comes back from the limn claiming that terrorists are planning to attack New York again. It has been toxic since it was decimated by a dirty bomb years ago. The only safe haven is the limnosphere but you need to be rich enough to buy in, which most people aren't. This warning sends Spademan down a dark path of unsavory characters and startling revelations.
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"The most popular evangelist of his day, John Luther simply wants to share the Gospel and enjoy a quiet life with his family. He never asked to be at the center of a political controversy, but an ill wind has been blowing through the halls of Congress, and supporters of a new religious-equality bill see Luther's endorsement as critical. When he refuses to lend his support, he sets in motion an explosive plan bent on destroying his reputation and undermining...
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"Delia Martin has been gifted (or some would say cursed) with the ability to peer across to the other side. Since childhood, her constant companions have been ghosts. She used her powers and the help of those ghosts to defeat a twisted serial killer terrorizing her beloved San Francisco. Now it's 1917--the threshold of a modern age--and Delia lives a peaceful life with Police Captain Gabe Ryan. That peace shatters when a strange young girl starts...
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2018.
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English
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Esther Ann Hicks is the youngest child on Six for Hicks, a reality television phenomenon. She's grown up in the spotlight, both idolized and despised for her family's fire-and-brimstone brand of faith. When Essie's mother, Celia, discovers that Essie is pregnant, she arranges an emergency meeting with the show's producers: Do they sneak Essie out of the country for an abortion? Do they pass the child off as Celia's? Or do they try to arrange a marriage--and...
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[2021]
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English
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"An unforgettable story of two courageous couples who risk everything for truth. Amid a revolution, archaeologist Christopher Jordan and ancient manuscript expert Kathryn Ferguson travel to Syria in search of the original scroll of Marks' Gospel. Paralleling their quest is the story of the evangelist's escape with the scroll from the Roman siege of Jerusalem in 70 C.E., his struggles to complete the manuscript and his journeys and efforts with the...
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