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"In Mark Haines's former life, he was an evangelical youth pastor, a role model, and a family man--until he abandoned his wife, his daughter, and his beliefs. Now he's marking time between sunny days surfing and dark nights working security at an industrial complex. His isolation is broken when Cindy, a charming twenty-two-year old drifter he sees hitchhiking on the Pacific Coast Highway, hustles him for a breakfast and a place to crash--two cynical...
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John Shefford had found a new life with Fay Larkin. When she was charged with murder, the easy part was breaking her out of jail. After that he had the posse to worry about, violent bands of Indians, a murderous trek across a trackless waste, and a brutal passage through white water hell.
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When ex-priest Tom Shaman takes a last-minute trip to Venice, he is enlisted by Italian investigator Valentina Morassi to trace a series of ritualistic killings through the centuries, all connected with a priceless Etruscan mosaic known as the Gates of Hell.
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Riders of the purple sage volume 02
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Young John Shefford, escaping from his troubled past in Illinois, heads west to follow up the curious legend of three people living imprisoned in Utah’s isolated Surprise Valley, one of whom is a beautiful girl named Fay Larkin. Shefford, half in love with the girl he’s never met, is determined to find the valley and free her—if she’s still alive.Shefford is nearly overwhelmed with his experiences of the beauty of the high desert, his first...
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2017.
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"Former Lutheran minister Henry Plageman is a master secret keeper and a man wracked by grief. He and his wife, Marilyn, tragically lost their young son, Jack, many years ago. But he now has another child--a daughter, eight-year-old Blue--with Lucy, the woman he fell in love with after his marriage collapsed. [The story] follows these interconnected characters on May 22, 1897, the anniversary of Jack's birth. Marilyn distracts herself with charity...
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Barker describes the intellectual and psychological path he followed in moving from fundamentalism to freethought. Godless includes sections on biblical morality, the historicity of Jesus, biblical contradictions, the unbelievable resurrection, and much more.
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Lonely lords volume 12
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Giving up his calling as a vicar to take over running the family estate, Hadrian Bothwell returns to Cumberland and finds his longing for Lady Avis Portmaine unabated. But if he wants to win the lady's heart, he must first win her freedom from the past that continues to torment her. Set in 1815.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 26
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Plain Heathen Mischief ups the existential ante, as Joel King, a defrocked Baptist minister, finds life even more bedeviling once he's served six months for a career-ending crime he might not even have committed. Now his incommunicado wife wants a divorce, the teenage vixen of his disgrace is suing him for a cool $5 million, a fresh start in Montana offers no hope for ex-cons of any religious persuasion, and the refuge provided by his sister turns...
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"You can pick your friends, they say, but you can't pick your family. And lately, Mike Daley's family has been keeping him very busy. An ex-priest, ex-public defender, and ex-corporate lawyer, Daley and his former wife, Rosie Fernandez, run their own San Francisco criminal defense firm -- they weren't so good at being married, they discovered, but they are a pretty good legal team. Most of their cases are fairly small-time, which is why it is surprising...
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[2006]
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A defrocked, alcoholic, American minister becomes a tour guide, and while travelling in Mexico with a bus-load of school teachers and their 18-year old charge, becomes entangled with the girl, with a woman of eloquence and wisdom, and with an earthy and beautiful former love.
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[2014]
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1968. Sheldon and Meg Crane have just moved their family to the small town of Black Mountain, NC after Sheldon was ousted from the ministry due to an illicit affair. Burdened by his wife's unforgiveness and his daughter's resentment over the move, Sheldon finds a measure of solace in the ability of his son, Digger, to cope. Settling into an old house on the side of a mountain, the family discovers they can occasionally see and speak with the home's...
15) The confession
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[2004]
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Lawyer Mike Daley and his ex-wife law partner struggle to help clear an old friend, Father Ramon Aguirre, when his is accused of killing a lawyer who has been building a sexual harrassment suit against the San Francisco Catholic archdiocese.
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[2013]
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After losing nearly everything, including his job and his wife, due to his crumbling faith, the author shares his transformative journey from a pastor with a deep Christian faith to a leader and well-known speaker in American's fast-growing atheist movement.
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Healing hearts volume 01
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[2021]
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On visitation rounds as a lay preacher, the last thing rancher Jed Holt expects is to be shot at from the barn next to a burned-down homestead. But the soot-covered woman hiding inside needs protecting, and Jed is the man to do it whether she likes it or not. Delilah James' nightmares began when she came to Kansas as a mail-order bride. Her husband was nothing like his letters. Now that he is dead, she can't shake his abuse from her heart. Trusting...
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