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Mitford years volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
It's easy to feel at home in Mitford, North Carolina. In these high, green hills, the air is pure, the village is charming, and the people are friendly. Yet, Father Tim, the bachelor rector, wants something more. Enter a dog the size of a sofa who moves in and won't go away. Add an attractive neighbor who begins wearing a path through the hedge. Now, stir in a lovable but unloved boy, a mystifying jewel theft, and a secret that's sixty years old....
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Mitford years volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
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Father Timothy Kavanagh is married to more than his lovable and eccentric Episcopal parishioners. He's also married to Cynthia, his vivacious and talented neighbor. Suddenly, the routine existence of a sixtysomething bachelor is out the window. How will they keep his sofa-sized dog at a safe distance from her arrogant, albeit famous, cat? Can he learn to love the old-Italian-villa look his wife is bent on giving the rectory? These concerns pale, however,...
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Mitford years volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
All good things--even laughter and orange marmalade cake--must come to an end.And in Light from Heaven, the long-anticipated final volume in the phenomenally successful Mitford Years series, Karon deftly ties up all the loose ends of Father Timothy Kavanagh's deeply affecting life.On a century-old valley farm where Father Tim and Cynthia are housesitting, there's plenty to say grace over, from the havoc of a windstorm to a surprising new addition...
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Mitford years volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Father Tim, Mitford's most eligible bachelor, finds himself in need of divine intervention when his attention becomes focused on his attractive neighbor, while at the same time he is being pursued by a wealthy widow, and his cousin Meg moves into the rectory.
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Mitford years volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Thousands of readers have come home to Mitford, the little town with the big heart, whose endearing and eccentric residents have become like family members. But now change is coming to the hamlet. Father Tim, the Episcopal rector, and his wife Cynthia are pondering retirement; a brash new mayoral candidate is calling for aggressive development; a suspicious realtor with plans for a health spa is eyeing the beloved house on the hill; and, worst of...
6) Stand by me
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"Kathryn Davies--an eccentric young woman from a prominent Phoenix family--makes a leap of faith at a Christian music fest, dropping out of med school and moving to inner city Chicago where she yearns to join the SouledOut Community Church, of which reserved Avis Douglass is a founding member." --From Baker & Taylor.
Avis Douglass and her husband, Peter, have dreamed of a two-year mission to South Africa. But when the economy crashes, they're suddenly...
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Jay is new in town, young and successful, and not afraid to plop down in a pew to scope out the females. What he finds is a lovely-yet-unusual missionary with a warped sense of humor and a wicked throwing arm. She and a wacky assortment of friends turn Jay's perceptions of life upside down, launching events that leave him and those around him thoroughly Flabbergasted.
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"Political activist and social media star Candace Owens explains all the reasons how the Democratic Party policies hurt, rather than help, the African American community, and why she and many others are turning right"--
Owens, an American conservative political activist, believes that Black Americans have long been shackled to the Democrats, watching liberal politicians take the black vote for granted without pledging anything in return. She contends...
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Competition for church members in Mount Oak has reached a furious peak. When tragedy strikes one of their hometown sons, the church women are drawn together through compassion. The Church Ladies is a contemporary tale illustrating how women can have a major impact on the church. Through friendships that reach beneath surface level -- and trials more severe than simple -- they unite with common purpose: to pray, share, and comfort. Slowly, the community...
12) No dark valley
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English
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Celia Colman returns to her hometown for her grandmother's funeral and finds herself faith tested as she faces the past.
13) Wedding cake
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As the women of Hope Springs, North Carolina, try to find the perfect marriage material for their long-distance friend, they find that the subject of marriage seems to be affecting each of their own lives.
16) Christmas cake
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With the holiday season drawing near, the ladies of Hope Springs, North Carolina, are making plans for a cake cookbook, a project that will hopefully lift the spirits of a beloved member of their close-knit quartet. Margaret Peele is downhearted now that her cancer has returned. All she wants this Christmas is to visit her mother's Texas hometown and to see their absent friend, pastor Charlotte Stewart, who left Hope Springs to run a battered women's...
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[2021]
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Throughout its 200-year history, Indiana Yearly Meeting has been both a foundation and a springboard, creating a firm heritage for those to have responded to Christ. As those people have been moved by God to innovate, create, and take a risk here and there, even more life and vitality have come. These pages record the people and activities of IYM over the past 200 years, and hopefully will serve as a springboard into new places as Jesus Christ continues...
20) Forever friends
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Five women brought together by their church face challenges that affect their friendship in unexpected ways: Margaret waits to see if she is cancer-free, Jessie searches for traces of her ancestors in Africa, Charlotte helps a prisoner deal with his past, and one of them finds herself pondering leaving Hope Springs altogether.
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