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"A mesmerizing debut novel set in northern Texas about two sisters who discover an unsettling secret about their father, the head pastor of an evangelical megachurch, that upends their lives and community--a story of family, identity, and the delicate line between faith and deception. Luke Nolan has led the Hope congregation for more than a decade, while his wife and daughters have patiently upheld what it means to live righteously. Made famous by...
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"Twelve years ago Matthew "The Rocket" Rising had it all. Married to his high school sweetheart and graduating as one of the winningest quarterbacks in the history of college football, he was selected as the #1 pick in the NFL. But on the night of the draft, after reaching the pinnacle of success, he plummeted. Accused of a crime with irrefutable evidence, he lost everything--his career, his reputation, his freedom, and the love of his life. Having...
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With America's entrance into the Second World War, the town of Blackberry Springs, Alabama, has exploded virtually overnight. Workers from all over are coming south for jobs in Uncle Sam's munitions plants--and they're bringing their pasts with them, right into Dolly Chandler's grand but fading family home turned boardinghouse.
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Elsie Dinsmore series volume 4
Elsie books volume 04
Original Elsie Dinsmore collection volume 04
Elsie books volume 4
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Elsie books volume 04
Original Elsie Dinsmore collection volume 04
Elsie books volume 4
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 15
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Elsie and Edward marry and take over her inherited estate in the Louisiana Bayou, where they struggle to raise four children in a country on the brink of civil war.
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Elsie Dinsmore series volume 6
Elsie books volume 06
Original Elsie classics volume 6
Original Elsie Dinsmore collection volume 06
Elsie books volume 06
Original Elsie classics volume 6
Original Elsie Dinsmore collection volume 06
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 11
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Elsie, Edward, and their children spend the summer in upstate New York with the Ross family, whom they share their love of Christ with, and must trust the Lord when their youngest daughter falls ill.
6) Gilead
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
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In 1956, toward the end of Rev. John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. This is also the tale of wisdom forged during his solitary life and how history lives through generations, pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten.
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Elsie Dinsmore series volume 5
Original Elsie classics volume 05
Elsie books volume 05
Original Elsie classics volume 5
Original Elsie classics volume 05
Elsie books volume 05
Original Elsie classics volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 13
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In the post-Civil War South, young wife and mother Elsie Dinsmore Travilla is busy but content caring for her husband and five children, but conflict looms as the newly formed KKK begins to grow.
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Promise Lodge volume 2
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As Promise Lodge's first wedding arrives, the evidence of a community building a foundation for the future is a cause for celebration. But the bishop's narrow-minded wedding sermon doesn't sit well with the Bender sisters, the town's courageous founders, especially widowed Mattie Schwartz. She believes marriage and family aren't the most important of God's gifts-even if she suspects her tender feelings for Preacher Amos Troyer run deeper than simple...
9) Jack
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Marilynne Robinson's mythical world of Gilead, Iowa -- the setting of her novels Gilead, Home, and Lila, and now Jack -- and its beloved characters have illuminated and interrogated the complexities of American history, the power of our emotions, and the wonders of a sacred world. Jack is Robinson's fourth novel in this now-classic series. In it, Robinson tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the prodigal son of Gilead's Presbyterian minister, and...
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"There was a time when the family Künstler lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed that fairy tale into a nightmare, and in 1939 the Künstlers found their way out of Vienna and into a new fairy tale: Los Angeles, California, United States of America. An ill-timed visit forces twentysomething New Yorker Julian to shelter in place in Venice Beach with his glamorous and eccentric ninety-three-year-old grandmother, Mamie Künstler,...
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"Hope Carpenter finds new purpose in a new phase of life when her husband's forced retirement strains both their savings and their marriage. Seeking inspiration and a financial boost, Hope gets a job teaching crafts to inmates at a local women's prison with surprising results"--
Hope Carpenter and her husband, Rick, are suddenly facing an uncertain future after a forced retirement strains both their savings and their marriage. Seeking inspiration...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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"Janis Hallowell writes with lucid grace..." - Donna Gershten, author of Kissing the Virgin's Mouth
"Skillfull ... delightful ...charming .... the characters are quirky, troubled, and appealing, and we'd be willing to follow them just about anywhere." - Boulder Daily Camera
"Provocative and suspenseful." - People–4 stars, Critic's Choice
"An intriguing and memorable look at what might happen if a modern-day miracle did occur." - Booklist
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Emma knows she's a reminder of her mother's greatest sorrow, having been born on the same day Mamm lost her beloved sister. The one bright spot has been the odd trinkets anonymously left at her aunt's grave each year on Emma's birthday - gifts Emma secretly hides because they upset her parents. But the day she turns 22, a locket bears a surprise that sends her on an unexpected journey...Searching for answers, Emma travels to the English world and...
15) Lying awake
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In a Carmelite monastery outside present-day Los Angeles, Sister John of the Cross experiences visions of such dazzling power and insight that she is considered a spiritual master. But they are accompanied by powerful headaches, and when a doctor reveals they may be dangerous, she faces a devastating choice since she fears a "cure" may end her spiritual gifts.
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"Adrift in a raft after a deadly ship explosion, nine people struggle for survival at sea. Three days pass. Short on water, food and hope, they spot a man floating in the waves and pull him in. The man, strange and quiet, claims to be the Lord. Is the man who he claims to be? What actually caused the explosion? Are the survivors already in heaven, or are they in hell? Years later, when the empty life raft washes up on the island of Montserrat -- the...
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"A bold, evocative new novel from the National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 and Betty Trask Award winner Isabella Hammad that follows actress Sonia as she returns to Palestine and takes a role in a West Bank production of Hamlet. After years away from her family's homeland, and healing from an affair with an established director, stage actress Sonia Nasir returns to Palestine to visit her older sister Haneen. Though the siblings grew up spending summers...
18) Saving Grace
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An account of a young girl's childhood spent traveling through the south with her evangelist father.
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She was wrongly accused...and now she's searching for the dangerous truth.Finally exonerated after fifteen years in prison, Kinsley Garrett's determined to find her father's true killer-even if it makes her a target. Staying alive means relying on police chief Marcus Bayne's protection, but she won't trust him...or anyone. Not after the way everyone turned on her following her arrest. But as Marcus risks everything to shield her, can Kinsley keep...
20) Pillar of fire
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Pharaoh Akhenaten's attempts to introduce monotheism have caused widespread resentment in the people of Egypt, and his attempts at rulership are further challenged by his inability to beget a son and a plague that forces him to offer a co-rulership to his brother, so when his god tells him to go to the desert he complies with surprising results.
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