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"In the summer of 1951, Amishwoman Maggie Esh is struggling with a debilitating illness and few future prospects. When revival meetings come to the area, Maggie attends out of curiosity, and the words of the evangelist begin to stir something deep inside her. Dare she hope for a brighter future?"--
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A New York Times Notable Book
"Stunning. . . a moving meditation. . . infused with mystery and wonder." —Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In a masterwork that both deepens and enlarges the world of her previous novels, acclaimed author Louise Erdrich captures the essence of a time and the spirit of a woman who felt compelled by her beliefs to serve her people as a priest. The Last Report on
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Sign of seven trilogy volume 1
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007
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499 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
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In the town of Hawkins Hollow, it's called "The seven". Every seven years, on the seventh day of the seventh month, strange things happen. It began when three young boys, Caleb, Fox, and Gage, went on a camping trip to The Pagan Stone. And twenty-one years later, it will end in a showdown between evil and the boys who have become men and the women who love them.
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Ishmael trilogy volume 2
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1997
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325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"People are listening, Jared--possibly to something quite new. That makes it dangerous." So begins Father Jared Osborne's mission to Europe to find a peripatetic preacher whose radical message is attracting a growing circle of followers. Father Osborne is bound by a covert centuries-old mandate held by his religious order: to know before all others that the Antichrist is among us--and to try to suppress and destroy him...
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Peeling away the myth to bring David to life in Second Iron Age Israel, Brooks traces the arc of his journey from obscurity to fame, from shepherd to soldier, from hero to traitor, from beloved king to murderous despot and into his remorseful and diminished dotage.The Secret Chord provides new context for some of the best-known episodes of David's life while also focusing on others, even more remarkable and emotionally intense, that have been neglected....
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Five New Yorkers have received an anonymous, mysterious invitation to the Fifth Avenue Story Society: executive assistant Lexa; broken-hearted Professor Jett; Uber driver Chuck; widower Ed; and Coral, a cosmetics empire scion. None of the five one knows who sent the invitations, and they suspect they're victims of a practical joke. No one has heard of the literary society, and no one is prepared to share their deepest secrets with a roomful of strangers....
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Amish marketplace volume 1
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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433 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
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When Christiana Kurtz opens a popular bake shop at the local market, she meets -- and eventually becomes friends with -- Jeffrey Stoltzfus, who runs the leather and woodcraft store next door. But when Christiana's father finds out that Jeffrey uses electricity in his work, he criticizes him as being too modern and forbids Christiana from dating him. Later, Jeffrey's shop catches fire and puts the entire market in jeopardy. Regardless of Jeffrey's...
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Winnie the horse gentler volume 8
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Winnie and her friend Kaylee investigate when a buckskin horse disappears from the Happy Trails stable.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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2021.
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273 pages ; 22 cm
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"Agatha has lived every day of the last nine years with her sisters: they work together, laugh together, pray together. Their world is contained within the little house they share. The four of them are devoted to Mother Roberta and to their quiet, purposeful life. But when the parish goes broke, the sisters are forced to move. They land in Woonsocket, a former mill town now dotted with wind turbines. They take over the care of a halfway house, where...
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2017.
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"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a new book featuring everyone's favorite family--the Baxters. Decades ago, John and Elizabeth Baxter lived a love story that is still playing out in the lives of their adult children and grandchildren. But few of them know the exact details of that story or the heartbreak that brought the two together. Now in high school, Ashley Baxter Blake's oldest son, Cole, must write a family...
13) Divine: a novel
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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
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2014.
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357 pages ; 21 cm
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Mary Madison is educated and redeemed, a powerful voice in Washington, D.C. But she also has a past that shamed polite society. A survivor of unspeakable horror, Mary has battled paralyzing fear, faithlessness, addiction, and promiscuity. But even in her darkest valley, Mary was sustained from afar, prayed over by a grandmother who clung to the belief that God had special plans for Mary.
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Sugarcreek Amish mysteries volume 26
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Guideposts
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[2018]
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271 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Cheryl and Levi Miller are settling into married life and enjoying their daughter Rebecca's first year. But when a mysterious fire destroys Seth and Naomi's barn, Cheryl sets out to find the culprit. Soon, more blazes confirm Cheryl's suspicion? someone is intentionally setting fires in Sugarcreek. Cheryl's efforts to find the perpetrator uncover more questions than answers. Her list of suspects is growing rather shrinking. Between raising an infant...
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Mackenzie Allen Phillips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back...
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Lion Fiction
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2016.
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351 pages ; 20 cm.
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"The good news for Faith is that she has met Perry. He's rich, gorgeous, and has vowed to leave his playboy ways behind forever and marry her. The bad news is that Perry's mother is planning Faith's nightmare wedding, including the dress from hell. While dreaming about her ideal ceremony, Faith goes to her mother's church -- and ends up joining the choir! Here she meet a man who makes her feel safe, perhaps even safe enough to share the dark secrets...
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
2020.
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354 pages, 18 pages ; 21 cm
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Inside a century-old row house in Brooklyn, renegade Sister Evelyn and her fellow nuns preside over a safe haven for the abused and abandoned. Gruff and indomitable on the surface, warm and wry underneath, little daunts Evelyn, until she receives word that Mercy House will be investigated by Bishop Hawkins, a man with whom she shares a dark history. In order to protect everything they've built, the nuns must conceal many of their methods, which are...
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A woman from Nantucket returns home to find that reunions aren't always so simple in this heartwarming novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Nantucket Wedding and Secrets in Summer. Growing up, Lara always dreamed of leaving Nantucket to become a writer. Now that she's a bestselling novelist living in New York City, she realizes that success isn't what she thought it would be. Confused, and with a harrowing case of writer's block,...
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Plaza & Jane?s
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c2004
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526 p. ; 24 cm.
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"Un incendio en la catedral de Turin, donde se venera la Sabana Santa, envuelve la muerte de un hombre al que habian cortado la lengua. Estos son los detonantes de una trepidante investigacion policial del Departamento del Arte, capitaneado por el detective Marco Valoni. Junto a la perspicaz y atractiva historiadora Sofia Galloni y a una periodista avida de preguntas, el grupo de Valoni debera resolver un enigma que arranca de los templarios y llega...
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"Barely old enough to vote when he loses his parents in an accident and inherits the family farm, Jess Hazel struggles to find meaning in the life he has always loved. Unable to shake the memory of a strange light he has seen hovering on the mountain peak above his valley home, he embarks on a pilgrimage. Hope runs through every chapter of this novel. Jess is led on a journey of self-discovery through love, loss, forgiveness and redemption"--
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