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Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Faith is not a regular teenager. She has flying superpowers. She's hoping she can get through her senior year in a normal way, but strange things start happening. Meanwhile, she hears rumored sighting of her ex, who was thought to have died months ago.
22) Matrix
Author
Language
English
Description
"Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily...
23) Maggie-now
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"In Brooklyn's unforgiving urban jungle, Maggie Moore is torn between answering her own needs and catering to the desirous men who dominate her life. Confronted by her quarrelsome Irish immigrant father, the feckless lover who may become her husband, and others, Maggie must learn to navigate a cycle of loss, separation, and hope as she forges her own path toward happiness."--Page 4 of cover.
24) Darkness rising
Author
Series
East Salem trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Forensic psychiatrist Dani Harris and her partner, ex-football star Tommy Gunderson, continue to investigate the ritual murder of Julie Leonard, last seen alive at a party attended by students from St. Adrian's Academy, an exclusive boys' school in New York's Westchester County. Another death of an Alzheimer's patient and pious historian, Abbie Gardener, somehow crushed by sucking asphyxiation one night in her room at the school complicates their...
25) The chance
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Vowing to meet eleven years after sealing letters they wrote to each other in an old metal box, best friends Ellie and Nolan both have reservations about seeing each other again as loneliness, personal tragedies, and a lack of faith haunt both of them.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A collection of eleven stories follows characters at the crossroads of geography and faith who are all trying to find someone to believe in as they struggle with love, violence, faith, and the challenges of balancing traditions with modern times.
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the early days of WWII, American Claire Stewart smuggles five French Jewish children across the channel before the Nazis storm Paris, and brings them to her estranged aunt's Lake District estate as refugees. Lady Miranda Langford agrees to take them in, but only if Claire stays to help care for them. Though desperate to return to France and the man she loves, Claire agrees, and soon fellow American David Campbell challenges her notions of love....
29) Playing saint
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Parker Saint is living the dream. A cushy job at a thriving megachurch has him on the verge of becoming a bestselling author and broadcast celebrity -- until life takes an abrupt turn that lands him on the wrong side of the law. To avoid a public scandal, he agrees to consult with the police on a series of brutal murders linked by strange religious symbols scrawled on the body of each victim. Parker tries to play the expert, but he is clearly in over...
30) Thirst
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In her twenty-eighth novel in as many years, best-selling Belgian novelist and international literary superstar Amélie Nothomb takes on a story for the ages: the life of Jesus. In a first-person voice as entertaining and irreverent as it is wise, Nothomb narrates Jesus's final days, from his trial to his crucifixion to the resurrection. Amid asides about his relationships with his mother and Judas, his love for Mary Magdalene, and his many miracles,...
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"One hot summer day, John Cole decides to shut his bookshop early and possibly forever, and drives out of London to see his brother. When his car breaks down on an isolated road, he goes looking for help and finds a dilapidated house. As he approaches, a laughing woman he's never seen before walks out, addresses him by name and explains she's been waiting for him. Once he enters the home, John discovers an enigmatic clan of residents, all of whom...
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Angela Lovelace is well trained social worker: she has been working for Child Protective Services in San Francisco for nearly five years and has never had a sleepless night. But after she finds her father's picture at the apartment of a boy whose addict mother just died, sleep is the last thing on her mind, and she sets out to uncover the truth. While Angela conducts her investigation, her siblings are struggling--her sister with infertility and...
34) Dear diary
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022].
Language
English
Description
"Something's always been off with Eva Moss, but in the African-American community, everything is prayed away, including 'crazy'. What happens when the answer to prayer is therapy and medication? According to Eva's mother, that's taboo. All it takes is a little more Jesus, and Eva will be normal. Normal never lasts long. After Eva's brother, Michael, is killed in a car accident, she is finally admitted to the psych ward for help. Stabilization seems...
Author
Publisher
Concordia Publishing House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"From the moment 19-year-old Poppi Savot steps out of her car and into Camp Eden, she feels at home. This is her dream: a new job as summer director in the beautiful southern California hills. Life will be one long songfest around a campfire with s'mores and stories and kids learning about Jesus. Not so fast. Eden isn't paradise. First, there's this guy - Jake - who complicates everything. Then, there's her boss - Bryan - who wastes no time telling...
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"Charles and Lily, James and Nan. They meet in Greenwich Village in 1963 when Charles and James are jointly hired to steward the historic Third Presbyterian Church through turbulent times. Their personal differences however, threaten to tear them apart. Charles is destined to succeed his father as an esteemed professor of history at Harvard, until an unorthodox lecture about faith leads him to ministry. How then, can he fall in love with Lily--fiercely...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"New Hampshire, 1877. Maud Price was once a celebrated child medium, a true believer in lifting the veil between the living and the dead. Now penniless, her guiding spirits gone, the so-called "Maid of Light" is desperate to regain her reputation but doing so means putting her faith in deceiving others. Clementine Watkins, known in spiritualist circles for her bag of tricks and utmost discretion, creates the sort of theatrics that can fill Maud's...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"After tragedy shatters her small community in Seattle, the Reverend Elsa Montgomery has a crisis of faith. Returning to her hometown of Pueblo, Colorado, she seeks work in a local soup kitchen. Preparing nourishing meals for folks in need, she keeps her hands busy while her heart searches for understanding. Meanwhile, her sister, Tamsin, as pretty and colorful as Elsa is unadorned and steadfast, finds her perfect life shattered when she learns that...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Emmy is West Texas through and through: she loves the land, she loves her hometown, she loves football, both professional and her town's high school team, the 'Stangs. She also knows she's a lesbian, and in her Southern Baptist evangelical community, that's going to be an issue, both for Emmy and her amicably separated parents, Lucy and Steve. After a disastrous conversation with her dad, Emmy meets Cameron, a whip-smart grad student from Massachusetts...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Just as Zack Dylan is on the verge of winning it all on the popular TV show Fifteen Minutes, his choices lead him to the brink of personal disaster. Meanwhile, a former Fifteen Minutes winner is searching for meaning amidst her own private losses. Can she warn Zack about the real price of fame? Or will Zack lose everything he loves for his fifteen minutes of glory?
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