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Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1974, c1907]
Language
English
Description
The Shepherd of the Hills is the classic story of the stranger who takes the Old Trail deep into the Ozark Mountains, many miles from civilization. His appearance signals intellect and culture, yet his countenance is marked by grief and disappointment. What is his purpose in taking on the lowly work of tending local sheep? And how is it that he befriends these simple hill folk, despite his coming from the world beyond the ridges? Mystery and romance...
2) Gilead
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the son of an Iowa preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young man in Maine, saw a vision of Christ bound in chains and came west to Kansas to fight for abolition: He "preached men into the Civil War," then, at age fifty, became a chaplain in the Union Army, losing his right eye in battle. Reverend...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1990.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The story of a French priest who goes to New Mexico and, with another priest, wins the Southwest for the Catholic Church. After forty years, he dies--the archbishop of Santa Fe.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When his beloved mentor and friend disappears without a trace, Murphy Shepherd, who lives by the mantra that love always shows up, engages in a cat-and-mouse game that tests him both physically and mentally at each turn.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Shay Benson adored her younger brother, Caden, and that got her into trouble. When he owed money, Shay realized she would do anything to help him avoid the men who were threatening him, and she crossed lines she never should have crossed. Now, determined to start fresh, she finds herself in search of a place to stay and wanders into a church to escape from the cold. Pastor Drew Douglas adored his wife. But when he lost her, it was all he could do...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Bestselling novelist Danielle Steel takes us on a harrowing journey into the heart of America's hidden shame in a novel that explores the power of forgiveness, the dark side of childhood, and one woman's unbreakable spirit.
From her secret perch at the top of the stairs, Gabriella Harrison watches the guests arrive at her parents' lavish Manhattan townhouse. At seven, she knows she is an intruder in her parents' party, in her parents'...
From her secret perch at the top of the stairs, Gabriella Harrison watches the guests arrive at her parents' lavish Manhattan townhouse. At seven, she knows she is an intruder in her parents' party, in her parents'...
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
1995, c1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A young African-American girl named Mina Smiths begins a journey of self-discovery when she learns that she will never be a classical dancer, and she develops an unrequited love for her church's summer minister.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When Colton Burpo made it through an emergency appendectomy, his family was overjoyed at his miraculous survival. What they weren't expecting, though, was the story that emerged in the months that followed, detailing their little boy's trip to heaven and back. Colton told his parents he left his body during the surgery. He talked of visiting heaven and relayed stories told to him by people he met there whom he had never met in life, sharing events...
10) A necessary evil
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
While investigating the ritualistic murders of Catholic priests across America, Maggie O'Dell stumbles upon an Internet role-playing game for youths who have been victims of male authority figures.
11) The thorn birds
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1977
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 39
Language
English
Description
The saga of the Cleary family, beginning on an Australian sheep station in the early twentieth century and ending fifty years later.
12) Heartbreaker
Author
Series
Buchanan / FBI volume no. 1
Publisher
Pocket
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
13) Snow
Author
Series
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Investigating the murder of a County Wexford priest in 1957, Detective Inspector St. John Strafford navigates harsh winter weather and the community's culture of silence to expose an aristocratic family's dangerous secrets.
1957. Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate when a parish priest is found dead in Ballyglass House, the family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family. The Catholic...
Author
Publisher
Watts
Pub. Date
c1966
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Set in the harsh Puritan environment of 17th century Boston, The scarlet letter describes the plight of Hester Prynne, an independent-minded woman who stands alone against society. Having given birth to a child after an illicit affair, she refuses to name the father and is forced to wear the letter "A" for adulteress embroidered on her dress.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, there have been more than two dozen assassination attempts on the President of the United States.Four have been successful.But now, Beecher White-the hero of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Inner Circle-discovers a killer in Washington, D.C., who's meticulously re-creating the crimes of these four men. Historians have branded them as four lone wolves. But what if they were wrong?Beecher is about to...
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