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Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Newly ordained Episcopal minister Clare Fergusson must prove herself as a leader to the members of her church, but her blunt manner has earned her a chilly reception and when a newborn baby is abandoned on the church stairs, Clare must find a way to sort through the secrets and silence that surround the town.
4) Home
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Glory, the youngest of the eight Boughton children, returns to Gilead, Iowa, in 1957 to care for her dying father, Robert, a former Presbyterian pastor, and the two are soon joined by Jack, the prodigal son of the family who left town twenty years earlier in the midst of scandal, and together they edge toward understanding, forgiveness, and healing.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Charles Ashworth, the Bishop of Starbridge, is a stalwart defender of the faith. However, his own faith is put to the test when his beloved wife dies. He is caught in a maze of grief and denial, and becomes estranged from his children, his colleagues, and his parishioners.
10) Home to harmony
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories that describe the everyday adventures of the residents of the small country town of Harmony.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After the Reverend Curtis Black and his wife, Charlotte, must take in the illegitimate child he fathered with a mistress, who is now deceased, the two-year-old's arrival puts stress on their marriage, and soon each begins to stray, all the while suspecting the other of infidelities.
Author
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A Quaker pastor in Harmony, Indiana, distracted by everyday concerns, is reminded of the true meaning of Christmas by a congregation member who insists on staging an elaborate progressive Nativity scene despite the townspeople's lack of interest.
Author
Series
Annie's people volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Annie Zook, the only daughter of an Old Order Amish preacher, having passed up one chance at marriage, is torn between doing what is expected of her as a member of the Plain community, and her burning desire to be an artist.
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 975
Publisher
New Directions Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Father Urrutia, a half-hearted Chilean priest, spends one night revealing his darkest secrets, some of which could ruin both the church and Chile's rich and powerful cultural elite.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Silver, taken in as an apprentice to the old, blind lighthouse keeper Pew in 1969, after her mother is blown into oblivion by a mighty wind off the coast of Scotland, is comforted by Pew's stories--especially those about Babel Dark, the son of the lighthouse's founder whose journey from lightness into dark mirrors Silver's own life.
Author
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Quaker pastor Sam Gardner tries to keep his eccentric flock on the path of righteousness while congregant Dale Hinshaw floats another crackpot ministry project, his wife contemplates a trip to the Caribbean without him, and the Friendly Women's Committee strategizes to come to the aid of single woman Deena Morrison.
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