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The son of a working-class cabinet maker, Rob Carrey arrives on the prestigious Fenton School's campus with a scholarship to row...and a chip on his shoulder. Generations of austere Fenton men have led the four-man rowing team, commonly known as the God Four, to countless victories-but none more important or renowned than the annual Tuesday afternoon race in April against their rival boarding school, Warwick.
Before boats can be launched, Rob must...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"Set in the years 1950-1970 in a changing America and London, follow[s] two married couples - ministers and academics - whose intricate bonds of faith and friendship, jealousy and understanding, are tested by the birth of an autistic child"--
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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When Margaret's fiance, John, is hospitalized for depression, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him. What follows is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. At the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic, and the story of how, over the span of decades, his younger siblings-the responsible Celia and...
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English
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Do you believe in miracles? Sister Juliana does. She's seen miracles happen as she tends Saint Catherine's altar and guards her relic. Yet she doesn't quite dare to believe that even Saint Catherine could help her atone for her wicked past. Anna does. And she so desperately needs one. In a time when a deformity is interpreted as evidence of a grievous sin, in a place where community is vital to existence, Anna has no family, no home, and no master....
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English
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Caught between two worlds, Caleb Stoltz is bound by a deathbed promise to raise his orphaned niece and nephew in Middle Grove, where life revolves around family, farm, faith--and long-held suspicions about outsiders. When disaster strikes, Caleb is thrust into an urban environment of high-tech medicine and the relentless rush of modern life. Dr. Reese Powell is poised to join the medical dynasty of her wealthy, successful parents. Bold, assertive,...
6) Remember me
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Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Physical Desc
271 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Story of a pastor with a broken spirit who must confront his lack of faith before he can be whole--Provided by the publisher.
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English
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At fifteen, Esclarmonde realizes that the only way out of her betrothal is to renounce her freedom and a part of herself. Rather than accept the hand of a philandering knight, she cuts off her own ear and declares herself to be the mistress of Christ. She uses her dowry to build a stone chapel, where she entombs herself, inhabiting a magical place between the living and the dead. Out of the ashes of her former self arises the Virgin of Whispers --...
8) The chance
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Years ago, the day before Ellie moved from Georgia to California, she and her best friend Nolan wrote letters to each other, sealing them in a metal box with plans to return in eleven years; as their reunion date approaches, they have led separate lives and suffered heart-wrenching loss.
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Publisher
Sarabande Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xiv, 218 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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"The nine stories in The Book of Disbelieving open portals to fabulist worlds and magical objects: a village built on the back of a whale, a holy day requiring literal leaps of faith, a tower housing an entire civilization, a diary blurring the line between imagination and memory." --Back cover.
11) Matrix
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English
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Giodone Book Club
Kirkus Reviews: The Best Fiction Books of 2021
New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: September 6, 2021
Kirkus Reviews: The Best Fiction Books of 2021
New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: September 6, 2021
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"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...
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 19 cm.
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English
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"After nearly two decades, Noel Post, an editor for a major New York publishing house, returns to her childhood home in Salt Lake City to see her estranged, dying father. What she believed would be a brief visit turns into something more as she inherits the bookstore her father fought to keep alive. Reeling from loneliness, a recent divorce, and unanticipated upheavals in her world, Noel begins receiving letters from an anonymous source, each one...
13) The Noel letters
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Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Returning to her childhood home after nearly two decades and reeling from upheavals in her world, Noel Post inherits her father's bookstore and begins receiving letters from an anonymous source, each one containing thoughts and lessons about her life and her future, and as she begins to reacquaint herself with the bookstore and the people she left behind, Noel starts to unravel the reality of her painful childhood and the truth about her family.
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English
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St. John of the Cross was a Carmelite friar and priest. He is renowned for his cooperation with Saint Teresa of Ávila in the reformation of the Carmelite order, and for his poetry and his studies on the growth of the soul. Dark Night of the Soul is considered one of the greatest religious poems ever written. This masterpiece of Mystic Christianity examines faith and how to keep faith when all seems lost. Think of it as guide to making it through...
15) Major Barbara
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English
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First performed in 1905 and published in 1907, "Major Barbara" is a dramatic play by the famed Irish playwright and activist George Bernard Shaw. The story centers around its title character who, as an officer in the Salvation Army, becomes disenchanted by the increasing social problems that she sees and the willingness of her organization to accept money from armament manufacturers. Barbara is disillusioned about the good work the Salvation Army...
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"Katherine Hall Page is my favorite writer of the traditional mystery."
—Harlan Coben
"Hungry readers, enjoy!"
—Diana Mott Davidson
Minister's wife, caterer, and amateur sleuth Faith Fairchild must solve a deadly mystery more than seventy years in the making in The Body in the Gazebo, the nineteenth ingenious whodunit in the delectable, Agatha Award-winning series by Katherine Hall Page. Faith has a lot on her
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English
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"Fans of the Faith Fairchild series will probably be over the moon for this prequel that lovingly details how Faith met her husband" (The Charlotte Observer).
Massachusetts minister's wife, caterer, and sometime amateur sleuth Faith Fairchild returns in The Body in the Boudoir, the twentieth installment in the Agatha Award-winning mystery series by Katherine Hall Page that provides mystery, heart, wit, suspense,...
Massachusetts minister's wife, caterer, and sometime amateur sleuth Faith Fairchild returns in The Body in the Boudoir, the twentieth installment in the Agatha Award-winning mystery series by Katherine Hall Page that provides mystery, heart, wit, suspense,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
The inhabitants of a kingdom that has fallen on hard times discover the value of faith when they learn to consider that which might be and labor to make it so.
19) Hail Mary Corner
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Language
English
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Taut, compelling, and remarkably assured, Hail Mary Corner thrusts readers into unfamiliar territory past an emotional frontier we all must cross: the uncertain ground between adolescence and adulthood. High on a cliff above a pulp-mill town on Vancouver Island, sixteen-year-old Bill MacAvoy and his friends lead cloistered lives while other boys their age run free. it may be the fall of 1982, but inside the walls of their Benedictine seminary they...
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