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Author
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Despite her husband's aging, Wilmet Forsyth would like to believe she has changed very little. She cultivates a friendship with three unmarried priests and Piers Longridges, a man of unfathomly different character altogether.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"At the Religious Training Center on the campus of Beijing's National Politics University, disciples of China's five main religions-Buddhism, Daoism, Protestantism, Catholicism, and Islam-gather for a year of intensive study and training. In this hallowed yet jovial atmosphere, the institute's two youngest disciples-Yahui, a Buddhist jade nun, and Gu Mingzheng, a Daoist master-fall into a friendship that might bloom into something more. This year,...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Language
English
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Description
All is not boding well for Father Julius. . . A street preacher decked out in denim robes and running shoes, Julius is a source of inspiration for a community that knows nothing of his scandalous origins. But when a nearby mental hospital releases its patients to run amok in his neighborhood, his trusted if bedraggled flock turns expectantly to Julius to find out what's going on. Amid the descending chaos, Julius encounters a hospital escapee who...
Author
Series
Dorsetville novels volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
For generations the citizens of Dorsetville, New England have been bound together by St. Cecelia's Church, long a white elephant to the Catholic archdiocese and now slated to close after the last mass on Easter Sunday.
65) The reaper
Author
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Otis Joy, the popular and handsome young rector of St. Bartholomew's Church in Oxford, England, is accused of embezzling church funds and ordered to resign, but only until the bishop who accuses him commits suicide, followed by another death, and then another.
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Series
Language
English
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Charlotte Collins, née Lucas, is the respectable wife of Hunsford's vicar, and sees to her duties by rote: keeping house, caring for their adorable daughter, visiting parishioners, and patiently tolerating the lectures of her awkward husband and his condescending patroness, Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Intelligent, pragmatic, and anxious to escape the shame of spinsterhood, Charlotte chose this life, an inevitable one so socially acceptable that its...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A mesmerizing debut novel set in northern Texas about two sisters who discover an unsettling secret about their father, the head pastor of an evangelical megachurch, that upends their lives and community-a story of family, identity, and the delicate line between faith and deception. Luke Nolan has led the Hope congregation for more than a decade, while his wife and daughters have patiently upheld what it means to live righteously. Made famous by...
69) Oscar & Lucinda
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A rebellious Anglican priest and a teenaged heiress who buys a glass factory in Australia pursue an unlikely romance.
Author
Series
Father Dowling mysteries volume 26
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Father Dowling helps a family solve the mystery about Wallace Flanagan's disappearance ten years ago and his recently murdered body being found at his father's concrete business.
71) Who to believe
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When popular restaurateur Laurel Thibodeau is found brutally murdered in her own home, and her husband is the prime suspect, six friends gather together, sharing theories about Laurel's death, soon realizing they each have something to hide as jealousy, revenge, adultery and greed converge"--
72) Home to Harmony
Author
Series
Harmony series (Philip Gulley) volume 1
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
In the fictional small town of Harmony, Indiana, Sam Gardner becomes the pastor of his hometown church, Harmony Friends Meeting. In this delightful, first-person book, Sam describes in a warm, down-home style the moving and humorous adventures he encounters his first year home to Harmony.
Author
Series
Goddesses Anonymous volume 4
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Reverend Analiese Wagner's judgment is called into question when she steps in to help a homeless family. Then Isaiah Colburn, the Catholic priest who was her mentor, reappears in her life, torn between the priesthood and his desire for a future with her. Analiese now must answer the question of how to define her own happiness.
74) A house divided
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
After an argument sends their son's girlfriend into early labor, Reverend Curtis Black and his wife experience a rift between them that may send her into the arms of another man.
76) Whippoorwill
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A rake on the run posing as the new preacher of Lizard Flats dies in the bed of town whore Letty Murphy. Knowing there will be trouble, Letty tries to clean up town drunk Elias Potter and pass him off as a man of the cloth to save the town and her own neck.
Author
Publisher
G. K. Hall
Pub. Date
[1980]
Language
English
Description
Goldsmith's only novel, The Vicar of Wakefield, is also considered his finest work. Rich with wisdom and gentle irony, the story tells of an unworldly and generous vicar who lives contentedly with his large family until disaster strikes. But bankruptcy, his daughter's abduction, and the vicar's imprisonment fail to conquer his spirit. First published in 1766, this book soon became - and has since remained - a classic.
Author
Series
Annie's people volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Annie Zook--the preacher's eldest daughter--is expected to join the Amish church, but at 20 she is 'still deciding.' Because of the strict rules that guide the Plain community, she must continually squelch her artistic passion, although it has become her solace"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
When his mother dies, Francis is shocked to discover that she had a lover and that he must share his inheritance with this (awful) man. Then Francis falls in lovepainfully, absolutelywith an irresistible but most unsuitable young woman.A. N. Wilson traces Francis's descent through various circles of the English establishment, a tragi-comic journey that takes the hapless hero to the outer edges of both absurdity and despair.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"18-year-old Meg Hennessey just found out her entire childhood was a lie. Instead of taking a gap year before college to find herself, she ends up traveling north to meet what's left of the family she never knew existed. While there, she meets Micah Allen, a former pastor's kid whose dad ended up in prison, leaving Micah with his own complicated relationship about the church. The clock is ticking on Pastor Allen's probation hearing and Micah, now...
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