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Now a New York Times bestselling author, Julia Spencer-Fleming rises to the accolade with a powerful, and emotionally charged novel fans have been yearning for.
On a frigid January night, Chief of Police Russ Van Alstyne and Reverend Clare Fergusson are called to the scene of a raging fire, that quickly becomes a double homicide and kidnapping. Which is the very last thing Russ needs...Currently he's struggling with the prospect of impending
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Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid," said theologian Frederick Beuchner. Pastor Amy Butler, the first woman at the helm of New York's historic Riverside Church, knows firsthand that to navigate such a world, one must be courageous, honest, and compassionate. In Beautiful and Terrible Things, Pastor Amy draws on the most meaningful, challenging, and soul-shaking moments of her own life, to offer larger lessons...
223) González
Publisher
Zima Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Language
Español
Description
Out of desperation for a job and not for faith, a young man living in Mexico City begins working at a call center for a television ministry. Through his work, he learns that instead of the loser he thought he was, he is trusted by people and that he can perhaps exploit his personality to get in on the money available in religion.
224) The shadow dancer
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Series
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
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Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and her friend Father John O'Malley investigate the mysterious death of Ben Holden while dealing with James "Orlando" Sherwood and his followers, who are intent on resurrecting the old Shadow Dance religion.
"James Sherwood claims to have been to the shadow world and back. He claims to know the future. He also claims to have no connection to the disappearance of Dean Little Horse or the murder of Ben Holden ... Father...
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Greenleaf Book Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"It's hot, Texas, and the year 1977. Jimmy Carter is in office.The Walters are a good, churchgoing family who stand for holiness, purity, grace, and Christian love. Except when they don't. Family patriarch and fanatic preacher, Victor Black, knows many things for sure, including the fact that abortion is murder and should be punishable by death - a position he defends live in a televised debate. Black's youngest granddaughter, Stephanie Walters, sits...
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Publisher
Convergent
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"The Reverend Robert W. Lee was a little-known pastor at a small church in North Carolina until the Charlottesville protests, when he went public with his denunciation of white supremacy in a captivating speech at the MTV Video Music Awards... In this riveting memoir, he narrates what it was like growing up as a Lee in the South, an experience that was colored by the world of the white Christian majority. He describes the widespread nostalgia for...
229) Blue: a novel
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Ginny Carter was once a rising star in TV news, married to a top anchorman, with a three-year-old son and a full and happy life in Beverly Hills -- until her whole world dissolved in a single instant on the freeway two days before Christmas. In the aftermath, she pieces her life back together and tries to find meaning in her existence as a human rights worker in the worst areas around the globe. Then, on the anniversary of the fateful accident --...
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Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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A former Klansman describes his journey from racist, violent, criminal to the co-pastor of a racially mixed church.
In the 1960s Tarrants-- unsettled by the social upheaval of the era-- turned for answers to extremist ideology. In 1969, while attempting to bomb the home of a Jewish leader in Meridian, Mississippi, he was shot multiple times during a high-speed chase and arrested. After an escape attempt, Tarrants spent three years alone in a six-foot-by-nine-foot...
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Publisher
Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
What does a forty-two-year-old, small-town pastor do when he wins one of the most popular singing competitions in the world? Todd Tilghman and his wife, Brooke, share how decades of unrelenting challenges have taught them a joyful mindset of embracing not only winning The Voice but also 'every little win' along the way.
236) The reindeer hunters
Author
Series
Sister bells trilogy volume 2
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1903. Twenty-two years after the events of The Bell in The Lake, Astrid Hekne’s son, Jehans, is now a young man. Driven out by his family, he lives on a homestead in the mountains near the village of Butangen, where he relishes the freedom of his life apart, fishing and hunting for his livelihood. One August morning, Jehans kills a massive reindeer and at the same moment encounters an enigmatic hunter. At the new church in Butangen,...
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Publisher
Gotham Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Johnson's remarkable story of being raised under the gospel tent of David Terrell, one of the most famous evangelical ministers of the 1960s and 70s. A compassionate, humorous exploration of faith, betrayal, and coming of age on the sawdust trail.
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Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Why aren't you angry?" people often asked Martin Moran after he told his story of how he came to forgive the man who sexually abused him as a boy. At first, the question pissed him off. Then, it began to haunt him. Why didn't he have more anger? Why had he never sought redress for the crime committed against him? Was his fury hidden, buried? Was he not man enough? Here he was, an adult in mid-life, with an established acting career, a husband. A...
239) Preacher. Vol. 3
Author
Series
Preacher (hardcover) volume 3
Publisher
DC Comics/Vertigo
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Preacher Jesse Custer continues his dark journey to find God, accompanied by his gun-toting girlfriend and Irish vampire buddy.In the continuing saga of the bizarre adventures of faithless Texas preacher Jesse Custer, Jesse, along with his girlfriend Tulip and their friend Cassidy, the Irish vampire, head down South in hopes of recovering from their encounter with the forces of the Grail. But during their planned down time Jesse must face off against...
240) The half wives
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Over the course of one momentous day, two women who have built their lives around the same man find themselves moving toward an inevitable reckoning. Former Lutheran minister Henry Plageman is a master secret keeper and a man wracked by grief. He and his wife, Marilyn, tragically lost their young son, Jack, many years ago. But he now has another child--a daughter, eight-year-old Blue--with Lucy, the woman he fell in love with after his marriage collapsed.The...
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