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61) Arthur & George
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
In the vast expanse of late-Victorian Britain, two boys come to life: George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, in shabby genteel Edinburgh, both of them feeling at once near to and impossibly distant from the beating heart of Empire. One falls prey to a series of pranks en route to a legal vocation, while the other studies medicine before discovering a different calling entirely, and it is years before their destinies are entwined in a mesmerizing...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Estranged from her family, Beulah supports herself by playing the piano at a honky-tonk, but when a dying friend asks her to take over as her church's piano player, Beulah finds herself butting heads with the deacon and a straight-laced choir.
"Life has dealt Beulah Land a tough hand to play, least of all being named after a hymn. A teenage pregnancy estranged her from her family, and a tragedy caused her to lose what little faith remained. The wayward...
63) Saving Maddie
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Joshua Wynn is definitely what you would call a good guy. He's a preacher's son who chooses abstinence and religious retreats over crazy nights and wild parties...One Sunday, Joshua's mind drifts from his father's sermon to a beautiful girl in the fifth row. She's gorgeous, wearing a dress cut down to there, and she looks like the little girl he crushed on as a kid. It turns out that Maddie Smith is back in town, but instead of throwing her a welcome-back...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
A walk to remember: A romance featuring a troublesome teenager in North Carolina who is changed for the better by the love of a girl. She is the angelic daughter of a local minister and the boy joins her in doing good deeds. But she has a secret which will break his heart. Pay it forward: When a young man starts "paying it forward" for a social studies project, unusual things happen in this bittersweet and uplifting tale.
Author
Series
Heart of Hollyhill novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
The past is coming to call. The town of Hollyhill is buzzing with anticipation--a wedding may be on the horizon, if only David Brooke can find the nerve to pop the question. But all is not as it seems in the quiet Kentucky community. Whispers of mistakes from the past are threatening to destroy the relationships that everyone thought were so strong. Two people--one David thought was gone for good and the other no one's ever heard of--are making their...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"In this novel told in Spanglish, fifteen-year-old Francisca is uprooted from her life in Bogotá, Colombia, and moves with her family to Miami, Florida, where she is ushered into an evangelical church and falls in love with the pastor's daughter"--Provided by publisher.
69) Together we rot
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Wil Greene’s mom has been missing for over a year, and the police are ready to call the case closed—they claim she skipped town and you can’t find a woman who wants to disappear. But she knows her mom wouldn’t just leave…and she knows the family of her former best friend, Elwood Clarke, has something to do with it. Elwood has been counting down the days until his 18th birthday—in dread. It marks leaving school and joining his pastor...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"Complete in one volume! The Prairie Trilogy is a thematically linked series of three novels by Willa Cather. - O Pioneers!: Alexandra Bergson inherits the family farm when her father passes away. She decides to make a go of it when so many other immigrant families are giving up at the turn of the twentieth century. - The Song of the Lark: Thea Kronborg is a piano teacher with a voice that came from the heavens. She seeks to use her gift, and in so...
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