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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"After riding with Missouri bushwhackers, Taylor Callahan vowed to never take another life. He’s making good on it in Peaceful Valley. By day, swamping a saloon. By night, preaching the Good Book. But this little settlement is about to become anything but peaceable. When the marshal takes a bullet in a sheepman-cattleman skirmish he pins a badge on Taylor leaving the circuit rider open to whole new world of hell . . .A railroad engineer building...
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Pub. Date
©2012
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English
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In a small Ozark community the Matthews family live in the shadow of tragedy. Their only daughter had died in childbirth, after the man she loved had betrayed and deserted her. Young Matt had lived his life under the shadow of a curse; the promise to kill the man who abandoned his mother. A stranger arrives in the mountains and becomes known as "the Shepherd" because of his kindness to the people of the mountains.
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[2008]
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English
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Reverend Gabriel Hunter is shocked when he returns home to Middletown to find the townspeople involved in cockfighting, brawling, gambling and all manner of vice. Determined to save their souls, Gabriel comes down hard on the villagers, scolding them from the pulpit and demanding that they change their sinful wyas. He must face the unexpected resentful rebellion he faces from his own brother Jim. Gabriel's religious zeal grows ever more extreme.
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©2006
Language
English
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Experience an uplifting story of faith and redemption. Grammy Award-winning recording artist Michael W. Smith gives a passionate performance as a suburban pastor who is forced to confront his own prejudices in this powerful tale of faith, redemption, and finding common ground. At the wealthy church The Rock, Ethan Jenkins (Smith) brings parishioners to their feet with his electrifying music. But Ethan's unconventional ways upset the church elders,...
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English
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"Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing -- and least understood -- people living in America today. In his seminal new book, The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory, journalist Tim Alberta, himself a practicing Christian and the son of a Presbyterian pastor, paints an expansive and profoundly troubling portrait of the American evangelical movement. Through the eyes of televangelists and small-town preachers, celebrity revivalists and...
7) Noelle
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Father Jonathan Keene is a cold, impatient Catholic priest who arrives in a tiny fishing village the week before Christmas. He is there to do what he does best: shut down dying parishes. But things take an unexpected turn as he becomes entangled in the various lives of the village's eccentric characters. This includes the town's beautiful librarian, the childlike priest he is displacing, and the magical experience of Mrs. Worthington's legendary Christmas...
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Miranda Abbott mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"Miranda Abbott, once known for the crime-solving, karate-chopping church pastor she played on network television, has hit hard times. She's facing ruin when a mysterious postcard arrives, summoning her to Happy Rock, a small town in the Pacific Northwest. But when she gets there, nothing is what she expected. In dire straits, she signs up for an amateur production at the Happy Rock Little Theater. On opening night, one of the actors is murdered,...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Cana, Massachusetts: a utopian vision of 18th-century Puritan New England. To the outside world, Reverend Nathaniel Whitfield and his family stand as godly pillars of their small-town community, drawing Christians from across the New World into their fold. One such Christian, physician Arthur Lyman, discovers in the minister's words a love so captivating it transcends language. As the bond between these two men grows more and more passionate, their...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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A defrocked, alcoholic, and emotionally-troubled minister struggles with his desire for earthly pleasures as a tour guide in Mexico. Shepherding a busload of school teachers and one libidinous 18-year old girl, he becomes entangled with the teen, suffers a nervous breakdown when discovered, and strands the group at the remote and rundown seaside hotel of his old friend Maxine. As his emotional state continues to unravel, and the group's problems increase,...
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