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Cedar Cove series volume 8
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English
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Shocked after Pastor Dave Flemming is accused of stealing jewelry, Emily doesn't know what to believe. She finds an earring in his pocket, and Dave is being so evasive. Could her husband have stolen it--or is he having an affair?
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As the soon-to-be wife of youth pastor Joshua Harris, Shannon Harris found that nothing in her secular upbringing had prepared her to enter the world of conservative Christianity. When Joshua wrote I Kissed Dating Goodbye, it became a bestseller and helped inspire a national purity movement. Now Shannon's identity became "pastor's wife." Asked to live within a narrow definition of womanhood for almost two decades, she found her worldview was narrowed,...
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Ruth Bell Graham is known as the wife of evangelist Billy Graham. It was Ruth who influenced Billy, as his most trusted life-partner. In Ruth, a Portrait, we meet this fascinating and remarkable woman. Brimming with anecdotes, this is a breathtaking journey, with stops at many of this century's epoch-making events.
The childhood years of the future Mrs. Billy Graham were spent light-years away—in the China of the 1920s and 1930s. The daughter...
The childhood years of the future Mrs. Billy Graham were spent light-years away—in the China of the 1920s and 1930s. The daughter...
4) Lila
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Neglected as a toddler, Lila was rescued by a canny young drifter and together they crafted a life on the run. Despite some petty violence and moments of desperation, their life was laced with moments of joy and love. When Lila arrives in Gilead, she struggles to reconcile the life of her makeshift family and their days of hardship with the gentle Christian worldview of her husband which paradoxically judges those she loves.
6) The debt
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Publisher
W Pub. Group
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
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After fleeing a painful and compromising past, Emma Rose Howard settled eagerly into the role of a pastor's wife. She and her husband, Abel, dedicated themselves to parenting a mega-church and influenced thousands of lives through its related ministries.
But when Emma Rose receives a phone call from a living, breathing remnant of her troubled past, she finds herself wondering if something in her life is woefully out of balance. The presence of this...
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HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
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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...
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Revell
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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In this unique and tender story of an unlikely romance, boarding school graduate Mariette Puttnam returns to her privileged life at home, unsure where life will take her. More schooling? A job? Marriage? Nothing feels right. How could she know that the answer is waiting for her within the narrow stairwell of her father's apparel factory, exactly between the third and fourth floors? Set in the summer of 1959.
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
Description
Since the 1970s, an important new figure has appeared on the center stage of American evangelicalism--the celebrity preacher's wife. Although most evangelical traditions bar women from ordained ministry, many women have carved out unofficial positions of power in their husbands' spiritual empires or their own ministries. The biggest stars--such as Beth Moore, Joyce Meyer, and Victoria Osteen--write bestselling books, grab high ratings on Christian...
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Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, the Tyndale nonfiction imprint
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"To belong helps me to believe. We are all messy and miraculous, at the same time. Church scrapes us up against each other. It skins our knees. It wounds and then it heals. We are supposed to love each other all the time, and I don't think it ever stops being hard. We are people with ragged edges. And because we are in community with each other, pointed in the same general direction toward God, gathering, worshiping, praying, and eating at all those...
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Series
Faith Fairchild mysteries volume 18
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The Fairchild family is spending the Christmas holidays on idyllic Sanpere Island in Maine while the Reverend Thomas Fairchild recuperates from surgery. His wife, Faith, is rejoicing in the rare, holiday family-time together--but Faith's high spirits are dampened when she discovers the body of a young woman on Christmas Eve. Then, on Christmas morning, she learns of an abandoned, newborn baby boy who was left in a nearby dairy barn along with a note...
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Pub
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Tanya Black's perfect life--a fulfilling career, a lovely daughter, a beautiful home, and a charismatic husband, the pastor at a local Baptist church--is threatened when she stumbles upon some disturbing secrets about her husband and learns painful lessons about love, betrayal, and temptation.
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Author Julie Cannon's beloved Homegrown series has brought joy through good country living to countless readers. The third in the series, Those Pearly Gates looks in on Imogene Lavender and her family two years after the death of her husband and her marriage to the Rev. Lemuel Peddigrew. For Imogene and her daughter, Jeanette, life as pastors' wives is proving more difficult than they first imagined. But a family emergency forces everyone to reevaluate...
14) Life in Defiance
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Series
Defiance Texas trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Set on the backdrop of Defiance, Texas, Ouisie's journey typifies the choices we all face--whether to tell the truth about secrets and fight for the truth or bury them forever and live with the violent consequences.
15) Potter Springs
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Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
Description
First-time novelist Britta Coleman has garnered rave reviews for this touching story. She delivers an emotionally charged depiction of two young lovers as they struggle with the daunting stresses placed upon their new marriage. Mark Reynolds is an up-and-coming minister in an affluent Houston church and Amanda is the girl of his dreams. The outlook for his future is extremely bright until Amanda tells him that she is pregnant. The newlyweds are tormented...
Author
Series
Faith Fairchild mysteries volume 13
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English
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When Faith Fairchild and her family head for the summer cottage, they arrive to find trouble between the locals and the annual visitors, whose extravagant homes and massive construction have triggered the murder of a wealthy developer.
Author
Series
Faith Fairchild mysteries volume 15
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Faith travels to a Vermont ski resort to celebrate her father-in-law's seventieth birthday, where one catastrophe follows another, including murder.
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Series
Faith Fairchild mysteries volume 17
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Secretly assisting her museum president friend in a case involving a stolen piece of fine art, Faith Fairchild stumbles upon a murder scene near a controversial exhibit and becomes increasingly exasperated by the police's inability to recognize important clues.
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