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When college sophomore Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicycle through Vermont's back roads, her life is forever changed. Formerly outgoing, Laurel withdraws into her photography and begins to work at a homeless shelter. There she meets Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history of mental illness and a box of photographs that he won't let anyone see. When Bobbie dies suddenly, Laurel discovers that he was telling the truth: before he was homeless,...
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Yada Yada House of Hope volume 2
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Gabrielle never expected her husband to change the locks on their Chicago penthouse, cancel her credit cards, and disappear with their two boys. As her life falls apart, Gabby hits on a possibility so wild and wonderful it has to be one of the those "God things"-- but is it the answer to her prayers?
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Yada Yada House of Hope volume 4
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Every woman needs a safe sbelter. The tables have turned and Gabby's estranged husband who threw her out when she didn't live up to his image of a "corporate wife," needs her in a way neither ever expected. He's begging for reconciliation, but Gabby has moved on, finding purpose and a future in the House of Hope. Not only has she found shelter for herself and her sons there, she's able to help provide shelter for homeless moms and their kids. And...
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Yada Yada House of Hope volume 1
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[2008]
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Gabby Fairbanks moves with her family to Chicago, where she finds a fulfilling job working at a women's shelter, but when her husband threatens her with divorce unless she quits, Gabby must call on her faith to get her through a difficult time.
6) Daniel
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[2016]
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"Open Door Church has served as a homeless shelter for more than a decade, but when their pastor dies unexpectedly, it's up to Galen and Maggie to take up the reins and keep the ministry going, which won't be easy, as newcomers seem intent on tearing it down. And then there’s young Daniel, who seems to be working miracles in their midst, which of course, isn’t possible. Or is it?"--from publisher's description.
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Faith Fairchild mysteries volume 14
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Caterer Faith Fairchild and family are living in one of historic Cambridge, Massachusetts', venerable Brattle Street houses while the Reverend Tom teaches a course at the Harvard Divinity School and does some soul searching -- is his Aleford parish his true calling? One night in downtown Boston, Faith is startled by a face from her past. It's Richard Morgan, a former boyfriend from her life as a single woman in Manhattan. Their heady, whirlwind affair...
8) Shelter
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[2021]
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IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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While ten-year-old Maya attends an elite private school on scholarship her classmates are unaware that she and her family are living in a homeless shelter, but on one poignant day Maya discovers having a house is not the only way to have a home.
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Shelter volume 3
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2020
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The long-awaited final book in the Shelter Trilogy. A cop killer is hiding out at Open Door Church. As he tries to wrestle the gun out of his hands, Galen's heart stops beating. When he wakes up, his wife begs him to walk away from the homeless shelter. Eight years is long enough. But Galen doesn't want to walk away. Meanwhile, Daniel's life has fallen apart. His mother has moved him to Portland, where he's made a friend in the beautiful Ember, who...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
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"The story begins when a young unmarried woman leaves her newborn child on the rectory doorstep at a church on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. At the same moment, inside the church, a young man is stealing a treasured artifact, a chalice adorned with a single star-shaped diamond. Both the infant and the chalice disappear."--BOOK JACKET. "Seven years later, a few weeks before Christmas, Alvirah and Willy are busy helping Willy's sister Cordelia,...
12) Gracie's girl
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[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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As she starts middle school, Bess volunteers to work on the school musical in hopes of fitting in, but when she and a friend get to know an elderly homeless woman, Bess changes her mind about what is really important.
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Yada Yada House of Hope volume 3
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2010
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Just when Gabby gets an opportunity to make a fresh start and fulfill her dream of starting a shelter that caters to homeless women and children, her ex-husband shows up and involves her with his troublesome gambling debts.
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In this 1983 short story—the only short story Morrison ever wrote—we meet Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as roommates in St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only later to find each other again at a diner, a grocery store, and again at a protest. Seemingly at opposite ends of every problem, and at each other's throats each time...
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Faith Fairchild mysteries volume 14
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c2004
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When caterer Faith Fairchild's husband's job takes the family out of peaceful Aleford, Massachusetts, and into greater Boston, death rears its ugly head in the big city as well.
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Home Street Home volume 1
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[2011]
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"[After years of sexual abuse at the hands of her uncle, a young girl leaves home at sixteen.] Alone and helpless in the streets of North Philadelphia, she encounters more human predators who want to take over her life and devour her. About to hit rock bottom, Alessa manages to break away from her new tormentors and finds refuge in a shelter for homeless and abused women"--Amazon.com.
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Yada Yada brother volume 2
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[2010]
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Retired Chicago cop Harry Bentley was doing just fine. He had custody of his grandson, DaShawn, giving him a second chance at being a good parent. He was enjoying a second romance with the enchanting Estelle Williams. He had finally connected with God, thanks to the Yada Yada brothers. And he was even enjoying SouledOut Community Church and helping at Manna House shelter for women. Then a blind spot developed in the center of his vision.
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[2016]
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"In San Francisco's seamy Tenderloin district, a teenage street hustler has been murdered in a shelter for boys. And the dedicated priest who runs the struggling home stands accused. But despite damning evidence that he's a killer - and worse - Father Thomas Martin stands by his innocence. And attorney Peter Donley stands with him. For three years Donley has cut his legal teeth in his uncle's tiny, no-frills firm, where people come before profits....
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Yada Yada brothers volume 1
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[2008]
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Retired Chicago cop Harry Bentley was lying low after blowing the whistle on a gang of rogue cops and was awaiting the day when Internal Affairs would call him to testify. His cover was working as a doorman in a Chicago lakefront luxury highrise. Through penthouse resident Gabby Fairbanks, Harry meets the Yada Yada brothers and a new circle of friends to replace his old police cohorts. When Harry discovers he has a grandson he didn't know about, will...
20) The unsettled
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2023.
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"From the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia 1985, Ava is already plotting a way out. She is repulsed by the shelter's squalid conditions: their cockroach-infested room, the barely edible food, and the shifty night security guard. She is determined to rescue her son from the perils and indignities of that place, and to save herself from the complicated past that led them...