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1) Adam Bede
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 42
Description
George Eliot takes the well-worn tale of a lovely dairy-maid seduced by a careless squire and out if it creates a portrait of the lives of ordinary Midlands working people their labors and loves, their beliefs, their speech.
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Series
Pub. Date
2011.
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Description
At Millers Kill Community Center, five veterans gather to work on adjusting to life after war. Reverend Clare Fergusson has returned from Iraq with a head full of bad memories she's using alcohol to wipe out. Dr. George Stillman is denying that the head wound he received has left him with something worse than simple migraines. Officer Eric McCrea is battling to keep his constant rage from affecting his life as a cop, a husband, and a father. High...
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Series
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
After witnessing the suicide of a churchgoing young woman, Minister Francine Amen blames herself: After this young woman had accused their pastor of sexual abuse, Francine rejected her as a friend. Francine's guilty feelings land her in a mental hospital, and after her release she vows to restore her ministry by making amends to every person she's ever hurt, especially her sister Dawn Amen. Dawn's husband Sly-- formerly Francine's boyfriend--is spending...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
After tragedy shatters her small community in Seattle, the Reverend Elsa Montgomery has a crisis of faith. Returning to her hometown of Pueblo, Colorado, she seeks work in a local soup kitchen. Preparing nourishing meals for folks in need, she keeps her hands busy while her heart searches for understanding. Meanwhile, her sister, Tamsin, as pretty and colorful as Elsa is unadorned and steadfast, finds her perfect life shattered when she learns that...
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"New York Times bestseller Julia Spencer-Fleming returns to her beloved Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne mystery series with new crimes that span decades. 1952. Millers Kill Police Chief Harry McNeil is called to a crime scene where a woman in a party dress has been murdered with no obvious cause of death. 1972. Millers Kill Police Chief Jack Liddle is called to a murder scene of a woman that's very similar to one he worked as a trooper in the 50s....
8) Dead run
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
When Rachel Ames disappears after leaving a strange message on her sister's answering machine, Liz Ames heads to Key West to find out what's happened. With the help of a former cop, she begins to uncover an evil that they may not be able to escape, even at a dead run.
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
In this debut novel, a riveting page-turner from start to finish, born-and-bred Virginian Clare Ferguson, newly ordained priest of St. Alban's Episcopal Church in the small upstate New York town of Millers Kill, is faced with not only an early December snowstorm and the bitter cold of her first Northern winter but also a conservative vestry, who apparently expended all their daring on hiring her, a female priest. When a baby is left on the church...
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Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"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 fatherhood. And his new wife is not at all happy with his proposal for their long-delayed honeymoon: a week in an ice-fishing cabin. The vestry of St. Alban's Church has...
Author
Series
Reverend Clare Fergusson mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
2008
Description
When a farmhand stumbles over a man killed with a single shot to the back of the head, Clare Fegusson is pulled into the investigation through her involvement.
Pub. Date
2007
Description
The handsome stranger: Gerry is fed up with all the "townies" buying weekend cottages in Dibley. Then she meets one particularly charming newcomer. The vicar in white: After presiding over the marriages of hundred of other people, it appears Gerry's big day has finally arrived.
13) A death in Duck
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Description
WIth the new year approaching, hospital chaplain Lindsay Harding heads for a much-needed break in the peaceful resort town of Duck on North Carolina's Outer Banks. Her plan to attend the wedding of her friend Anna runs aground when a boatload of trouble washes ashore, and as the old year ticks down, the body count goes up. Thrust into the path of an increasingly desperate killer, Lindsay must uncover a sinister secret before she winds up swimming...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Description
"We hid the body. The money belonged to everyone, but we stole it for ourselves. You have to help me give it back before its too late. If I dont stop this, that moneys gonna drag us all straight down to hell." With these words, whispered to hospital chaplain Lindsay Harding as part of a cryptic confession, the stage is set for another intricately-plotted Mount Moriah mystery. All signs point to murder, but no one can find any trace of a body. Lindsays...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Lindsay Harding, a young hospital chaplain in the tiny town of Mount Moriah, North Carolina, just wants to help people. But her eagerness to help draws her into a dark world of secrets and lies when a beloved Civil War re-enactor is murdered in front of hundreds of on-lookers. As Lindsay races to find the killer and avoid becoming the next victim, she draws upon her courage, her friends, and her own irreverant brand of religion. All the while Lindsay...
17) A fatal advent
Author
Series
Reverend Claire Aldington mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
c1989
Description
As suspicion points to her husband, the Reverend Claire Aldington and Lieutenant O'Neill of the NYPD investigate two baffling murders at Christmas time.
18) Color of light
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Series
Goddesses anonymous novel volume 4
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Reverend Analiese Wagner's judgment is called into question when she steps in to help a homeless family. Then Isaiah Colburn, the Catholic priest who was her mentor, reappears in her life, torn between the priesthood and his desire for a future with her. Analiese now must answer the question of how to define her own happiness.
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Series
Love in Lansing volume 3
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"A calling from God. A childhood love. A woman who must choose between the two. Ministry minded Phoebe Albright has never concerned herself with the frivolities of love. She is fully committed to becoming a pastor, with or without a husband. Nothing will deter her, not even her childhood nemesis turned handsome Michigan State Constable. Will Caffey has never wavered in his faith, not even during his darkest hours in the French trenches of the Great...
Author
Series
Goddesses Anonymous volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Reverend Analiese Wagner's judgment is called into question when she steps in to help a homeless family. Then Isaiah Colburn, the Catholic priest who was her mentor, reappears in her life, torn between the priesthood and his desire for a future with her. Analiese now must answer the question of how to define her own happiness.