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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
A romance featuring a troublesome teenager in South 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.
Author
Series
Gresham chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 27
Description
Can the Young Man Who Once Broke Her Heart Be Trusted Again With Her Love? Love is in the air. You will sense it as soon as you arrive in Gresham. As the wedding of Julia Hollis and Vicar Andrew Phelps approaches, the quaint English village is caught up in a stir of excitement and the promise of an event to remember. Andrew's daughter Elizabeth is being courted by a handsome young curate. But while she is considering his offer of marriage, the man...
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When Charlotte Lamb, a fallen vicar's daughter, tries to hide away in London's grim Milkweed Manor, she is mortified to find herself in the care of a former suitor whom her father long ago rejected as unsuitable, but both are determined--with God's help--to protect those they love.
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Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
"Kimberla Lawson Roby is a true writer, a storyteller at the top of her game. "-Eric Jerome Dickey Alicia Black is back! The pampered, privileged daughter of the irrepressible scoundrel Rev. Curtis Black and protagonist of Kimberla Lawson Roby's New York Times bestseller The Best of Everything, Alicia makes her triumphant return in Be Careful What You Pray For. Alicia is newly remarried, to a man of the cloth who unfortunately mirrors far-too-closely...
5) The brethren
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Annie Zook, the Amish preacher's daughter, is caught between two worlds. Living with shunned friend Esther, Annie longs to return to her forbidden art and the idyllic days spent with Englisher Ben Martin, before her father ordered her never to see him again. Stunned when family secrets come to light, Ben determines to solve the mystery of his past. Will his future include Annie--or will the Brethren always stand between them?
Author
Series
Annie's people volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"Annie Zook--the preacher's eldest daughter--is expected to join the Amish church, but at 20 she is 'still deciding.' Because of the strict rules that guide the Plain community, she must continually squelch her artistic passion, although it has become her solace"--Provided by publisher.
7) Cape Refuge
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Mystery and suspense combine in this first book in an exciting new 4-book series by best-selling author Terri Blackstock. Thelma and Wayne Owens run a bed and breakfast in Cape Refuge, Georgia. They minister to the seamen on the nearby docks and prisoners just out of nearby jails, holding services in an old warehouse and taking many of the "down-and-outers" into their home. They have two daughters: the dutiful Morgan who is married to Jonathan, a...
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Brides of Lehigh Canal volume 2
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Relive the glory of a Pennsylvania canal town through the eyes of those who ministered to the needs of the workers. Betsy Nelson reluctantly returns to her childhood home to care for her failing father, a faithful minister who served the town for years. William Covington, a confirmed bachelor, comes to town to become the new pastor and set aside the luxuries of his birth for service to God. Can Betsy and William find common ground on which to work...
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Series
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"Annie Zook, the preacher's daughter, struggles to keep her promise to her father--to abandon her art for a full six months. Will Annie's intention to join the Amish church be derailed by the attention of a handsome Englisher?"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
©2005
Description
Jocie Brooke, preacher David Brooke, and Jocie's spinster Great-aunt Love seek to understand painful secrets, lost loves, and surprising truths in this heartwarming Southern tale set in the 1960s. The past issues of several citizens in a small town--the pastor, his daughter, his maiden aunt, and a coworker--all converge in this contemporary novel.
11) Patterns of love
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Series
Coming to America volume 2
Publisher
ZondervanPublishingHouse
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
My dear Beth, Though Uppsala, Iowa, takes its name from a city in my native Sweden, life here is different from what I have known. With my parents' blessing, I have taken employment in the home of Mr. Bridger, a dairy farmer, caring for his ill mother and two young, orphaned nieces. It is most unlike me to leave home, even in a temporary manner. But the need is great and Hattie Bridger and the children are so endearing. As for Dirk Bridger, he is...
12) This I know
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Publisher
John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
While trying to deal with her depressed mother and her pious father in a small Midwest town in the 1960s, eleven-year-old Grace struggles with inherited psychic powers that her aunt calls "The Knowing."
Grace Carter has the Knowing. It offers glimpses of people's pasts and futures, and allows Grace to talk to Isaac, her twin brother who died at birth. To Aunt Pearl, the Knowing is a family gift; to Grace's strict Evangelical pastor father, it's witchcraft....
13) Northanger Abbey
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
In this modern retelling of Austen's classic, bookish minister's daughter Cat Morland joins her well-to-do friends in Edinburgh and falls for an up-and-coming lawyer who may harbor unsettling secrets.
Catherine 'Cat' Morland's sheltered existence in rural Dorset involves losing herself in novels and her smartphone; it has been entirely bereft of the romance and excitement for which she yearns. When Cat's neighbours invite her to Edinburgh Festival,...
14) Heart of gold
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Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2012
Description
in Grand Coeur, Idaho, the rough-and-tumble place where her father has been called to lead the church, Shannon is not sure where she fits in. Then a critically ill woman arrives, and Shannon knows her place at last: to care for this woman and ease her pain. Matthew takes a job at the Wells Fargo express office in Grand Coeur until he can find the one thing he needs to get back to driving: a wife to care for the his dying sister's boy. God is at work...
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Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Years of bouncing around in foster homes have left young Mason Jones feeling unwanted. When he finally finds a family to take him, he is already 17 years old. With zero chances left and no other options other than being locked up in a juvenile detention center, he starts attending a court mandated support group. There, he meets the pastor's daugher and learns important lessons about humility, respect, and fresh starts.
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Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
"The Best of Everything is one of the best things you'll put on your shopping list this week."
-Tennessee Tribune
Readers who just can't get enough of the Reverend Curtis Black-the charming con man and insufferable womanizer who stars in Sin No More, The Best-Kept Secret, and other acclaimed, bestselling novels by Kimberla Lawson Roby-are going to love his daughter, Alicia. In the New York Times bestseller The Best of Everything, Alicia Black...
17) The Gospel
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
As a teenager, David was studying to follow in his fathers footsteps, by becoming a minister. However, after his mother suddenly dies and his father arrives late, David accuses his father of caring more about others than his mother. David decides to run away and eventually becomes a hot young R&B performer. However, when his father becomes ill he returns home to find his father's church in disarray. David finds that his former best friend, now a minister...
18) Home
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Series
Pub. Date
2008
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Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Soon her brother, Jack--the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years--comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with tormenting trouble and pain.
20) Masquerade
Publisher
Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Simon, a mature young boy, notices how the adults around him complicate things more than necessary. His father, Chris, is the assistant pastor at his church, and is tired of dealing with people who seem phony. Can Simon be the key to unlocking a new life for his father and his church?
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