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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
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In a small Florida town, a young lawyer is shot to death. A young black man, a former client, named Quincy Miller is charged and convicted. For 22 years, Miller maintains his innocence from inside prison. Finally, Guardian Ministries takes on Miller's case, but the Episcopal minister in charge gets more than he bargained for as powerful people do not want Miller exonerated.
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Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c1997
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A death row confession propels a homicide detective into an investigation that will tear Miami apart in #1 New York Times-bestselling author Arthur Hailey's electrifying thriller. Detective-Sergeant Malcolm Ainslie, a former Catholic priest, is about to start his vacation when a call comes in from death row. Before serial killer Elroy Doil is taken to the electric chair, he wants to make a full confession to the cop who put him away. To close the...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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"Murphy Shepherd lives alone, doing maintenance work for a church that no one attends and trying to heal from scars gained rescuing others who dwell in the margins. His specialty is finding young girls bought and sold in the flesh trade, and leading them from brokenness to freedom, but Shepherd thinks he has given everything he has and it may be time to retire. His hermetic healing process is interrupted when he rescues a woman named Summer in Florida's...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2001
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For more than a half century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved Native American tribe, the Ojibwe, on the remote reservation of Little No Horse. Now, nearing the end of his life, Father Damien dreads the discovery of his physical identity, for he is a woman who has lived as a man. To further complicate his quiet existence, a troubled colleague comes to the reservation to investigate the life of the perplexing, possibly false saint Sister...
6) The priest
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Series
Sons of encouragement volume 1
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2004
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Series
Pub. Date
2011
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Danny Hansen is a priest who lives by a law of love and compassion. It is powerful men and hypocrites who abide by legal law but eschew the law of love that most incense Danny. As an avenging angel, he believes it is his duty to show them the error of their ways, at any cost.
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MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
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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
Darkglass Mountain volume 3
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Having raised the magic of Elcho Falling while forging new allies, Serpent Coil priestess Isabelle Brunell and Lord Maximillian assist the efforts of former god Axis SunSoar, who has revived the Strike Force after rediscovering the magical Star Dance.
16) Faith: a novel
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Sheila McGann is estranged from her complicated family. But when her older brother Art, pastor of a large suburban parish, finds himself at the center of a scandal, Sheila returns to Boston, ready to fight for him. Her strict mother lives in a state of angry denial; her younger brother Mike has already convicted his brother in his heart. But most disturbing of all is Art himself, who persistently dodges Sheila's questions and refuses to defend himself....
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ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
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After a woman says she has seen the Virgin Mary in the churchyard, a talk show host arrives in town and clashes with Father Burke, but when a body appears at the supposed apparition site and the talk show host is implicated, Collins takes him on as a client.
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Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"It's 1989. The Troubles are raging in Ireland, bombs exploding in England. In this prequel to the Collins-Burke series, Father Brennan Burke is home in New York when news of his sister's arrest in London sends him flying across the ocean. The family troubles deepen when Brennan's cousin Conn is charged with the murder of a Special Branch detective and suspected in a terrorist plot against Westminster Abbey. The Burkes come under surveillance by the...
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Publisher
Dell Pub
Pub. Date
1980, ©1973
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
A terminally ill Anglican priest and his assignment in a coastal Indian community in British Columbia. The nonfiction story behind this book is told in Again Calls the Owl (1984). Best Books for Young Teen Readers. A young minister who has two years to live learns about the meaning of life when he is sent to an Indian parish in British Columbia.
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Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2015.
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The enchanted place is an ancient stone prison, viewed through the eyes of a death row inmate who finds escape in his books and in re-imagining life around him. A female investigator searches for buried information from prisoners' pasts that can save those soon-to-be-executed. Digging into the background of a killer named York, she uncovers wrenching truths that challenge familiar notions of victim and criminal, innocence and guilt, and reveals shocking...
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