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A Clergyman's Daughter
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George Orwell |
One of Orwell’s earlier novels this relates the strange story of a young unmarried woman who is seemingly content to keep house for her father, a village rector. After a dinner with a local bachelor … |
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The Song of the Lark
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Willa Cather |
Determined to leave behind the dull values of her small hometown, an opera singer devotes increasing amounts of energy to developing her art. |
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The preacher's daughter
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Lyn Cote |
Was she the answer to his prayers?
Pastor Tanner Bond needed to break town the barriers between his congregation and the Mexican-Americans who had recently moved to Pleasant Prairie. But he didn'… |
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Be careful what you pray for
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Kimberla Lawson Roby |
New York Times bestselling author Kimberla Lawson Roby returns with this delightful sequel to The Best of Everything, in which the infamous Reverend Curtis Black's beautiful daughter, Alicia, is all … |
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Scarlet Monster lives here
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Marjorie Weinman Sharmat |
New in the neighborhood, Scarlet Monster keeps herself so busy preparing for guests she doesn't have time to realize they are waiting to visit. |
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Hannah's Beau
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Renee Ryan |
A Most Unusual Lady
A career on the stage is deemed unseemly for any lady, let alone a preacher's daughter. But then, actress Hannah Southerland is no ordinary lady. When a foolish elopement threa… |
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The mending string
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Cliff Coon |
The relationship between the Reverend Clayton Loverage, a well-known parenting expert, and his headstrong youngest daughter, Ellen, becomes strained to the breaking point when Ellen's clash with the … |
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Counterfeit lady
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Dawn MacTavish |
No, my lady, I couldn't—"
But Alice could—and did. Against her better judgment, she allowed herself one night at a masquerade ball, playing the role of her mistress. When else might she, daughter … |
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Northanger Abbey
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Val McDermid |
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 |
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Gilead
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Marilynne Robinson |
**WINNER OF THE 2005 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION**
In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames’s life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the so… |
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The way of all flesh
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Samuel Butler |
I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the mi… |
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The God of sno cone blue
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Marcia Coffey Turnquist |
Something is odd about Grace. She has mismatched eyes, one dark, one light. She thinks she's seen God. When her mother dies, she begins to get letters from her, as if from the grave. The letters tell… |
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The Snow's meltdown
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Marita L. Kinney |
"Calvin Snow is the only child of Pastor and First Lady Snow and their family is very influential within their community. Calvin has everything that he could possible want, but soon realizes that giv… |
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Parson Harding's Daughter
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Joanna Trollope |
The Reverend Henry Harding, parson to the excellent living of Stoke Abbas, was a handsome and prepossessing man. Unfortunately fate had seen fit to bless him with a family of extremely plain and unpr… |
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The song of the lark
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Willa Cather |
Driven by talent and ambition, Thea Kronborg leaves behind everyone and everything to fulfill her dreams of becoming an opera singer. Yet even as she achieves ever greater heights of success, Thea's … |
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Uncommon Faith
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Trudy Krisher |
In 1837-38, residents of Millbrook, Massachusetts, speak in their different voices of major issues of their day, including women's rights, slavery, religious differences, and one fiery girl named Fai… |
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Everything and the Moon
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Julia Quinn |
STARCROSSED
It was indisputably love at first sight. But Victoria Lyndon was merely the teenaged daughter of a vicar. . .while Robert Kemble was the dashing young earl of Macclesfield. Surely what… |
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Everybody Say Amen
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ReShonda Tate Billingsley |
When her husband hears God’s call to become a preacher, Rachel Jackson Adams is distressed—she grew up a preacher's daughter, and knows how difficult life under the microscope can be for a reverend’s… |
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The stories I keep
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RoseAnne Coleman |
"Life lessons from the author's experiences"--Provided by publisher. |
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The Brethren
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Beverly Lewis |
The stirring conclusion to Annie's People, by New York Times bestselling author Beverly Lewis. Annie Zook, the Amish preacher's daughter, is caught between two worlds. Living with shunned friend Esth… |
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