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The Damnation of Theron Ware
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Harold Frederic |
A fledgling Methodist preacher rotates into an up-state New York town and learns disorienting lessons in how life is, and other ways life could be. |
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Yesterday in the Texas hill country
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Gilbert John Jordan |
The simplicity of rural life appears in vivid detail in this account of German Texas heritage as it was lived in the early 1900s. Gilbert Jordan describes a way of life familiar to much of rural Texa… |
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The Ramparts of Heaven (The Wakefield Dynasty #5)
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Gilbert Morris |
Two families—the Wakefields of nobility and the lower-class Morgans—are the focus of this sweeping generational saga, joined by intriguing personalities such as Elizabeth I, William Tyndale, and John… |
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The Blood and Thunder Adventure on Hurricane Peak
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Margaret Mahy |
Relates the tangled events that lead the students of the Unexpected School on Hurricane Peak to foil the wicked Sir Quincey and his accomplices and to solve several mysteries. |
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The Sunday wife
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Cassandra King |
She's been married to a Methodist minister for 20 years, but Dean Lynch has never quite adjusted her temperament to the demands of a "Sunday wife." When she becomes friends with Augusta Holderfield, … |
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The dairyman's daughter
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Legh Richmond |
One of the 19th century's most well-read stories for girls. Over three (3) million copies sold before 1900. Read this once and you'll wonder why you never heard this story before. Told by her pastor,… |
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With an attitude of gratitude
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Donald Charles Lacy |
"In this yearlong accounting of his life and life's work, Donald Charles Lacy regularly greets the early morning in a posture of gratefulness, and with a heart of remembrance and receptivity. With da… |
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The Missouri bishops
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Ivan Lee Holt |
These are autobiographies of the bishops who served the Methodist Church in Missouri. |
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On God's polishing wheel
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Kurt Leichter |
Leichter's life journey has taken him from Vienna to Belgium, and eventually to Oklahoma, where he has been a prominent philanthropist for decades. At age 14, the Jewish-Protestant Leichter was force… |
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The village blacksmith
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James Everett |
As far as I know the earliest publication of this book by James Everett was 1858, the 100th anniversary of Samuel Hick's birth. It is a biography of his life, how he came to be inspired by his faith… |
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Susanna Wesley, mother of John and Charles
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Charles Ludwig |
A biography of the woman who married the well-known preacher, Samuel Wesley, and was the mother of John, founder of Methodism, and Charles, famous for the more than 6,000 hymns he wrote during his li… |
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Wilderness rider
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Leonard T. Wolcott |
A biography of Noah Fidler, a circuit-riding Methodist preacher of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. |
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The backwoods preacher
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Peter Cartwright |
This famous Methodist circuit-rider made an exploratory trip through Illinois in 1823 and located the following year in Sangamon County. He had charge of several districts in the central and northern… |
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Recollections of frontier life
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Elizabeth Ann Lyon Roe |
The author wrote in the Preface, “In these pages many recollections of frontier life in different localities are sketched. The climate, the soil, society, schools and churches, in many places in Kent… |
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Memoirs of Puget Sound
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David Blaine |
David Blaine was the first Christian minister in Seattle, Washington Territory, and founder of the Methodist Episcopal Church (now First United Methodist Church) in that city. |
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