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61) The mailbox
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When teenager Lindsey Adams first visits the Kindred Spirit mailbox at Sunset Beach, North Carolina, she has no idea that twenty years later she will be visiting it again. Returning for the first time since her husband left her and their two children, Lindsey struggles to put her sorrow into words. Centered around the real and mysterious landmark on the coast of North Carolina, The Mailbox is a rich blend of folklore, faith, and the beauty of second...
62) On every side
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Jordan Riley has made it his life's mission to battle public acknowledgement and exercise of religion. However, when he comes back to Bethany to tear down a controversial Jesus statue in a public park, he finds himself reliving his faith-filled past and the childhood trauma that drove him from God. When the leading voice of the opposing townspeople turns out to be his former best friend Faith Evans, Jordan struggles between his current doubts and...
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2009
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325 p. ; 25 cm.
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Elv, Claire, and Meg are the Story Sisters, and each has a fate she must meet alone. One on a country road, one in the streets of Paris, and one in the corridors of her own imagination. At once a coming-of-age tale, a family saga, and a love story of erotic longing.
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c2001
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266 p. ; 22 cm.
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Katie Wilkinson's boyfriend Matt dumps her; not a total cad, he leaves her a gift, a diary kept by Suzanne, his first wife, for their son Nicholas. Though it's not exactly the diamond ring Katie was hoping for, she's unable to make herself destroy the diary--against her better judgment, Katie begins to read.
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[2019]
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1 videodisc (66 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 facilitator's/participant's guide (61 pages ; 18 cm)
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"Grief experts Khris Ford and Janie Cook lead participants through an 8-week program in how to lead a small group of grieving people. Through interactive discussions, stories, Scripture, and activities the group will explore healthy ways of re-membering their loved ones, re-shaping their lives after loss, and re-imagining the beauty and hope that can still be experienced."--Back of container
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2023.
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xviii, 211 pages ; 23 cm
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"A few years ago, Kris Carr's world was falling apart. Her father was dying, she had to pivot her business because of the pandemic, and she was on the verge of reaching her twenty-year milestone of living with an incurable Stage IV cancer diagnosis. While sitting in a CVS parking lot, she broke down, finally allowing herself to feel the massive stress and sadness she had been suppressing in order to seem strong for those around her, and for herself....
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[2018]
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xxiii, 241 pages ; 22 cm.
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Are you grieving? Do you know someone who is grieving and you don't know how to help them? "You Are Not Alone" takes readers into Debbie's personal journey of grief, from the first gripping chapter, when her husband dies unexpectedly in her arms. Throughout the book, Debbie takes readers by the hand and offers them gentle insights and suggestions for healing and hope, while sharing her powerful story of loss and the spiritual journey that led her...
74) The perfect star
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2019.
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375 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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"Told from different viewpoints, five eighth-graders who have challenges at home and at school also experience a sad loss as a group and welcome a new addition to their extended family"--
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2015.
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296 pages ; 22 cm
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Life threatening cancer brings Francis and Amber together. But Francis's recovery is taking a different path from Amber's. He's actually getting better. And although he knew who he was before cancer, before Amber, now he has no idea how to live--or how to let go.--
77) In a dark wood
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[2010]
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449 p. ; 24 cm.
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Loosely based on Dante's Inferno, this is an in-depth study of Europeans' angst and fear after the Holocaust.
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[2019]
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225 pages ; 22 cm
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"Following her acclaimed debut, Show Her a Flower, A Bird, A Shadow, award-winning author Peg Alford Pursell explores and illuminates love and loss in 78 hybrid stories and fables. A Girl Goes into the Forest immerses readers in the complex desires, contradictions, and sorrows of daughters, wives, and husbands, artists, siblings, and mothers. In forests literal and metaphorical, the characters try, fail, and try again to see the world, to hear each...
79) Stay with me
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2017.
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257 pages ; 22 cm
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Yejide and Akin fell in love and married while at university. Though many expected Akin to take several wives, he and Yejide agreed polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage-- after consulting fertility doctors and healers, trying strange teas and unlikely cures-- Yejide is still not pregnant. When her family arrives with a young woman they introduce as Akin's second wife, Yejide knows the only way to save her marriage is to get...
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