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1) Lila
Author
Series
Gilead novels volume 3
Description
Neglected as a toddler, Lila was rescued by a canny young drifter and together they crafted a life on the run. Despite some petty violence and moments of desperation, their life was laced with moments of joy and love. When Lila arrives in Gilead, she struggles to reconcile the life of her makeshift family and their days of hardship with the gentle Christian worldview of her husband which paradoxically judges those she loves.
Author
Series
Charlie Peace mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
233 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
It's bound to be a problem when a vicar's wife loses her faith. In a Robert Barnard novel it can be a source of amusement, dismay, contemplation, and even murder. The hideous neo-Gothic parish church of St. Saviour's may or may not be typical of the Church of England, but clergy wife Rosemary Sheffield definitely does not fit the usual mold. While walking in the park one day, she loses her faith. It just lifts away from her, leaving her feeling free...
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
222 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
The author of Excellent Women explores female friendship and the quiet yearnings of British middle-class life-a literary delight for fans of Jane Austen.
Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates were close friends at Oxford University, but now live very different lives. Forty-one-year-old Jane lives in the country, is married to a vicar, has a daughter she adores, and lives a very proper life in a very proper English parish. Prudence, a year shy of thirty,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xxi, 338 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Since the 1970s, an important new figure has appeared on the center stage of American evangelicalism--the celebrity preacher's wife. Although most evangelical traditions bar women from ordained ministry, many women have carved out unofficial positions of power in their husbands' spiritual empires or their own ministries. The biggest stars--such as Beth Moore, Joyce Meyer, and Victoria Osteen--write bestselling books, grab high ratings on Christian...
Author
Series
Defiance Texas trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
356 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In a town she personifies, Ouisie Pepper wrestles with her own defiance. Desperate to become the wife and mother her husband Hap demands, Ouisie pours over a simple book about womanhood, constantly falling short, but determined to improve. Through all that self-improvement, Ouisie carries a terrible secret: she knows who killed Daisy Chance. As her children inch closer to uncovering the killer's identity and Hap's rages roar louder and become increasingly...
Author
Series
Ministry is murder mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
397 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Maintaining a cordial relationship with the unfaithful Charlotte while planning a divorce when their son graduates from high school, the Reverend Curtis Black resists his wife's efforts to reconcile and considers a proposition by a woman who desperately wants to marry him.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
276 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
New York Times best-selling author Kimberla Lawson Roby has made a name for herself with such engaging novels as Casting the First Stone and Here and Now. In The Best of Everything, Roby employs her trademark storytelling prowess to relate the tale of a woman whose life is complicated by the fact that her father is none other than Reverend Curtis Black.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
256 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
It's Christmastime, and the Fairchild family is spending the holidays on idyllic Sanpere Island in Maine while the Reverend Thomas Fairchild recuperates from surgery. His caterer wife, Faith, is rejoicing in the rare, holiday family-time together--but Faith's high spirits are dampened when she discovers the body of a young woman that is somehow connected to an abandoned, newborn baby boy.
14) 8 Sandpiper Way
Author
Series
Cedar Cove series volume 8
Formats
Description
Shocked after Pastor Dave Flemming is accused of stealing jewelry, Emily doesn't know what to believe. She finds an earring in his pocket, and Dave is being so evasive. Could her husband have stolen it--or is he having an affair?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
220 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
Highflying city career woman Jodie Welsh was prepared for a dramatic change in lifestyle when she met and married the Reverend Theo Welsh, settling down to an entirely new kind of life as the wife of a country vicar in the picturesque village of Lesser Hogben. But if she thought life as a city deal-maker was tough, nothing could have prepared her for the emotional rollercoaster of local church and village politics. As a newcomer, Jodie encounters...
17) Pastors' wives
Author
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
362 p. 21 cm.
Description
Follows three women whose lives converge and intertwine at a Southern evangelical megachurch. Ruthie follows her Wall Street husband from New York to Magnolia, a fictional suburb of Atlanta, when he hears a calling to serve at a megachurch called Greenleaf. Reeling from the death of her mother, Ruthie suffers a crisis of faith--in God, in her marriage, and in herself. Candace is Greenleaf's "First Lady," a force of nature who'll stop at nothing to...
Author
Series
Ministry is murder mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
437 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Author
Series
Curtis Black novels volume 8
Pub. Date
[2011], p2011
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (ca. 8 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Description
The Reverend Curtis Black's wife, Charlotte, is angry. Her life has been turned upside down and someone has to pay.
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