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The Last Sin Eater

by Francine Rivers

Published: 2013-06-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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A captivating tale of suffering, seeking, and redemption set in Appalachia in the 1850s, The Last Sin Eater is the story of a community committed to its myth of a human “sin eater,” who absolves the dead of their sins, and the ten-year-old child who shows them the Truth. All that matte...

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When Light Breaks

by Patti Callahan Henry

Published: 2006-05-02

Paperback: 304 pages

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Garnering comparisons to Anne Rivers Siddons and Pat Conroy, Patti Callahan Henry has woven her lyrical Southern voice throughout the Lowcountry landscape. Now, as two women from opposite sides of the sea meet, a tale unfolds that will draw you into the heart’s remembrances...Bogged down...

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Love Comes Softly/Love's Enduring Promise/Love's Long Journey/Love's Abiding Joy (Love Comes Softly Series 1-4)

by Janette Oke

Published: 1993-11

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The first series from the pen of Janette Oke, follows the lives of one family through three generations. Lets the reader see the impact that Christian love has on relationships despite adversity and hardship.

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The Echo Maker

by Richard Powers

Published: 2007-08-21

Paperback: 451 pages

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Winner of the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction The Echo Maker is "a remarkable novel, from one of our greatest novelists, and a book that will change all who read it" (Booklist, starred review). On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter has a ne...

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Life Support (An Alexia Lindale Novel)

by Robert Whitlow

Published: 2011-08-02

Paperback: 400 pages

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Alexia Lindale knows her new case is a matter of life and death. She doesn't have a clue what it will do to her heart...and soul. From the Christy-award-winning author of The List, The Trial, and The Sacrifice comes this twisting tale of tough decisions, mixed motives, and mysterious, hea...

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Tell My Sons: A Father's Last Letters

by Lt. Col. Mark Weber

Published: 2013-06-04

Hardcover: 240 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAt the pinnacle of a soaring career in the U.S. Army, Lt. Col. Mark M. Weber was tapped to serve in a high-profile job within the Afghan Parliament as a military advisor. Weeks later, a routine physical revealed stage IV intestinal cancer in the thirty-eight-year-o...

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Eyes of the Innocent: A Mystery

by Brad Parks

Published: 2011-02-01

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Carter Ross, the sometimes-dashing investigative reporter for the Newark Eagle-Examiner, is back, and reporting on the latest tragedy to befall Newark, New Jersey, a fast-moving house fire that kills two boys.With the help of the paper’s newest intern, a bubbly blonde known as “Sweet T...

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Dinner with the Smileys: One Military Family, One Year of Heroes, and Lessons for a Lifetime

by Sarah Smiley

Published: 2013-05-07

Hardcover: 368 pages

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The uplifting true story of a wife and mother's yearlong experience inviting one new guest (from senators to school teachers, artists to professional athletes) to dinner for each week that her husband was deployed overseas.  But DINNER WITH THE SMILEYS isn't really about dinner. And it'...

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Shadow Baby: A Novel

by Alison McGhee

Published: 2009-09-22

Paperback: 256 pages

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Clara first spies him through the crack in the stained-glass window of her church, lighting a string of handmade lanterns in the Adirondack woods. A lone old man, Georg Kominsky moves stealthily among the shadow world of his hanging, glittering creations.In Alison McGhee's stunning novel S...

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The Darling Strumpet

by Gillian Bagwell

Published: 2012-10-01

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A thrilling debut novel starring one of history's most famous and beloved courtesans. From London's slums to its bawdy playhouses, "The Darling Strumpet" transports the reader to the tumultuous world of seventeenth-century England, charting the meteoric rise of the dazzling Nell Gwynn, wh...