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41) Fatal strike
Author
Language
English
Description
"There's a killer on the loose in Galveston, targeting law enforcement officials and using a fatal injection of snake venom to take them down. Authorities have reasons to believe the Veneno gang is behind the hits, and FBI Agents Leah Riesel and Jon Colbert team up to track down those responsible."--
42) Angel train
Author
Series
Wagon wheel series volume 4
Publisher
Thorndike Press/Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In the turbulent mid-1800s, Charity Morgan, a businesslike young woman whose devout religious community is losing its Pennsylvania homestead to the economic recession, and the other members make plans to form a wagon train to Oregon, where free land is plentiful.
Author
Language
English
Description
In his first novel since Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth-century history. The setting is a small village in southwestern Anatolia in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. Everyone there speaks Turkish, though they write it in Greek letters. It’s a place that has room for a professional blasphemer;...
Author
Series
Restoring Heritage volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Small-town realtor Hannah Thornton has many talents--unfortunately, selling houses isn't one of them. When a developer sets his sights on the historic homes in Heritage, Michigan, Hannah turns to her best friend Luke for help. Will Luke risk his future and confront his past to help her succeed?"--Provided by publisher.
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English
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Counter-Clock World is a theological and philosophical adventure in a world set in reverse from the Hugo Award—winning science fiction novelist Philip K. Dick, author of The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep???-??the basis for the film Blade Runner.
Time has begun moving backward. People greet each other with "goodbye," blow smoke into cigarettes, and rise from the dead. When one of those rising dead is the famous and...
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English
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Description
In the summer of 1953, two 11-year-old boys--best friends--are playing in a Little League baseball game in New Hampshire.One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills his best friend's mother. Owen Meany believes he didn't hit the ball by accident. He believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after 1953 is extraordinary and terrifying. He is Irving's most heartbreaking hero.
47) Kelly's chance
Author
Series
Brides of Lehigh Canal volume 1
Language
English
Description
Life for Kelly McGregor is a daily drudge of driving her overbearing father's mules along Pennsylvania's Lehigh Canal. She dreams of one day owning an art gallery where her own drawings and paintings are on display. But these dreams don't include marriage ... not after seeing what her father has done to her mother. How then can Mike Cooper, a general store owner, make her realize he is different than her father and wants to support her artistic talent?...
49) Outside in
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the jungle outside the growing city of Chandigarh, twelve-year-old street child Ram discovers a hidden rock garden, befriends its creator--a factory worked named Nek--and tries to save Nek's garden when it is threatened with destruction.
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Language
English
Description
"A reclusive bookstore owner hoped she'd permanently buried her family's sensational past with a new name. But when the novels she once shared with an old crush begin appearing in the mail, it's clear her true identity is about to be revealed, threatening the new life she has painstakingly built"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Otto Ringling novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"Enlightenment meets On the Road in this witty, insightful novel." -The Boston Sunday Globe
When his sister tricks him into taking her guru on a trip to their childhood home, Otto Ringling, a confirmed skeptic, is not amused. Six days on the road with an enigmatic holy man who answers every question with a riddle is not what he'd planned. But in an effort to westernize his passenger-and amuse himself-he decides to show the monk some "American...
Author
Language
English
Description
After his daughter's murder, a grieving father confronts God with desperate questions — and finds unexpected answers — in this riveting and deeply moving #1 NYT bestseller.
When Mackenzie Allen Phillips's youngest daughter Missy is abducted during a family vacation, he remains hopeful that she'll return home. But then, he discovers evidence that she may have been brutally murdered in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon...
When Mackenzie Allen Phillips's youngest daughter Missy is abducted during a family vacation, he remains hopeful that she'll return home. But then, he discovers evidence that she may have been brutally murdered in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon...
Author
Publisher
FonoLibro
Pub. Date
p2005
Language
Español
Description
"La primera aventura de Robert Langdon antes de El código Da Vinci"--Container.
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to Switzerland when the dead body of a physicist turns up bearing the distinguishing mark of the ancient brotherhood of the "Illuminati." Soon, Langdon suspects this mysterious cult is determined to destroy Catholicism with an unimaginably powerful new weapon.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
p2012
Language
English
Description
Told from the perspective of precocious fourteen-year-old Peter, The Elephant Keepers' Children is about three siblings and how they deal with life alongside their eccentric parents. Peter's father is a vicar, his mother an artisan, and both are equally and profoundly devout. The family lives on the fictional island of Finø, where people of all faiths coexist peacefully. Yet nothing is at it seems. When Peter's parents suddenly go missing, Peter...
55) The 13th apostle
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"In the ruins of a medieval monastery, the diary of a 12th century monk has been uncovered and the murders have already begun. It is rumored the monk's writings offer clues to the whereabouts of a scroll dating back to the time of Jesus. The creation of a hitherto unknown intimate who recorded the actual words of Christ. Two people possess the combined skills to follow where the document leads -- an American cybersleuth, Gil Pearson, and Sabbie Karaim,...
56) Demon days
Author
Publisher
Ape Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"While on vacation, journalist Sandy Travis and her fiance, Tom, are in a horrendous helicopter accident. Tom is seriously injured and has an N.D.E. (a Near Death Experience) where he sees a bright light and a figure who tells him that he must go back to the living because there's still more he must accomplish with his life. After Tom is revived, he tells Sandy that he believes he's spoken to God. As it turns out... Tom is wrong. Horribly wrong. The...
57) Blasphemy
Author
Series
Wyman Ford novels volume 2
Publisher
Forge Books
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Language
English
Description
A CIA operative is sent to a remote Arizona mountain with a group of scientists to turn on the world's biggest supercollider. His mission: to discover a secret that will either destroy the world ... or save it.
Author
Series
Publisher
Annie's
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Anna Petersheim is doing the best she can to keep her head above water. Widowed a year ago, and with her father-in-law recently deceased, Anna is employed as a housekeeper for a kindly English couple by day, and at night makes quilts and wall hangings to sell in a local shop. No matter how hard she works, though, she barely makes enough to support herself, her daughter, and her mother-in-law. So when she is injured in an accident, her little family...
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Language
English
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Description
The new novel from the award-winning author of Breakfast with Buddha and Revere Beach Boulevard tells the story of a young Catholic woman jolted from a quietly devout life in pursuit of a mysterious calling.
Cynthia Piantedosi lives a quiet, unassuming life outside of Boston, guided by her Catholic faith. When she loses her beloved grandmother, she begins experiencing "spells" of such intense spiritual intimacy
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Language
English
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Description
"A Poet of the Invisible World is the story of a boy born in thirteenth-century Persia with four ears instead of two. Orphaned as an infant, he's taken into a Sufi order, where he meets an assortment of dervishes and is placed upon a path towards spiritual awakening. He studies the Koran and the principles of Sufism. He meets his first love, a handsome youth named Vishpar. When marauders attack the lodge, however, he's swept off to a series of grueling...
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