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Married for 20 years to the Reverend Benjamin Lynch, a handsome, ambitious minister of the prestigious Methodist church, Dean Lynch has never quite adjusted her temperament to the demands of the role of a Sunday wife. When her husband is assigned to a larger and more demanding community in the Florida panhandle, Dean becomes fast friends with Augusta Holderfield, a woman whose good looks and extravagant habits immediately entrance her. As their friendship...
4) Lila
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Series
Gilead novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Abandoning her homeless existence to become a minister's wife, Lila reflects on her hardscrabble life on the run with a canny young drifter and her efforts to reconcile her painful past with her husband's gentle Christian worldview.
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Series
Faith Fairchild mysteries volume 15
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English
Description
Caterer Faith Fairchild has a bad feeling about her father-in-law's decision to celebrate his seventieth birthday with a family reunion ski week at the Pine Slopes resort in Vermont -- the Fairchilds' favorite getaway since Faith's husband, the Reverend Thomas Fairchild, was a toddler. At first her unease seems unfounded -- until Faith comes across a corpse on one of the cross-country trails, the apparent victim of a heart attack. Then one catastrophe...
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Faith Fairchild mysteries volume 18
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English
Description
"Katherine Hall Page is my favorite writer of the traditional mystery. Not only is The Body in the Sleigh a gripping whodunit, but it's a classic tale of hope."-Harlan Coben. Caterer and minister's wife Faith Fairchild is back to solve her eighteenth deadly mystery in The Body in the Sleigh-the latest perfect puzzler in author Katherine Hall Page's multiple Agatha Award-winning series. Set on Sanpere Island in Maine's Penobscot Bay, this atmospheric...
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Series
Faith Fairchild mysteries volume 17
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English
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Faith's catering business has been slow with the downturn of the economy, so when her friend Patsy Avery proposes that she take over the café at Aleford's Ganley Art Museum, it seems like a not-to-be-missed opportunity. And Patsy has an ulterior motive-she discovers that the Romare Bearden piece she lent the museum has been switched with a fake and wants Faith to snoop around to find the culprit.
Life at the museum doesn't stay calm for long and...
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Faith Fairchild mysteries volume 13
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English
Description
Something was very wrong on Sanpere this summer... To escape the misery of a sweltering August in Aleford, Massachusetts, caterer and minister's wife Faith Fairchild and her family head for their cottage on Maine's peaceful Sanpere Island in Penobscot Bay. But things have changed since their last visit. An aggressive developer is moving forward on plans that will destroy the unique ambience of the island, infuriating residents. Tensions are running...
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English
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Barbara Pym affectionately skewers the charms, eccentricities, and secret yearnings of British middle-class life 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, lives in London, has an office job, and...
11) Steal away
Author
Series
Teri Blake-Addison mystery volume 1
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
288 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Series
Faith Fairchild mysteries volume 14
Language
English
Description
Caterer Faith Fairchild and family are living in one of historic Cambridge, Massachusetts', venerable Brattle Street houses while the Reverend Tom teaches a course at the Harvard Divinity School and does some soul searching -- is his Aleford parish his true calling? One night in downtown Boston, Faith is startled by a face from her past. It's Richard Morgan, a former boyfriend from her life as a single woman in Manhattan. Their heady, whirlwind affair...
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English
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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.
14) Noah's wife
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Language
English
Description
When young minister Noah and his dutiful wife arrive at their new post in the hills, they find a gray and wet little town where it's been raining for as long as anyone can remember. Noah's wife is determined to help her husband revive this soggy congregation, but soon finds her efforts thwarted by her eccentric new neighbors, among them an idiom-wielding Italian hardware store owner, a towering town matriarch, and a lovelorn zookeeper determined to...
15) The remember box
Author
Series
Job's corner chronicles volume 1
Publisher
ZondervanPublishingHouse
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
412 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
16) A state of grace
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Publisher
Guideposts Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
277 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Ministry is murder mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
293 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
There's no rest for the weary Aggie Sloan-Wilcox and her minister husband, who were praying for a relaxing weekend until a member of their flock went missing. Joe Wagner, president of Emerald Springs's food bank, disappears, and Aggie discovers his secret life-as a female impersonator. Meanwhile, the murder of the mayor's wife at the annual food bank fundraiser puts Joe on top of the suspect list. If Aggie doesn't get to the bottom of things fast,...
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