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1) Cousins
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A young girl steals her cousin's rosary because she is jealous of her upcoming first communion.
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Two brothers brave a whirlwind summer in this taut and luminous coming-of-age novel.
A twelve-year-old boy lives with his family in a small, poverty-stricken town in Vermont. His father works at a manufacturing plant, his mother is a homemaker, and his fifteen-year-old brother is about to enter high school. His family has gained enough financial stability to move out of the nearby trailer park, and as conflict rages abroad, his father's job at...
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Sister Agatha mysteries volume 4
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Sister Agatha attempts to track down the estranged niece of the man who is the chief benefactor of her monastery.
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Mrs. Ford leads a privileged life. Early one morning in the summer of 2014, the past pays a call to collect. The FBI arrives to question her about a man from Iraq--a Chaldean Christian from Mosul--where ISIS has just seized control. Sammy Fakhouri, they say, is his name and they have taken him into custody, picked up on his way to her house. Why is Sammy looking for Susan all these years later? And why is Mrs. Ford lying?
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"A Los Angeles transplant, Sister Louise "Lou" LaSalle feels right at home in Briar Coast, New York. After all, her beloved nephew, Chris, works at the college founded by her congregation. But while Sister Lou has always played by the rules, she's about to have her faith in herself tested-by murder...Sister Lou expects some pushback when she invites her friend, Maurice Jordan, to be the guest speaker for the St. Hermione of Ephesus Feast Day presentation....
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Prin, a professor and a Catholic, moves to small-town Indiana to work for an evangelical millionaire who's building a theme park inspired by Dante's Inferno. He soon becomes involved in the challenging lives of his co-workers and in the wider struggles of their opioid-ravaged community while trying to reconcile with his wife and God. When a Black teenager is killed, creationists, politicians, and protesters alike appear. In the midst of this American...
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"Rachele Luzzato is twelve years old when she learns her father is gravely ill. While her family plans for her upcoming Bat-Mitzvah, Rachele finds herself cast as the Madonna in her school's Christmas play. Caught between spiritual poles, struggling to cope with her father's mortality, Rachele feels as if the threads of her everyday life are unravelling. A diverse circle of adults are there to guide young Rachele as she faces the difficult passing...
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Woman librarian Pattianne Anthony from New Jersey marries the wrong man for her who is a Catholic. She goes to St. Cloud, Minnesota and gets a job in a New Age bookstore, dabbles with Buddhism, gets a dog, and keeps her birth control pills a secret. She discovers that she doesn't want a husband or a baby. She eventually finds herself in a convenience store on Vancouver Island playing Bible Scrabble with a Korean physicist and a drunk priest.
17) Echoes
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Beata and her daughter, Amadea, try to survive during the two world wars in Europe. Amadea who is half-Jewish decides to take on the vows of a Carmelite nun, and she eventually joins the French resistance. Both woman find love as Beata marries a French officer while Amadea meets British secret agent Rupert Montgomery.
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