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1) Atonement
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Description
In 1935, thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. He hopes that Cecilia has comparable feelings. All it will take...
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This novel is in effect two, or even three, books in one, all masterfully crafted. The first part ushers us into a domestic crisis that becomes a crime story centered around an event that changes the lives of half a dozen people in an upper-middle-class country home on a hot English summer's day in 1935. Young Briony Tallis, a hyperimaginative 13-year-old who sees her older sister, Cecilia, mysteriously involved with their neighbor Robbie Turner,...
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Lucy Flaud, a young Amish woman, has given up hope of marriage because of mistakes from her past. She seeks to redeem the guilt she feels by volunteering her time in Lancaster County. When Dale Wyeth, a young Englisher interested in the self-sufficiency of the Amish, seeks mentorship from her father, Lucy forms a connection of her own with him. Is it too late to embrace redemption--and the power of love?
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When tragedy strikes Dynah, a devout Christian with a bright future, the Carey family struggles to cope. In considering the question of abortion, Dynah and her family must come to terms with God's provision and goodness and what it means to live out the truth even when the cost is high.
5) Atonement
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Publisher
Harlequin HQN
Pub. Date
[2014]
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Just how far are people willing to go to keep their secrets? Protecting the citizens of Beartooth, Montana, is never an easy job. It's been one year, and Sheriff Dillon Lawson still feels guilty that he couldn't save his twin brother, Ethan. But the biggest test of his bravery comes when Tessa Winters arrives, claiming to be pregnant... with Ethan's baby. At first, Dillon can't decide if this beautiful woman is a con artist or a victim. If Ethan didn't...
7) Atonement
Pub. Date
2008
Description
In 1935, thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. He hopes that Cecilia has comparable feelings. All it will take...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
First edition.
Description
Life for Irene Spencer was a series of devastating disappointments and hardships. Irene's first book, Shattered Dreams, is the staggering chronicle of her struggle to provide for her children in abject poverty and feelings of abandonment each time her husband left to be with one of his other wives. Irene was raised to believe polygamy was the way of life necessary for her ticket to heaven. The hard knocks of her environment were just the beginning...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Description
Returning to mid-eighteenth-century Lisbon to avenge the death of his father, Sebastian Foxx, the prot©♭g©♭ of bounty hunter Benjamin Weaver, stealthily collects funds and identifies friends and allies among Inquisition spies.
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Black science volume 5
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Grant McKay forges a path through the ravaged Eververse, determined to undo the damage he caused. His first stop is a world where his estranged daughter Pia has managed a peace offering between three godlike races, ending eons of brutal warfare. Grant's appearance threatens to destroy the fragile truce, sending him on a quest to finally bring his family home...but what he finds waiting for him there may be worse than the multitude horrors he encountered...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Description
"A woman's quest for a new life in Africa in the wake of World War II -- and a heroic career that hid a secret past. Over the span of fifty years, Dr. Anne Spoerry, French by birth, treated hundreds of thousands of individuals across rural Kenya. A member of the renowned Flying Doctors Service, Spoerry earned the cherished nickname "Mama Daktari"--"Mother Doctor"--the people of Kenya. Yet few knew what drove her from post-World War II Europe to Africa....
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Publisher
Fawcett Gold Medal
Pub. Date
1992,1991
Edition
1st Ballantine Books.
Description
Summary: Detective team Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus, in Brooklyn for the Jewish High Holy Days after their marriage, find themselves on the trail of an Orthodox teenaged runaway kidnapped by a psychopath.
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Enjoy the rich history of Texas penned by an exclusive selection of Christian fiction authorsincluding DiAnn Mills and Kathleen Y'Barbo. This collection of nine romances brings together the lawful, the lawless, and the lonely in the Lone Star State. Watch as three Texas Rangers turn from chasing outlaws to courting women who are determined to remain independent. Experience the trials six outlaws have as they turn into respectable citizens and seek...
19) The Jazz singer
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
25th anniversary, widescreen ed.
Description
A Jewish cantor's son defies his father to pursue a career in popular music.
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Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Unabridged.
Description
While on his honeymoon, Detective Peter Decker becomes involved in an investigation into the disappearance of a boy from a strict Jewish community. Decker soon learns that the boy is running with a known serial killer who is only too happy to show the runaway the glorified life of crime. With his new marriage already strained, Decker must not only get to the boy before the killer corrupts him, but before his relationship falls apart as well.
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