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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a small Florida town, a young lawyer, Keith Russo, is shot to death as he works late. A young black man, a former client, named Quincy Miller is charged and convicted. For 22 years, Miller maintains his innocence from inside prison. Finally, Guardian Ministries takes on Miller's case, but Cullen Post, the Episcopal minister in charge, gets more than he bargained for. Powerful people murdered Russo-- they do not want Miller exonerated, and will...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When an aging biblical scholar is fatally shot after revealing his possession of a unique parchment believed to have been written by Jesus, Father Aiden O'Brien investigates the victim's suspicions that a close friend was responsible, a case that is complicated by circumstances implicating the man's Alzheimer's victim wife.
Author
Series
Murphy Shepherd volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Murphy Shepherd lives alone, doing maintenance work for a church that no one attends and trying to heal from scars gained rescuing others who dwell in the margins. His specialty is finding young girls bought and sold in the flesh trade, and leading them from brokenness to freedom, but Shepherd thinks he has given everything he has and it may be time to retire. His hermetic healing process is interrupted when he rescues a woman named Summer in Florida's...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
403 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Serving time for murdering two abusive men, vigilante priest Danny Hansen must escape from prison after the woman he loves receives a threatening note and a box containing a bloody finger.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
318 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her older brother Art--a Catholic priest and the popular pastor of a large suburban parish--finds himself at the center of a scandal, Sheila McGann, estranged from her family for years, returns to Boston, ready to fight for him and his reputation.
8) Overbite
Author
Series
Insatiable volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
278 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sunday leads a solitary existence, spending most of his time reading and fishing on his boat, hidden among the Ten Thousand Islands off the Florida coast. It has been years since he has spoken with anyone outside of his priest and confidant, Steady. Because Steady once saved his life, Sunday can't refuse when he asks him to save another. Katie Quinn, a world-famous actress, has been driven by a secret and the pressures of her fame to end her life....
10) Father Stu
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long moves to Los Angeles to find money and fame. While scraping by as a supermarket clerk, he meets Carmen, a Sunday school teacher who seems immune to his bad-boy charm. Determined to win her over, the longtime agnostic starts going to church to impress her. However, a motorcycle accident leaves him wondering if he can use his second chance to help others, leading to the surprising realization...
11) Broken places
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Cops can make mistakes, even when they're not rookies. If anyone knows that it's Cass Raines.
Cass took a bullet two years ago after an incompetent colleague screwed up a tense confrontation with an armed suspect. Deeply traumatized, Cass resigned from the Chicago PD, leaving one less female African-American on the force. Now she's the head of a one-woman private investigation agency, taking on just enough work to pay the bills. But when the only...
12) Broken
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 347 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Father Michael, a Catholic priest presiding over a Northern urban parish who is modern, maverick, and reassuringly flawed; must be confidant, counsellor and confessor to a congregation struggling to reconcile its beliefs with the challenges of daily life.
Author
Publisher
David C. Cook
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
240 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A former Franciscan priest who has spent his life spreading the word of God's love and grace recalls his spiritual journey and honors the lives of the family and friends who have supported him through his life.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
c2016
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In San Francisco's seamy Tenderloin district, a teenage street hustler has been murdered in a shelter for boys. And the dedicated priest who runs the struggling home stands accused. But despite evidence that he's a killer, and worse, Father Thomas Martin stands by his innocence. And attorney Peter Donley stands with him. But a ruthless DA seeking headlines and a brutal homicide cop bent on vengeance have their own agendas.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
421 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Becoming a fugitive when he is wrongly accused of murder, an aspiring young priest embarks on a transcontinental journey by train, boat, and airship in search of answers about his shrouded past.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
When a break-in at the home of Father Alex Andreou coincides with the murder of his research partner, Andreou works to discover the truth of his partner's secret research into the Gospels, while being hunted by someone with an interest in the results.
Author
Series
Chocolat volume 3
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
457, 11 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English