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Cedar Cove series volume 8
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Dear reader, I have something to confide in you. I think my husband, Dave, might be having an affair. I found an earring in his pocket, and it's not mine. I'm also worried because some jewelry was recently stolen from an old woman--and Dave used to visit her a lot. You see, he's a pastor. And a good man. But why won't he tell me where he's been when he comes home so late? I also want to tell you what's going on with your other friends in Cedar Cove....
3) Dog days
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The dog days of summer are anything but boring when the Harrington County Dog Show comes to Cooper Mill. Proud pooches and their owners will stop at nothing to take home "Best in Show." With only a few weeks until the big event, Renee Lambert has a serious shock: Her pocket-pup Kisses has been dognapped! While Renee mourns the loss of her faithful companion, Kate sets out to find the missing Chihuahua, but a series of pranks, a heated argument
...4) Lila
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Gilead novels volume 3
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"Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an unforgettable story of a girlhood lived on the fringes of society in fear, awe, and wonder. Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church-the only available shelter from the rain-and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister, John Ames, and begins...
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Mystery and the minister's wife volume 13
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When Kate gets a call from the local hospital to identify a patient who asked for her by name, she is mystified as to who the young woman is. Her search for the identity and circumstances of the young woman take her all over Copper Mill, and she uncovers a few unexpected secrets along the way. (adapted from back cover).
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Bailey Ruth mysteries volume 1
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2008.
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When the pastor's wife discovers a murdered body on her porch, ghost sleuth Bailey Ruth Raeburn applies her beyond-the-grave talents for solving puzzles to keep suspicion from falling on the innocent pastor.
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Mystery and the minister's wife volume 24
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When Kate wakes one morning, only to realize she's been sleeping for days, she is shocked and alarmed. With Paul at her side, Kate concludes that she's come down with a nasty flu and decides to continue working on her current mystery from bed. Mayor Lawton Briddle has been accused of a horrendous financial crime, and Kate is convinced he's innocent. But when she digs back into her work, not only is her memory fuzzy, but she's also missing any real...
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Faith Fairchild mysteries volume 13
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When Faith Fairchild and her family head for their summer cottage, they arrive to find trouble between the locals and the annual visitors, whose extravagant homes and massive construction have triggered the murder of a wealthy developer.
10) Sin no more
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Curtis Black novels volume 5
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[2008]
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Resolving to turn over a new leaf after cheating on his wife once again, the Reverend Curtis Black is blackmailed by both his former mistress and a substitute pastor, a situation that further tests his marriage and reveals additional painful secrets.
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Curtis Black novels volume 6
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[2009]
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The Reverend Curtis Black's daughter, Alicia, reaches adulthood determined not to repeat her father's mistakes, but her love of money and the things it can buy threatens to destroy her marriage to Phillip, the assistant pastor of her father's church.
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Faith Fairchild mysteries volume 14
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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...
14) The Sunday wife
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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...
15) Little wolves
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Their family farms devastated by a Minnesota drought in 1987, a father searches for answers after his son commits a heinous murder, while a pastor's wife returns to the town for mysterious reasons of her own.
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[2010]
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In this unique and tender story of an unlikely romance, boarding school graduate Mariette Puttnam returns to her privileged life at home, unsure where life will take her. More schooling? A job? Marriage? Nothing feels right. How could she know that the answer is waiting for her within the narrow stairwell of her father's apparel factory, exactly between the third and fourth floors? Set in the summer of 1959.
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[2019]
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"Charlotte Collins, née Lucas, is the respectable wife of Hunsford's vicar, and sees to her duties by rote: keeping house, caring for their adorable daughter, visiting parishioners, and patiently tolerating the lectures of her awkward husband and his condescending patroness, Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Intelligent, pragmatic, and anxious to escape the shame of spinsterhood, Charlotte chose this life, an inevitable one so socially acceptable that its...
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[2012]
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Maintaining a cordial relationship with the unfaithful Charlotte while planning a divorce when their son graduates from high school, Reverend Curtis Black resists his wife's efforts to reconcile and considers a proposition by a woman who desperately wants to marry him. By the award-winning author of Casting the First Stone.