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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. The nine stories in this collection feature four generations of characters grappling with who they want to be in the world, caught as they are between the church's double standards and their own needs and passions"--
3) God is here
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Walking through the city with her mama, a curious child learns all the ways God shows up in their everyday lives and how His love and grace are always present.
4) Drawing God
Author
Publisher
Paraclete Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Emma wants to draw something beyond spectacular and decides to draw God. She is quick to share her masterpiece with her best friend at school, but he can't see God in her drawing. She realizes the power of her contagious inspiration when she returns to school to find everyone drawing God -- and every picture is different.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Six siblings living in the isolated woods of upstate New York start to test their boundaries and glimpse a life of freedom and choice, but only if they can escape their strict, religious father who has announced their family will soon return to their home in heaven.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A family heads to synagogue together in a charming board book for little listeners with a rhyming text and child-friendly illustrations. It's Saturday, and one family is setting out to walk together to shul. Inside the synagogue, they all say hello to their friends and the rabbi, then listen and watch as the Torah is read and held aloft. Singing aloud with everyone else is fun! In a welcome addition for children of any faith, this simple, warmly illustrated...
7) Revelator
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"From the acclaimed author of Spoonbenders comes the gripping tale about a family's mysterious religion, and the daughter who turned her back on their god. In 1933, nine-year-old Stella is left by her father in the care of her grandmother, Motty, in the backwoods of Tennessee. The remote hills of the Smoky Mountains are home to dangerous secrets, and upon her arrival, Stella wanders into a dark cavern where she encounters the presence of the family's...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When three women find their lives inextricably linked after one terrible mistake, they must work together to make the most of their futures and the challenges before them"--
"When three women find their lives inextricably linked after a terrible mistake, they must work together to make the most of their futures.Alexis Marshall never meant to cause the accident that left Jon-Jon Robinson paralyzed-but though guilt plagues her, her husband hopes to...
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