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1) Lila
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Abandoning her homeless existence to become a minister's wife, Lila reflects on her hardscrabble life on the run with a canny young drifter and her efforts to reconcile her painful past with her husband's gentle Christian worldview. Revisiting the beloved characters and setting of Marilynne Robinson?s Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead and Home, a National Book Award Finalist, Lila is a moving expression of the mysteries of existence that is destined to...
Author
Series
Reverend Curtis Black volume 8
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After the Reverend Curtis Black and his wife, Charlotte, must take in the illegitimate child he fathered with a mistress, who is now deceased, the two-year-old's arrival puts stress on their marriage, and soon each begins to stray, all the while suspecting the other of infidelities.
Author
Series
Reverend Curtis Black volume 6
Language
English
Description
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.
5) Lady elect
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2015
Language
English
Description
When Bishop Lance Howell marries outside the congregation, the mothers of the church don't take kindly to his new wife, the flashy and uncontrollable Lady Arykah, and put a plan in motion to show Arykah how much she isn't liked or wanted, igniting an all-out war that has an unexpected victor.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
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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