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  An I Can Read Book

  Amelia Bedelia

  by Peggy Parish

  Amelia Bedelia is a housekeeper who takes her instructions quite literally. Reading the list of chores that her employer has left her, Amelia begins with "Dust the furniture." How odd, Amelia thinks to herself. "At my house we undust the furniture." Nonetheless, she dutifully locates the "Dusting Powder" in the bathroom, and proceeds to sprinkle it all over the living-room furniture and floor. Next she is... (more)
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  Studying Congregations: A New Handbook

  Studying Congregations: A New Handbook is a revised and updated edition of Handbook for Congregational Studies , replacing that previous text. In this new edition, the authors update what has become the primary textbook in the field of congregational studies in the seminary classroom. Studying Congregations: A New Handbook will also be a useful reference for pastors, denominational leaders, and strategic... (more)
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  Skinned Alive

  Stories

  by Edmund White

  The eight stories in this erotic and heartbreaking collection are barometers of difference. They measure the distance between an American expatriate and the Frenchman who tutors him in table manners and rough sex; the gulf between a man dying of AIDS and his uncomprehending relatives. "Wrenching, glorious, seductive . . . urgent and kinetic . . . delectably precise."--San Francisco Examiner.
• Bait on the HookFrank Parish

  

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  Bait on the Hook

  by Frank Parish

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  Dan Mallett: Book 2

  Sting of the Honeybee

  by Frank Parrish

• In Verdant Pastures: From a Pastor's DiaryPeter M Rinaldi

  

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  In Verdant Pastures: From a Pastor's Diary

  by Peter M Rinaldi

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  The Little World of Don Camillo

  by Giovanni Guareschi

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  First Annual Grand Prairie Rabbit Festival

  by Ken Wheaton

  Welcome to Grand Prairie, Louisiana - land of confounding accents, hard-drinking senior citizens, and charming sinners - brought to hilarious life in a bracing, heartfelt debut novel simmering with Cajun spice...Father Steve Sibille has come home to the bayou to take charge of St. Pete's church. Among his challenges are teenybopper altar girls, insomnia-curing confessions, and alarmingly alluring congregant Vicky... (more)
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  Bless This Mouse

  by Lois Lowry, Eric Rohmann

  A resilient and quirky colony of church mice fears another Great X more than they fear cats. Under Mouse Mistress Hildegarde’s leadership, they save themselves from one danger after another—sometimes just by the skin of their tails! Can one ultimate act of bravery during the feast day of St. Francis get Father Murphy to bless these mice and keep them safe forever? Rife with humor and personality, this young... (more)
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  Seamus O'Flynn: New York Diaries of An Immigrant Son 1931-1945

  by Bill Tobin

  SEAMUS O'FLYNN IS IN LOVE WITH NEW YORK CITY. His diaries of an immigrant son begin during the Great Depression. The O'Flynns, Irish Catholic immigrants, keep body and soul together at St. Nicholas Church and School in the Bronx. A few steps away is a redbrick apartment building, home of the O'Flynns and other immigrant families. Seamus' New York adventures begin every time he drops a nickel in the subway... (more)