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Murphy Shepherd is a man with many secrets. He lives alone on an island, tending the grounds of a church with no parishioners, and he’s dedicated his life to rescuing those in peril. But as he mourns the loss of his mentor and friend, Murph himself may be more lost than he realizes. When he pulls a beautiful woman named Summer out of Florida’s Intracoastal Waterway, Murph’s mission to lay his mentor to rest at the end of the world takes a dangerous turn.

A masterpiece of satire, this classic has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to "Our Father Below". At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C.S. Lewis gives us the correspondence of the worldly-wise old Devil to his nephew, Wormwood, a novice demon in charge of securing the damnation of an ordinary young man. The Screwtape Letters is the most engaging account of temptation, and triumph over it, ever written.

"A dark, absorbing story of how first love can be as intoxicating and dangerous as religious fundamentalism."--New York Times Book Review"Reminiscent of Donna Tartt's The Secret History, with menace and mystery lurking in every corner."--People MagazineA powerful, darkly glittering novel of violence, love, faith, and loss, as a young woman at an elite American university is drawn into acts of terrorism by a cult tied to North Korea.

At the Tabard Inn, thirty travelers of widely varying classes and occupations are gathering to make the annual pilgrimage to Becket's shrine at Canterbury. It is agreed that each traveler will tell four tales to help pass the time and that the host of the inn will judge the tales and reward the best storyteller with a free supper upon their return. Thus we hear, translated into modern English, twenty-some tales, told in the voices of knight and merchant, wife and miller, squire and nun, and many more. Some are bawdy, some spiritual, some romantic, some mysterious, some chivalrous.

Content to be unmarried and plain-spoken, Kathryn "Kappy" King is an odd-woman-out in the Amish community of Blue Sky, Pennsylvania. But she's skilled at making the special kapps local women need to cover their hair. And she might be the only one who can unearth the danger hiding in this peaceful valley ... When Kappy's neighbor, Ruth Peachey, turns up dead in her yard, everyone in Blue Sky believes it's a tragic accident. Until the Englisch police find the gentle dog breeder was deliberately struck down--and arrest her mentally-challenged son, Jimmy, for the crime ...

A new Gilead novel that tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the beloved, erratic, and grieved-over prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister from Gilead, Iowa.

Little daunts renegade, silver-haired Sister Evelyn, who, with her fellow sisters, make Mercy House a safe haven for Brooklyn's abused and abandoned, until they receive word that Bishop Hawkins is coming to investigate Mercy House, and their secret efforts to help the women in ways forbidden by the Church may become uncovered.

When Joan, an ex-girlfriend, introduces James to her pastor, he can't help but be intrigued. James is introduced to a world he did not know existed: single men who love God intensely. James isn't sure he's buying any of it, but when the pastor offers to mentor him, he accepts the challenge. Living for the Lord when he's been accustomed to the world brings a multitude of unexpected consequences. Can a ladies' man really become God's man?

The search for a ruthless hit man turns into a deadly alpine chase. Tracking leads in her sister's disappearance could make a K-9 handler the next victim. Finding a missing girl depends on a K-9 and his handler.

To save a woman from being kidnapped, Officer Chris Fuller and his K-9 partner, Teddy, let the fugitive they're tracking get away. But when he returns, Chris knows the attempted kidnapping wasn't a chance encounter.