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Adult Fiction - Spiritual & Religious
Updated May 19, 2023
Milwaukee County Federated Library System
Oak Creek Public Library
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The road to grace
Evans, Richard Paul.
Paper Book
From one of America's most beloved storytellers comes the inspiring third installment of the bestselling series, The Walk, the ongoing story of one man's unrelenting search for hope. Join one of America's beloved storytellers on a walk like no other: one man's unrelenting...
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The next
Gangi, Stephanie
Paper Book
One of Library Journal's "Best Books of 2016" A Best 35 Over 35 Pick Blogcritics Best Fiction of the Year "A novel so startlingly original and so unafraid to approach complicated, bald emotion and anger." --The Brooklyn Rail<...
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Lilah : a forbidden love, a people's destiny : a novel
Halter, Marek.
Paper Book
Set in the magnificent culture of the Middle East more than four thousand years ago, Lilah is a rich and emotionally resonant story of faith, love, and courage.Living in exile, Lilah is in love with Antinoes, a Persian warrior. They have known each other since they were children, and Antinoes...
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Enon : a novel
Harding, Paul
Paper Book
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY "The Wall Street Journal - "American Library Association" - Kirkus Reviews" A stunning allegorical novel about one man's enduring love for his daughter Hailed as "a masterpiece" (NPR), "Tinkers, "Paul Harding's Pulitzer Prize-winning debut, is a...
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The Sparrow sisters
Herrick, Ellen
Paper Book
With echoes of the alchemy of Practical Magic, the lushness of Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, and the darkly joyful wickedness of the Witches of East End, Ellen Herrick's debut novel spins an enchanting love story about a place where magic whispers just beneath the surface and almost...
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A guide for the perplexed : a novel
Horn, Dara
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Software prodigy Josie Ashkenazi has invented an application that records everything its users do. When an Egyptian library invites her to visit as a consultant, her jealous sister Judith persuades her to go. But in Egypt's postrevolutionary chaos, Josie is abducted--leaving Judith free to take...
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Him, me, Muhammad Ali : stories
Jarrar, Randa.
Paper Book
Award-winning novelist Randa Jarrar's new story collection moves seamlessly between realism and fable, history and the present, capturing the lives of Muslim women and men across myriad geographies and circumstances. With acerbic wit, deep tenderness, and boundless imagination, Jarrar brings to...
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Limbo
Mazzucco, Melania G.
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A moving but unsentimental examination of one woman's life as she navigates life after war It's Christmas Eve and twenty-seven-year-old Manuela Paris is returning home to a seaside town outside Rome. Years ago, she left to become a soldier. Then, Manuela was fleeing an unhappy,...
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A beautiful truth
Mcadam, Colin.
Paper Book
Told simultaneously from the perspective of humans and chimpanzees, set in a Vermont home and a Florida primate research facility, A Beautiful Truth--at times brutal, at others deeply moving--is about the simple truths that transcend species, the meaning of family, the lure...
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The land of decoration : a novel
McCleen, Grace.
Paper Book
A mesmerizing debut about a young girl whose steadfast belief and imagination bring everything she once held dear into treacherous balance In Grace McCleen's harrowing, powerful debut, she introduces an unforgettable heroine in ten-year-old Judith McPherson, a young believer who...
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The optimists
Miller, Andrew
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Clem Glass was a successful photojournalist, firm in the belief that photographs could capture truth and beauty. Until he went to Africa and witnessed the aftermath of a genocidal massacre. Clem returns to London with his faith in human nature shattered and his life derailed. Nothing-work...
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Fire is your water : a novel
Minick, Jim
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Sacred chants are Ada Franklin's power and her medicine. By saying them, she can remove warts, stanch bleeding, and draw the fire from burns. At age twenty, her reputation as a faith healer defines her in her rural Pennsylvania community. But on the day in 1953 that her family's barn is consumed...
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Jerusalem : a novel
Moore, Alan
Paper Book
In the epic novel Jerusalem, Alan Moore channels both the ecstatic visions of William Blake and the theoretical physics of Albert Einstein through the hardscrabble streets and alleys of his hometown of Northampton, UK. In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England's Saxon...
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Land of love and ruins
Oddný Eir Ævarsdóttir
Paper Book
"Oddný Eir is an authentic author, philosopher and mystic. She weaves together diaries and fiction. She is the writer I feel can best express the female psyche of now and has bridged the gap between rural Iceland and Western philosophy. A true pioneer!!!!!!!!" --Björk The...
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The space between words
Phoenix, Michèle
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Award-winning author Michèle Phoenix weaves an unforgettable tale of hope and survival in The Space Between Words. In this split-time "powerful and compelling novel" (Library Journal starred review), one woman recovers from a traumatic event by uncovering secrets from the past. ...
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In the shadow of the banyan
Ratner, Vaddey.
Paper Book
Told from the tender perspective of a young girl who comes of age amid the Cambodian killing fields, this searing first novel--based on the author's personal story--has been hailed by Little Bee author Chris Cleave as "a masterpiece...utterly heartbreaking and impossibly beautiful."
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The lovely bones : a novel
Sebold, Alice.
Paper Book
"My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expected, even as she is watching life on earth continue...
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Healing Maddie Brees : a novel
Stevenson, Rebecca Brewster.
Paper Book
A debut novel from a promising new voice in fiction, Healing Maddie Brees is the story of a marriage and the memories that pit themselves against it, of the uncanny power of the body in both disease and desire, and of whether true healing ever really happens. ...
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The empty chair : two novellas
Wagner, Bruce
Paper Book
Composed of two companion novellas, The Empty Chair is a profound, heart-wrenching piece of spiritual storytelling from Bruce Wagner, the internationally acclaimed author of such novels as Dead Stars, I'm Losing You, and Force Majeure. In First Guru, a fictional...
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