Twenty years before You Can't Choose Your Family, Jay Molenski saved Fran Galloway's life. Franklyn Galloway is the youngest son of a conservative Evangelical minister, and it goes without saying that he is stuck in the closet. He...
Children of clergy
- Author:Owens, ZahraSummary:
- Author:Cather, WillaSummary:
Thea Kronberg has a voice that can call down angels and the soul of a Colorado pioneer girl. But as she develops her talents and devotes herself to the life of an artist, she must consider the cost of the creative path she follows.
- Author:Weir, Meghan MacLeanSummary:
"Both timelessly beautiful and unbelievably timely."--Chris Bohjalian, New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Flight Attendant. A captivating novel of family, fame, and religion that tells the story of the...
- Author:Roby, Kimberla LawsonSummary:
The Reverend Curtis Black has made his share of mistakes, a fact his daughter Alicia is all too aware of. So she vows she'll never follow in his footsteps. When Alicia marries Phillip, the assistant pastor of her daddy's church, she...
- Author:Paterson, KatherineSummary:
In 1899, ten-year-old Robbie, son of a preacher in a small Vermont town, gets himself into all kinds of trouble when he decides to give up being Christian in order to make the most of his life before the end of the world.
- Author:Gaskell, ElizabethSummary:
As brilliant for its compassion as its art, Gaskell’s socially conscious masterpiece shows the early effects of the Industrial Revolution on both workers and employers through the intelligent eyes of Margaret Hale, whose advocacy for...
- Author:Hahn, ErinSummary:
"BOLD. IMPORTANT. BEAUTIFUL." - Laura Taylor Namey, New York Times bestselling author of A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow In Erin Hahn's Never Saw You Coming , sometimes it takes a leap of faith to find...
- Author:Greer, DarrenSummary:
In the small town of North River, every day that goes by bleeds into the next. Poverty begets hopelessness, hopelessness begets violence, violence begets despair. The only way to change fate, a minister tells his son, is to leave. The...
- Author:Robinson, MarilynneSummary:
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.
- Author:Robinson, MarilynneSummary:
Glory Boughton has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Soon her brother, Jack comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with tormenting trouble and pain. Brilliant, lovable, and...
- Author:Robinson, MarilynneSummary:
In 1956, as a minister approaches the end of his life, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets.
- Author:Meades, ChristopherSummary:
A hilarious coming-of-age novel about the pain of young love, family secrets, and sick ferrets
Fifteen-year-old Jacob feels almost on the inside: almost smart, almost funny, almost good-looking, almost worthy of falling...
- Author:Goffney, JoyaSummary:
Joya Goffney, author of the acclaimed Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry, delivers a powerful second novel about a preacher's daughter in small-town Texas and her journey toward loving herself and her body, filled with heart, humor, family...
- Author:Sparks, NicholasSummary:
Every April, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. He'd fallen for Jamie, the shy, almost ethereal daughter of the town's Baptist minister. Jamie, who was destined to show him the depths of the human heart, and...