Sheri Reynolds
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
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The impact on a religious community in the South when the 14-year-old granddaughter of the founder becomes pregnant. The community is the Church of Fire and Brimstone where sin is punished by whipping. The girl insists she is not guilty of the sin of fornication and no amount of punishment will make her recant. When the baby is born with a birth defect, her grandfather takes that as a sign the baby is the New Messiah. By the author of Bitterroot Landing....
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Desperate for a place to belong with her father in prison and her mother dead, teenager Kenny Lugo finds a less-than-idyllic home with her Aunt Glo, her father's struggling girlfriend, and her children, until she finds redemption from an unexpected source following the killing of a college girl in the house next door.
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"In the lush and isolated cemetery of a small Southern town, Finch Nobles, the narrator of this inventive novel, tends to the flowers and shrubs that surround the monuments of people who were not know to her while they lived but who in death have become her lifeline."--BOOK JACKET.
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Two tales inspired by the magical Maine coast: "Emancipated Child" features Jason Thibodeau, a young man who is challenged to accept his power and his destiny in the tiny coastal town of Surfside. "How Nathan Archer Came to be a Prince of the Land of the Flowers," tells the story of a young woman who puts duty before all. Also included in an author's foreword "In Which Writing Novels is Like Sewing."