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1) The gift
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
An uplifting tale of hope and faith celebrates the joy of the holiday season and follows a theme of the redemptive power of love.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
When Faith, the seven-year-old daughter of divorced parents, suddenly begins talking to God--whom she claims is a woman--and effecting miraculous cures, she becomes the center of a controversy involving doctors, clergy, the media and a custody battle.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this one-of-a-kind novel of life, death, and whatever comes after from the acclaimed author of Rabbit Cake. The Starlings live in Everton, an ordinary enough New Hampshire town. It's notable only for Corbin Park, an enormous hunting park, and for Maple Street Cemetery-home to many former residents of Everton. There's also the town legend that Emma Starling...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Already well-versed in the natural healing properties of herbs and oils, Jennie Pickett longs to become a doctor. But the Oregon frontier of the 1870s doesn't approve of such innovations as women attending medical school. To leave grief and guilt behind, as well as support herself and her challenging young son, Jennie cares for an elderly woman using skills she's developed on her own. When her patient dies, Jennie discovers that her heart has become...
Author
Language
English
Description
Ada and her father, touched by the power to heal illness, live on the edge of a village where they help sick locals--or "Cures"--by cracking open their damaged bodies or temporarily burying them in the reviving, dangerous Ground nearby. Ada, a being both more and less than human, is mostly uninterested in the Cures, until she meets a man named Samson. When they strike up an affair, to the displeasure of her father and Samson's widowed, pregnant sister,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Accompanying his physician father on his annual journey to the Escator prison mines, apprentice Garth Baxtor works to develop his ability to diagnose others by touching them and discovers a horrifying secret when working with a prisoner.
11) Midnight warrior
Author
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of Lion’s Bride and The Ugly Duckling comes this passionate tale of danger, adventure, and romance that sweeps from a Saxon stronghold to a lovers’ bower in the cool, jade green forests of Wales.
She was a prisoner bound by duty and desire. . . .
Taken as a slave, fiery, tempestuous Brynn of Falkhaar was awed by the magnificent warrior who...
She was a prisoner bound by duty and desire. . . .
Taken as a slave, fiery, tempestuous Brynn of Falkhaar was awed by the magnificent warrior who...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Abortion is illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing town Ro, a single high-school teacher, is trying to have a baby on her own. Susan is a frustrated mother of two, trapped in a crumbling marriage. Mattie is the adopted daughter of doting parents and one of Ro's best students, who finds herself pregnant with nowhere to...
13) The healing
Author
Series
Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Description
The life of black faith healer, Harlan Jane Eagleton as she travels from town to town, curing people. She describes her work and records her observations of human nature. By the author of Eva's Man.
14) Witches: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
"Journalist Zoé comes to the town of San Felipe to learn about the famous healer Feliciana, who has the ability to heal the soul as well as the body, and about the murder of Feliciana's teacher, Paloma."--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Kiva Meridan has spent the last ten years fighting for survival in the notorious death prison, Zalindov, working as the prison healer. When the Rebel Queen is captured, Kiva is charged with keeping the terminally ill woman alive long enough for her to undergo the Trial by Ordeal: a series of elemental challenges against the torments of air, fire, water, and earth, assigned to only the most dangerous of criminals. Then a coded message...
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Series
Language
English
Description
The latest in the New York Times bestselling Cork O'Connor Mystery Series follows Cork in a race against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from bloodthirsty mercenaries. The ancient Ojibwe healer Henry Meloux has had a vision of his death. As he walks the Northwoods in solitude, he tries to prepare himself peacefully for the end of his long life. But peace is destined to elude him as hunters fill the woods seeking...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sisters Rose and Lily Martin were inseparable when they were kids. As adults, they've been estranged for years, until circumstances force them to come together to protect Rose's daughter. Ten-year-old Antoinette has a severe form of autism that requires constant care and attention. She has never spoken a word, but she has a powerful gift that others would give anything to harness: she can heal things with her touch...Antoinette's gift, though, puts...