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The owner of Stanner Hall on the Welsh border wants to prove that Doyle's "Hound" was based on the Hereford legend in the Vaughan family. He soon discovers a family history that links spiritualism, medieval exorcism, and murder, and calls for the skill of the Diocese Deliverance Consultant, Meriily Watkins.

One of the few women to lead a large church of any denomination, Unitarian minister Marilyn Sewell is a respected writer and sought-after speaker known for her progressive social vision; beneath the surface, she is lonely and yearns for change. This open, affectionate documentary follows her over two years as she considers leaving the ministry and her only social network as she questions her past, her relationship with God, and her ability to love....

Autumn: Fresh from her honeymoon, Alice can't understand why she's been gaining weight and "qualifies for the vomit Olympics," and David's prodigal brother Simon returns to Dibley. But is Simon in fact, "the spawn of Satan?" Winter: It's time for the Christmas pageant and Frank, Jim and Owen are ready to audition for the three kings. Martin Luther, Billy Jean and Elvis! Gerry is determined to make this the most memorable pageant ever, and she just...

Miranda Abbott, once known for the crime-solving, karate-chopping church pastor she played on network television, has hit hard times. She’s facing ruin when a mysterious postcard arrives, summoning her to Happy Rock, a small town in the Pacific Northwest. But when she gets there, nothing is what she expected. In dire straits, she signs up for an amateur production at the Happy Rock Little Theater. On opening night, one of the actors is murdered,...

'A smile so cold, so bleak, so devoid of hope ... only this perpetual, bitter ... terminality.' In the affluent, historic town of Ludlow, a teenage boy dies in a fall from the castle ruins. Accident or suicide? No great mystery, so why does the boy's uncle, newly-retired detective sergeant Andy Mumford take his personal fears to diocesan exorcist Merrily Watkins? More people will die before Merrily, her own future uncertain, uncovers in those shadowed,...

Lily Connor, an Episcopal priest in Boston, is torn away from her work on an ecumenical council studying anti-Semitism in the church be a terrible hate crime.

Jamesland, the buoyant second novel by Michelle Huneven, critically acclaimed author of Round Rock, is a witty, sophisticated, and deeply humane comedy of unlikely redemption. When thirty-three-year-old Alice Black discovers a deer in her dining room after fighting with her boyfriend, she wonders if shes going crazy. Pete Ross, forty-six, knows hes crazy. Hes wrecked his marriage, slashed his wrists, and done time in a psychiatric...

When Lily Connor takes a job as interim chaplain at Tate University, an all but Ivy League school just down the road from Harvard, she's happy to discover that an old friend of hers from seminary is now there as well. It's clear, however, that something is wrong with Samantha-she is thin and skittish and, more important, she looks scared. And when Samantha asks Lily for her help, it becomes something more perilous than Lily could have ever imagined....

On a frigid January night, Chief of Police Russ Van Alstyne and Reverend Clare Fergusson are called to the scene of a raging fire that quickly becomes a double homicide and kidnapping. As the days and hours tick by, Russ and Clare fight personal and professional battles they've never encountered.

A trio of execution-style murders targeting the migrant community of the rural Adirondack town of Millers Kill draws Episcopal priest Clare Fergusson and police chief Russ van Alstyne into a case plagued by media hysteria and conflict within the police.