Library Greeting: Stories about faith

The library will be closed Saturday, December 30 and Monday, January 1, 2024 in observance of New Years. The staff at the library would like to wisheveryonehealth,happiness and peace for the coming year.

Mackworth “Mack” Harrigan’s family legacy burned to the ground in the spring of 1849.TheOhiomillthatbrought them prosperity was now cinder and ash, and his ruthless father perished in the flames along with their fortune.

If the Harrigans have a future, it lies out west in open country where they can build whatever lives they choose. Mack knows his wife Ell, and their children Kane, Meghan, and Fitch are more than capable of overcoming the challenges of their journey.

For the untamed frontier is full of seriously deadly battles. From a rough river voyage to wagon train travel across desert lands plagued by dust storms, the Harrigans encounter desperados and merciless killers who view them as little more than prey.

And as Mack and his family adapt to their merciless surroundings, they realize they must enforce their own laws and dispense their own justice.

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the Frontie r by Dusty Richards.

As the last will of a close friend is read, three women discover thattheyhaveinheritedalegacy from her: the funds to take a dream trip to Florence, Italy, in her memory.

Withplentyofhilarioustravel mishaps along the way, The Florence Legacy by Lauraine Snelling is a story of deep friendship, of making room in our lives to celebrate and remember, of grief, of the realization that friendship keeps the memory alive, and the sweet discovery of unexpected romance Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, the setting is Kerala, on South India's Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning-and in Kerala, water is everywhere.

At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl from Kerala's long-existing Christian community, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she will meetherforty-year-oldhusband for the first time.

From this unforgettable new beginning, the young girl and future matriarch, known as Big Ammachi will witness unthinkable changesoverthespanofher extraordinary life, full of joy and triumph as well as hardship and loss, her faith and love the only constants.

A shimmering evocation of a bygone India and of the passage of time itself, The Covenant of Water is a hymn to progress in medicine and to human understanding, and a humbling testament to the difficulties undergone by past generations for the sake of those alive today.

Imbued with humor, deep emotion, and the essence of life, The Covenant of Water by AbrahamVergheseisastunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine and three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret.