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Cherished belonging : the healing power of love in divided times / by Boyle, Greg,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A Jesuit priest's work with gang members inspires a vision of compassionate community and radical kindness, promoting the idea that everyone is inherently good and that we all belong to each other.
Subjects: Religious materials.; Self-help publications.; Christianity; Communities; Communities;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Find your people : building deep community in a lonely world / by Allen, Jennie,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."The New York Times bestselling author of Get Out of Your Head offers practical solutions for creating true community in a world that's both more connected and more isolating than ever before"--
Subjects: Communities; Friendship; Interpersonal relations;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The long call / by Cleeves, Ann,author.;
In North Devon, where the rivers Taw and Torridge converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. The day Matthew turned his back on the strict evangelical community in which he grew up, he lost his family too. Now he's back, not just to mourn his father at a distance, but to take charge of his first major case in the Two Rivers region; a complex place not quite as idyllic as tourists suppose. A body has been found on the beach near to Matthew's new home: a man with the tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death. Finding the killer is Venn's only focus, and his team's investigation will take him straight back into the community he left behind, and the deadly secrets that lurk there-- Jacket.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Police; Murder; Religious communities;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Sorrowland / by Solomon, Rivers,author.;
"Vern gives birth to twins and raises them away from the influence of the outside world. But something is wrong-not with them, but with her own body ... A genre-bending work of Gothic fiction that wrestles with the history of American racism"--
Subjects: Gothic fiction.; Twins; Racism; Religious communities; Human experimentation in medicine;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Answers from the heart : practical responses to life's burning questions / by Nhá̂t Hạnh,Thích.;
Subjects: Village des pruniers (Buddhist community); Religious life;
© c2009., Parallax Press,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The long call [sound recording] / by Cleeves, Ann,author.; Aldridge, Ben,narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Ben Aldridge.In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his estranged father's funeral takes place. On the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family too. Now, as he turns and walks away again, he receives a call from one of his team. A body has been found on the beach nearby: a man with a tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death. The case calls Matthew back to the people and places of his past, as deadly secrets hidden at their hearts are revealed, and his new life is forced into a collision course with the world he thought he'd left behind.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Audiobooks.; Police; Murder; Religious communities;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Women talking [videorecording] / by Buckley, Jessie,1989-actor.; Foy, Claire,1984-actor.; Gardner, Dede,film producer.; Ivey, Judith,1951-actor.; Kleiner, Jeremy,film producer.; Mara, Rooney,actor.; McDormand, Frances,film producer,actor.; Polley, Sarah,screenwriter,film director.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Toews, Miriam,1964-Women talking.; Orion Pictures,presenter.; Plan B Entertainment,production company.; Universal Studios, Inc.,publisher.;
Jessie Buckley, Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Judith Ivey, Ben Whishaw, Frances McDormand.The women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling their reality with their faith. Though the backstory, we see a community of women come together to figure out how they might move forward together to build a better world for themselves and their children. Stay and fight or leave. They will not do nothing.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: PG-13; for mature thematic content including sexual assault, bloody images, and some strong language.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Conspiracies; Female friendship; Man-woman relationships; Mennonite women; Rape victims; Religious communities;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Kissing girls on Shabbat : a memoir / by Glass, Sara,author.;
A moving coming-of-age memoir about one young woman's desperate attempt to protect her children and family while also embracing her queer identity in a controlling Hasidic community.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Glass, Sara.; Gender-nonconforming people.; Homosexuality; Jewish lesbians.; Sex; Sexual minority community.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Pig Island / by Hayder, Mo;
Joe Oakes, a journalist who makes his living exposing supernatural hoaxes, visits a secretive religious community on a remote Scottish island and finds everything he thought he knew overturned.
Subjects: Horror tales; Journalists; Supernatural; Good and evil; Suspense fiction;
© 2007, c2006., HarperCollins,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Daughter of Gloriavale : my life in a religious cult / by Tarawa, Lilia,author.;
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Tarawa, Lilia; Tarawa, Lilia.; Gloriavale Christian Community.; Christian biography.; Communal living; Cult members; Cults; Ex-cultists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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