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Heretic [videorecording] / by East, Chloe,actor.; Grant, Hugh,actor.; Lavigne, Stéphanie,actor.; McKinnon, Elle,actor.; Thatcher, Sophie,actor.; Young, Elle,actor.; Beck, Scott,1984-screenwriter,film director.; Woods, Bryan,1984-screenwriter,film director.; Videoville Showtime,publisher.;
Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher, Chloe East, Elle McKinnon, Stephanie Lavigne, Elle Young.Two young missionaries are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed, becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Horror films.; Feature films.; Faith; Latter Day Saint missionaries; Dangerously mentally ill; Imprisonment; Man-woman relationships; Control (Psychology);
For private home use only.

Where shadows dance : a Sebastian St. Cyr mystery / by Harris, C. S.;
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Historical fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Regency fiction.; Murder; Saint Cyr, Sebastian (Fictitious character);
© c2011., New American Library,

The winter vault / by Michaels, Anne,1958-;
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Canadians; Engineering; Engineers;
© c2009., McClelland & Stewart,

Who was Mother Teresa? / by Gigliotti, Jim.; Groff, David,1956-;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 104-105).Presents the life of an Albanian girl, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, who became known as Mother Teresa and spent most of her life serving "the poorest of the poor" in Calcutta, India.LSC
Subjects: Teresa, Mother, Saint, 1910-1997; Missionaries of Charity; Nuns; Missionaries;

The stolen hours / by Swan, Karen(Writer),author.;
It's the summer of 1929 and Mhairi MacKinnon is in need of a husband. As the eldest girl among nine children, her father has made it clear he can't support her past the coming winter. On the small, Scottish island of St Kilda, her options are limited. But the MacKinnons' neighbour, Donald, has a business acquaintance on distant Harris also in need of a spouse. A plan is hatched for Donald to chaperone Mhairi and make the introduction on his final crossing of the year, before the autumn seas close them off to the outside world. Mhairi returns as an engaged woman who has lost her heart - but not to her fiancé. In love with the wrong man yet knowing he can never be hers, she awaits the spring with growing dread, for the onset of calm waters will see her sent from home to become a stranger's wife. When word comes that St Kilda is to be evacuated, the lovers are granted a few months' reprieve, enjoying a summer of stolen hours together. Only, those last days on St Kilda will also bring trauma and heartache for Mhairi and her friends, Effie and Flora. And when a dead body is later found on the abandoned isle, all three have reason enough to find themselves under the shadow of suspicion.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Betrothal; Evacuation of civilians; Islands; Man-woman relationships; Murder;

The lost lover / by Swan, Karen(Writer),author.;
Young Flora MacQueen has always dreamed of more than a hard life on the small Scottish island of St Kilda. And when she catches the eye of visiting adventurer and wealthy businessman James Callaghan her future seems brighter. Only, as the islanders prepare to leave their homes for the final time, Flora finds her dreams shattered. With her beauty her only currency she must step forward in ways that would have been unthinkable back home in order to support her family. Soon Flora is the toast of glamorous Paris. Fame and fortune are hers for the taking but she knows only too well by now that rich men make empty promises. But then a secret comes to light that will change everything ... Following The Last Summer and The Stolen Hours, The Lost Lover is the third book in Karen Swan's bestselling Wild Isle series, loosely based upon the dramatic evacuation of Scottish island St Kilda in the summer of 1930.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Evacuation of civilians; Families; Islands; Man-woman relationships; Secrecy;

Why kill the innocent / by Harris, C. S.,author.;
"In the newest mystery from the national bestselling author of Where the Dead Lie, a brutal murder draws Sebastian St. Cyr into the web of the royal court, where intrigue abounds and betrayal awaits. London, 1814. As a cruel winter holds the city in its icy grip, the bloody body of a beautiful young musician is found half-buried in a snowdrift. Jane Ambrose's ties to Princess Charlotte, the only child of the Prince Regent and heir presumptive to the throne, panic the palace, which moves quickly to shut down any investigation into the death of the talented pianist. But Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, and his wife Hero refuse to allow Jane's murderer to escape justice. Untangling the secrets of Jane's world leads Sebastian into a maze of dangerous treachery where each player has his or her own unsavory agenda and no one can be trusted. As the Thames freezes over and the people of London pour onto the ice for a Frost Fair, Sebastian and Hero find their investigation circling back to the palace and building to a chilling crescendo of deceit and death"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Saint Cyr, Sebastian (Fictitious character); Murder; Regency;

The celestial wife : a novel / by Howard, Leslie,1953-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Keep sweet no matter what, for this is the way to be lifted up Keep sweet with every breath, for it is a matter of life or death 1964. Fifteen-year-old Daisy Shoemaker dreams of life beyond her small, isolated fundamentalist Mormon community of Redemption on the Canada--US border--despite Bishop Thorsen's warning that the outside world is full of sin. According to the Principle, the only way to enter the celestial kingdom is through plural marriage. While the boys are taught to work in the lucrative sawmill that supports their enclave, Daisy and her best friend, Brighten, are instructed to keep sweet and wait for Placement--the day the bishop will choose a husband for them. But Daisy wants to be more than a sister-wife and a mother. So when she is placed with a man forty years her senior, she makes the daring decision to flee Redemption. Years later, Daisy has a job and a group of trustworthy friends. Emboldened by the ideas of the feminist and counterculture movements, she is freer than she has ever been ... until Brighten reaches out with a cry for help and Daisy's past comes hurtling back. But to save the women she left behind, Daisy must risk her newfound independence and return to Redemption, where hellfire surely awaits. For readers of Emma Cline's The Girls and Ami McKay's The Virgin Cure comes an arresting coming-of-age novel about a fearless young girl's fight for freedom at a time of great historic change."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Communal living; Latter Day Saints; Nineteen sixties; Self-actualization (Psychology) in women; Teenage girls;

All the light we cannot see : a novel / by Doerr, Anthony,1973-;
Includes bibliographical references.LSC
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Blind; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
© 2014., Scribner,

The great leprechaun chase / by Dean, James,1957-;
Ages 4-8.LSC
Subjects: Pete, the Cat (Fictitious character); Cats; Leprechauns; Fortune; Friendship; Saint Patrick's Day;

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