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Char, Charred

By: Celia Crotteau

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In the 1970s recent college grad Char flees to the idyllic Pennsylvania-Dutch countryside to consider her future. Staying with a Mennonite great-aunt, she meets Amish bad boy Uri Stoltzfus, who agrees to serve as her guide to the Plain culture. Both Char and Uri have hard choices to make about the values they will embrace in this coming-of-age novel set against the backdrop of a turbulent decade. Feminism, racism, the Vietnam War, more permissive attitudes toward sex and drugs, and new types of music collide with a way of life unchanged for centuries. Char also meets another great-aunt whose very existence proves an affair between Char's great-grandmother and an unidentified lover. Who was he and why did he not assume responsibility for his daughter? Char hopes that finding an answer to this family mystery will help her solve her own dark secret.

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1664197613

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The Profit of Her Fellowship

By: Celia Crotteau

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The Profit of Her Fellowship

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In 1971, Sister Martha Louise acts as headmistress at Our Lady of the Perpetual Covenant Academy, a down-on-its luck boarding school for girls, one of them seventeen-year-old Petranella Funk. In alternating accounts, the fiery nun and timid teenage girl recall that pivotal year, when Lila Rupert arrives at the school. Where Lila goes, chaos follows, and soon the orderly boredom of Covenant Academy is forever disrupted. Love simultaneously beckons and threatens, friendships offer redemption and ruin, and long buried secrets emerge which hold the power to heal or to destroy. Caught up in the whirlwind of social changes sweeping through American society during a turbulent decade, and wrestling with the mercurial personality who is Lila, Sister Martha Louise and Petranella must, in separate but intersecting scenarios, reevaluate long accepted traditions and beliefs as each struggles to come to terms with what she holds sacred. Not just the young doubt and are capable of change, and even the most daunting and sober individual may hide a delightfully rebellious streak and painful regrets, as this poignant and often humorous tale of days gone by reveals.

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149315382X

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9781493153824

With Faith and Joy in the Land of the Giant Maple Leaf

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With Faith and Joy in the Land of the Giant Maple Leaf

By: Celia Crotteau

In 1966, Alice Mucklehausen moved with her family to a small town where she found herself the new girl in her seventh grade class and, as an American, experienced the coupled hospitality and hostility greeting those from south of the border the Canadian border, that is. Half a century later, prodded by an insistent Memory, Alice reviews those poignant and often comedic days of adolescent despair and immigrant angst and reconsiders her role in the relationships and events that transpired.

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1503584488

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In Plain Sight

By: Celia Crotteau

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In Plain Sight

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In the late 1970s, idealistic college grad Charlotte met Amish bad boy Uri Stoltzfus while visiting relatives in small-town Pennsylvania. Her encounters with Uri changed her life. Seven years have now passed. Char, who joined the Navy, is a bored press officer serving on a remote island base. She hears rumors that a Special Operations sniper nicknamed the Amish Assassin is coming there to hide from his pursuers. Could this be Uri? Char’s career has stalled, she is having an affair, and her life seems to have reached a dead end. So, who better to keep company with than another lost soul? Forced to face her regrets and disappointments, Char wonders if life ever offers second chances, even to a misfit like her. Surprises await...

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166987432X

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Orpah’s Odyssey

The Other Sister’s Saga

By: Celia Crotteau

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Orpah’s Odyssey

The Other Sister’s Saga

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Did Orpah behave that badly?! The Book of Ruth paints a glowing picture of the Moabite widow who sacrificed homeland, faith, and family to accompany her mother-in-law Naomi to Israel. Ruths choice paid off . In Israel, she remarried and eventually became the great-grandmother of the illustrious King David. But what happened to Naomis other widowed daughter-in-law, Orpah, who decided not to go to Israel? Mentioned briefly in the Book of Ruth, Orpah chose to return to her birth family, an accepted custom. Nevertheless, religious tradition has excoriated Orpah for her decision. She has been labeled a traitor and worse. Why? What difference could that one unexceptional young woman have made? Or was she more remarkable than she has been previously portrayed? What happened to Orpah after she parted from Naomi and Ruth? What if a recently unearthed ancient scroll revealed those mysteries? Hidden centuries ago to prevent the revelation of shocking truths, the scroll bears Orpahs account of the famous story narrated in the Book of Ruth and more. Specifi cally, it offers secrets which some would prefer remain buried. However, why not allow Orpah to tell her side and defend her name, actions, and reputation? Here she does just that, looking back on a long, eventful life filled with anguish and joy, adventure and intrigue, and interaction with Biblical characters who may not have behaved as correctly, or, in some cases, as incorrectly, as history would have us believe. Sometimes the choices people make are not for their own reasons, but because a higher power has plans for them other than the obvious. And Jonah was not the only reluctant Old Testament prophet, as you are about to discover.

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1543479375

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Orpah’s Odyssey

The Other Sister’s Saga

By: Celia Crotteau

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Persephone Diverted

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Persephone Diverted

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Anticipating a peaceful life after death, an intrepid nun is chagrined when St. Peter refuses her entry at heaven’s gates. Instead, he charges her with returning to earth on a special mission. But before St. Peter can supply explicit instructions, Sr. Martha Louise is unexpectedly transported thirty years into the future, to a post-apocalyptic totalitarian state. She finds religion outlawed and humanity tottering on the brink of extinction, thanks to a mysterious despotic ruler, the Illustrious Innovator, venerated as a demigod. Not only must Sr. Martha Louise convince the Illustrious Innovator of the error of his ways, she also must deal with revolt, famine, plague, and myriad other catastrophes in a world rapidly descending into frenzied chaos. In a first-person account that mixes biting political satire, lighthearted supernatural realism, and grim noire fiction, Sr. Martha Louise relates her management of her unintentionally vague divine mission.

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1796020087

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The Profit of Her Fellowship

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Char, Charred

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Book's by Celia Crotteau

Char, Charred

Char, Charred

The Profit of Her Fellowship

The Profit of Her Fellowship

With Faith and Joy in the Land of the Giant Maple Leaf

With Faith and Joy in the Land of the Giant Maple Leaf

In Plain Sight

In Plain Sight

Orpah’s Odyssey

Orpah’s Odyssey

Orpah’s Odyssey

Orpah’s Odyssey

Persephone Diverted

Persephone Diverted

The Profit of Her Fellowship

The Profit of Her Fellowship

Char, Charred

Char, Charred

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