forgiveness

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Chasing forgiveness

a novel
2015
A fourteen-year-old living with his grandparents learns his father is to be released from prison after killing his mother and feels apprehensive about renewing the relationship. Based on true events.

The snow beast

The villagers cannot put on their legendary Winter Party when they are robbed of their tools, so Beast sets off to find who stole them, then befriends the snow beast criminal who returns the tools and is forgiven by the village.

The year the swallows came early

2011
After her father is sent to jail, eleven-year-old Groovy Robinson must decide if she can forgive the failings of someone she loves.

The outskirts of hope

a memoir of the 1960s deep south
2015
"In 1967, when Jo Ivester was ten years old, her father transplanted his young family from a suburb of Boston to a small town in the heart of the Mississippi cotton fields, where he became the medical director of a clinic that served the poor population for miles around. But ultimately it was not Ivester's father but her mother, a stay-at-home mother of four who became a high school English teacher when the family moved to the South, who made the most enduring mark on the town"--Amazon.com.

Forgiving my daughter's killer

a true story of loss, faith, and unexpected grace
On March 28, 2010, Kate and Andy Grosmaire found out that their nineteen-year-old daughter had been killed by her boyfriend, a young man who had lived with the family and had come to feel like part of it. In a testament to the liberating power of forgiveness, Kate Grosmaire tells the story of her daughter's murder and the forgiveness and help they offered to the young man who shattered their world.

Chasing forgiveness

2015
A fourteen-year-old living with his grandparents learns his father is to be released from prison after killing his mother and feels apprehensive about renewing the relationship. Based on true events.

The lemonade crime

2012
When money disappears from fourth-grader Evan's pocket and everyone thinks that his annoying classmate Scott stole it, Evan's younger sister stages a trial involving the entire class, trying to prove what happened.

Sacred stick

Native American Kyle Cloud has always played lacrosse with an ancient stick that belonged to his great-great grandfather, and when it disappears after a game he is naturally upset--but when it comes back to him deliberately broken he must learn where his strength really comes from.

Blizzard's Wake

2001
In March of 1941, when a severe blizzard hits Grand Forks, North Dakota, a girl trying to save her stranded father and brother inadvertently helps the man who killed her mother four years before.

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