children of clergy

Landon Carter never thought he would fall for Jamie Sullivan, the shy daughter of the town's Baptist minister who showed him the joy and pain of living"--Provided by publisher.

John Ames Boughton, the prodigal son of Gilead's Presbyterian minister, falls in love with Della Miles, a high school teacher who is also the child of a preacher.

Glory, the youngest of the eight Boughton children, returns to Gilead, Iowa, in 1957 to care for her dying father, Robert, a former Presbyterian pastor, and the two are soon joined by Jack, the prodigal son of the family who left town twenty years earlier in the midst of scandal, and together they edge toward understanding, forgiveness, and healing.

Dorothy Hare, the clergyman's daughter, grows up with a tyrannical father, but when she blacks out one day, and ends up with amnesia, wandering the streets of Kent, and sleeping in Trafalgar Square, she loses more than just memory.

In 1956, toward the end of his life, Reverend John Ames begins a letter to his young son, sharing the story of his life and explaining how his faith influenced his choices and actions.

Relates the surprising gifts bestowed on twelve-year-old Bob Barnhart and his family, who have recently moved to a small Illinois town in 1958, by their larger-than-life neighbor, Mrs. Dowdel.

Essie is the youngest daughter on a reality show about a religious family of the "fire-and-brimstone" variety. She has grown up in front of the cameras. When her family discovers that she is pregnant, they decide to marry her off immediately in a show that will send ratings through the roof. Essie pushes for Roarke from her school's baseball team, and he agrees--though he is hiding a secret of his own. And Essie begins to wonder if she can trust her secret to anyone, and what she would give up for her own freedom.

Presents the classic story of Tess, a young woman who finds herself the victim of men, fate, and forces beyond her control in nineteenth-century England.

Cherry Marshall, daughter of a deacon at the First Apostolic Holiness Church of God, gets her first taste of sinfulness in the summer of 1969 when she meets and falls in love with Tripp, a sexy stranger who wanders into her hometown of Sweet Valley, Arkansas.