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Author
Language
English
Description
"Margaret Murphy is a weaver of fantastic tales, growing up in a world where the truth is too much for one little girl to endure. Her first memory is of the day her friend Agnes died. No one blames Margaret. Not in so many words. Her mother insists to everyone who will listen that her daughter never even left the house that day. Left alone to make sense of tragedy, Margaret wills herself to forget these unbearable memories, replacing them with imagined...
Author
Series
Embers of war volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The sentient warship Trouble Dog was built for violence, yet following a brutal war, she is disgusted by her role in a genocide. Stripped of her weaponry and seeking to atone, she joins the House of Reclamation, an organisation dedicated to rescuing ships in distress. When a civilian ship goes missing in a disputed system, Trouble Dog and her new crew of loners, captained by Sal Konstanz, are sent on a rescue mission. Meanwhile, light years away,...
Author
Series
Embers of war volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Called upon by the House of Reclamation to investigate a distress call from the human starship Lucy?s Ghost, the former warship Trouble Dog and its ragtag crew become caught between chaotic alien monsters and the Marble Armada.
Author
Series
Embers of war volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Low on fuel and hunted by the Fleet of Knives, the sentient warship Trouble Dog follows a series of clues that lead her to the Intrusion - an area of space where reality itself becomes unstable. But with human civilisation crumbling, what difference can one battered old ship have against an invincible armada? Meanwhile, Cordelia Pa and her step-brother eke out their existence salvaging artefacts from an alien city. But when Cordelia starts hearing...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2016, ©2015.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged)
Language
Español
Description
Four priests exiled to a small seaside town to atone for the sins of their pasts find their fragile stability disrupted by the arrival of a newly-disgraced companion in this taut blackly comic drama.
7) Lord Jim
Author
Language
English
Description
This is a novel about a man's lifelong efforts to atone for an act of instinctive cowardice. Young Jim, chief mate of the Patna, dreams of being a hero. He has taken to the seas with the hopes of adventure and the chance to prove his mettle. When the Patna threatens to sink and the cowardly officers decide to save their own skins and escape in the few lifeboats, Jim despises them. But at the last moment, dazed by horror and confusion, he joins
...9) LaRose
Author
Language
English
Description
North Dakota, late summer, 1999. Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence -- but when the buck springs away, Landreaux realizes he's hit something else, a blur he saw as he squeezed the trigger. When he staggers closer, he realizes he has killed his neighbor's five-year-old son, Dusty Ravich. The youngest child of his friend and neighbor, Peter Ravich, Dusty was best friends with...
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
[Large print edition].
Physical Desc
362 pages (large print) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Prodigal son Scott Barrett is back home in Barrett's Mill with plans to atone for his past mistakes and restore his future. But the quiet Virginia village feels like a different place since his return. The old cottage and chapel are crying out for repair, much like Scott himself. Luckily, sensitive artist Jenna Reed offers to help. Jenna sees Scott without judgment though she reveals little about her own troubled past. As they work together to renovate...
11) Lord Jim: a tale
Author
Publisher
Könemann
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
12) Seven pounds
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tim Thomas was a gifted aerospace engineer with a beautiful wife. Then, while using his cell phone while driving, his car wandered across lanes and he became responsible for the deaths of 7 others, including his wife. Unable to forgive himself, Tim sets out to give 'pounds of flesh' that will give new life to seven deserving individuals to make up for the seven lives he destroyed. Tim intends to kill himself to atone for his sins. He decides to bestow...
13) Lord Jim
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 154 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of an idealistic Merchant Marine officer who disgraces himself when he abandons his ship.
15) The gloaming
Author
Publisher
Two Dollar Radio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Fleeing the memories of her part in an accident that left three children dead in Switzerland, Pilgrim moves to Africa, where the appearance of a box filled with an albino's remains, a dark omen to the locals, leads her to try to get rid of it, despite the fact that she feels as if she's being followed.
17) Atonement
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. He hopes that Cecilia has comparable feelings. All it will take is...
18) Days of Grace
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
1939, and Will and Alice are evacuated to a farm in north Cornwall, perched on a windswept cliff. There they meet the farmer's daughter, Maggie, and against fields of shimmering barley and a sky that stretches forever, enjoy a childhood largely protected from the ravages of war. But in the sweltering summer of 1943 something happens that will have tragic consequences. A small lie escalates. 70 years later, Alice is determined to atone for her behavior--but...
20) Two rivers
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Two Rivers, Vermont, Harper Montgomery is living a life overshadowed by grief and guilt. Since the death of his wife, Betsy, Harper has narrowed his world to working at the railroad and raising his daughter the best way he can. Then one fall day, a train derails, and Harper finds a survivor - a pregnant fifteen-year-old girl with mismatched eyes and skin the color of blackberries who needs a place to stay. Plagued by his role in a brutal crime...
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