Fleming Community Library

Eden Jackson returns to his hometown to pick up the pieces of the life he was forced to leave eight years earlier. It proves to be more difficult than expected because the town may not yet be ready to forgive. An old friend, a new love, and a rekindled passion for music open the path to his salvation. On his journey of redemption, Eden affects many other lives and affirms that often the only way back to the light is through the darkness.

A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to freedom. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds remarkable strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.

Explores the important concept of forgiveness under an amazingly wide variety of conditions, from petty insults to sexual assault, to the tragedy of 9/11. Includes Desmond Tutu speaking at the Washington National Cathedral and a short film.

In 1975, 17-year-old Alistair Little, a member of the UVF, murdered 19-year-old Catholic Jim Griffin. The murder was witnessed by his 11-year-old brother, Joe Griffin. Twenty-five years later the media arranges for the two men to meet again.

A sweet career housewife has been married to the same crotchety man for 40 years and she just can't take another day of it. She starts to poison his food, just to see if he might change. When he falls gravely ill, both are awakened to the raw reality of a life or death choice. This parable about forgiveness culminates in a shocking and transcendent moment captured exactly as it happened.

Lucien, a lonely, frightened boy of 13, is overtaken by catastrophic events and finds himself an outcast with his family. High in the Swiss Alps he finds peace, and learns that a price has to be paid for forgiveness before there can be reconciliation.

In this sequel to Shiloh, Marty risks everything to turn an enemy into a friend, but it's Shiloh that teaches Marty about kindness and forgiveness when he heroically saves the life of the man who mistreated him.

After her husband is arrested for bank fraud, New York socialite and singer Faith Carraday returns home to North Carolina to seek her estranged family's forgiveness and to rebuild her life and her belief in herself.

Kathleen has carried around the unwanted memory of her father abandoning her and her mother on Christmas Eve. For the past 30 years, she has blamed her mother for that night and refuses to celebrate Christmas in any fashion. Although she has tried to forget her past, it has not forgotten her, and in the days leading up to Christmas she finds herself stuck in her own home with two strangers, because of an unforgiving blizzard. As the storm brings her...

When a tragedy takes the lives of five Amish schoolgirls in Pennsylvania, Ida, the mother of one of the girls, faces a profound test of faith. As she begins to feel like an outsider within her own community, Ida must decide whether or not to stay with the Amish, and her beloved husband.