03407cam a2200361 4500 521845677 TxAuBib 20210904120000.0 ||||||s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780061980312 0061980315 B0018QQQFS Amazon 1d986bb7-deb5-4a50-9b14-b1985ca645a3 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 191535 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Lamb, Wally. The Hour I First Believed [Libby] : A Novel. HarperCollins e-books, 2009. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1420kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<p><strong>New York Times Bestseller</strong><br /> The profound and compelling story of a personal quest for meaning and faith from Wally Lamb, #1 New York Times bestselling author of She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True<br /> "The beauty of The Hour I First Believed, a soaring novel as amazingly graceful as the classic hymn that provides the title, is that Lamb never loses sight of the spark of human resilience. . . . Lamb's wonderful novel offers us the promise and power of hope."<br /> —Miami Herald</p> <p>When 47-year-old high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his younger wife, Maureen, a school nurse, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, Caelum returns home to Connecticut to be with his aunt who has just had a stroke. But Maureen finds herself in the school library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed, as two vengeful students go on a murderous rampage. Miraculously she survives, but at a cost: she is unable to recover from the trauma. Caelum and Maureen flee Colorado and return to an illusion of safety at the Quirk family farm back east. But the effects of chaos are not so easily put right, and further tragedy ensues.<br /> In The Hour I First Believed, Wally Lamb travels well beyond his earlier work and embodies in his fiction myth, psychology, family history stretching back many generations, and the questions of faith that lie at the heart of everyday life. The result is an extraordinary tour de force, at once a meditation on the human condition and an unflinching yet compassionate evocation of character.<br /></p>. Media Type: eBook. The New York Times Best Seller List. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 13:21:58. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0293-1/1D9/86B/B7/HourIFirstBelieved.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1D986BB7-DEB5-4A50-9B14-B1985CA645A3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0293-1/1D9/86B/B7/HourIFirstBelieved.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1D986BB7-DEB5-4A50-9B14-B1985CA645A3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0293-1/1D9/86B/B7/HourIFirstBelieved.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1D986BB7-DEB5-4A50-9B14-B1985CA645A3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)