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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy, Albom goes back to his nonfiction roots and becomes involved with a Detroit pastor--a reformed drug dealer and convict--who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof. A timely, moving, and inspiring look at faith: not just who believes, but why.
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Language
English
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Faith is the first principle of the gospel of Jesus Christ. So what happens when a person has doubts?
Questioning is not the problem, according to authors Terryl and Fiona Givens. "After all," they write, "the Restoration unfolded because a young man asked questions." The difficulty arises when questions are based on flawed assumptions or incorrect perceptions, which can "point us in the wrong direction, misdirect our attention, or constrain
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Publisher
Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Although a vocal minority continues to attack religious faith, for most Americans, faith is a large part of their lives: 86% of Americans refer to themselves as religious, and 75% of all Americans consider themselves Christians. So how should they respond to these passionate, learned, and persuasive books that promote science and secularism over religion and faith? For years, Tim Keller has compiled a list of the most frequently voiced "doubts" skeptics...
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Language
English
Description
When Margaret's fiance?, John, is hospitalized for depression, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him. Imagine Me Gone is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. At the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic, and the story of how, over the span of decades, his younger siblings--the responsible Celia...
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Language
English
Description
"What would happen if we called on God for help and God actually appeared? In ... [this] novel of hope and faith, a group of shipwrecked passengers pull a strange man from the sea. He claims to be 'the Lord.' And he says he can only save them if they all believe in him"--
6) Seeker
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Series
Noble warriors volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
Having been rejected by the Nomana--the revered warrior-monk order they long to join--sixteen-year-olds Seeker and Morning Star, along with a curious pirate named Wildman, attempt to prove that they are worthy of joining the community, after all.
8) Noman
Author
Series
Noble warriors volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seeker, who is obsessed with his increasingly perilous quest to kill the last of the Old Ones, finds that his mission has placed him at odds with a new leader who preaches peace and joy.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Alice Hoffman is one of our most beloved writers. Here on earth was an Oprah Book Club selection. Practical magic and Aquamarine were both bestselling books and Hollywood movies. Now, in The third angel, Hoffman weaves a magical and stunningly original story that charts the lives of three women in love with the wrong men: Headstrong Madeleine Heller finds herself hopelessly attracted to her sister's fiancé. Frieda Lewis, a doctor's daughter and...
10) Jango
Author
Series
Noble Warriors volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seeker, the Wildman, and Morning Star discover that the mysterious warrior sect they had been so desperate to join is not quite what it appears from the outside.
11) Matrix: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
"Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford school of medicine studying the neural circuits of reward seeking behavior in mice"--
13) Hermana: a novel
Author
Publisher
CookieLynn Publishing Services
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Bookish and street-smart Hermana Lannie Lewis wants to be more than the child of a broken home who flunked out of music school. Full-time mission service will carry her away from the problems with her dad and immerse her hands in the work of God, or, it would, if she'd stop hiding in the bathroom and wishing the island had better bug spray. When a disaster transforms her mission into a world of peril and overwhelming need, she will have to learn to...
14) Breakthrough
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Based on the inspirational true story of one mother2s unfaltering love in the face of impossible odds. When Joyce Smith2s adopted son John falls through an icy Missouri lake, all hope seems lost. But as John lies lifeless, Joyce refuses to give up. Her steadfast belief inspires those around her to continue to pray for John2s recovery, even in the face of every case history and scientific prediction. A reminder that faith and love can create a mountain...
15) Breakthrough
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Based on the inspirational true story of one mother2s unfaltering love in the face of impossible odds. When Joyce Smith2s adopted son John falls through an icy Missouri lake, all hope seems lost. But as John lies lifeless, Joyce refuses to give up. Her steadfast belief inspires those around her to continue to pray for John2s recovery, even in the face of every case history and scientific prediction. A reminder that faith and love can create a mountain...
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After being false accused of murdering his father-in-law and found guiltless of the charges, Whit Eden, together with his pregnant wife Mary, reach out to the struggling families around them as they rely on one another more than ever in their journey of selfless love and second chances.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In mid-thirteenth century Provence, Dolssa de Stigata is a fervently religious girl who feels the call to preach, condemned by the Inquisition as an "unnatural woman," and hunted by the Dominican Friar Lucien who fears a resurgence of the Albigensian heresy; Botille is a matchmaker trying to protect her sisters from being branded as gypsies or witches--but when she finds the hunted Dolssa dying on a hillside, she feels compelled to protect her, a...
Author
Publisher
Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Gold Medallion Award-winner Bob Welch crafts 52 nuggets of Bible-based wisdom from one of the most popular novels, musicals, and films of all time: Les Misérables. In 52 Little Lessons from Les Misérables, Bob Welch walks readers through Hugo's masterpiece, extracting dozens of uniquely spiritual reflections from this enduring portrait of poverty, social injustice, mercy, and redemption. Welch reminds us that Jean Valjean's life provides the truest...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A farmer moves his family to South Africa and suffers a series of seemingly insurmountable losses. Through unlikely friendships and much needed divine intervention, he discovers his life's true purpose and it sustains his unwavering belief in the power of faith.
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