Traces the efforts of Dr. Paul Farmer to transform health care on a global scale, documenting his visits to some of the world's most impoverished regions and the unconventional methods that enabled him to improve and save lives.

Amanda know there's a certain family out there that needs the gospel--and she knows she's the one who's supposed to bring it to them. Her recurring dream makes it seem urgent--the dream with the shiny gold frame and the vaguely familiar faces smiling down at her. The dream in which her grandmother says, "You must find them. You're the only one who can." When Amanda gets to California and starts teaching, she wonders which family she was sent there...

Describes the life of Mother Teresa, the nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity to work with the destitute and dying, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.

New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • An Oprah's Book Club Selection

"Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty." —Los Angeles Times Book Review

The Poisonwood Bible, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, established Barbara Kingsolver

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The missionary memoirs of Elder John H. Groberg, found in his popular book In the Eye of the Storm, can be enjoyed as a major motion picture And now, for the first time, In the Eye of the Storm will be available in paperback retitled The Other Side of Heaven. This first-person account tells the fascinating story of the three years he spent on the islands in the South Pacific amidst a kindly people who had a deep faith in God, a faith that provides

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Troy Phelan is a self-made billionaire who is eccentric, reclusive, and looking for a way to die. His heirs are circling like vultures. Nate O'Riley is a high-octane Washington litigator just emerging from his fourth stay in rehab armed with his fragile sobriety, good intentions, and resilient sense of humor. Rachel Lane is a young woman who walked away from the modern world to live and work with a primitive tribe of Indians in the jungles of Brazil....

Sometimes letting go is the only way to really hold on tight. When zoologist Mitch Huntington agreed to be named in his best friends' will as guardian to their daughter, Emily Jane, he was sure it meant nothing more than pony rides, presents on birthdays, and an occasional day at the circus. Instead he finds himself up to his elbows in diapers and soggy oatmeal. While Mitch soon discovers that animal care and baby care are not the same thing, he

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When PI Rhea Jensen is asked to investigate an embezzlement case at a nearby factory, Rhea doesn't think twice. What Rhea doesn't know is that the events that will take place on this case will snowball into a life decision. And what starts out as a humdrum investigation, filled with seemingly chance encounters, will change her life forever.

In 1839, newly orphaned eleven-year-old Mary goes to live wiht her missionary aunt and uncle who run a school for Indian children in northern Michigan.