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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers twenty-nine of literature’s most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval society, from the exalted Knight to the humble Plowman.
This new edition includes a comprehensive...
This new edition includes a comprehensive...
3) The way
Publisher
Arc Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012, ©2010
Language
English
Description
Tom goes to St. Jean Pied de Port, France to collect the remains of his adult son, who was killed in the Pyrenees in a storm while walking the Camino de Santiago. Rather than return home, Tom decides to embark on the historical pilgrimage to honor his son's desire to finish the journey. What Tom doesn't plan on is the profound impact the journey will have on him as he begins to learn the difference between the life one lives and the life one chooses....
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
At a time when Britain, America, and much of Europe have never been so secular--and when his mother's death and his Irish Catholic family's complicated history with the church prompted a reckoning with his own beliefs -- Timothy Egan decided to follow in the footsteps of centuries of seekers. He embarked on a thousand-mile pilgrimage through the theological cradle of Christianity, to explore one of the biggest stories of our time: the collapse of...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the bestsellers Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It and Live Your Truth comes Rebirth, an inspiring novel about the magic that happens when you learn to follow your heart. After the death of his estranged father, Amit takes his parent's ashes to the Ganges to fulfill a deathbed promise. Instead of returning home, he wanders, his pain and grief leaving him confused about his future. Almost broke, unsure about his direction...
Author
Publisher
Prospect Park Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"While visiting Siena, Italy, Mary Lea Carroll grew fascinated with the remarkable story of St. Catherine of Siena and made a resolution: Whenever she was lucky enough to travel, if a shrine dedicated to a female saint was nearby, she'd visit it and learn about her. What started as a hobby grew into a journey she never expected, one rich with challenges and cappuccinos, doubts and inspiration, glasses of wine with strangers and moments of transcendence....
Author
Publisher
Prospect Park Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The author of Saint Everywhere is answering the call from fans for more reports from her quest to learn from some quietly extraordinary women-and a man or two-who have changed the world. Mary Lea Carroll travels to shrines and hometowns to learn about such amazing people as Saint Marie of Quebec, who founded the first girls' school in the New World; philanthropist-turned-saint Katherine Drexel of Philadelphia; Saint Brigid, a patron saint of Ireland;...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A profound and moving journey into the heart of Christianity that explores the mysterious and often paradoxical lives and legacies of the Twelve Apostles--a book both for those of the faith and for others who seek to understand Christianity from the outside in. Peter, Matthew, Thomas, John: Who were these men? What was their relationship to Jesus? Tom Bissell provides rich and surprising answers to these ancient, elusive questions. He examines not...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In the middle of her vibrant Mexican town, amid good friends, margaritas at sunset, salsa, yoga, mariachis, even before the rapist arrived, a midlife crisis had been brewing. Failed relationships, worn-out dreams, and wavering religous beliefs had tinged her life with despair, flat-lined it to gray. No longer sustained by the religious practices that had nourished her for years, she missed God and had been searching on the Internet for a monastery...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"On the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, which was also the fiftieth anniversary of the since the Six-day War and the tenth anniversary of the Blockade of Gaza, Justin Butcher--along with ten other companions (and another hundred joining him at points along the way)--walked from London to Jerusalem as an act of solidarity, penance, and hope. Weaving in history of the Holy Land as he moves across Europe, from Balfour and Christian Zionism, to...
20) El peregrino
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Este libro es la confirmación de que uno mismo es el señor de sus pasos, el dueño absoluto de su camino, el arquitecto de su sueño. Es un libro sobre la determinación. El primer libro escrito por Paulo Coelho, el autor de El Alquimista, en esta edición es conmemorativa del 35 aniversario. "Santiago de Compostela, ciudad española conocida como centro internacional de peregrinación, está delante, y no puedo imaginar que este camino me conduce...
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