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Language
English
Description
"James Martin, SJ, gifted storyteller, editor at large of America magazine, popular media commentator, and New York Times bestselling author of The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything, brings the Gospels to life in Jesus: A Pilgrimage, and invites believers and seekers alike to experience Jesus through Scripture, prayer and travel. Combining the fascinating insights of historical Jesus studies with profound spiritual insights about the Christ of faith,...
Author
Publisher
Fox News Books
Pub. Date
[2022].
Language
English
Description
"From FOX News anchor and author Harris Faulkner comes a collection of powerful, true-life stories of resilience, healing, rescue, and protection. From the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Haiti to the theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, believers testify to how God inspired hope even when all seemed lost."--Book jacket.
Author
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Susanna Keim has married reliable Herman Wagler and finds herself at odds with her young husband. True to his strict upbringing, Herman will have nothing to do with the Christmas family gatherings Susanna has always cherished. Susanna determines she will follow the godly ways of her faith and prove her love for Herman by accepting her husband's leading despite her sadness. But then Matthew Yoder, Susanna's old flame, shows up in the community the...
84) Religulous
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Comedian and TV host Bill Maher takes a pilgrimage across the globe on a mind-opening journey into the ultimate taboo: questioning religion. Meeting the high and low from different religions, Maher asks questions, like 'Why is faith good?' and more.
Author
Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Understanding Christianity covers the history of Christianity and how the religion has evolved and expanded. Readers learn about its branches, church services, and world contributions. This title also discusses challenges that have arisen as Christians interact with people of other faiths."-- provided by publisher.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A searing two character drama about the choice people frequently make, to go on or give in to despair. Set in a New York tenement apartment, the story focuses on two very different men: a black ex-con who claims to hear the voice of Jesus, and the white professor he stopped from throwing himself in front of an oncoming train.
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Everything seems to be going wrong for the Taylor family right now. Just as Alexa is starting work at her dream job, she's overwhelmed by caring for her mother suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Her son, Beau, has just lost his professional football career to an injury and her daughter, Ravyn, needs help planning her last-minute wedding. Only with the support of friends and the guiding grace of their faith can the Taylors find the strength to cope...
Author
Publisher
K-LOVE Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Believe for It: Passing on Faith to the Next Generation beautifully recounts the pivotal experiences in CeCe's life that have shaped her faith. From her childhood in Detroit and the miracle of motherhood to her award-winning music career, CeCe brings readers along for a story full of heart, passion, and wisdom acquired from her walk with God.
89) Thirst
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In her twenty-eighth novel in as many years, best-selling Belgian novelist and international literary superstar Amélie Nothomb takes on a story for the ages: the life of Jesus. In a first-person voice as entertaining and irreverent as it is wise, Nothomb narrates Jesus's final days, from his trial to his crucifixion to the resurrection. Amid asides about his relationships with his mother and Judas, his love for Mary Magdalene, and his many miracles,...
Publisher
Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
These 101 true personal stories of miracles, angels, answered prayers, messages from heaven, miraculous healing, amazing coincidences, divine timing and divine intervention will give you hope and deepen your faith"--Provided by publisher.
92) Dear diary
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Series
Publisher
Urban Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022].
Language
English
Description
"Something's always been off with Eva Moss, but in the African-American community, everything is prayed away, including 'crazy'. What happens when the answer to prayer is therapy and medication? According to Eva's mother, that's taboo. All it takes is a little more Jesus, and Eva will be normal. Normal never lasts long. After Eva's brother, Michael, is killed in a car accident, she is finally admitted to the psych ward for help. Stabilization seems...
Author
Publisher
Legacy Lit, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"By day, Faith Jenkins is the host of the nationally syndicated TV show Divorce Court; by night, she's a happily married newlywed who navigated these dating streets for years before learning how to attract the love of her dreams. When she turned 35 without a wedding ring in sight, like most women, she started getting tons of questions about not being married. But she made a decision: I. Will. Not. Settle. As an attorney and arbitrator, Faith has presided...
Author
Publisher
Sunbeam, an imprint of Bushel & Peck Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In Scientists of Faith, readers will meet thirty brilliant men and women from different countries, time periods, and scientific disciplines who all share one thing in common: an unshakeable faith in God."--
95) Darkness rising
Author
Series
East Salem trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Forensic psychiatrist Dani Harris and her partner, ex-football star Tommy Gunderson, continue to investigate the ritual murder of Julie Leonard, last seen alive at a party attended by students from St. Adrian's Academy, an exclusive boys' school in New York's Westchester County. Another death of an Alzheimer's patient and pious historian, Abbie Gardener, somehow crushed by sucking asphyxiation one night in her room at the school complicates their...
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[1993], ©1992
Language
English
Description
Caterer and amateur sleuth Faith Fairchild, studying food in the French provinces, finds herself with a mystery on her hands when she discovers a dead body in the vestibule while cleaning up after a dinner party which disappears before the local police arrive.
Author
Publisher
Harper One, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Rachel Held Evans is widely recognized for her theologically astute, profoundly honest, and beautifully personal books, which have guided, instructed, edified, and shaped Christians as they seek to live out a just and loving faith. At the time of her tragic death in 2019, Rachel was working on a new book about wholeheartedness. With the help of her close friend and author Jeff Chu, that work-in-progress has been woven together with some of her other...
98) Captured by love
Author
Series
Michigan brides collection volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On occupied Mackinac Island, Voyageur Pierre Durant and local girl Angelique Labelle must decide where their loyalties lie, and what they will risk for love"--
Author
Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Understanding Judaism covers the history of Judaism and explores how the religion has evolved and expanded. Readers learn about the branches of Judaism, Jewish beliefs, and the influence Jews have had on the world. This title also discusses anti-Semitism Jews have faced, both today and during history."-- provided by publisher.
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