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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Relates the author's efforts to eulogize a beloved rabbi who is near death, while at the same time befriending a Detroit pastor who gives spiritual guidance to the poor and homeless, and describes how observing these two different religious leaders rekindled his own faith.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Millions of readers have thrilled to bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and historian Martin Dugard's Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln, page-turning works of nonfiction that have changed the way we read history. Now the anchor of The O'Reilly Factor details the events leading up to the murder of the most influential man in history: Jesus of Nazareth. Nearly two thousand years after this beloved and controversial young revolutionary was brutally...
Author
Series
Something Dark and Holy volume 1
Publisher
Wednesday Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition ;
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
385 pages : 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Some stories are so beautiful, so brutal, that they claw at your heart and refuse to let go. Welcome to the world of Wicked Saints--an epic, passionate novel that you won't soon forget. Prepare to meet: A girl named Nadya, who hears the whispers of the gods inside her head, a Prince surrounded by desperate suitors and deadly assassins, and a monster hidden behind pale, tortured eyes--and a smile that cuts like a knife. The paths of these three characters...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Near-death experiences are controversial. Thousands of people have had them, but many in the scientific community have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those people. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that what people of faith call the "soul" is really a product of brain chemistry. NDEs, he would have been the first to explain, might feel real, but they are fantasies produced by brains under extreme stress....
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
What if our beliefs were not what divided us, but what pulled us together?
In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey between two worlds — two men, two faiths, two communities — that will inspire readers everywhere. Albom's first nonfiction book since Tuesdays with Morrie, Have a Little Faith begins with an unusual request: an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from...
In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey between two worlds — two men, two faiths, two communities — that will inspire readers everywhere. Albom's first nonfiction book since Tuesdays with Morrie, Have a Little Faith begins with an unusual request: an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world beyond.
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
317 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
2003 ECPA Gold Medallion Award winner! The best-seller that has brought comfort and hope to millions in the wake of 9/11 is now available in softcover! Let's Roll!-the moving, behind-the-scenes story of United Flight 93 hero Todd Beamer and his widow, Lisa-is so much more than a tribute. A message of character, courage, and undeniable faith in the face of horrifying tragedy, it encourages anyone who reads it to live real life right now . . . and to...