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"In Denton, Arkansas, the fate of the high school football team rests on the shoulders of Billy Lowe, a volatile but talented running back. Billy comes from an extremely troubled home: a trailer park where he is terrorized by his mother's abusive boyfriend. Billy takes out his anger on the field, but when his savagery crosses a line, he faces suspension. Without Billy Lowe, the Denton Pirates can kiss their playoff bid goodbye. But the head coach,...
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"Charles and Lily, James and Nan. They meet in Greenwich Village in 1963 when Charles and James are jointly hired to steward the historic Third Presbyterian Church through turbulent times. Their personal differences however, threaten to tear them apart. Charles is destined to succeed his father as an esteemed professor of history at Harvard, until an unorthodox lecture about faith leads him to ministry. How then, can he fall in love with Lily--fiercely...
3) Silence
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870L
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English
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"Shusaku Endo's classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times "Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama."--The New York Times Book Review Seventeenth-century Japan: Two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to a country hostile to their religion, where feudal lords force the faithful to publicly renounce their beliefs. Eventually captured and forced to watch their Japanese Christian brothers lay down their lives for their faith,...
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Ivan volume 3
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English
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"When Ivan refuses to join the Communist youth organisation his classmates make fun of him and try to force Ivan off the school hockey team. His teacher tells him that Christians are not allowed to attend university. Then Ivan is taken in for questioning by the Secret Police. The situation gets even worse when Ivan's Christian friends begin to think that he is an informer. But it's not Ivan who is the informer. It's not Ivan who is passing on information...
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870L
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"Shusaku Endo's classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times "Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama."--The New York Times Book Review Seventeenth-century Japan: Two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to a country hostile to their religion, where feudal lords force the faithful to publicly renounce their beliefs. Eventually captured and forced to watch their Japanese Christian brothers lay down their lives for their faith,...
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Ivan volume 4
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English
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"Ivan isn't the most popular boy at school but he is the best at football. Some of his classmates think that Ivan shouldn't be allowed to play on the school team because he is a Christian. Ivan has a lot of teasing and bullying to put up with. However, when Ivan and Katya get the chance to travel to the Lenin Collective Farm, to help with the harvest, things begin to change for the better. In the middle of all that fresh air and exercise Ivan discovers...
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2008
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236 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"In her peaceful town outside Beirut, Ruba is slowly awakening to the shifting contours within her household: hardly speaking and refusing to work, her father has inexplicably withdrawn from his family in favor of his favorite armchair; her once-youthful mother looks so sad that Ruba imagines her heart must have withered like a fig in the heat; and Ruba's brother, Naji, has started to spend less time with Ruba in order to meet with older boys, some...
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Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Unlike most people, young Sara Hopkins is willing to take God at His word. So, when she hears a preacher say faith can move mountains, she starts praying. What begins with a mysteriously healed bird leads to people suddenly cured of their misery and misfortune all over town. But the overwhelming crush of notoriety and press attention soon takes its toll on Sara. Will her family be able to save their miracle girl before it's too late?
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
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First edition.
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233 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Fourteen-year-old Jess' beliefs falter when her evangelical father packs up the family, including her secretly pregnant older sister and her long-suffering mother, to travel across the country and save souls ahead of the anticipated end of the world.
10) Silence
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Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
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Widescreen version.
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1 videodisc (160 mins.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Two Catholic missionaries face the ultimate test of faith when they travel to Japan looking for their missing mentor, at a time when Catholicism was outlawed.
12) Boxers & saints
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Pub. Date
2013
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First edition.
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Boxers (328 pages) ; Saints (170 pages) : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Boxers : In China in 1898 bands of foreign missionaries and soldiers roam the countryside, bullying and robbing Chinese peasants. Little Bao has had enough: harnessing the powers of ancient Chinese gods, he recruits an army of Boxers--commoners trained in kung fu who fight to free China from "foreign devils."
Saints : "China, 1898. An unwanted and unwelcome fourth daughter, Four-Girl isn't even given a proper name by her family when she's born. She...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
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360 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Twelve-year-old Yasmeen Khoury is unhappy that her family has moved from Detroit to San Antonio, Texas, leaving her friends and Arab Christian community behind; from the very first day at school Yasmeen feels completely isolated and out of place, but she slowly makes friends with a Mexican boy, Carlos, and her Jewish neighbor, Ayelet Cohen, although she feels like she has to hide these friendships, especially from her Palestinian father, a native...
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Ivan volume 2
Pub. Date
2006
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138 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
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English
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"Ivan is in another brand new adventure. This time he is trying to outwit the Moscow Secret Police who have imprisoned his best friend, Pyotr, in a children's home. Can Ivan rescue Pyotr? Will he find a way to get Pyotr's father released from prison? Read how God uses Ivan's skill at football to help his friends and get the better of the Moscow Secret Police." -- Page [4] cover.
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Ivan volume 1
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
157 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
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English
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"Ivan and his sister Katya are going to the great Moscow Circus to see their friend, Volodia, perform an amazing routine that includes a triple somersault. In spite of the fun they can't forget that Volodia's uncle, a great Russian poet, has been imprisoned for criticizing the Communist government. Katya and Ivan long to help but what can they do against the powerful Secret Police? Read how a key, a car, a journalist and a clown suit help Ivan in...
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Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Gallery books trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
335 pages, 9 unnumbered pages : map ; 21 cm
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English
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"Hannah Levi is renowned throughout Venice for her gift at coaxing reluctant babies from their mothers--a gift aided by the secret 'birthing spoons' she designed. But when a count implores her to attend to his wife, who has been laboring for days to give birth to their firstborn son, Hannah is torn. A Papal edict forbids Jews from rendering medical treatment to Christians, but the payment he offers is enough to ransom her beloved husband, Isaac, who...
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Multnomah
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
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340 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"In this taut thriller that imagines a near-future America following the decline of the Religious Right, where the Christ-followers who have anticipated a rising intolerance for their beliefs for decades find out they're right after all"--
The year is 2038 and Cheyenne Burne is a brilliant young programmer working for Acatour, the world's top technology firm. Her father converts to Christianity, and he suddenly disappears without a trace. When a...
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Ivan volume 6
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
141 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
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English
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"Ivan can't believe it. He has won the All-Moscow History prize and will get the chance to travel to America. But as usual Ivan's journey is full of adventure and intrigue. During his stay in the United States of America Ivan comes face to face with a defector who wanted to escape from the Soviet Union and live in the West. Ivan isn't sure if he should help this person or not. Perhaps he should just walk away? But aren't Christians supposed to help...
20) My valentine
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Barbour Books, an imprint of Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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My valentine: Pierce Blackwell, son of a prominent family, and Darlene Lewy, daughter of a Jewish tailor, have their lives planned out--until the day they meet in New York's Lower East Side in 1835. But she could never accept his Jesus as the Messiah, and he would most likely be disowned should they ever marry. Can social, cultural, and religious barriers be torn down for love? -- Page [4] cover.
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