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Deseret Book
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When Steve Mikita was 18 months old, he was diagnosed with Werdnig-Hoffman's Disease and given six months to live. But his parents had a different plan for their son. Instead of taking Steve home from the hospital to die, his parents took him home; Steve defied the odds and lived. He is now 53 years old and has outlived both his parents. Though he has spent his entire life in a wheelchair, he graduated magna cum laude from Duke University and received...
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Language
English
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"My dear children, I am very anxious that you should know something about the History of Jesus Christ. For everybody ought to know Him. No one ever lived who was so good, so kind, so gentle . . ."
So begins The Life of Our Lord, the sincere efforts of Charles Dickens to teach his children about the life, ministry, and mission of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world.
45) Joni
Publisher
World Wide Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"She was young ... vital ... just 17 when it happened. A diving accident snapped her neck and left her paralyzed. The months that followed were filled with great physical, emotional, and spiritual struggles for Joni Eareckson. Joni re-creates for you on film her joys and sorrow, her fears and victories, and, above all, her faith in the wisdom and certain blessings of a loving heavenly Father."
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
As a teenager, Hanny Londt-Shultz, together with her family, faced a grinding daily routine in a Japanese internment camp in Sumatra during WWII. But through the recognition of small miracles, the members of the Londt-Shultz family, though damaged, endure, and in spite of life-threatening challenges become saviors among their peers and courageous examples to their captors.
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English
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"In Surprised by Joy, C.S. Lewis shares his enthralling spiritual journey through his early life, chronicling his conversion to the Christian faith. ... Lewis starts with his childhood in Belfast, then describes his boarding school years and his youthful atheism in England, moves to his experience in World War I, and ends in Oxford. Through it all Lewis explores his lifelong search for joy and its role in pointing him toward God."--Book cover.
Author
Publisher
Oasis Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In 1928, 16-year-old Minka was on a picnic in the woods when she was assaulted and raped. Suddenly this innocent farm girl -- who still thought the stork brought babies -- was pregnant. The baby was secretly born, named Betty Jane, and given up for adoption. For decades, Minka wrote letters trying to get news of her daughter; she kept loving and praying for her, even though she never dared believe they would meet again. Until nearly eighty years later,...
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Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The ten Booms, who had recently celebrated the one-hundred-year anniversary of their Haarlem watch shop, lived a quiet life. That change in 1940 when the Nazis occupied the Netherlands and Jewish citizens began to disappear. Corrie and her family, devout Christians, joined the Dutch Resistance and built a secret room in their house to hide Jews and refugees. The Gestapo applied unrelenting pressure on Haarlem, continually raiding homes to snatch Jews...
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English
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"I should be dead. Buried in an unmarked grave in Romania. Obviously, I am not. God had other plans."
At just under five feet tall, Virginia Prodan was no match for the towering six-foot-ten-inch, gun-wielding assassin the Romanian government sent to her office to take her life. It was not the first time her life had been threatened—nor would it be the last.
As a young attorney under Nicolae Ceausescu's brutal communist regime,
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Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
After telling the story of how he overcame an inner-city background to become a world-renowned neurosurgeon in "Gifted Hands," Dr. Ben Carson now offers an inspirational look at the philosophy of life that helped him meet life's obstacles and leap over them.
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
NFL football coach Tony Dungy reflects on his personal and professional life; discussing his childhood, family, religious beliefs, coaching practices, Super Bowl victory, and more. Includes photographs.
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