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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sometimes salvation is found in the strangest places: a true story.
Aaron Hartzler grew up in a home where he was taught that at any moment the Rapture could happen. That Jesus might come down in the twinkling of an eye and scoop Aaron and his family up to heaven. As a kid, Aaron was thrilled by the idea that every moment of every day might be his last one on planet Earth.
But as Aaron turns sixteen, he finds himself more attached to...
Aaron Hartzler grew up in a home where he was taught that at any moment the Rapture could happen. That Jesus might come down in the twinkling of an eye and scoop Aaron and his family up to heaven. As a kid, Aaron was thrilled by the idea that every moment of every day might be his last one on planet Earth.
But as Aaron turns sixteen, he finds himself more attached to...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
x, 493 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An award-winning journalist follows up his New York Times bestseller American Carnage with this profoundly troubling portrait of the American evangelical movement in which he investigates the ways in which conservative Christians have pursued, exercised and often abused power in the name of securing this earthly kingdom.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
From Ann Cleeves--bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows--comes the first in a gripping new series. "Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers."--Louise Penny In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. Once loved and cherished, the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community...
Author
Publisher
HarperFlamingo
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
The family of a fierce evangelical Baptist missionary--Nathan Price, his wife, and his four daughters--begins to unravel after they embark on a 1959 mission to the Belgian Congo, where they find their lives transformed over the course of three decades
Author
Series
Publisher
Franklin Library
Pub. Date
1982
Physical Desc
528 p. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Barchester Towers, by Anthony Trollope, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
Author
Series
Holland Family volume 5
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In his most autobiographical novel to date, James Lee Burke continues the epic Holland family saga with a writer grieving the death of his daughter while battling earthly and supernatural outlaws. Novelist Aaron Holland Broussard is shattered when his daughter Fannie Mae dies suddenly. As he tries to honor her memory by saving two young men from a life of crime amid their opioid-ravaged community, he is drawn into a network of villainy that includes...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle,where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star’s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is...
Author
Series
Amish Brides of Pinecraft volume 2
Language
English
Description
In a rare instance of disobedience to her parents, Penny Troyer goes out to hear a popular travelling Mennonite evangelical speaker, a man named Michael with an inspirational story, whom she befriends and comes to know.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
This compelling new look at one of the worst disasters to strike humankind--the Great Irish Potato Famine--provides fresh material and analysis on the role that nineteenth-century evangelical Protestantism played in shaping British policies and on Britain's attempt to use the famine to reshape Irish society and character.
Series
Publisher
Tyndale Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
4 compact discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A collection of twelve episodes from the "Adventures in Odyssey" radio program that focuses on themes related to living a Christian life such as grace, evangelism, and God's will.
13) So help me God
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mike Pence spent more hours in the Oval Office than any of his predecessors. On the surface, the affable evangelical Christian from a gas-station-owning family in Indiana wouldn't seem to have much in common with a brash real estate mogul from New York. But the unlikely duo formed a tight bond. Pence was at Donald Trump's side when he enacted historic tax relief, when he decided to take more assertive stances toward China and North Korea, and when...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of a former Evangelical Christian turned openly gay atheist who now works to bridge the divide between atheists and the religious
The stunning popularity of the “New Atheist” movement—whose most famous spokesmen include Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens—speaks to both the growing ranks of atheists and the widespread, vehement disdain for religion among many of them. In Faitheist,...
The stunning popularity of the “New Atheist” movement—whose most famous spokesmen include Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens—speaks to both the growing ranks of atheists and the widespread, vehement disdain for religion among many of them. In Faitheist,...
Author
Publisher
Westminster John Knox Press
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Revised and expanded edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 178 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dark previously warned American Christianity about the false worship that conflates love of country with love of God. In our current political season, he believes the problems he identified have blossomed.
Author
Publisher
Tiller Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Tiller Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 221 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color); 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Discover how to engage in a faith-filled life in the era of social media from a group of young, consecrated Catholic sisters.
Friend. Artist. Writer. Businesswomen. Advocate. Scholar. The women whose pieces are included in this book hold many different titles. But they all share two important characteristics. First, they are all young women. Second, they are all consecrated religious of the Catholic order the Daughters of Saint Paul. They are millennial...
Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead
Pub. Date
1901
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
2 v. in 1 : front., illus. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1832, three years before Alexis de Tocqueville published Democracy in America, the English novelist Frances Trollope released Domestic Manners of the Americans, an eye-opening record of her travels in the young republic. Expecting a utopia of "justice and liberty for all," she is shocked to discover the contradictions at the heart of the American character. Funny and fearless, Trollope's biting critique became an international sensation. Yet, as...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
413 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Grant Wacker's interpretive study deepens our understanding of why Billy Graham has mattered so much to so many in this biography of America's most famous evangelist.