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Harris, Rachael

Summary: After her husband suffers a stroke, a devout childless Christian woman sets out on a trip to find his illegitimate adult ex-convict son.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Guild 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NAT

Summary: This heartwarming and inspirational film tells the story of a young woman growing up in the 1950's who devotes her life to the service of God. However, her faith is tested with each tragedy endured on an extraordinary life journey.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: GT Media 2006

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Though

Shaw, Bernard

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1956

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.912 SHA

Summary: For Anna Maria, a woman in her fifties, paradise lies with Jesus. She devotes her summer vacation to doing missionary work, so that Austria may be brought back to the path of virtue. On her daily pilgrimage through Vienna, she goes from door to door, carrying a foot-high statue of the Virgin Mary. When her husband, an Egyptian Muslim confined to a wheelchair, comes home after years of absence,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PAR

Finch, Jamie Lee

Summary: "Rooted in her experiences growing up in an Evangelical Christian family, Jamie Lee Finch's "You Are Your Own" offers an overview of Evangelicalism and the painful confusion and anxiety experienced under its demands. Finch explores the mechanisms of trauma and how fundamentalist denominations match the patterns connected with PTSD. She elaborates on the doubt, guilt, fear, and grief that haunt...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: [Jamie Lee Finch] 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.8 FIN

Summary: Tells the story of Christina Noble, who leaves the slums of her childhood in Ireland to work for the welfare of the street children of Vietnam.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NOB

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