Walsch, Neale Donald.

Summary: A parable from "Conversations with God, Book 1", this book helps readers remember the angel within us all, as it gracefully explains spiritual concepts to children.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hampton Roads Pub. Co. 1998

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 226 WAL

Higgs, Liz Curtis.

Summary: Tells a parable in which the farmer turns a simple pumpkin into a glorious sight to illustrate that God wants His children to be full of light.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: T. Nelson Publishers 1995

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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E HIG

Bach, Richard

Summary: Because he spends so much time perfecting his flying form instead of concentrating on getting food, a seagull is ostracized by the rest of the flock.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAC

Parker, Victoria.

Summary: The Discovering the Bible series provides an informative and accessible means of finding out why the Bible remains so important. Each story is accompanied by an information panel, illustrations and maps of where these events took place. This title continues the story of the time Jesus spent in Galilee. It mixes Jesus' biographical details from the Bible, such as the story of Lazarus, Jesus and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lorenz 2000

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 225 PAR

Summary: A collection of uplifting and touching stories about the truly important aspects of life : loving, learning, parenting, obstacles and living our dreams.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 1993

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 158.1 CAN

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 CHI

Summary: Shares the story of how Jesus told the parable of the Good Samaritan, in which a man is robbed, beaten, and left near death, then ignored by two men before being aided by a Samaritan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Zonderkidz 2015

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE GOO

Gibran, Kahlil

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: A. A. Knopf 1960

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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 892.7 GIB

Muth, Jon J.

Summary: In this reworking of the Buddhist parable, Stillwater, a giant panda, teaches Addy that the grief she feels for the loss of her kitten, is part of life and is shared by everybody.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020

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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MUT

Lucado, Max

Summary: Punchinello's opinion of himself changes after talking to his creator

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crossway Books 1997

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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE Board Lucado 1997

Summary: Michael Steele is ten days from the biggest night of his life. He has been nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards. Achieving the height of career success, Michael is quickly cast in the role of a lifetime as the lead character in a classic struggle between good and evil when rumors about his morality and faith run rampant. Will he buckle with temptation or stay true to his beliefs?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAG1

Lucado, Max.

Summary: Punchinello's opinion of himself changes after talking to his creator.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Good News Publisher 1997

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC Lucad

Macfarlane, Robert

Summary: "A hauntingly beautiful diptych of works inspired by Robert Macfarlane's travels with celebrated collaborators to two eerie corners of England. In Holloway, "a perfect miniature prose-poem" (William Dalrymple), Macfarlane, artist Stanley Donwood, and writer Dan Richards travel to Dorset, near the south coast of England, to explore a famed "hollowed way"-a path used by walkers and riders for so...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.23 MAC

Redfield, James.

Summary: The unnamed hero takes on the Peruvian government, priests, guerrillas and drug dealers to find an ancient manuscript whose nine insights prophesy New Age spirituality. An adventure story replete with energy transfers and other psychic phenomena.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1993

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RED

Steinbeck, John

Summary: Reworking an ancient legend, Steinbeck created a powerful parable of modern man's preoccupation with materialism, money, and power. The story is of Keno, a poor fisherman who finds a great, luminous pearl. Although he is sure the fortune it represents will solve all his problems, Keno eventually realizes that the pearl has marked his life forever.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1999

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STE

Bing, Stanley.

Summary: The world's first corporate case study: A family business prospers through a productive series of brutal consolidations and rational growth. Then the rise of an executive class that pits one egotistical senior manager against another in senseless internal conflicts eventually leads to a long line of demented CEOs, excessive expansion, and foolish diversification--and a high cost in shattered...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 937.002 BIN

McLaren, Brian D.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Jossey-Bass 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.4 MCL

McLaren, Brian D.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Jossey-Bass 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.4 MCL

Haddon, Mark

Summary: "A fantastical novel which reworks Shakespeare's 'Pericles' into a parable for today"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HAD

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAD

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAD

Roach, Margaret.

Summary: "A memoir by the author of And I Shall Have Some Peace There about how Margaret Roach's surrender to gardening saved her life" --Provided by the publisher

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.01 ROA

Goodings, Christina

Summary: Presents information about Jesus Christ and his world, looking at his stories, parables, and miracles.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lion Children's 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 232 GOO

Hodge, Roger D.

Summary: "An intoxicating, singularly illuminating history of the Texas borderlands from their settlement through seven generations of Roger D. Hodge's ranching family. What brought the author's family to Texas? What is it about Texas that for centuries has exerted a powerful allure for adventurers and scoundrels, dreamers and desperate souls, outlaws and outliers? In search of answers, Hodge travels...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976 HOD