Summary: "These true stories of miraculous coincidences, answered prayers, mysterious healing, divine intervention, angels, and messages from heaven will deepen your faith and strengthen your hope." -- page [4] of cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 202.117 CHIStiefvater, Maggie
Summary: Three cousins who are members of an unusual family that possesses the ability to perform miracles are repeatedly sought out for their gifts while they struggle to establish free lives for themselves and navigate the fallout from miracles that happen in ways other than anticipated.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Audiobooks 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STILucado, Max.
Summary: A young boy named Elijah learns that no gift is too small in God's hands as he watches Jesus feed thousands of hungry people from Elijah's basket of bread and fish.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tommy Nelson 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Penne, Barbra
Summary: "The fabled oasis in the desert mirage is just one example of the strange things that can happen when light hits the air in certain atmospheric conditions. This captivating volume takes a closer look at mirages and similar phenomena, explaining to elementary readers that there is much more to these natural optical illusions than meets -- or doesn't meet -- the eye. Topics covered include...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Britannica Educational Publishing in association with Rosen Educational Services 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.56 PENFajardo, Anika
Summary: "Interactive adventures about the mythical Greek hero Hercules and his 12 labors in You Choose format"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED FAJSummary: A compilation of essays on claiming control of your life, whether it's reducing clutter in your home or learning to say "no" without guilt. The authors share the fulfillment that comes from focusing on what matters most in your life-- your family, your friends, and even your self.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.7 CHISummary: "101 reasons to laugh out loud. If laughter is the best medicine, then this book is your prescription. Turn off the news and spend a few days not following current events. Instead, return to the basics -- humanity's ability to laugh at itself. Maybe you should even do a news cleanse for a few days! Hide under the covers and read these stories instead. Or read a chapter a day, or a story a day...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.43 CHIStrobel, Lee
Summary: Strobel allows skeptic Michael Shermer to build a case against miracles-- and then builds a case for divine intervention in our world today. He then shows how God remains at work in our world, sometimes openly, sometimes mysteriously, but always in ways that draw us closer to Him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 231.7 STRPeters, Stephanie True
Summary: "Hercules is the ultimate Greek hero-just ask him. But to redeem himself, he must complete a series of dangerous missions given to him by his scheming cousin. It's up to Hercules to prove his strength and wit. Find out if he succeeds in this modern, graphic retelling of a classic Greek myth"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 PETSummary: ""In almost any culture, at any time, you can find food writing," writes guest editor Mark Bittman in his introduction. "Food means growing and hardship, and health and medicine, and work and holiday. In its abundance it is a gift and a joy, and in its absence a curse and a tragedy. If a culture has writing, that culture has food writing." The stories in this year's Best American Food Writing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 BESStorrie, Paul D.
Summary: The son of Zeus, king of the gods, and a mortal mother, Hercules faces the wrath of Zeus's wife Hera, who resents her illegitimate stepson and vows to bring him misery. She tricks Hercules into performing a series of twelve seemingly impossible labors. Is Hercules strong enough to foil her scheme?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC STOSummary: The essays in this year's Best American Science and Nature Writing probe at the ordinary and urge us to think more deeply about our place in the world around us. From a hopeful portrait of a future for people with Alzheimer's disease, to a fascinating exploration of the rise of nearsightedness in children, to the heroic story of a herd of cows that evaded a hurricane, these selections reveal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Casey, Lara
Summary: Little by little, good things grow! Come play in the garden with Gracie! Join the garden tea party with her sister Sarah, taste tomatoes right off the vine with her crunchy munchy brother Joshua, and plant seeds! Some seeds, though, don't grow fast enough for Joshua. He wants to munch on tomatoes NOW. What will he do while he waits on those tiny tomato seeds to grow? Step into the garden to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: B&H Kids 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CASDonoghue, Emma
Summary: Hired to care for a small Irish village girl said to have miraculously survived on nothing but "manna from heaven" for months, a journalist and nurse veteran of Florence Nightingale's Crimean campaign quickly finds herself fighting to save the child's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DONHunt, Angela Elwell
Summary: "Thomas and Tasmin, twin siblings hired to oversee a wedding feast in Cana, worry when the host runs out of wine . . . until a guest tells Tasmin to have the servants fill the pitchers by the gate with water from the cistern. Reluctantly, she obeys and is amazed when rainwater turns into the finest wine ever tasted in Cana. When Thomas impulsively decides to follow the teacher from Nazareth, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HUNKingsbury, Karen.
Summary: The second novel in a "series about divine intervention and the trials and triumphs of life--the dramatic story of a woman desperate to find deeper meaning in her life."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Howard Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kingsbury 2015Snicket, Lemony.
Summary: A lump of coal that wants to be an artist, but would settle for making decorative marks on a piece of grilled meat, rolls out of a forgotten bag of charcoal one winter and takes a spin through town seeking a miracle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Holiday Snicket 2008Steinberg, Lewis M.
Summary: Humans have been fascinated by miraculous works since time immemorial. In the Hebrew Bible, they proved the power of an almighty God. In early Christianity, they were the mark of Jesus's divinity. In Islam, the Qur'an itself is considered a great miracle. Later, the Enlightenment and rationalism called miracles into question, but believers still wonder, "Could some miracles be real?" This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Britannica Educational Publishing 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 202 STEDowdle, Timothy
Summary: "'The I Ching Oracle: A guide through the human maze' is designed to help the reader find a way through the complexities and challenges of everyday life. Timothy and Johanna Dowdle show the reader how to consult the I Ching oracle and receive clear answers to important questions. They explain the methods used for consulting the oracle and how the oracle responds to the reader's questions. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: O-Books, an imprint of John Hunt Publishing Ltd. 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When a mysterious man appears in a small town, unexplained miracles start to occur changing the lives of everyone he meets. There's a mother whose five-year-old boy has leukemia, two doctors, one an atheist haunted by his past, the other a brilliant young oncologist that places all her hope in the power of modern medicine, and a blind pastor whose son hasn't spoken a single word in 38 years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ReBierhorst, John.
Summary: Over forty cultures are represented by sixty-four selected myths and tales.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Native BierhorstBledsoe, Chris.
Summary: "Chris Bledsoe, a deeply religious family man and successful business owner from North Carolina was on the verge of the unthinkable after losing everything in the 2007 financial crisis and suffering from a debilitating chronic disease. Fishing along the banks of the Cape Fear River with three co-workers and his teenage son, he walks away from the group and cries out to God in a desperate prayer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [self-published] 2023
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Summary: Heracles was the son of the Zeus, king of the Greek gods. When he committed a terrible crime, Heracles was sent to serve King Eurystheus of the city of Tiryns as punishment. The king gave Heracles an increasingly difficult list of tasks to accomplish before he would be freed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "A cemetery full of the restless dead. A town so wicked it has already burned twice, with the breath of the third fire looming. A rural, isolated bridge with a terrifying monster waiting for the completion of its summoning ritual. A lake that allows the drowned to return, though they have been changed by the claws of death. These are the shadowed, liminal spaces where the curses and monsters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing Co. 2022