Summary: Unlike most people, young Sara Hopkins is willing to take God at His word. So, when she hears a preacher say faith can move mountains, she starts praying. What begins with a mysteriously healed bird leads to people suddenly cured of their misery and misfortune all over town. But the overwhelming crush of notoriety and press attention soon takes its toll on Sara. Will her family be able to save...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bridgestone Multimedia Group 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GIRSummary: Maud, a newly devout hospice nurse, becomes obsessed with saving her dying patient's soul, but sinister forces, and her own sinful past, threaten to put an end to her holy calling.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR SAILawton, Wendy.
Summary: The daughter of a German and a Jew, Anna's dreams of becoming a famous ballerina are crushed by increasing Nazi persecution, but she is sustained, even while in a Nazi work camp, by her strong Christian faith and the conviction that she will one day be reunited with her mother and sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Moody Publishers 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC LAWBambola, Sylvia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Multnomah Publishers 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAMEndō, Shūsaku
Summary: "Shusaku Endo's classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times"Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama."-The New York Times Book Review Seventeenth-century Japan: Two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to a country hostile to their religion, where feudal lords force the faithful to publicly renounce their beliefs. Eventually captured and forced to watch their Japanese...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador Modern Classics 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Feldman, Jacquetta Nammar
Summary: Twelve-year-old Yasmeen Khoury is unhappy that her family has moved from Detroit to San Antonio, Texas, leaving her friends and Arab Christian community behind; from the very first day at school Yasmeen feels completely isolated and out of place, but she slowly makes friends with a Mexican boy, Carlos, and her Jewish neighbor, Ayelet Cohen, although she feels like she has to hide these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FELAbi-Ezzi, Nathalie
Summary: "In her peaceful town outside Beirut, Ruba is slowly awakening to the shifting contours within her household: hardly speaking and refusing to work, her father has inexplicably withdrawn from his family in favor of his favorite armchair; her once-youthful mother looks so sad that Ruba imagines her heart must have withered like a fig in the heat; and Ruba's brother, Naji, has started to spend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABILambert, Jerry
Summary: Mickey McPherson has found her own slice of heaven on earth along the sandy shores of Lake Michigan. Sporting adventure, big boats, beach parties and spectacular sunsets make for a fun-filled summer. Mickey's background includes a strong Christian family and education while her new friends are adrenaline junkies looking for a good time. Temptations abound, will Mickey's beliefs be challenged or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Big Mac Publishers 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAMWall, Cara
Summary: Charles and Lily, James and Nan. They meet in Greenwich Village in 1963 when Charles and James are jointly hired to steward the historic Third Presbyterian Church through turbulent times. Their personal differences however, threaten to tear them apart. Charles is destined to succeed his father as an esteemed professor of history at Harvard, until an unorthodox lecture about faith leads him to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Wall 2019Lewis, Beverly
Summary: Eric wants to find out about the old man who has moved in next door, so he and the other Cul-de-sac Kids decide to pay him a Christmas visit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 1995
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC LEWKruger, C. Baxter.
Summary: Young's novel, The Shack, has been embraced by Christians worldwide. Kruger explores this story of a man lifted from the depths of despair through his life-altering encounter with God, and guides readers into a deeper understanding of the core message of the novel: God is love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: FaithWords 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The story, told in flashback, of two young British sprinters competing for fame in the 1924 Olympics. Eric, a devout Scottish missionary runs because he knows it must please God. Harold, the son of a newly rich Jew runs to prove his place in Cambridge society. In a warmup 100 meter race, Eric defeats Harold, who hires a pro trainer to prepare him. Eric, whose qualifying heat is scheduled for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ChCummings, Troy
Summary: Initially, super-snazzy Christmas tree ornament, Otto, thinks he should be placed at the top of tree to be admired, but then he realizes where he really wants to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CUMSummary: Told through the eyes of celebrated Spanish painter Francisco Goya. Set against political turmoil at the end of the Spanish Inquisition and start of the invasion of Spain by Napoleon's army. Captures the essence and beauty of Goya's work which is best known for both the colorful depictions of the royal court and its people, and his grim depictions of the brutality of war and life in 18th...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOYDavid, Ellen
Summary: Four-year-old Caillou learns new lessons about life and the world around him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2008
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD CAICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CAISummary: The story of legendary movie star Joan Crawford as she struggles for her career and battles the inner demons of her private life. This torment manifests itself into her relationships with her adopted children, Christina and Christopher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006