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Automobiles Maintenance and repair Cutlass Supreme automobile Maintenance and repair Despair Despair Drama Despair Religious aspects Christianity Grace (Theology) Horror comic books, strips, etc Lumina automobile Maintenance and repair Monte Carlo automobile Maintenance and repair Pontiac Grand Prix automobile Maintenance and repairSummary: Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Pursuit 2007Summary: An effortless mix of light and uncompromising darkness, Secret Sunshine is the story of a widowed piano teacher who moves with her young son from Seoul to her late husband's provincial hometown for a fresh start.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN SECVoskamp, Ann
Summary: "New York Times best-selling author Ann Voskamp sits at the edge of her life and all of her own unspoken brokenness and asks: What if you really want to live abundantly before it's too late? What do you do if you really want to know abundant wholeness? This is the one begging question that's behind every single aspect of our lives--and one that The Broken Way rises up to explore in the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Christ VoskampSummary: A journalist ventures into the decadent society of modern Rome and finds that his values are being destroyed, leaving him totally disillusioned.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DOLGoldstein, Jan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GOLCushatt, Michele
Summary: "When we're in seasons of suffering and struggle, we equate the presence of pain with the absence of God. But what if we gather evidence of God's unfailing presence? In Relentless, Michele Cushatt invites all who wrestle and wander to dive deep into the Gospel story and their story to discover the unshakeable presence of a God who never leaves"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CUSHATT, MICHELE CUSWiman, Christian
Summary: "Few contemporary writers ask the questions about faith, morality, and God that Christian Wiman does, and even fewer--perhaps none--do so with his urgency and eloquence. Wiman, an award-winning poet and the author of My Bright Abyss, lays the motion of his mind on the page in this genre-defying work, an indivisible blend of poetry, criticism, theology, and searing memoir. As Marilynne Robinson...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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Summary: In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Yet, argues Slavoj Žižek, it is only when we have admit to ourselves that our situation is completely hopeless - that the light at the end of the tunnel is in fact the headlight of a train approaching...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2018
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Summary: "The story revolves around an unfortunate young man named Eric. He and his fiancée, Shelly, are assaulted by a gang of street thugs after their car breaks down. Eric is shot in the head and is paralyzed, and can only watch as Shelly is savagely beaten, raped, and shot in the head. They are then left for dead on the side of the road. Eric later dies in the hospital operating room while Shelly is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1993
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 O'BAKyle, Taya
Summary: The widow of American Sniper Chris Kyle shares their private journey, a moving and universal chronicle of love and family, service and patriotism, grief and sacrifice, faith and purpose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KYLE, TAYA KYLGaiman, Neil.
Contents: Death -- Desire -- Dream -- Despair -- Delirium -- Destruction -- Destiny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Gaiman 2003Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Musical group)
Summary: American indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs includes singer Karen O, guitarist and keyboardist Nick Zinner, and drummer Brian Chase. The band returns with their latest release Mosquito and their popular indie jam Sacrilege.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interscope 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK YEAMaddox, Robert (Robert Phillip)
Contents: General Motors -- Buick Regal -- Chevrolet Lumina -- Chevrolet Monte Carlo -- Pontiac Grand Prix -- Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haynes Pub. Group 1995