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Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
xi, 260 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
One of the best quarterbacks in the history of college football traces his path to success, discussing his childhood as the son of Christian missionaries and how his faith combined with his drive to succeed have made him the person he is today.
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The wife of the Nickel Mines Amish Schoolhouse shooter shares her story of life after the tragedy and her experience of Christ's redemptive love, encouraging others to believe in the capacity for beauty in the midst of their own brokenness.
5) Untamed
Author
Language
English
Description
"There is a voice of longing inside every woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good mothers, daughters, partners, employees, citizens, and friends. We believe all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives, relationships, and world, and wonder: Wasn't it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the closest thing we have to an autobiography, C. S. Lewis, an unfailingly honest and perceptive observer of self, here shares the story of his personal spiritual journey. With characteristic candor and insight, he describes how his "search for joy" led him from the conventional Christianity of his childhood to a youthful atheism, and finally back to an assured Christianity compatible with his formidable intellect. With no pretense, Lewis describes
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