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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 25 cm
Description
When Margaret's fiancé, John, is hospitalized for depression, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him. What follows is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. At the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic, and the story of how, over the span of decades, his younger siblings-the responsible Celia...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 23 cm
Description
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 ministry. How then, can he fall in love with Lily?fiercely...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
360 pages
Description
"For Sarah Krasnostein, it begins with a Mennonite choir performing on a subway platform, a fleeting moment of witness that sets her on a fascinating journey to discover why people need to believe in absolute truths and what happens when their beliefs crash into her own. Some of the people Krasnostein interviews believe in things many people do not: ghosts, UFOs, the literal creation of the universe in six days. Some believe in things most people...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
179 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"All his life, President Jimmy Carter has been a courageous exemplar of faith. Now he shares the lessons he learned. He writes, “The issue of faith arises in almost every area of human existence, so it is important to understand its multiple meanings. In this book, my primary goal is to explore the broader meaning of faith, its far-reaching effect on our lives, and its relationship to past, present, and future events in America and around the world....
5) Matrix
Author
Description
"Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily...
Series
Criterion collection volume 942
Pub. Date
[2018]
Formats
Description
Follows a man through his life as he questions his existence and faith and struggles to maintain a good relationship with his father.
7) Signs
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Bucks County, Pennsylvania, a five-hundred-foot crop circle is found on the farm of Graham Hess, the town's reverend. The circles cause a media frenzy and test Hess's faith as he journeys to find out the truth behind the crop circles.
9) Indivisible
Formats
Description
Based on the true story of Army Chaplain Darren Turner and his wife Heather. With a strong, faith-filled marriage, the Turners are ready to follow their calling: serving God, family, and country. Fresh from seminary and basic training, Chaplain Turner and his family arrive at Fort Stewart. Before the Turners can even unpack, Darren is deployed to Iraq. Heather is left taking care of their three young children alone; as well as serving the families...
Publisher
Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a small-town baseball coach gets an offer to coach at a large school, he uproots his family and leaves the only home he's ever known. But as a man of faith, he soon faces opposition to his coaching style from the bitter superintendent.
Author
Publisher
Fox News Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
x, 275 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"From FOX News anchor and author Harris Faulkner comes a collection of powerful, true-life stories of resilience, healing, rescue, and protection. From the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Haiti to the theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, believers testify to how God inspired hope even when all seemed lost"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Baxter family series. Standalone novels volume Prequel
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
c2022.
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
A terrible storm builds in the early morning sky over Bloomington, Indiana, as Elizabeth Baxter prepares to celebrate her daughter Kari’s wedding to Tim Jacobs. It’s supposed to be the happiest of days, but Elizabeth can’t shake a growing sense of dread. Is the storm a sign? Something bad is about to happen. Elizabeth knows it. Indeed, there are dark currents of conflict and doubt coursing through the Baxter family. In the midst of them, Kari...
13) Little boy
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Little Pepper Busbee enjoys an idyllic life in an American small town, but his world is shattered when his beloved father is sent off to fight in World War II. But a chance encounter with a stage magician awakens his dormant abilities and clues him into the power of faith. Now his devotion to his father will extend past time and space and into the realm of miracles.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Formats
Description
"In this book Lamott explores how we find meaning and peace in these loud and frantic times; where we start again after personal and public devastation; how we recapture wholeness after loss; and how we locate our true identities in this frazzled age. We begin, Lamott says, by collecting the ripped shreds of our emotional and spiritual fabric and sewing them back together, one stitch at a time."--Description from publisher.
17) Disobedience
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Formats
Description
A woman returns to the community that shunned her for her attraction to a childhood friend. Once back, their passions reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality
19) Fifteen minutes
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Formats
Description
Just as Zack Dylan on the verge of winning it all on the popular TV show Fifteen Minutes, his choices lead him to the brink of personal disaster. Meanwhile, a former Fifteen Minutes winner is searching for meaning amidst her own private losses. Can she warn Zack about the real price of fame? Or will Zack lose everything he loves for his fifteen minutes of glory?
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
478 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Description
In mid-thirteenth century Provence, Dolssa de Stigata is a fervently religious girl who feels the call to preach, condemned by the Inquisition as an "unnatural woman," and hunted by the Dominican Friar Lucien who fears a resurgence of the Albigensian heresy; Botille is a matchmaker trying to protect her sisters from being branded as gypsies or witches--but when she finds the hunted Dolssa dying on a hillside, she feels compelled to protect her, a...
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