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After a deadly ship explosion, nine people, adrift in a raft, struggle to survive at sea and pull a strange man from the sea who claims to be the Lord.
What would happen if we called on God for help and God actually appeared? In Mitch Albom’s profound new novel of hope and faith, a group of shipwrecked passengers pull a strange man from the sea. He claims to be “the Lord.” And he says he can only save them if they all believe in him.
Adrift...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 24
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Seven-year-old Faith White, the object of a custody battle, becomes the focus of a much larger controversy when she begins quoting from the Bible, develops stigmata, and appears to be able to perform miraculous healings.
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"When Sylvia Miller finds an old tinderbox of her father's, her curiosity is piqued. Shocked by the secrets it holds, Sylvia confronts her father. The truth about the tinderbox will forever change not only her own life, but also that of her family and her Amish community"--
The day before her parents' twentieth wedding anniversary Sylvia Miller stumbles across the key to the old brass tinderbox her father, Earnest, keeps in his Lancaster County watch...
6) Grounded
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Told in alternating points of view, at Hurston Airport, four unlikely kids' lives are changed forever when their flight is grounded by weather following a Muslim convention.
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Far from being a lifeless ornament in the sky, the Moon holds the answers to some of science's central questions. Silent, dry, and barren, Earth's 4.34-billion-year-old companion is essential to life on earth. Its gravity stabilized the Earth's orbit, and, as it once guided evolution, its tide stirring up nutrients that fostered complex life, it now influences everything from animal migrations and reproduction to the movements of plants' leaves. More...
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Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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On a world called Heaven, the ten major religions of mankind each have its own land governed by a capital city and ruled by a Hegemon. Corvyn, known as the Shadow of the Raven, contains the collective memory of humanity's Falls from Grace. When unknown power burns a mysterious black image into the holy place of each House of the Decalivre, Corvyn must discover what entity could possibly have that much power. The stakes are nothing less than another...
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A rollicking debut novel that tackles a haunting question: What do our jobs do to our souls? Seth is a junior copywriter whose latest tagline just went viral. But this professional triumph won't fix his personal life-his coworker crush won't be seen with him, and his only comfort is in pills. When his job lets him go, he can't let go of his job. Thankfully, one former colleague can't let him go either: Robert Moon McCloone, a skeezy on-the-rise exec...
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Free Press
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English
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The author presents a personal account of his faith and experiences as a genetics researcher discussing topics of science and spirituality, especially that which centers around evolution, and argues that a belief in a supernatural God can and should coexist with science.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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After Missy is abducted during a vacation and evidence of her murder shows up at a shack in the forests of Oregon, Mackenzie Philips, her father, receives a strange note inviting him to return to the scene of the tragedy where he wrestles with nightmarish religious questions.
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2017.
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"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a new book featuring everyone's favorite family--the Baxters. Decades ago, John and Elizabeth Baxter lived a love story that is still playing out in the lives of their adult children and grandchildren. But few of them know the exact details of that story or the heartbreak that brought the two together. Now in high school, Ashley Baxter Blake's oldest son, Cole, must write a family history...
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Shambhala
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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In May of 1994, Ayya Khema taught a twenty-four-day meditation retreat near Santa Cruz, CA, where she gave formal dhamma talks on the fifteen wholesome conditions for creating peacefulness that appear at the beginning of the Metta Sutta. Those teachings are complemented by 10 metta (loving-kindness) meditations that help readers establish and sustain a practice of peacefulness in their daily lives. Having escaped Nazi Germany in 1938, Ayya Khema has...
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Our greatest spiritual teachers may just be the furry companions right in our own homes--the cats we love and treasure. They live in the present moment, approach life with playfulness, sit in the sun, and know how to trust others. From the author of The Pope's Cat comes a warm, delightful book with lessons from our nearest spiritual companions.--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Forty-two-year-old Jessie is summoned home to Egret Island off the coast of South Carolina after her obsessively devout mother inexplicably cuts off her own finger, and finds herself oddly exhilarated to be free of her husband, and wildly attracted to Brother Thomas, a monk who has yet to take his final vows.
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Home On The Ranch
The Rocking K ranch is the only home Carter Beck has ever known. Now, in the wake of family tragedy, he wants to sell it. But how can he do that when his new horse trainer, Emma Minton, sees the ranch as her fresh start? All she wants is a good job and a place to raise her son. As Emma's little boy becomes attached to Carter, he wonders if selling the ranch is really for the best. Or could this bond mean a second chance at a family-;for...
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