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Author
Publisher
Christian Literature Crusade
Pub. Date
[1974]
Physical Desc
192 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1940, Corrie ten Boom was living with her father and sister above their watch shop in Haarlem, Holland-and when their country was invaded, this devoutly Christian family provided sanctuary for persecuted Jews. Before long, the Nazis captured Corrie and her family. They were sent to a concentration camp, where Corrie lost both her sister and father. But remarkably, throughout this turbulent time, Corrie sustained the faith in God that helped her...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan Books
Pub. Date
[1986]
Physical Desc
189 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Pam Roswell Moore had her doubts when she interviewed to be companion of the much-loved author Corrie ten Boom. Corrie's bestselling book The Hiding Place, which recounted how she and her family had hidden Jews during World War II in Holland until their betrayal and arrest by the Nazis, had launched for Corrie a worldwide ministry of travel and speaking. Awed by the spiritual challenge this companionship posed, Pam wondered how she could keep up with...
Author
Publisher
Convergent Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
x, 244 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In the strange, us-versus-them Christian subculture of the 1990s, a person's faith was measured by how many WWJD bracelets she wore and whether he had kissed dating goodbye. Zierman led two Bible studies and listened exclusively to Christian music. She was on fire for God and unaware that the flame was dwindling-- until it burned out. She chronicles her journey through church culture and first love, looking for what lasts when nothing else seems worth...
Author
Language
English
Description
"How can we recapture the confidence we once had in the world and in the future as we stumble through the dark times that seem increasingly bleak? As bad news piles up every day -- from climate crises to threats to democracy to daily assaults on civility -- how can we mere mortals cope? Where, Lamott asks, 'do we start to get our joy and hope and our faith in life itself back ... with sore feet, hearing loss, stiff fingers, poor digestion, stunned...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A little girl on a big horse, cantering across a spring-green pasture . . . wide-eyed children gathered 'round a beach fire, listening to a father's stories of the high seas . . . an expansive, you-can-see-forever view from the top of Pike's Peak . . . another view from a Stryker frame, where an active young woman learns she will never walk again . . . heading down a church aisle to marry the man she loves . . . looking into the eyes of a child
...Author
Language
English
Description
In this memoir, Westover recounts her childhood growing up in a strict Mormon family, ruled by an erratic father, and living off the grid in Idaho. Westover compellingly sketches her years growing up, her relationships with siblings, encounters in the town nearby, and the events that eventually drove her to leave and pursue formal education.
33) A life of Jesus
Author
Publisher
Paulist Press
Pub. Date
[1978]
Physical Desc
v, 179 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
280 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When two childhood friends die of cancer six weeks apart, the shared experience of loss brings their grieving spouses together. After months of late-night phone calls, family dinners, and countless dreams and tears, this unlikely pair builds a trust, a love, and a shared life. They discover that God can restore the darkest circumstances-- and even from death, He can bring new life.
38) Choices, changes
Author
Publisher
Zondervan Books
Pub. Date
[1986]
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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