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Anne, a divorced single mom, barely able to cope with life and struggles to make sense of the death of…
her young son. Mark, a former architect, now works as a handyman and wonders how his life got off track. Father Paul, the abbot of the Abbey of Saints Philip and James, questions how to best live a life that secludes him from the world. At a Pennsylvania abbey, this unlikely trio discovers the answers--a miracle of hope and understanding that bears witness to the surprising power of God to bring healing and wholeness to our lives. UnratedBy Joseph F. Girzone, Joseph F Girzone. 2002
Author recasts the parables of Jesus from the New Testament in twenty-first-century settings to make their messages more meaningful to…
new audiences. First in the collection is the parable of a rich man who shares his wealth with common people. 2001By Michael O'Brien, Michael D O'Brien. 1999
Set in the near future, the story describes the rise of a police state in North America in which every…
level of society is infected with propaganda, confusion and disinformation. Against this background, the Delaney family is struck a severe blow when the father of the family is arrested by the dreaded Office of Internal Security. His older children flee into the forest of the northern interior, accompanied by their great-grandfather and an elderly priest, Father Andrei. Their little brother Arrow also becomes a fugitive as the government seeks to remove any witnesses, and eradicate all evidence of its ultimate goals. BestsellerBy Michael O'Brien, Michael D. O'Brien. 1997
In this first book in the six book series called Children of the Last Days, Michael O'Brien presents a thrilling…
apocalyptic novel about the condition of the Roman Catholic Church at the end of time. It explores the state of the modern world, and the strengths and weaknesses of the contemporary religious scene, by taking his central character, Father Elijah Schafer, a Carmelite priest, on a secret mission for the Vatican which embroils him in a series of crises and subterfuges affecting the ultimate destiny of the Church. In this richly textured tale, Father Elijah crosses Europe and the Middle East, moves through the echelons of world power, meets saints and sinners, presidents, judges, mystics, embattled Catholic journalists, faithful priests and a conspiracy of traitors within the very House of God. This is an apocalypse in the old literary sense, but one that was written in the light of Christian revelation. BestsellerBy Michael O'Brien, Michael D. O'Brien. 2002
Set in the rugged interior of British Columbia, the first volume of a trilogy which traces the lives of four…
generations of a family of exiles. Interwoven with scenes from Ireland, England, Poland, Russia, and Belgium during the War, it's a tale of the extraordinary hidden within the ordinary. For high school and adult. BestsellerBy Jan Greenberg, Sandra Jordan, Brian Floca. 2010
By Kimberly Dean, James Dean, Kim Dean. 2015
By Barack Obama. 2009
By Hannah Hurnard. 1983
By Pete Nelson, Peter Nelson. 2004
A nun who is teaching fourth-graders has her class make a list of admiration and appreciation for each person in…
the class. Years later, James Engler returns home to Iowa one Christmas after his fiancée calls off their marriage and discovers that his best childhood friend, Mike, has just been killed in the Gulf War. When Mike's parents reveal at a memorial service that Mike had carried his fourth-grade list with him, most of James's former classmates confess that they, too, kept their lists as a reminder, even in the worst of times, of their admirable traits and that they were appreciated. James didn't save his list, but his mother had--and reading this list changes his lifeBy Michael Hulse, W. G. Sebald, Winfried Georg Sebald. 1999
A walking tour of England's southeast coast frames a wide-ranging series of meditations on literature and stories from Britain's imperial…
past. A stay in a Norwich hospital prompts the protagonist to search for naturalist Thomas Browne's skull; a railroad bridge over the river Blyth recalls England's silk trade with China. 1998By Kate Adamson. 2004
Author recounts her survival against immense odds after suffering a brain stem stroke that left her completely paralyzed at the…
age of thirty-three. Describes the physical and emotional challenges she overcame and the lessons she learned on her long road to recovery. 2004By Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Kimberly Kirberger. 2002
Companion to Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul (DB 44853) and others offers anecdotes, poems, and short essays by teenagers…
about falling in love, breaking up, friendship, family, and growing up. For junior and senior high and older readers. Bestseller. 2002By Jack Cavanaugh. 1999
In this sequel to The Victors (DB 53143), Travis and Paige, the children of Nat and Allegra Morgan, become involved…
in the Vietnam War. Travis, unwillingly, is sent to battle. Paige becomes a protester, and for a time, seems to lose her faith. Yet, it is faith that ultimately sustains them. 1999By Paul Theroux. 1995
Although the Pillars of Hercules are only fifteen miles apart, it took Theroux approximately eighteen months to travel between them--he…
took the long way, the old Grand Tour route. Theroux visits places such as Barcelona, Nice, Istanbul, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Albania, Greece, and Morocco by car, boat, train, and footBy David Travis. 1992
Italy, a European peninsula bordered on three sides by five seas and criss-crossed by mountains, is a collection of distinct…
regions. Although built on ancient foundations, Italy was not formed as a single nation until 1861, and it became a democracy in 1946. The author examines the history, geography, economy, culture, and people of Italy. For grades 5-8 and older readersBy Cynthia Ruchti. 2017
By Nicol Mikella. 2023
Après une rupture, la narratrice de Mise en forme voit ses repères lui échapper. Cloîtrée dans sa nouvelle chambre blanche,…
elle s'adonne à une pratique intensive du fitness, sculptant son corps pour reprendre le contrôle de sa vie. Mais les promesses des influenceuses ne l'aident pas à se sentir mieux. L'été suivant, en vacances à New York, elle accusera le choc de deux rencontres déterminantes : celles d'un inconnu hostile et d'un livre, The Red Parts de Maggie Nelson, qui lui feront mesurer ses forces et les dangers qui la guettent, elle et toutes les filles de la rue et du webBy Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu. 1721
Un grand seigneur persan, curieux des moeurs occidentales, séjourne longuement à Paris, à la fin du règne de Louis XIV…
et dans les années de la Régence. Un roman épistolaire qui sert de prétexte à Montesquieu pour brosser le tableau de la société française.By Ovidie. 2023
« J'ai repensé à ces innombrables rapports auxquels je m'étais forcée par politesse, pour ne pas froisser les ego fragiles.…
À toutes les fois où mon plaisir était optionnel, où je n'avais pas joui. À tous ces coïts où j'avais eu mal avant, pendant, après. Aux préparatifs douloureux à coups d'épilateur, aux pénétrations à rallonge, aux positions inconfortables, aux cystites du lendemain. À tous ces sacrifices pour rester cotée à l'argus sur le grand marché de la baisabilité. À toute cette mascarade destinée à attirer le chaland ou à maintenir le désir après des années de vie commune. Cette servitude volontaire à laquelle se soumettent les femmes hétérosexuelles, pour si peu de plaisir en retour, sans doute par peur d'être abandonnées, une fois fripées comme ces vieilles filles qu'on regarde avec pitié. Un jour, j'ai arrêté le sexe avec les hommes. » Autrice et documentariste spécialiste de l'intime et du rapport au corps, Ovidie retrace ici la trajectoire qui l'a conduite à quatre années de grève du sexe. Références : Valerie Solanas, S.C.U.M. Manifesto (1968), Paris, Mille et Une Nuits, 2005, traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Emmanuele de Lesseps. Nelly Arcan, Putain (2001), Paris, Seuil, « Points », 2002. Monique Wittig, « À propos du contrat social », in La Pensée straight (1992), Paris, Éditions Amsterdam, 2007. Joe Dassin, « La Fleur aux dents » in Joe Dassin, Paris, CBS Columbia, 1970. Mona Chollet, Réinventer l'amour, Paris, La Découverte, « Zones », 2021. Jacques Rigaut, Écrits, Paris, Gallimard, 1970