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Guardians of the North volume 3
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
With the magnificent Canadian frontier and the formation of the North-West Mounted Police as the backdrop, the GUARDIANS OF THE NORTH series from Alan Morris has found wide appeal among both men and women readers. Following in his family's excellent writing tradition, Alan has joined Gilbert and Lynn with this strong historical fiction series of his own. In Bright Sword of Justice, the trail of a violent gang leads Hunter Stone and the Mounties to...
82) Mother Teresa
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A biography of Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, known as Mother Teresa, who spent most of her life serving "the poorest of the poor" in Calcutta, India.
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Pub. Date
2002
Description
For Anna Schoene, growing up in the magical world of Shanghai in the 1930s creates a special bond between her and her father. He is the son of missionaries, a smuggler, and a millionaire, who leads a charmed, but secretive life. When the family flees to Los Angeles in the face of the Japanese occupation, he chooses to stay, believing his connections and luck will keep him safe.
He's wrong-but he survives, only to again choose Shanghai over his family...
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"Klaus-Dieter John dreamed of becoming a medical missionary in the developing world. He would do whatever it took, study in top universities, and practice surgery in remote dangerous places, to reach his goal of providing health care for people who needed it most."-- backcover
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Written under pseudonym to protect herself and her sources, McCord depicts sharing the love and truth of Christ with women living in Afghanistan. These stories are honest and true, and the harsh reality of their lives is not sugar-coated. McCord shows how people who don't know Christ come to see Him, His truth and His beauty. They reveal the splendor of Christ, the desire of human hearts, and that precious instance where the two meet.
87) Hawk
Author
Series
Quiet professionals volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Raptor's communications expert, Staff Sergeant Brian "Hawk" Bledsoe, is struggling with his inner demons, leaving him on the verge of an "other than honorable" discharge. Plagued with corrupted intel, Raptor team continues to track down the terrorist playing chess with their lives. Afghan pilot Fekiria Haidary is devastated when a systems glitch on her aircraft forces a weapons launch on a safe target. And when the deadly bombing separates Hawk from...
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Ostracized by her tribe because of her white father, Lizzie Dawson lives alone in the Alaska mountains practicing the ways of her people. Clay Selby wants to be like his missionary father and work for the native people. Arriving in Alaska to set up a church and school among the Athabascans, Clay is totally focused ... until he meets Lizzie with the striking blue eyes. But she's clearly not part of the tribe. Must Clay choose between his ministry and...
92) Mother Teresa
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
One day in 1919, in the town of Skopje, Albania, a young girl and her mother helped a sick neighbor and fed a hungry stranger. It was an ordinary day. But the girl became a woman who was anything but ordinary. She became Mother Teresa, the woman who believed every person counts.
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"Will Kiehn is an 'ordinary man,' seemingly destined for life as a humble farmer in the Midwest, when, having felt a call from God, he moves to the vast North China Plain in 1906. There he is surprised by love and weds a strong and determined fellow missionary, Katherine, who is also a dedicated nurse. Early in their marriage Will and Katherine find themselves witnesses to the crumbling of a more than two-thousand-year old dynasty, which plunges the...
94) Rambo
Series
Rambo volume 4
Description
Vietnam veteran John Rambo has withdrawn into a simple and secluded existence in Thailand. Even though he is looking to avoid trouble, trouble finds him. A group of Christian missionaries approach Rambo with the desire to rent his boat to travel up the river to Burma, which is a war zone. The Karen people of the region have endured a brutal rule from the murderous Burmese military. Rambo accepts the offer and takes the missionaries up the river. When...
97) Mother Teresa
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Series
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
A brief overview of the life of Mother Teresa who dedicated her life to helping the poor in India and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work.
Author
Series
Trailblazer books volume 25
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In 1897 Adam Christian joins Sheldon Jackson's expedition to take food and supplies to hundreds of starving gold miners in the Yukon.