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Description
Laura Carrot's Christmas stocking might be empty this year because her dad is in danger of losing his job. While Larry thinks a letter to the North Pole should fix the problem, Bob tells a story of a little boy named Nicholas who made a discovery in Bethlehem that changed Christmas forever. What did Nick learn that can help Laura and her family?
6) Joan of Arc
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
The young girl of Lorraine rallies the people to fight to free France from the English, but she is caught and tried as a witch.
7) Joan of Arc
Author
Pub. Date
20050308
Description
THE HEROIC STORY OF A 19-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WHOSE SAINTLY VISIONS LEAD HER TO UNITE FRANCE AGAINST ITS ENGLISH INVADERS. FIVE HUNDRED YEARS LATER SHE IS BURNED AT THE STAKE FOR HERESY, SHE IS DECLARED A SAINT AND REVERED BY THE COUNTRY SHE SAVED. FEATURES: CAST AND CREW, PRODUCTION NOTES AND MORE.
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Among the earliest converts in Scotland, Margaret Kirkwood and her sons have given up everything to travel from their homeland to join the Saints of Zion. But as part of the Willie Handcart Company, their journey of sacrifice has only just begun. Winter has settled upon the frigid plains, and for the struggling Kirkwood family, stopping means certain death. When James Kirkwood promises his mother he will safely lead his younger brother to the next...
11) Joseph & Mary
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
A biblical drama that follows Elijah, a devout Rabbi, during a time of unrest when King Herod the Great's slaughter of innocents claims the lives of two boys Elijah had sworn to protect. Elijah makes it his life's mission to avenge their deaths, but when he meets Joseph, Mary and their young son Jesus, the beliefs fueling his revenge are put into question. When the time comes to face his life long enemy, Elijah finds himself warring within whether...
12) Of mice and men
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
An intimate portrait of two men who cherish the slim bond between them and the dream they share in a world marred by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy,and callousness. Clinging to each other in their loneliness and alienation, George and his simple-minded friend Lenny dream, as drifters will, of a place to call their own - a couple of acres and a few pigs, chickens, and rabbits back in Hill Country where land is cheap. But after they come...
15) Polycarp
Pub. Date
2015
Description
A young slave girl, Anna, is rescued and adopted by Christians in 2nd Century Smyrna and befriended by their aged bishop, Polycarp. As Anna is taught by Polycarp and her new family, she struggles to reconcile her beliefs with those of the Christians.
16) End of the spear
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Nate Saint is a pilot and Christian missionary who, with his family, lives and works in the jungles of the Amazon River Basin in South America. Nate is fascinated by tales he's heard of the Waodani, a violent and aggressive tribe living nearby, and with a group of fellow Christians takes it upon himself to teach them the importance of compassion and forgiveness. However, the leader of the Waodanis, Mincayani, does not trust the white visitors, and...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Paul, who goes from the most infamous persecutor of Christians to Christ's most influential apostle, is spending his last days in a dark and bleak prison cell awaiting execution by Emperor Nero. Luke, his friend and physician, risks his life when he ventures into Rome to visit him. Paul is under the watchful eye of Mauritius, the prison's prefect, who seeks to understand how this broken old man can pose such a threat. But before Paul's death sentence...
20) Sheffey
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
A dramatization of the life and works of 19th-century Christian evangelist, preacher, and circuit rider Robert Sayers Sheffey who ministered to the mountain folk of the central Appalachian region.