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Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Paul White was an Australian missionary doctor in Africa who learned to clothe his Bible teaching in fables, creating stories with a timeless quality. When he returned home to Australia his stories were discovered and published to world-wide acclaim. This collection contains his first four stories.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
An American classic widely considered to be one of the best novels of the 20th century In 1851, Father Jean Marie Latour becomes the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. While the area is American by law, it's still Mexican and Indian by custom and belief. During the years that follow, Latour tirelessly but gently spreads his faith while facing external and internal obstacles. Loosely based on the life of Jean-Baptiste Lamy and the construction of the Cathedral...
5) Peace child
Author
Publisher
G/L Regal Books
Pub. Date
c1974
Description
From Cannibals to Christ-Followers - A True Story In 1962, Don and Carol Richardson risked their lives to share the gospel with the Sawi people of New Guinea. Peace Child tells their unforgettable story of living among these headhunters and cannibals, who valued treachery through fattening victims with friendship before the slaughter. God gave Don and Carol the key to the Sawi hearts via a redemptive analogy from their own mythology. The "peace child"...
Author
Series
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Pub. Date
1996
Description
"Author is the premier historian of Native American groups that lived in Florida during period of European colonization. This work - a solid, ground-breaking, in-depth study of the Timucua - is as scholarly and illuminating as his previous works"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1993
Description
During Desert Storm, Major Darren Mace made a fateful decision to go against orders- to abort a secret mission that was, in his judgment, ill-advised. His actions landed him in military exile. Now Mace has moved on to the Air Force Reserves. There's a new US president, a new era, and a new war is escalating along the Ukraine border. And this time Mace has a partner- Rebecca Furness, the military's first woman combat flyer-...
Author
Publisher
P.F. Collier
Pub. Date
1936
Description
Fighting Angel: Portrait of a Soul is Pearl S. Buck's profoundly touching memoir of her zealous Southern Presbyterian missionary father, Absalom Sydenstricker. Andrew (as he is, called in the book) set off for China in 1880 and spent most of the next half century there until his death in 1931. From isolated settlements in the poor, hostile interior, he made long preaching trips through lands convulsed by famine, banditry, and revolution.
Sydenstricker...
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1988, 2005
Description
MacGyver is a secret agent with a big difference. He is quiet, mild mannered, deeply principled and refuses to carry a gun on his missions. Lucky for him the last detail is unimportant, especially when compared to his astounding mind. Drawing on a vast practical knowledge of science, MacGyver is able to make use of any mundane materials around him to create unorthodox solutions to any problem he faces. The enemies of world peace and justice continually...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2018, 2016
Description
It is an action-adventure drama about 20-something Angus "Mac" MacGyver, who creates a clandestine organization within the U.S. government and uses his extraordinary talent for unconventional problem-solving and vast scientific knowledge to save lives.
13) Sniper 2
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Description
Sergeant Thomas Beckett is teamed up with a death row inmate on a suicide mission to the Balkans. Their target is a rogue general accused of running a stealth operation that involves ethnic cleansing missions. But Beckett discovers that the government is using him as a pawn in a bigger mission and soon the body count grows and the bullet begin to fly.
14) Force of nature
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Having hidden the truth about a past colleague's violation, former Special Forces agent Nate Romanowski is targeted by a determined killer who threatens Joe Pickett's life as part of a violent plot.
15) The Mission
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003, 1986
Description
An 18th century Jesuit mission in the Brazilian jungle struggles against the legalized slave trade of Portugal and political factions within the church.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
In this action-packed fourth season, ex-MI6 agent Russ Taylor recruits former Phoenix Foundation members Mac, Riley, Bozer, Matty, and Desi to hunt down a bioweapon thatb2ss planned to be used by a mysterious organization for a devastating attack on a major U.S. city.
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