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"The #1 New York Times best-selling author of Zealot recounts the spellbinding tale of an unrecognized American martyr for democracy. As a student of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton, Howard Baskerville was aflame not only with the gospel of Jesus, but with the Wilsonian gospel that constitutional democracy is the birthright of all nations. Rather than become a small-town minister like his father in South Dakota, he volunteered for missionary service in...
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English
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"This powerful and inspiring new book shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it. At the center of Mountains Beyond Mountains stands Paul Farmer. Doctor, Harvard professor, renowned infectious-disease specialist, anthropologist, the recipient of a MacArthur 'genius' grant, world-class Robin Hood, Farmer was brought up in a bus...
Publisher
Main Street Movie Co
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In this follow-up to "God's Army," "States of Grace" tells the story of a homeless street preacher, a gang banger, an aspiring actress, and two young missionaries whose lives intersect in an unforgettable story of grace and hope.
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English
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This is a tale "told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it -- from garden seeds to Scripture -- is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the...
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Publisher
Convergent
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"As a quirky Jewish kid and promiscuous punkass teen, Jamie Wright never imagines becoming a Christian, let alone a Christian missionary. She is barely an adult when the trials of motherhood and marriage put her on an unexpected collision course with Jesus. After finding her faith at a suburban megachurch, Jamie trades in the easy life on the cul-de-sac for the green fields of Costa Rica. There, along with her family, she earnestly hopes to serve...
8) Scandalous
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Outcasts volume 3
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English
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"Straight-laced missionary Sarah Fisher has never met a man like Captain Martin Bouchard. He is the most beautiful person--male or female--she's ever seen. Overwhelmingly masculine, elegantly attired despite months at sea, he is in complete command of everyone and everything around him: everyone, that is, except Sarah. But that's about to change because Sarah has bought Bouchard's mercy with the only thing she has to sell: her body. In spite of her...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Français
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A revisionist perspective on Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Schweitzer rewrites the history of colonialism from the point of view of the colonized. Cameroonian filmmaker Bassek ba Kobhio provides a fascinating revisionist perspective on Albert Schweitzer, Noble Peace Prize winner and secular saint of the colonial era. This film begins to rewrite the history of colonialism from the point of view of the colonized. Le Grand Blanc de Lambaréné is not,...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"In this compelling, beautiful memoir, award-winning writer Apricot Irving recounts her childhood as a missionary?s daughter in Haiti during a time of upheaval?both in the country and in her home. Apricot Irving grew up as a missionary?s daughter in Haiti?a country easy to sensationalize but difficult to understand. Her father was an agronomist, a man who hiked alone into the hills with a macouti of seeds to preach the gospel of trees in a deforested...
Publisher
Deseret Book
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
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English
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Missionary John H. Groberg returns to Tonga in the '60s with his wife and their five young daughters. The Grobergs face their ultimate test of faith but are surrounded by the love and prayers of thousands of Tongans. Barriers of inter-religious strife are soon broken down as all unite in hopes of a miracle.
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Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
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English
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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...
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English
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Ralph and Anna Eldred are an exemplary couple, devoting themselves to doing good. Thirty years ago as missionaries in Africa, the worst that could happen did. Shattered by their encounter with inexplicable evil, they returned to England, never to speak of it again. But when Ralph falls into an affair, Anna finds no forgiveness in her heart, and thirty years of repressed rage and grief explode, destroying not only a marriage but also their love, their...
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English
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"Driven by his passion to help the people of North Korea, Bae moves to neighboring China to lead guided tours into the secretive nation. Six years later, after eighteen successful excursions in and out of the country, Ken is suddenly stopped at the border: he inadvertently brought his hard drive, that reveals the true nature of his visits, to customs. He is arrested, brought to Pyongyang for further questioning, and sentenced to fifteen years of hard...
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Publisher
Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
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English
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Published to coincide with the 300th anniversary of Junipero Serra's birth, this landmark biography of the founder of the first Catholic missions in California presents an authoritative study of a man whose life continues to be celebrated and denounced.
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English
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Newlywed Emily Stone and her husband, Isaac, are young missionaries who have traveled from New England to Honolulu to share the Gospel with the Hawaiian natives. Gentle, adventurous, well-bred, and beautiful, Emily soon finds herself struggling with intense homesickness but remains determined to share her faith, and ignore her growing feelings for handsome Captain MacKenzie Farrow. Just as she begins to bond with the influential High Chiefess Pua...
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English
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In early November 1834, an aristocratic young couple from Savannah and South Carolina sailed from New York and began a seventeen-year odyssey in West Africa. Leighton and Jane Wilson sailed along what was for them an exotic coastline, visited cities and villages, and sometimes ventured up great rivers and followed ancient paths. Along the way they encountered not only many diverse landscapes, peoples, and cultures but also many individuals on their...
Publisher
Excel Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Missionary John H. Groberg returns to Tonga in the '60s with his wife and their five young daughters. The Grobergs face their ultimate test of faith but are surrounded by the love and prayers of thousands of Tongans. Barriers of inter-religious strife are soon broken down as all unite in hopes of a miracle.
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Publisher
Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"After being falsely accused and detained in a Turkish prison, pastor Andrew Brunson shares his story of preaching the gospel in a Muslim land, ministering to a marginalized people, and faithfully enduring imprisonment, hardship, and suffering"--
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