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A step of faith
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Andrea Higgins |
In 1974, a young preacher packed up his wife and young son and set off for a city called Durham, North Carolina, in hopes of starting a rescue mission to serve alcoholic men .... The couple's idea of… |
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Silent Night
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Mary Higgins Clark |
When her husband was diagnosed with leukemia, Catherine Dornan and their two young sons accompanied him to New York, during the Christmas season, for a life-saving operation. Hoping to divert the boy… |
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The Body in the Attic
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Katherine Hall Page |
Caterer Faith Fairchild and family are living in one of historic Cambridge, Massachusetts', venerable Brattle Street houses while the Reverend Tom teaches a course at the Harvard Divinity School and … |
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Runaways
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Keith Elliot Greenberg |
Discusses why some young people run away from troubled homes and what can happen to them and tells the stories of several teenagers who found help at Noah's Ark, a shelter run by Sister Dolores Garta… |
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Season Of Joy
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Virginia Carmichael |
As the holiday season approaches, wealthy CEO Calista Sheffield wants to give instead of receive. So she volunteers at a downtown Denver shelter, never expecting that her own scarred heart will be fi… |
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Shelter folks
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Virginia L. Kroll |
Joelle is embarrassed that her family has to move into a shelter, but when she gets to know the other people living there and they come to see her in a school play, she no longer feels ashamed. |
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Uncertain Angels
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Kim Cates,Kimberly Cates |
The Millionaire’s Daughter
Allison Crawford dwelt in a wonderland of mansions and private jets, far from the gritty reality of the streets that J.T. James knew too well. But from the moment the se… |
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Who do I talk to?
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Neta Jackson |
Gabrielle never expected her husband to change the locks on their Chicago penthouse, cancel her credit cards, and disappear with their two boys. As her life falls apart, Gabby hits on a possibility s… |
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Gracie's girl
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Ellen Wittlinger |
As she starts middle school, Bess volunteers to work on the school musical in hopes of fitting in, but when she and a friend get to know an elderly homeless woman, Bess changes her mind about what is… |
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The Princess of Fort Hill Shelter
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Karta Morris |
Princess McKenzie lives in a homeless shelter with her father and her two brothers. Without telling her family, Princess sets out in search of her mother, who left the family a year ago. She ends up … |
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Let's talk about staying in a shelter
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Elizabeth Weitzman |
Briefly describes various kinds of shelters for people without permanent homes and discusses how to deal with living in one. |
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Only one toy allowed
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Sharon Ottenbreit |
A teddy bear is abandoned when the little girl who owns him becomes homeless and can bring only one toy with her to the shelter. This book also includes a fund-raising idea called the Abandoned Child… |
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Tales of Pruit Almus
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Robert Belenky |
"Tales of Pruit Almus describes how this home has become a monument to the spirited and humane way to raise children who are in need. Pruit Almus is a model of what may be possile for the United Stat… |
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Lives turned upside down
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Jim Hubbard |
Two girls and two boys, ages nine to twelve, talk about their own personal experiences with homelessness and life in shelters. |
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A sheltering love
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Terri Reed |
Who was the handsome stranger who'd saved her life - twice? That was what Claire Wilcox wanted to know, especially after she'd impulsively invited the man to stay at her shelter for runaways. She sen… |
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Going crazy till Wednesday
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Jane Vogel |
Now a senior in high school, Becca is consumed by plans to organize an outdoor adventure program for children at the shelter where she volunteers, but a fire destroys their supplies before the progra… |
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The Double Bind
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Christopher A. Bohjalian |
Throughout his career, Chris Bohjalian has earned a reputation for writing novels that examine some of the most important issues of our time. With Midwives, he explored the literal and metaphoric pla… |
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MIA
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Debby Giusti |
Granted, he hadn't known her long, but returning war hero Jude Walker expected to eventually marry the woman he'd met during his last leave. Not find her missing. Or learn that her last known address… |
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