faith

"Even as the world changes around her, a little girl has faith that circumstances will improve"--OCLC.

"In Brooklyn's ruthless urban jungle, Maggie Moore is torn between answering her own needs and catering to the desirous men who dominate her life, and must learn to navigate a cycle of loss, separation, and hope as she forges her own path toward happiness"--Provided by publisher.

When Italian orphan Pepino's donkey becomes ill, the boy travels from Assisi to Rome to ask the Pope for a cure that involves bringing the animal into the crypt of Saint Francis.

"How can I be certain I'll go to heaven? How should I talk to people who don't believe in God? What does the Bible say about drugs and alcohol? What's the deal with evolution? Pastor Jeremy Steele has spent his career answering teens' questions about faith, life, and the world, and 'All the Best Questions!' brings all the toughest questions he's gotten together in one book...with some answers, too. From theology to evolution, 'All the Best Questions!' will help young people get answers to the questions they're afraid to ask--and give them the tools they need to wrestle with their own answers"--Back cover.

Explores the importance of values, and the role they play in religious beliefs.

When her perfectly planned summer of quality time with her parents, her serious boyfriend, and her Bible camp unravels and long-hidden family secrets emerge, Lucy must figure out what she is made of and what grace really means.

When nonbeliever Michael transfers to a Catholic school in eleventh grade, he quickly connects with a secret support group intent on exposing the school's hypocrisies one stunt at a time.

A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the story of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford school of medicine studying the neural circuits of reward seeking behavior in mice.

Author Mitch Albom, having been asked to write a eulogy for an elderly rabbi, begins a relationship with the man in order to get to know him better, and, in the process, also becomes involved with the plight of a local pastor whose church is falling down around him, leading Mitch to better understand the importance of faith.

"Set in the years 1950-1970 in a changing America and London, follow[s] two married couples--ministers and academics--whose intricate bonds of faith and friendship, jealousy and understanding, are tested by the birth of an autistic child"--Provided by publisher.