Forward Me Back to You

Forward Me Back to You
Author: Mitali Perkins
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2019-04-02
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0374304920

The award-winning author of You Bring the Distant Near explores identity, homecoming, and the legacy of assault in this personal and ambitious new novel. Katina King is the reigning teen jujitsu champion of Northern California, but she’s having trouble fighting off the secrets in her past. Robin Thornton was adopted from an orphanage in India and is reluctant to take on his future. If he can’t find his roots, how can he possibly plan ahead? Robin and Kat meet in the most unlikely of places—a summer service trip to Kolkata to work with survivors of human trafficking. As bonds build between the travelmates, Robin and Kat discover that justice and healing are tangled, like the pain of their pasts and the hope for their futures. You can’t rewind life; sometimes you just have to push play. In turns heart wrenching, beautiful, and buoyant, Mitali Perkins's Forward Me Back to You focuses its lens on the ripple effects of violence—across borders and generations—and how small acts of heroism can break the cycle. This title has Common Core connections.

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Author: Shirley Jackson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1962
Genre: Castles
ISBN:

We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.

The Way of the Wilderking

The Way of the Wilderking
Author: Jonathan Rogers
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780805431339

Aidan returns after three years away in Feechiefen Swamp to find--much to his dismay--that the only way to protect his country from the invading Pyrthens is to overthrow the tyrant King Darrow.

Now I Lay Me Down to Fight

Now I Lay Me Down to Fight
Author: Katy Bowser Hutson
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2023-11-14
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1514008009

Cancer, did you know that I am a poet? In stirring verse and essays, Katy Bowser Hutson chronicles her battle with breast cancer and the complications of faith amid such a fight. Accentuated by the art of Jodi Hays, Katy's words lead us through her resistance to sickness, fight for survival, and wrestling toward beauty.

The Glass Castle

The Glass Castle
Author: Jeannette Walls
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2007-01-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1416544666

A triumphant tale of a young woman and her difficult childhood, The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience, redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and wonderfully vibrant. Jeannette Walls was the second of four children raised by anti-institutional parents in a household of extremes.

Why Everything That Doesn't Matter, Matters So Much

Why Everything That Doesn't Matter, Matters So Much
Author: Andi Ashworth
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2024-03-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1400337720

A hopeful and practical model for what it means to be a Christian and a culture-maker in a world of hurt and wondrous possibility, from multi–Grammy winner Charlie Peacock and his wife and author, Andi Ashworth. Do you feel powerless and overwhelmed by the pain and suffering all around you? Have you ever asked, What can I do to mend the world, my family, or my own life? And if I could, why bother? Does my own small part even matter? If so, here comes hope from two guides who are further down the road. Charlie and Andi have written a collection of letters to Christians and spiritual seekers who think deeply and care acutely about the state of the world and their personal spheres of influence. In Why Everything That Doesn't Matter, Matters So Much, beloved and trusted mentors, Charlie and Andi offer you: Thought-provoking explorations into the many facets of Christian culture care and making, from the kitchen to Carnegie Hall. Practical guidance for how to care for and improve the quality of human life, locally and globally, no matter your vocation. A theology of imagination and creativity that provides a framework for all of life. A model for expressing love in marriage, friendship, citizenship, and every kind of work—even in the midst of cynicism, fear, exhaustion, and oppression. It might be said of Christians that our lives are either moving in the direction of the redemption Jesus has on offer, or away from it. Each of these letters is a gentle nudge in the direction of God's powerfully ordinary purpose for each of us, no matter what the future holds, to participate fully in the beautiful, redemptive work of Christ.

Chirri and Chirra, the Rainy Day

Chirri and Chirra, the Rainy Day
Author: Kaya Doi
Publisher: Chirri & Chirra
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2021-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781592703074

One cloudy day, Chirri & Chirra decide to go out on their bicycles. Dring-dring, dring dring! It's already starting to rain.

A Prophet in the Darkness

A Prophet in the Darkness
Author: Wesley Vander Lugt
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2024-12-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1514011069

In this collection of essays, a group of theologians, artists, and historians explore Geogres Roualt's historical context, personal suffering, and biblical themes, showing how his prophetic creativity continue to inspire artists and thinkers today. Chapters are interspersed with original artistic responses in the form of imagery and poetry.

Dead-Eye Dan and the Cimarron Kid

Dead-Eye Dan and the Cimarron Kid
Author: Glenn McCarty
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-09-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781732623545

Dead-Eye Dan Crowley is a United States Marshal and a frontier legend. He's gone toe-to-toe with the most fearsome outlaws in the West and brought them all to justice. But when Dead-Eye Dan finds himself alone on the banks of the Cimarron River in New Mexico with no idea who he is, or how he got there, he must confront his most formidable challenge yet. Can Dead-Eye Dan find a way to remember? Can his memories be trusted? And can he discover himself in time to make things right? In this thrilling tale of heroism and justice set in the frontier world of Tumbleweed Thompson, readers will find a new hero for the old West.