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Chicken Soup for the Christian Teenage Soul: Stories of Faith Love Inspiration and Hope
These stories about love, friendship, forgiveness, making a difference, courage, dating (and lots more) show how God is at work in teenagers' lives. Teens share stories about how God has given them the courage to cope with the tough stuff, the joy to live a fulfilling life, the strength to persevere when they feel alone, and the love and confidence they need to feel good about themselves.
283 p. 2003
Teen Nonfiction Book
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Adina, Shelley
Be Strong Curvaceous : an All About Us Novel
Carly, a Mexican American scholarship student at exclusive Spencer Academy in San Francisco, hides her status from her wealthy school friends until her new roommate, a Scottish aristocrat, is threatened by an angry young man and needs Carly's--and God's--help.
239 p. 2009
Teen Fiction Book
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Carlson, Melody
Harsh Pink : Color Me Burned
Reagan Mercer is just trying to fit in at her new high school when she bumps one of the most popular girls from the cheerleading squad, but when she eventually becomes part of the in-crowd, she finds their behavior--and her own--disturbing. Includes discussion questions.
215 p. 2007
Teen Fiction Book
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Carlson, Melody
My Name is Chloe : a Novel
An intelligent but insecure fifteen-year-old aspiring musician, who sports off-beat clothes, spiked hair, and multiple piercings, questions the existence of God until she meets Him head-on in a graveyard.
288 p. 2002
Teen Fiction Book
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Coffin, William Sloane
Letters to a Young Doubter
In Letters to a Young Poet, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke advises to "be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves," for gradually, "you will live into the answers." Thus inspired, Coffin, a former university chaplain at Yale, imagined a similar volume of letters about faith.
185 p. 2005
Adult Nonfiction Book
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Collins, Brandilyn
Always Watching
When a frightening murder occurs after one of her famous mother's rock concerts, sixteen-year-old Shaley tries to help the police find the killer and to determine whether her long-lost father has some connection to the crime.
221 p. 2009
Teen Fiction Book
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Cooney, Caroline B.
A Friend at Midnight
After rescuing her younger brother abandoned at a busy airport by their divorced father, fifteen-year-old Lily finds her faith in God sorely tested as she struggles to rescue herself from the bitterness and anger she feels.
183 p. 2006
Teen Fiction Book
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Dekker, Ted
Thr3e
A nightmare world begins for Kevin Parsons, a young seminarian, when he receives a cell phone call from an unknown man directing him to confess his sin to the world in three minutes or be blown to bits.
401 p. 2010
Adult Fiction Book
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Despain, Bree
The Dark Divine
Grace Divine, almost seventeen, learns a dark secret when her childhood friend--practically a brother--returns, upsetting her pastor-father and the rest of her family, around the time strange things are happening in and near their small Minnesota town.
372 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
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Dickerson, Melanie
The Healer's Apprentice
In this story loosely based on the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, seventeen-year-old Rose, a healer's apprentice, falls in love with the betrothed Lord Hamlin, who is seeking the sorcerer who cursed his future bride.
261 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
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Gregory, David
The Last Christian : a Novel
Abby, a Christian missionary raised in New Guinea, goes to America only to discover a nation where Christianity has completely died out. She must face the spiritual implications of transhumanity-- humans with replacement silicon brains that promise eternal life but make impossible personal connection with God.
407 p. 2010
Adult Fiction Book
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Grimes, Nikki
Dark Sons
Alternating poems compare and contrast the conflicted feelings of Ishmael, son of the Biblical patriarch Abraham, and Sam, a teenager in New York City, as they try to come to terms with being abandoned by their fathers and with the love they feel for their younger stepbrothers.
216 p. 2005
Teen Fiction Book
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Harris, Alex
Do Hard Things: a Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations
Two Christian teenage writers challenge their peers to create a brighter future, combating the idea of adolescence as a vacation from responsibility and providing humorous personal anecdotes, practical examples, and stories of real-life "rebelutionaries" in action.
241 p. 2008
Teen Nonfiction Book
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Henderson, Dee
The Negotiator
Kate O'Malley's specialty is hostage situations, and she's learned to depend only on herself in a crisis. But now Kate's a target. Someone's been sending her black roses-- maybe the same person who just blew up an airplane and blamed her. Faced with the shocking evidence that the bomber may be someone she knows, Kate has to decide if FBI special agent Dave Richman - and the God he trusts so implicitly - is all he's supposed to be.
312 p. 2001
Adult Fiction Book
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Kingsbury, Karen
Fame
As Dayne Matthews returns to Hollywood after his shocking discovery in Karen's best-selling novel Reunion, he faces the dangerous world of fame and paparazzi. Meanwhile, Katy Hart receives the offer of a lifetime starring opposite Dayne in a Hollywood film. Dayne and Jamie's choices will change their hearts and lives forever.
354 p. 2005
Adult Fiction Book
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Lewis, C. S.
Out of the Silent Planet
Dr. Ransom is abducted by a megalomaniacal physicist and his accomplice and taken via spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra. The two men are in need of a human sacrifice, and Dr. Ransom would seem to fit the bill. Once on the planet, however, Ransom eludes his captors, risking his life and his chances of returning to Earth.
174 p. 1952
Adult SciFi Fantasy Book
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Lewis, C. S.
The Screwtape Letters
In this humorous and perceptive exchange between two devils, C. S. Lewis delves into moral questions about good vs. evil, temptation, repentance, and grace.
209 p. 2001
Adult Nonfiction Book
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Liparulo, Robert
Frenzy
When Xander travels through the portals in the King's strange house to visit Uncle Jesse as a boy, he learns that David has died and determines to do whatever it takes, and visit as many worlds as necessary, to change the future.
340 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
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Liparulo, Robert
House of Dark Shadows
When fifteen-year-old Xander and his family move into an old, abandoned house in the middle of a dense forest outside of a small California town, they discover that not only are some of the rooms portals into other places, but that malevolent forces are at work.
295 p. 2008
Teen Fiction Book
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Paul, Donita K.
Dragonspell
Once a slave, Kale is given the unexpected opportunity to become a servant to Paladin. A small band of Paladin's servants rescue Kale from danger but turn her from her destination: The Hall, where she was to be trained. Kale embarks on a perilous quest to find the meech dragon egg stolen by the foul Wizard Risto.
339 p. 2004
Adult SciFi Fantasy Book
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