Animal owners consider their pets God-given gifts and love to read about their exploits and adventures. With passion and heart, ardent dog lover Susy Flory offers true, inspirational stories about amazing acts of courage, boldness, and dedication by canines, including… Guide dog Roselle, who led her partner down 78 flights of stairs after the World Trade Center attack.Kaiser, who gave his owner, a struggling veteran, a reason to live.Blue, who fought an alligator to protect her elderly master.Through these engaging and heartwarming tales, readers will be touched by how these much-loved animals answered prayer and revealed God’ s loving heart.

Dog Tales: Inspirational Stories of Humor, Adventure, and Devotion

Flory, Susy

Religion & Spirituality

Harvest House Publishers

Dynamic Leader Helps Women Embrace the Life They Were Created to Live With over seven billion people in the world, it can be difficult for women to believe they were designed for a purpose. That they individually have value, and their life has meaning that goes beyond what they see or have been told to believe. But that's just the life-changing message Debbie Lindell passionately shares and champions. Every woman, no matter her history, social status, or position in society, was beautifully and magnificently designed by her Creator to live an amazing life. In She Believes, Lindell shares with women the beautiful truth of God's love for them, empowering them to live out their own unique purpose and bring change to their homes, their workplaces, their communities, and the world. With personal stories and biblical truth, Debbie invites women to trust God's Word--and discover the incredible, abundant life that he created them to live.

She Believes: Embracing the Life You Were Created to Live

Debbie Lindell

Revell

USE THE BEST-SELLING NOVEL AS A STARTING POINT TO SHARE YOUR FAITH
Thirty-five million copies of The Da Vinci Code are in print around the world. This entertaining novel by Dan Brown is just hitting its stride, with a major movie releasing May 19, 2006, starring Tom Hanks.
Why has the book been a blockbuster? Because people are searching for purpose and truth, even when reading a work of fiction. Our culture is interested in Jesus and his identity, but Christians often don't feel comfortable or prepared t answer questions the book raises.
Fear Not Da Vinci encourages and equips believers to shed their fear and "find common ground" with unbelievers. Included are anecdotes introducing readers to different scenarios where the novel can be used as an open door for sharing the gospel, ranging from a five-minute chat on the subway to a restaurant conversation. Fear Not Da Vinci also answers questions readers are likely to encounter and provides practical, faith-sharing techniques and resources. 
A number of Christian books have been produced which deconstruct and debunk Dan Brown's claims item by item, however, Fear Not Da Vinci uses a friendly, encouraging tone as it urges Christians to use the opportunity for culturally relevant evangelism.
* It's okay to read The Da Vinci Code?
* Is Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" really a man?
* Is Mary Magdalene pictured in Da Vinci's "The Last Supper"?
* Was Jesus just a man or was he God?

Fear Not Da Vinci: Using the Best-Selling Novel To Share Your Faith

Monroe, Gini

Living Ink Books

Faith. Trust. Triumph.
“I’m sorry,” the doctor said. “He is permanently and totally blind. There is nothing we can do for him.”
George and Sarah Hingson looked at each other, devastated. Their six-month-old son, Michael was a happy, strawberry blond baby boy, healthy and normal in every way except one. When the Hingsons switched on a light or made silly faces, Michael did not react. Ever. “My best suggestion is that you send him to a home for the blind,” the doctor continued. “He will never be able to do anything for himself.”
Forty-seven years later, a yellow Labrador retriever puppy was born in the whelping unit of Guide Dogs for the Blind in San Rafael, California. The puppy’s name was Roselle. On September 11, 2001, she saved Michael’s life. This is Roselle’s story too. 
―From the Introduction
Every moment in Michael Hingson’s and Roselle’s lives seemed to lead up to this day. When one of four hijacked planes flew into the World Trade Center’s north tower on September 11, 2001, Michael Hingson, a district sales manager for a data protection and network security systems company, was sitting down for a meeting. His guide dog, Roselle, was at his feet. Paired for twenty-one months, man and dog spent that time forging a bond of trust, much like police partners who trust their lives to each other. 
Michael couldn’t see a thing, but he could hear the sounds of shattering glass, falling debris, and terrified people flooding around him and Roselle. However, Roselle sat calmly beside him. In that moment, Michael chose to trust Roselle’s judgment and not to panic. They were a team.
Thunder Dog is a story that will forever change your spirit and your perspective. It illuminates Hingson’s lifelong determination to achieve parity in a sighted world and how the rare trust between a man and his guide dog can inspire an unshakable faith in each one of us.

Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust

Hingson, Michael

Reference

Thomas Nelson

A blind man and his guide dog show the power of trust and courage in the midst of devastating terror. It was 12:30 a.m. on 9/11 and Roselle whimpered at Michael’s bedside. A thunderstorm was headed east, and she could sense the distant rumbles while her owners slept. As a trained guide dog, when she was “on the clock” nothing could faze her. But that morning, without her harness, she was free to be scared, and she nudged Michael’s hand with her wet nose as it draped over the bedside toward the floor. She needed him to wake up. With a busy day of meetings and an important presentation ahead, Michael slumped out of bed, headed to his home office, and started chipping away at his daunting workload. Roselle, shivering, took her normal spot at his feet and rode out the storm while he typed. By all indications it was going to be a normal day. A busy day, but normal nonetheless. Until they went into the office. In Thunder Dog, follow Michael and his guide dog, Roselle, as their lives are changed forever by two explosions and 1,463 stairs. When the first plane struck Tower One, an enormous boom, frightening sounds, and muffled voices swept through Michael’s office while shards of glass and burning scraps of paper fell outside the windows. But in this harrowing story of trust and courage, discover how blindness and a bond between dog and man saved lives and brought hope during one of America’s darkest days. 

Thunder Dog (International Edition): The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Thomas Nelson Publishers

Sanctuary: The True Story of an Irish Village, a Man Who Lost His Way, and the Rescue Donkeys That Led Him Home

For decades, his family rescued lost and forgotten donkeys in the Irish countryside. 
He had no idea that one day, the donkeys would rescue him.\nPatrick Barrett grew up on the back of a donkey. In the small village of Liscarroll, the young boy helped his family run a sanctuary for abandoned and abused donkeys. Struggling in school, Patrick only felt truly accepted in the presence of these funny, fuzzy, touching animals. It was like magic, how he and the donkeys understood each other. He became a true “donkey whisperer”―reading their body language, communicating with them in ways they could understand, and teaching himself how to “speak” in their distinctive calls.\nBut when Patrick was of age, he shipped out with the Irish Army and encountered unimaginable wartime horrors in Lebanon and Kosovo. In the aftermath, he returned home a broken man, sinking into the depths of PTSD and addictions. He believed nothing could save him. But he hadn’t counted on the donkeys.\nSanctuary is the remarkable true story of how faith turned one lost man’s life around with the help of the rescue animals who loved him. It’s an antidote to despair and a call to hope, revealing the beauty and wonder of Ireland as you’ve never seen it before.

Barrett, Patrick

Tyndale Momentum

The Sky Below: A True Story of Summits, Space, and Speed

“Scott Parazynski’s drive, curiosity, inventiveness, and great humor shine through the pages of The Sky Below and will certainly inspire future generations to pursue their dreams with every fiber in their being.” —John Glenn, NASA astronaut
An epic memoir from a man whose life is defined by exploration and innovation, The Sky Below re-creates some of the most unforgettable adventures of our time. From dramatic, high-risk spacewalks to author Scott Parazynski’s death-defying quest to summit Mount Everest—his body ravaged by a career in space—readers will experience the life of an elite athlete, physician, and explorer.
This intimate, compelling account offers a rare portrait of space exploration from the inside. A global nomad raised in the shadow of NASA’s Apollo missions, Parazynski never lost sight of his childhood dream to one day don a spacesuit and float outside the airlock. With deep passion, unbridled creativity, resilience, humility, and self-deprecation, Parazynski chases his dream of the ultimate adventure experience, again and again and again. In an era that transitioned from moon shots to the Space Shuttle, space station, and Mars research, Parazynski flies with John Glenn, tests jet packs, trains in Russia to become a cosmonaut, and flies five missions to outer space (including seven spacewalks) in his seventeen-year NASA career.
An unparalleled, visceral opportunity to understand what it’s like to train for—and deploy to—a home in zero gravity, The Sky Below also portrays an astronaut’s engagement with the challenges of his life on Earth, including raising a beautiful autistic daughter and finding true love.

Science & Math

Parazynski, Scott

Astronomy & Space Science

Little A

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