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c2014., General, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Call No: SC Fic Fab Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A devoted man of faith, Peter is called to the mission of a lifetime, one that takes him galaxies away from his wife, Bea. Peter is immersed in the mysteries of an astonishing new environment, overseen by a corporation known only as USIC. But Peter is rattled when Bea's letters from home become increasingly desperate: typhoons and earthquakes are devastating whole countries and governments are crumbling. Bea's faith, once the guiding light of their lives, begins to falter.
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By Caldwell, Bo2010., Henry Holt and Co. Call No: Fic Cal Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Story of a young couple whose faith and marriage is put to the test when they are missionaries in revolutionary China. Inspired by the lives of the author's maternal grandparents.
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-- 5 wives :2019., Adult, Harper Avenue, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Call No: Fic Tho Edition: First Canadian edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In the tradition of The Poisonwood Bible and State of Wonder, a novel set in the rainforest of Ecuador about five women left behind when their missionary husbands are killed. Based on the shocking real-life events In 1956, a small group of evangelical Christian missionaries and their families journeyed to the rainforest in Ecuador intending to convert the Waorani, a people who had never had contact with the outside world. The plan was known as Operation Auca. After spending days dropping gifts from an aircraft, the five men in the party rashly entered the "intangible zone." They were all killed, leaving their wives and children to fend for themselves. Five Wives is the fictionalized account of the real-life women who were left behind, and their struggles - with grief, with doubt, and with each other - as they continued to pursue their evangelical mission in the face of the explosion of fame that followed their husbands' deaths. Five Wives is a riveting, often wrenching story of evangelism and its legacy, teeming with atmosphere and compelling characters and rich in emotional impact.
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2011., Penguin Books Call No: SC Fic Alt Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Arriving in the St. Kilda islands in 1830 to serve as a minister to the small community, Neil McKenzie and his pregnant wife, Lizzie, struggle with life and their marriage in a climate that is beautiful but also extremely difficult.
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2012, c2011., Harper Call No: Fic Tho Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1941, newlywed Nerys Watkins accompanies her husband to a missionary posting in the exotic lakeside city of Srinagar, where she is swept up in a liaison that completely changes her life, a transformation that is explored by a descendant generations later.
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2006., 137, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC Call No: DVD Fic Keys Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Father Francis Chisholm, a Scottish priest who is given a broken down mission in China, is torn between the practical values of humanity and the strict doctrines of the Catholic Church. This film is an inspiring story of one man's effort to serve God without any thought of personal gain or earthly reward.
![The keys of the kingdom [DVD] (1944). Directed by John M. Stahl.](/Library/images/~imageCT100100.JPG "The keys of the kingdom [DVD] (1944). Directed by John M. Stahl.")
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2012., Bloomsbury Call No: Fic Joi Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1923, devout Eva English and her not-so-religious sister Lizzie embark on a journey to be missionaries in the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar.
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c2011., Adult, Inanna Pub. and Education Call No: Fic Roy Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Inanna poetry and fiction series.Summary Note: THE LONG ROAD HOME is the story of three generations of women, beginning with a grandmother who as a young woman went to China as a Canadian missionary nurse and fell in love with a Chinese medical student acting as her interpreter. Shortly after anti-western sentiment sends her home to Nova Scotia, she discovers she is pregnant. Attempts by her, and later their daughter, to contact him fail. Her daughter, Meihua, goes to China to look for her father and winds up marrying a Chinese man and teaching art. The cultural revolution sees her sent to prison as a American spy and anti-revolutionary, and her husband confined to a gulag. Their children, still at home, are raised by the family's illiterate servant, Yao. Yao's crude manner and resourcefulness partly shield Yezi, Meihua's daughter, and the novel's main character, as well as her brother, from family tragedy, poverty and political discrimination, negotiating their survival during the revolution that she barely understands. Only after her mother is released, does Yezi learns about her foreign grandmother, Agnes, who now lives in Boston and has lost contact with the family since Yezi's birth. Curious about her American ancestry, Yezi decides to join her grandmother in the U.S. Reading her grandmother's diaries helps Yezi get to know her grandmother as a young Canadian missionary and her life in China with the man who is her grandfather, and who her mother still longs to find.
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2014., University of Manitoba Press Call No: Fic Nap Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Sanaaq is an intimate story of an Inuit family negotiating the changes brought into their community by the coming of the qallunaat, the white people, in the mid-nineteenth century. Composed in 48 episodes, it recounts the daily life of Sanaaq, a strong and outspoken young widow, her daughter Qumaq, and their small semi-nomadic community in northern Quebec. Here they live their lives hunting seal, repairing their kayak, and gathering mussels under blue sea ice before the tide comes in. These are ordinary extraordinary lives: marriages are made and unmade, children are born and named, violence appears in the form of a fearful husband or a hungry polar bear. Here the spirit world is alive and relations with non-humans are never taken lightly. And under it all, the growing intrusion of the qallunaat and the battle for souls between the Catholic and Anglican missionaries threatens to forever change the way of life of Sanaaq and her young family.
