Refine Your Search
Limit Search Result
Type of Material
  • (15)
  • (1)
  • (1)
  •  
Subject
  • (1)
  • (1)
  • (1)
  • (1)
  •  
Author
  • (1)
  • (1)
  • (1)
  • (1)
  •  
Series
  • (2)
  • (2)
  •  
Publication Date
    Target Audience
    • (7)
    • (3)
    •  
    Accelerated Reader
    Reading Count
    Lexile
    Book Adventure
    Fountas And Pinnell
    Collection
    Library
    • (17)
    •  
    Availability
    Search Results: Returned 17 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 17
    • share link
      By Cantelon, James
       c2007., J. Wiley & Sons Canada Call No: 230 C229t   Edition: 2nd ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "Mark Tewksbury faced all the challenges of a high-performance athlete - the discipline, sacrifices, intense pressure, and post-Olympic transition. But he also had to overcome the difficult personal challenge of coming out as a gay man - first to his family and confidants, and then ultimately under the spotlight of the public eye. Tewksbury's intense feeling of difference early in life paints a poignant and unique portrait of a complex individual." "Once the elite athlete, now an accomplished and natural storyteller, Tewksbury uses his own story - public and private - to offer an insight into the worlds of Olympic politics, media, fame, gay life, and sport leadership. He takes us from growing up gay in conservative western Canada, through the pain of keeping his true self a secret even as he was feted on the world stage, and ultimately to coming out, being able to live his whole life to the fullest, and to make a difference in life." "More than one man's story, Inside Out is an inspiration for anyone facing a personal conflict, revealing that the most insurmountable challenges can be transformed into the ultimate triumph of a full life worth living."--BOOK JACKET.
    • share link
      By Nhat Hanh, Thich  Laity, Annabel
       1993., Beacon Press Call No: NEW 294.34 N294b    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Based in the practices of conscious breathing and mindfulness, the thirty-four guided exercises in this new meditation manual bring beginning and experienced practitioners alike into closer touch with the state of our physical bodies, our inner selves, and the elements of the world around us. With gentle wisdom, Thich Nhat Hanh presents exercises that help us acknowledge and dissolve the anger and separation that can arise between men and women, children and parents.
    • share link
      By Wagler, Ira
       c2011., Tyndale House Publishers Edition: eBook ed.    Summary Note: Describes the author's Amish childhood, his departure from his community at age sixteen, his struggles to return to the Amish way of life, and his final acceptance of his own identity and his past.
    • share link
      By Scorah, Amber
       2019., Adult, Viking Call No: Bio A491l    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: A third-generation Jehovah's Witness, Amber Scorah had devoted her life to sounding God's warning of impending Armageddon. She volunteered to take the message to China, where the preaching she did was illegal and could result in her expulsion or worse. Here, she had some distance from her community for the first time. Immersion in a foreign language and culture--and a whole new way of thinking--turned her world upside down, and eventually led her to lose all that she had been sure was true. As a proselytizer in Shanghai, using fake names and secret codes to evade the authorities' notice, Scorah discreetly looked for targets in public parks and stores. To support herself, she found work at a Chinese language learning podcast, hiding her real purpose from her coworkers. Now with a creative outlet, getting to know worldly people for the first time, she began to understand that there were other ways of seeing the world and living a fulfilling life. When one of these relationships became an "escape hatch," Scorah's loss of faith culminated in her own personal apocalypse, the only kind of ending possible for a Jehovah's Witness. Shunned by family and friends as an apostate, Scorah was alone in Shanghai and thrown into a world she had only known from the periphery--with no education or support system. A coming of age story of a woman already in her thirties, this unforgettable memoir examines what it's like to start one's life over again with an entirely new identity. It follows Scorah to New York City, where a personal tragedy forces her to look for new ways to find meaning in the absence of religion. With compelling, spare prose, Leaving the Witness traces the bittersweet process of starting over, when everything one's life was built around is gone.
    • share link
      By Cunningham, Michael, 1952-
       c2014., Adult, HarperCollins Publishers Limited Call No: Fic Cun   Edition: 1st Canadian ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: It's November 2004. Barrett Meeks, having lost love yet again, is walking through Central Park when he is inspired to look up at the sky; there he sees a pale, translucent light that seems to regard him in a distinctly godlike way. Barrett doesn't believe in visions - or in God - but he can't deny what he's seen. At the same time, Tyler, Barrett's older brother, a struggling musician, is trying - and failing - to write a song for Beth, who is seriously ill. Barrett, haunted by the light, turns unexpectedly to religion. Tyler grows increasingly convinced that only drugs can release his creative powers. Beth tries to face mortality with as much courage as she can summon.
    • share link
      By Neufeld, Josiah
       2023., House of Anansi Call No: NEW 201.77 N482t    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: A journalistic memoir by a lapsed evangelical Christian that examines how the ecological crisis is shifting the ground of religious faith. Our species is leaving scars on the earth that will last for millennia. How has religious ideology helped bring humanity to the brink of catastrophe? What new expressions of faith might help us respond with grace, self-sacrifice, and love? What will spark our compassion, transcend our divisions, and spur us to action? Josiah Neufeld explores how the interlocking crises of climate change have shifted the ground of religious faith on a quest that is both philosophical and deeply personal. As the son of Christian missionaries based in Burkina Faso, Neufeld grew up aware of his privilege in an unjust world. His faith gave way to skepticism as he realized the fundamental injustice underpinning evangelical Christianity: only a minority would be saved, and the rest would be damned. He was left, though, with an understanding of how people's actions are influenced by spiritual motives and religious convictions, and of how a framework of faith can counter one's sense of personal powerlessness. The Temple at the End of the Universe is the rallying cry for a new spiritual paradigm for the Anthropocene.