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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When revolutionaries seize control of a country in Central America where sixteen-year-old Will is serving at a mission, he and the other volunteers find themselves in a desperate race to escape the violence and return home.
2) Lost mission
Author
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Among the dirt-poor barrios and ultra-wealthy enclaves lining the hills of southern California, new construction unearths a long-lost Spanish mission. This discovery sets off a chain of events that presents four unrelated people with difficult choices. In each case, a greater good can be served by compromising a basic moral value-risking the same fate that left the mission buried and forgotten for 250 years.
Series
Studio classic volume 10
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Based on the true-life story of Gladys Aylward, an English missionary that led a group of children through war-torn China in the 1930's. Nominated for an Academy Award, Best Director.
Author
Series
Yearbook trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alternating chapters follow three Mormons--Addie Sherman, Sam Choi, and Cate Giovanni--as they struggle to make the right choices and decisions regarding college, missions, and love.
7) The mission
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Two-disc special ed.
Language
English
Description
A powerful epic about a man of the sword and a man of the cloth who unite to shield the Guarani Indians of South American from brutal subjugation by 18th-century colonial empires.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The missionary memoirs of Elder John H. Groberg, found in his popular book In the Eye of the Storm, can be enjoyed as a major motion picture And now, for the first time, In the Eye of the Storm will be available in paperback retitled The Other Side of Heaven. This first-person account tells the fascinating story of the three years he spent on the islands in the South Pacific amidst a kindly people who had a deep faith in God, a faith that provides
...Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
It is an action-adventure drama about 20-something Angus "Mac" MacGyver, who creates a clandestine organization within the U.S. government and uses his extraordinary talent for unconventional problem-solving and vast scientific knowledge to save lives.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
MacGyver is a secret agent with a big difference. He is quiet, mild mannered, deeply principled and refuses to carry a gun on his missions. Lucky for him the last detail is unimportant, especially when compared to his astounding mind. Drawing on a vast practical knowledge of science, MacGyver is able to make use of any mundane materials around him to create unorthodox solutions to any problem he faces. The enemies of world peace and justice continually...
11) God's Smuggler
Author
Language
English
Description
As a boy Brother Andrew dreamed of being an undercover spy working behind enemy lines. As a man he found himself working undercover for God. His was a mission filled with danger, financed by faith and supported by miracles.
In this expanded edition, Brother Andrew's electrifying real-life story of smuggling Bibles into the most dangerous places on earth will grip readers all over again and inspire a new generation to step out on their own journeys...
Publisher
CBS/Paramount
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
MacGyver faces his toughest obstacles. How will he outwit a serial killer, an unstoppable assassin and an enemy agent who endangers a friend's life? In every exciting episode, the problems are deadly but the solutions are pure adventure.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"À la Tara Westover's Educated, Scorah's pensive, ultimately liberating memoir chronicles her formative years as a Jehovah's Witness...and captures the bewilderment of belief and the bliss of self-discovery."—O, The Oprah Magazine, Named one of "The Best Books by Women of Summer 2019"
"Scorah's book, the bravery of which cannot be overstated, is an earnest one, fueled by a plucky humor and a can-do spirit that...
"Scorah's book, the bravery of which cannot be overstated, is an earnest one, fueled by a plucky humor and a can-do spirit that...
Author
Series
Yearbook trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Deseret Book
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Alternating chapters follow four Mormons--Andrea, Ethan, Joel, and Cate--as they struggle to make the right choices and decisions regarding jobs, college, missions, and love.
18) Tears of the sun
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Special ed.
Language
English
Description
When a doctor is rescued by a Special-Ops unit in the jungle of Nigeria, she refuses to go with them unless they agree to help rescue 70 refugees as well.
19) Charlotte Gray
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen ; single-sided.
Language
English
Description
A Scottish woman joins the French Resistance in WWII to try to rescue her Royal Air Force boyfriend who is lost in France.
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