Be the Change: Your Guide to Freeing Slaves and Changing the World
8 best books like Be the Change: Your Guide to Freeing Slaves and Changing the World (Zach Hunter): Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, Don't Waste Your Life, My Brother Made Me Do It, The Corn Grows Ripe, Frozen Stiff, George Muller: The Guardian of Bristol's Orphans, All That's Good: Recovering the Lost Art of Discernment, Lillian Trasher: The Greatest Wonder in Egypt
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Author | Nicholas D. Kristof |
ISBN | 0307267148 |
From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.
With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey...
Author | John Piper |
ISBN | 1581344988 |
John Piper writes, "I will tell you what a tragedy is. I will show you how to waste your life. Consider this story from the February 1998 Reader's Digest: A couple 'took early retirement from their jobs in the Northeast five years ago when he was 59 and she was 51. Now they live in Punta Gorda, Florida, where...
Author | Peg Kehret |
ISBN | 0671034197 |
Oh, BRRRRROTHER!
Hi. I'm Julie Welsh. My nine-year-old brother is always cooking up schemes...and I get blamed. Because I'm older. Eleven, to be exact. But Frankie has his good points too, as I told Mrs. Kaplan, my 89-year-ald pen pal, who lives in Kansas. I write Mrs. Kaplan about everything. Even...
Author | Dorothy Rhoads |
ISBN | 0140363130 |
A Newbery Honor Book
Can Tigre find the strength and courage to support his family?
When Tigre's father is badly injured in an accident, the family is thrown into turmoil. Who will plant and harvest the corn that they need to survive--and to please the Mayan gods? The neighbors have...
Author | Sherry Shahan |
ISBN | 0440413737 |
What begins as a two-night camping and kayaking trek in the untamed Alaskan wilderness turns into a test of survival for Cody and her cousin Derek. While their mothers are in Juneau picking up supplies for Yakutat Lodge, the cousins sneak off in an old pickup. The taste of freedom is soon tainted when Cody's...
Author | Janet Benge |
ISBN | 1576581454 |
This series chronicles the exciting, challenging, and deeply touching true stories of ordinary men and women whose trust in God accomplished extraordinary exploits for His kingdom and glory. Each inspiring account of a man or woman who answered God s call is a testimony to a real-life adventure of...
All That's Good: Recovering the Lost Art of Discernment
Author | Hannah Anderson |
ISBN | 0802418554 |
“And God saw that it was good…”
Look out over the world today, it seems a far cry from God’s original declaration. Pain, conflict, and uncertainty dominate the headlines. Our daily lives are noisy and chaotic—filled with too much information and too little wisdom. No wonder we often...
Lillian Trasher: The Greatest Wonder in Egypt
Author | Janet Benge |
ISBN | 1576583058 |
A wealthy Irish girl rescuing children in India? An English maid preaching the gospel in China? An American pilot serving missionaries in Ecuador? Christian Heroes Then & Now chronicles the exciting, challenging, and deeply touching true stories of ordinary men and women whose trust in God accomplished...