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1) Candide
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
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1110L
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Candide is about a man who believes in the philosophy that: "what happens, happens for the best in the end." that was taught to him by his personal philosopher Dr. Panlosss. Candide goes through many, many trials and everyone he meets has had something terrible happen to them. He searches the world over for his love Cundgonde. And in the end finds that the simplest things in life: love, friends, and health are all that matters.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 23
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The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years--except Biff, the Messiah's best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in the divinely hilarious yet heartfelt work "reminiscent of Vonnegut and Douglas Adams" (Philadelphia Inquirer). Verily, the story Biff has to tell is a miraculous...
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From the author responsible for the satirical work of genius, A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub is an allegorical work that follows three brothers after the event of their father's death. When their father, who meant to be God, dies, the three brothers, Peter, Martin and Jack, inherit his will and each receive a decorative coat. Their father also leaves them instruction not to alter these coats in any way because doing so would be...
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Meet the Henderson family: Jeff, a struggling salesman who lives with a constant nagging fear that something will happen to his family; Will, who's just trying to figure out life in the fifth grade; Emily whose greatest concern is that she won't be nominated homecoming queen; and Amy, who is growing stir-crazy from being a housewife of eighteen years-and is convinced this was God's plan B for her life. The Hendersons are longtime residents of Goodland,...
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Prin is a forty-year-old English professor who lives in Toronto. Following a cancer diagnosis, he resolves to be a better husband, father, and Catholic. He has a chance to do so when he learns that his university is going to shut down unless it comes up with a new purpose. He's asked to figure this out in the company of a Chinese real estate magnate and his flirty ex-girlfriend while also dealing with the demands of having four small children, a skeptical...
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"A follow-up to the book Original Prin, Dante's Indiana is an extraordinary journey through the divine comedies and tragedies of our time. Middle-aged, married, but living on his own, Prin has lost his way. Desperate for money and purpose, he moves to small-town Indiana to work for an evangelical millionaire who's building a theme park inspired by Dante's Inferno. He quickly becomes involved in the difficult lives of his co-workers and in the wider...
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This vintage book contains Jonathan Swift's 1704 satire, "A Tale of a Tub". The first major work that he wrote, it is a prose parody about two brothers who are each representative of the chief aspects of western Christianity. It mainly deals with the ideas of religious enthusiasm, pride, and credulity. Published at a time when religion was an intrinsic aspect of politics, the work was widely condemned, with Queen Anne going as far as to call it "profane"....
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After thirty years of eating the brains of arrogant mountaineers, a James Bond-loving yeti decides that his life needs a touch more spirituality. But can an abominable monster truly change?
Thus begins an improbable journey overseen by the true Dalai Lama himself, an adventure of attempted enlightenment, dietary restriction, unlikely friendship, and political intrigue.
Bigfoot and the Bodhisattva is award-winning author James Morrow (Towing Jehovah,...
9) Eve's diary
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First published in the 1905 edition of "Harper's Bazaar", "Eve's Diary" is a short story written by Mark Twain. Presented in the style of a diary, it recounts the experiences of Eve including her time in the Garden of Eden and her expulsion with Adam. A lovely short comical tale of which is believed to have been a posthumous love letter to Twain's wife. Illustrated beautifully by Lester Ralph. Contents include: "Eve's Diary", "Extract from Adam's...
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A young Catholic priest, Father Maitland raises eyebrows among the brothers of St. Peter's the moment his young cousin and new bride spend the night in his room. But even when he's trying to do the right thing, Father Maitland continuously finds himself at odds with his superiors and the strictures of the Church-a conflict that threatens to unravel his faith and his life. A fastidious and darkly satirical novel, with moments of warm humor, Three...
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Here it is. The whole entire story of the Book of Genesis as told to you by the world's oldest storyteller, Uncle Bob.
(Note: if you have ALREADY read Uncle Bob's Red Flannel Bible Camp: From Eden to the Ark, you have ALREADY read part of this novel)
If you are one of those folks who thinks that it is bad manners to giggle a little in church, well, you might want to take a good look at the sample that the Kindle folks let you peek at before you...
12) Pope Dreams
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Pope Anthony is dead. But then, on the night of his funeral, each cardinal has a dream in which they meet the next Pope. Their dreams reflect their own personal interests and desires, as all dreams do, but only the two Irish cardinals recognise the Pope in their dreams as one Peter MacDonald, a married father of six and a lay pastoral councillor active in the Dublin Archdiocese.
The cardinals' decision on how to respond to this miraculous revelation...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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Michael is an atheist. So as he walks through the doors at St. Clare's-a strict Catholic school-sporting a plaid tie, things can't get much worse. His dad has just made the family move again, and Michael needs a friend. When a girl challenges their teacher in class, Michael thinks he might have found one, and a fellow nonbeliever at that. Only this girl, Lucy, is not just Catholic . . . she wants to be a priest. But Lucy introduces Michael to other...
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Extrait : "Il est une nature d'hommes que la Civilisation obtient dans le règne social, comme les fleuristes créent dans le Règne végétal par l'éducation de la serre, une espèce hybride qu'ils ne peuvent reproduire ni par semis, ni par bouture. Cet homme est un caissier, véritable produit anthropomorphe, arrosé par les idées religieuses, maintenu par la guillotine, ébranché par le vice, et qui pousse à un troisième étage entre une femme...
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"Barchester Towers concerns the leading clergy of the cathedral city of Barchester. The much loved bishop having died, all expectations are that his son, Archdeacon Grantly, will succeed him. Instead, owing to the passage of the power of patronage to a new Prime Minister, a newcomer, the far more Evangelical Bishop Proudie, gains the see. His wife, Mrs Proudie, exercises an undue influence over the new bishop, making herself as well as the bishop...
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Extrait: "Grâce est un petit village très pauvre de la Bretagne; quelques maisons à peine couvertes et à peine fermées entourent son église, une des plus belles du pays. Son clocher pointu s'aperçoit au loin, découpé comme de la dentelle. Du haut de ce clocher on découvre une campagne admirable, toute sillonnée de petits chemins verts, ombragés et bordés de genêts épineux, chargés de fleurs jaunes comme de l'or."
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18) Le Baptême
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Extrait: "Allons, docteur, un peu de cognac. — Volontiers. Et le vieux médecin de marine, ayant tendu son petit verre, regarda monter jusqu'aux bords le joli liquide aux reflets dorés. Puis il l'éleva à la hauteur de l'œil, fit passer dedans la clarté de la lampe, le flaire, en aspira quelques gouttes qu'il promena longtemps sur sa langue et sur la chair humide et délicate du palais, puis il dit : — Oh ! le charmant poison ! Ou, plutt,...
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Deux ans déjà que le père Anselme, curé de Chafron, est mort de vieillesse en plein office. Même que ça a fait un sacré barouf ! Et depuis, l'évêque ne lui a jamais trouvé de successeur malgré les nombreuses demandes des paroissiens. Il faudrait un miracle !
Mais quand on est malin comme Honoré Honoré, le nouveau maire du village, le miracle, on peut essayer de le provoquer. Il suffirait pour cela de faire appel aux pouvoirs de...
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In Bicycles of the Gods, the main character, Jesse, presents an earthly incarnation of Jesus Christ come to earth in the body of a 12-year-old boy in the company of Xavi, who is the earthly incarnation of Shiva, Destroyer of Worlds, also a 12-year-old boy. The pair stand on a hilltop above the city of Los Angeles contemplating how best to destroy it as a precursor to destroying the entire world to rid it of humanity so it can refresh and rebuild....
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