David Ackroyd
2) First light
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When twelve-year-old Peter and his family arrive in Greenland for his father's research, he stumbles upon a secret his mother has been hiding from him all his life, and begins an adventure he never imagines possible.
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Willa Cather’s story of the missionary priest Father Jean Marie Latour and his work of faith in the wilderness of the Southwest is told with a spare but sensuous directness and profound artistry—with an Introduction by A. S. Byatt. When Latour arrives in 1851 in the territory of New Mexico, newly acquired by the United States, what he finds is a vast desert region of red hills and tortured arroyos that is American by law but Mexican and Indian...
5) Black duck
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Years afterwards, Ruben Hart tells the story of how, in 1929 Newport, Rhode Island, his family and his best friend's family were caught up in the violent competition among groups trying to control the local rum-smuggling trade.
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The Miracles of Jesus: Join Benjamin, the widow's son brought back to life by Jesus, as he walks the roads Christ Himself walked and recalls wondrous works; David & Goliath: At the head of the invading Philistine army, the giant warrior Goliath issues a challenge to the Israelites-- send out a champion to fight him and the loser's tribe with be enslaved. The challenge is taken up by David, a shepherd boy armed with nothing more than his sling-- and...