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She lives in fear - of the two-legs, of the noisy, massive trains that scream in and out of the station, of cats and rats and dogs and the dark of the tunnels. She lives in the subway, where the hard shoes kick her ribs, where shrill voices beat her ears, where she subsists on the garbage of the humans as Candlewax, the lost one, watches.
A young adult story about a cat, a street kid and their relationship. | |  | | Keeper of the Light - St. Macrina Grandmother of Saints
The Road to Sainthood takes a lifetime to travel....Late in the fourth century, Christians are labelled enemies of the Roman Empire – hounded, arrested, tortured and executed. Once-wealthy Christians Macrina and her husband Basil flee with their small son to the mountainous forests south of the Black Sea. Macrina embarks on a seven-year journey of unexpected tests and trials that will take her through a harsh and hungry wilderness pilgrimage, only to plunge her into poverty and danger on the streets of Neocaesarea. So begins Macrina's adventure in faith, as she undertakes the process of becoming one of the most influential women in sacred history, the mother and grandmother of saints. Children and adults will be fascinated by the story of St. Macrina the Elder, who had a profound influence on her grandchildren, St. Basil the Great, St. Gregory of Nyssa and St. Macrina the Younger, making her truly a confessor of the Orthodox Christian faith.
| |  | | Royal Monastic: Princess Ileana of Romania
The life of a princess isn't all fun-filled travel, magnificent banquets and handsome princes. It's also devotion to duty, sacrifice for your people and a lot of just plain hard work. And if your country suffers two world wars and a communist takeover, it means danger and suffering, exile and heartache as well. Princess Ileana's deeply rooted Orthodox faith saw her through all this, and led her in later years to the peace of monasticism. But that life, too was hard - as Mother Alexandra, she was called to open the first English language Orthodox monastery in North America.
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Hanging by a Thread
by Ronald Hull
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 The story of Ron Hull, paralyzed in a surgical accident back in the dreaded polio epidemic days, was able to overcome most of the stigma and stereotypes and "pass for normal" for 30 years. As Ron's paralysis increased gradually through the next 20 |
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