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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Here is a thing everyone wants: a miracle. Here is a thing everone fears: what it takes to get one. Any visitor to Bicho Raro, Colorado, is likely to find a landscape of dark saints, forbidden love, scientific dreams, miracle-mad owls, estranged affections, one or two orphans, and a sky full of watchful desert stars. At the heart of this place you will find the Soria family, who all have the ability to perform unusual miracles. And at the heart of...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After losing his faith in miracles after the death of his newborn sister, eleven-year-old Wunder Ellis meets a mysterious old woman who needs his help to reconnect the living and the dead, bringing himself and his town face-to-face with miracles.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Elena, the first scientifically confirmed virgin birth, acquires the ability to heal by touch at age sixteen, the same year that people start disappearing in beams of light, causing her to wonder if she is bringing about the Apocalypse.
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Author
Language
English
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Description
A girl who has been brought up in near isolation is thrown into a twisted web of family secrets and religious fundamentalism when her mother dies and she goes to live with relatives she never knew she had.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Amid a war torn land, hidden deep within an enchanted forest, hides an orphanage where miracles abound. It s a magical place built by a resolute king who is determined to defeat an evil sorcerer waging bitter war against his people. Victory just might take a miracle, and so the orphanage may very well hide the key to winning the war.
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
The struggles of several young people who confront family problems, emotional problems, unrequited love, mystery, and violence, is told from the viewpoint of Matt, who is known for his unusual behavior but who has unusual gifts, and Erin, who tries to use her proficiency with magic to attract Matt.
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
With Christmas only days away, it snows so heavily that Jacobo the wood carver and his visiting grandson are afraid the roads will not be cleared in time for the rest of the family to come from the city, and that a sick neighbor will not get the help he needs.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This picture book edition of Selma Lagerlof's classic tale tells of a shepherd whose heart and life are forever changed when he meets a strange man who says: "Dear friends, help me! My wife has just given birth to a child, and I must make a fire to warm her and the little one." The shepherd is astonished by the actions of the stranger . . . when the dogs don't bite him, the sheep don't run, and the fire doesn't scorch him. And when the shepherd follows...
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