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44) Jungle calls
Author
Series
Rani adventures volume 3
Publisher
Hannibal Books
Publication Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
It was 7:30 at night. Standing in inky black jungle, we were hundreds of miles from the nearest lightbulb. The call of insects and frogs shrilled in our ears. Somewhere nearby, we knew, were Indians who killed anyone who ventured into their territory. What we didn't know was whether they were coming to kill us. Even so, after almost a year in the concrete jungles of Chicago at the Moody Bible Institute, there was no place else I'd rather be. I was...
45) Bruchko
Author
Publisher
Charisma House
Publication Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
What happens when a nineteen-year-old boy leaves home and heads into the jungles to evangelize a murderous tribe of South American Indians? For Bruce Olson, it meant capture, disease, terror, loneliness, and torture. But what he discovered by trial and error has revolutionized then world of missions.
Series
Studio classic volume 10
Publisher
Twentieth Century-Fox Home Entertainment
Publication Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true-life story of Gladys Aylward, an English missionary that led a group of children through war-torn China in the 1930's. Nominated for an Academy Award, Best Director.
48) The God-seeker
Author
Publisher
Random House
Publication Date
1949.
Language
English
Description
Missionary to Sioux Indians becomes a builder in St. Paul and organizes a non-segregated union.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Publication Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Based on an amazing true story, this documentary tells about an isolated tribe of Indians in the jungles of Ecuador and the missionary men and women who have given their lives to reach them. An inspiring story of forgiveness and love.
52) Frost among the Eskimos: memoirs of Helen Frost, missionary nurse on the Seward Peninsula, 1926-1961
Author
Publisher
Lutheran Pioneer Press
Publication Date
[2001]
Language
English
56) Air strike
Publisher
Martein Holding
Publication Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
When the vicious and powerful leader of a drug cartel and his highly-trained private army rob millions from a bank in Eastern Europe, an elite helicopter squadron is called in to bring them down. Together, with the help of the U.S. Rangers, the helicopter squad must move quickly and decisively or they will get caught in hostile territory and no one will get out alive.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Publication Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A first book by the creator of the "Dear Amber" podcast describes her strict upbringing as a third-generation Jehovah's Witness and her efforts to find her true place in the world apart from the edicts of her family and faith.
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Publication Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
On July 28, 1797, an elderly Lenape woman stood before the newly appointed almsman of Pennsylvania's Chester County and delivered a brief account of her life. In a sad irony, Hannah Freeman was establishing her residency - a claim that paved the way for her removal to the poorhouse. Ultimately, however, it meant the final removal from the ancestral land she had so tenaciously maintained. Thus was William Penn's "peaceable kingdom" preserved. A Lenape...
60) The dirty dozen
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Publication Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Twelve tough criminals are offered absolution if they undertake a suicide mission into Nazi Germany.