Albom, Mitch
Summary: Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme poverty, and when her mother died giving birth to a baby brother, Chika was brought to The Have Faith Haiti Orphanage that Albom operates in Port Au Prince. With no children of their own, the forty-plus children who live, play, and go to school at the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD B ALBAlbom, Mitch
Summary: When an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy, Albom goes back to his nonfiction roots and becomes involved with a Detroit pastor--a reformed drug dealer and convict--who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof. A timely, moving, and inspiring look at faith: not just who believes, but why.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 296.7 ALBAlbom, Mitch
Summary: "Bestselling author Mitch Albom returns to nonfiction for the first time in more than a decade in this poignant memoir that celebrates Chika, a young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart. Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme poverty, and when her mother died...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ALBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ALBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ALBOM ALBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem AlbomAlbom, Mitch
Summary: When an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy, Albom goes back to his nonfiction roots and becomes involved with a Detroit pastor--a reformed drug dealer and convict--who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof. A timely, moving, and inspiring look at faith: not just who believes, but why.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2009
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 296.7 ALBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.7 ALBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 296.7 ALBCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.7 ALBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Rel AlbomSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010