Browsing Titles 21 to 30 of 82 in Subject Category Adventure

Strong at the Broken Places: a Personal Story (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Max Cleland
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Biography and Autobiography, Historical, Suspense
Read by: Martha Arney
Approximate time: 4 hours 36 minutes
Catalog number: 551
Strong at the Broken Places is Max Cleland's personal story of what it takes to do the impossible. It is a story of an inner battle that would drain the last ounce of will from a very willful man. It is also a story of a key inner discovery--that after all human effort is spent another source of strength is available. Max Cleland has served his state and nation for over a quarter of a century and was re-elected without opposition to a third term as Georgia's Secretary of State on November 4, 1990. Max has received more votes than any other statewide elected official every time he has appeared on the Georgia ballot. In 1990 Max became the first Georgia-elected official to ever garner more than one million votes. A native of Georgia, Max served two terms in the Georgia State Senate before being appointed by President Jimmy Carter as Administrator of the Veteran's Administration. Max Cleland has received over one hundred awards for his public service.

Sudden Family (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Steve Standiford and Debi Standiford
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Biography and Autobiography, Suspense
Read by: Martha Arney
Approximate time: 6 hours 16 minutes
Catalog number: 536
\"Someone please save my brother!\" cried fourteen-year-old Hy Phan. His brother Nhi, a polio victim had fallen overboard as they and dozens\" of other \"boat people\" fled war-ravaged Vietnam for America. Hy\'s cry was an echo of the wider call for help ringing out around the world from the throats of thousands of other refugees. And this is the moving story of how the love of a family motivated by the love of Christ can respond to that call, Says Debi Standiford in her introduction of this book.

The Tanglewoods' Secret (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Patricia St. John
Type: Fiction
Subject category: Adventure
Read by: Miss N. K. Drown
Approximate time: 5 hours 22 minutes
Catalog number: 880/TORCH-2125D (part of the Torch collection)
In this adventure we read the exciting story about two children, Ruth and her brother Philip. It tells of how they meet Terry, a gipsy boy, and of the serious accident which Terry has. We also read of Ruth and Philip finding out about God, and how He helped them.

The Three Freds and After! (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Horace Banner
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Biography and Autobiography, Missions and Missionaries
Read by: Gordon Knight
Approximate time: 3 hours 47 minutes
Catalog number: 774/TORCH-1498D (part of the Torch collection)
An investigation into the disappearance of FRED ROBERTS, FRED WRIGHT, and FRED DAWSON - three friends who were martyred as pioneers to Brazil.

Touch of the Black Widow (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Dea Carlton
Type: Fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Detective and Mystery, Romance, Suspense
Read by: Martha Arney
Approximate time: 7 hours 10 minutes
Catalog number: 566
Autumn Caldwell is rich and beautiful--but known to her family as the Black Widow. Recently released from a mental hospital, she is in Mexico City waiting to die. Max Parrish is a one-time jewel thief and kidnapper. Now a Christian, he works as a personal assistant to Skye and Joy Windthorn who are in Mexico City for an archaeological project. One morning Max discovers the beautiful Autumn unconscious on the patio of the adjoining hacienda. Getting the gardener to let him in, Max finds himself snared in an evermore dangerous web of intricate deceit. The growing love Max feels for Autumn, his commitment to God's will, and the deadly treachery surrounding him force a startling climax.

Twas the Night Before (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Jerry B. Jenkins
Type: Fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Christian Living, Christmas stories
Read by: Norma Lagomarsino
Approximate time: 3 hours 28 minutes
Catalog number: 630
Jenkins's usual use of high adventure and unpredictable love is at play in this story about Tom Douten, a gritty Chicago journalist, who isn't afraid to investigate the truth about life in the inner city, and his new lover, Noella, an optimistic writer who believes in Santa. When Douten, flies to the Black Forest to investigate the "truth" about Santa and dispel Noella's belief, his plane crashes, killing the pilot and his fellow passenger. Jenkins keeps the story fast-moving in his terse, straightforward style. Nonetheless, he manages to plot an intricate enough course, so that the final revelations are surprising, and as satisfying as plum pudding at the end of a Christmas feast.

The Unhurried Chase That Ended at L'abri (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Betty Carlson
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Biography and Autobiography, Christian Growth, Humour, Old Fashion, Nostalgia
Read by: Martha Arney
Approximate time: 4 hours 54 minutes
Catalog number: 698
The Unhurried Chase That Ended at L'abri is a lighthearted, light-spirited, often hilariously funny account of an individualistic, fun-loving American woman seeking the real answers to life. Betty Carlson tells her own story with disarming frankness and whimsy.

Voyages of the Dayspring, Sailors for the Gospel (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Ron Russell
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Biography and Autobiography, Christian Disciplines, Christian Growth, Christian Living, Missions and Missionaries
Read by: Joyce Mount
Approximate time: 6 hours 14 minutes
Catalog number: 748/TORCH-1286D (part of the Torch collection)
RON & AGGIE RUSSELL - An adventurous seafaring ministry, visiting remote South Pacific islands with a mobile Bible bookshop.

When Morning Comes Again (Audio DAISY Book)

By: June Masters Bacher
Type: Fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Christian Growth, Christian Living, Novel, Suspense, Western and Pioneer
Read by: Martina Postma
Approximate time: 6 hours 58 minutes
Catalog number: 1000
Nobody heard the knock. Suddenly she was there, Rose-Wind-the-Snow-Maiden, midnight hair, lank and dripping, opened her mouth to speak-and then collapsed in a little heap at their feet. In the days ahead, Courtney would often wonder how the history of the valley would have been different had Rose Wind not come to them.

Runaway Heart (Audio DAISY Book)

Book 1 in series Westward Dreams
By: Jane Peart
Type: Fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Christian Living, Western and Pioneer
Read by: Martha Arney
Approximate time: 9 hours 3 minutes
Catalog number: 604
"End of the line!" The stagecoach driver's shout sent a chill down Holly Lambeth's spine. Was Riverbend Oregon the end of the line for her? She had come west to escape the gossip and humiliation after being jilted. She had come to find a new life, but her cousin's chilly reception tells her she has made a terrible mistake. In a town barely more than a mining camp, 2000 miles from Kentucky, Holly faces the fact that she is unwelcome--and reaches the conclusion that only she can change.

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