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Have a little faith : a true story / Mitch Albom.

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In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey between two worlds, two men, two faiths, two communities that will inspire readers everywhere. Have a Little Faith begins with an unusual requestl an eighty-two-year old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy. Feeling unworthy, Albom insists on understanding the man better, which thrown him back into a world of faith he'd left years ago. Meanwhile, closer to his current home, Albom becomes involved with a Detroit paster, a reformed drug dealer and convict who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in the roof. Moving between their worlds, Christian and Jewish, African-American and white, impoverished and well-to-do, Albom observes how these very different men employ faith similarly in fighting for survival: the older, suburdan rabbi embracing it as death approaches; the younger, inner-city paster relying on it to keep himself and his church afloat. As America struggles with hard times and people turn more to their beliefs, Albom and the two men of God explore issues that perplex modern man: how to endure when difficult things happehn; what heaven is; intermarriages; forgiveness; doubting God; and the importance of faith in trying times. Although the texts, prayers and histories are different, Albom begins to recognize a striking unity between the two world and indeed, between beliefs everywhere. In the end, as the rabbi nears death and a hars winter threatens the pastor's wobbly church, Albom sadly fulfills the rabbi's last requestand writes the eulogy. And he finally understands what both men had been teaching all along: the profound comfort of believing in something bigger than yourself.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781401310462 (pbk.) :
  • ISBN: 140131046X (pbk.) :
  • Physical Description: viii, 254 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Hyperion, [2011], c2009.

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General Note:
Reprint. Originally published: c2009.
Subject: Faith (Judaism)
Faith.
Albom, Mitch, 1958- > Religion.
Lewis, Albert L.
Covington, Henry P.

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  • 28 of 29 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
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Prince Rupert Library 296.7 Albo (Text) 33294001686690 Adult Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
Beaver Valley Public Library 296.7 ALB (Text) 35144000022231 Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
Burns Lake Public Library 296.7 Alb (Text) 35198000452327 Adult Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
Castlegar Public Library 296.7 ALB (Text) 35146001454669 Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
Chetwynd Public Library 296.7 Alb (Text) BCHE065151 Adult Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
Fernie Heritage Library 296.7 ALB (Text) 35136000156779 Adult Non Fic Volume hold Available -
Fort Nelson Public Library 296.7 ALB (Text) 35246000653152 Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
Fort St. John Public Library 296.7 ALB (Text) 35211000014763 ADULT Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
Grand Forks 296.7 ALB (Text) 35142002381464 Adult Non Fiction Volume hold Available -
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