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To bitter, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, Christmas is just another day. But all that changes when the ghost of his long-dead business partner appears, warning Scrooge to change his ways before it's too late. Part of the Focus on the Family Great Stories collection, this edition features an in-depth introduction and discussion questions by Joe Wheeler to provide greater understanding for today's reader. "A Christmas Carol" captures the heart of the holidays...

When Mama Bear decides the family has accumulated too many old toys, books, and games, they sort through their extra stuff and take it to the Old Bears' Home, the Beartown Young Cubs Hospital and the Bears Who Care store.

Lydia King knows what it's like to be in need, so when she joins the Teaville Moral Society, she genuinely hopes to help the town's poor. But with her father's debts increasing by the day and her mother growing sicker by the week, she wonders how long it will be until she ends up in the poor house herself. Her best chance at a financially secure future is to impress the politician courting her, and it certainly doesn't hurt that the moral society's...

In 1861, Margaret March, with her husband serving as an army chaplain, finds the comfort and security of her four daughters resting on her shoulders alone as she faces financial hardships, secrets, and tragedy, in this revealing retelling of Little Women from the perspective of the beloved matriarch known as Marmee.

Biography of the Nobel Prize-winning nun who founded the Missionary Sisters and Brothers of Charity and was known for her work with the destitute and dying.

A biography of Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, known as Mother Teresa, who spent most of her life serving "the poorest of the poor" in Calcutta, India.

Not just another Mother Teresa book, Touched By A Saint uniquely speaks in words and photos to the powerful spiritual charism of this saintly woman. From well known persons such as Hillary Rodham Clinton and Prince Philip, to a grandmother in the slums of Calcutta, all describe their personal encounter with Mother Teresa as being a truly special spiritual moment. From the simply curious, to persons of great faith or those seeking spiritual meaning...

Follows the part of Mother Teresa's life as she struggles to create the Missionaries of Charity during a time of violence in India's history. Her message of love and kindness eventually wins over her enemies and she is presented with the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1979.