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.

"From FOX News anchor and author Harris Faulkner comes a collection of powerful, true-life stories of resilience, healing, rescue, and protection. From the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Haiti to the theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, believers testify to how God inspired hope even when all seemed lost."--Book jacket.

A young boy with cancer touches a community when he writes letters to God to help him with his struggle.

Seven People, Seven Amazing StoriesA Wall Street broker, a party girl, a student, a homeless man, an addict, a teenage mom, a drug enforcer--all of them spiraling out of control. Each has a reason to despair and a wound that won't heal. Until something unexpected happens--something that will change their lives forever.The Rescue tells the powerful, true stories of men and women whose lives should have ended badly but didn't. What happens to each of...

"Claire Kelly's much loved WWII pilot husband survived his B-24 crash but lost his memory. Clair is determined to find him but never guesses that finding him will require tremendous courage, understanding, loyalty and the possible sacrifice of his ever coming home." --Container.

Based on the inspirational true story of one mother's unfaltering love in the face of impossible odds. When Joyce Smith's adopted son John falls through an icy Missouri lake, all hope seems lost. But as John lies lifeless, Joyce refuses to give up. Her steadfast belief inspires those around her to continue to pray for John's recovery, even in the face of every case history and scientific prediction. A reminder that faith and love can create a mountain...

"After nearly two decades, Noel Post, an editor for a major New York publishing house, returns to her childhood home in Salt Lake City to see her estranged, dying father. What she believed would be a brief visit turns into something more as she inherits the bookstore her father fought to keep alive. Reeling from loneliness, a recent divorce, and unanticipated upheavals in her world, Noel begins receiving letters from an anonymous source, each one...

"Tiadone has been forced to live her entire life as a female accepted as male in her community in order to survive as a firstborn child. But when she needs to pass the rites of manhood, she finds the Creator may have use for her feminine traits after all"--

Determined to restore the dilapidated lodge where she spent the holidays with her family growing up, Mary's faith is renewed by the spirit of her grandmother and she finds love in a man who is drawn to the lodge as well.

"While her humanitarian husband Liam has been digging wells in Africa, Mara Jacobs has been struggling. She knows she's supposed to feel a warm glow that her husband is eight time zones away, caring for widows and orphans. But she is exhausted, working a demanding yet unrewarding job, trying to manage their three detention-prone and needy kids, failing at her to-repair list, and fading like a garment left too long in the sun. Then Liam's three-year...