By Margot Benary-Isbert
Seventeen-year-old Paula has just left behind convent boarding school - to go home. She hasn’t been back home for more than two years, and isn’t quite prepared for her five rambunctious brothers, two eccentric maiden aunts, bibliophile uncle, and 89 year-old Babbett, not to mention the demands laid on her by energetic […]

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The Chronicles of Narnia has stood for fifty years now as a monument of modern Christian allegory– and as a series of fantasy stories that has entralled millions. If you‘ve loved these books as a child (and as an adult), or if you’re looking for a Christmas surprise for your kids, you’ll treasure this […]

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Gloria Whelan; illustrated by Judith Brown
It was the day before Christmas in a small Russian village. Alexi’s babushka was telling him what Christmas was like when she was a girl - before the soldiers came. “Our church was as crowded as a pod full of peas. Candles made the church as bright as the […]

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Missionary to the World
Frances Parkinson Keyes
In 1946, Francesca Cabrini was canonized as the first saint of the United States. This new Vision book for 9 - 15 year olds tells the exciting story of this missionary from Italy who came to America to spread the Faith. She founded a new order nuns, the Missionary […]

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Loretta Swit stars in this touching and humorous Christmas story. Beware the Herdmans! The nastiest, dirtiest kids you could meet and they’ve decided they belong in this year’s Christ mas pageant. The town thinks they belong in the care of the local police. But when the curtain goes up, a miracle begins!

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By Blanche Jennings Thompson
This new story in the Vision Books series of saints for 9 - 15 year olds is aobut Saint Elizabeth of Hungary who spent her life differently than most saints. Instead of living in poverty like St. Francis of Assisi, she lived most of her life in a castle surrounded by […]

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By Milton Lomask
Over three hundred years ago, many Frenchmen came to the unknown forests along the St. Lawrence River. Most of them came in search of furs and wealth. But there were some–a handful of Jesuit missionaries–who came not to get, but to give. They wished to give the savage Indians the knowledge of […]

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By Albert J. Nevins, M.M.
This new story from the popular Vision Books series of saints lives for youth 9 - 15 years old is about the inspiring life of the great missionary to the Far East, St. Francis Xavier. After his wartorn boyhood in Navarre, Francis Xavier went to the University of Paris, determined […]

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This colorful, clay animated production, narrated by Christopher Plummer, is a magnificent film for all ages that tells the traditional story of the birth of Jesus beginning with Mary and Joseph’s trip from Nazareth to Bethlehem. Offering a fresh new way to recapture the Christmas story, it is enhanced by colloquial dialogue and traditional […]

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Fleeing the wrath of Nero, the Storykeepers take with them their most precious possession: the stories of Jesus. Even amidst persecution by the emperor, and incredible action-packed adventure, the young Storykeepers celebrate the birth of the Prince of Peace as they share the Christmas story with others in this outstanding animated film.

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