Just Call Me Lopez

Just Call Me Lopez
Author: Margaret Silf
Publisher: Loyola Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2012-08-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0829436693

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Just Call Me Lopez is a recipient of the QED Seal, which stands for Quality, Excellence, Design for ebooks and applications and a PIA (Publishing Innovation Awards) finalist. What do we have in common with a man from the sixteenth century—or even more so, a saint from the sixteenth century? Probably a lot more than you think. St. Ignatius of Loyola wasn’t always the heroic and holy figure that you hear about today; he was a flawed, fallible, and relatable man named Íñigo Lopez. In Just Call Me Lopez, a twenty-first-century woman, Rachel, meets the man who becomes the saint, and both are transformed by their unlikely friendship and series of thought-provoking conversations. Their worlds literally collide when Rachel is struck by a hit-and-run driver, and Lopez is there to help her. They realize that this chance accident is actually an act of God that allows Rachel and Lopez, through the medium of their friendship, to come to terms with their personal struggles. Lopez shares his life with Rachel, describing the obstacles he faces during his unbelievable conversion from a womanizing soldier to a man of God. While Rachel keeps mostly silent about her personal struggles, she observes and is astounded by Lopez’s metamorphosis from mess to mystic. Rachel finally faces her troubling situation, and Lopez gently guides her through the process of discernment to make a difficult, but inspired, life choice. Just Call Me Lopez helps us realize that our very human faults and imperfect behavior do not prevent us from receiving God’s grace; rather, knowing our weaknesses and giving ourselves over to the Holy Spirit can create a new way for us to live.

Inner Compass

Inner Compass
Author: Margaret Silf
Publisher: Loyola Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2009-02-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0829429905

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10th Anniversary Edition Whatever path you’re on, God is there to guide you . . . Anyone seeking to deepen his or her relationship with God will greatly benefit from Inner Compass, Margaret Silf’s dynamic presentation of the profound insights of St. Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises. While reflective, the work exudes a congenial, practical outlook and a thoroughly modern sensibility. As Silf points out, the book “grew out of questions rather than certainty, discovery rather than doctrine, the experience of everyday living rather than academic study.” This tenth-anniversary edition of the acclaimed Inner Compass features a new introduction and personal invitation to the reader, plus a significantly expanded resource section. Devoted followers of Ignatian spirituality and spiritual seekers alike will find that wherever life has led them, Inner Compass offers renewed direction and purpose and helps them recognize the will of God within their own hearts.

The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez

The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez
Author: Adrianna Cuevas
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2020-07-21
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0374313628

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2021 Pura Belpré Honor Book NYPL Best Book of 2020 2020 Evanston Public Library Great Books for Kids In this magical middle-grade debut novel from Adrianna Cuevas, The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez, a Cuban American boy must use his secret ability to communicate with animals to save the inhabitants of his town when they are threatened by a tule vieja, a witch that transforms into animals. All Nestor Lopez wants is to live in one place for more than a few months and have dinner with his dad. When he and his mother move to a new town to live with his grandmother after his dad’s latest deployment, Nestor plans to lay low. He definitely doesn’t want to anyone find out his deepest secret: that he can talk to animals. But when the animals in his new town start disappearing, Nestor's grandmother becomes the prime suspect after she is spotted in the woods where they were last seen. As Nestor investigates the source of the disappearances, he learns that they are being seized by a tule vieja—a witch who can absorb an animal’s powers by biting it during a solar eclipse. And the next eclipse is just around the corner... Now it’s up to Nestor’s extraordinary ability and his new friends to catch the tule vieja—and save a place he might just call home.

Companions of Christ

Companions of Christ
Author: Margaret Silf
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2005-05-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780802829429

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Are you bogged down in your spiritual journey? Does church seem to hinder more than it helps? Here is a welcoming and realistic guide for all who may be feeling spiritually jaded. Whatever your circumstances, Companions of Christ will show you how to embark on a journey of the heart, starting wherever you happen to be and no matter how unfit for the journey you may feel. In Companions of Christ popular British writer Margaret Silf unearths the gold mine of spiritual wisdom to be found in the legacy of Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits. Ignatian spirituality sets out an engagingly down-to-earth vision of connecting with God in everyday life. Neither a recipe for a privatized spiritual life nor an agenda imposed by someone else, the Ignatian vision is centered on companionship, which means literally to "share bread" with another. It latches onto God's presence in stories, in other people, in the created universe, and even in God's apparent absence. Perfect for those whose faith in God or patience with the church is flagging, Companions of Christ contains very practical teaching on great Ignatian themes -- imaginative scriptural meditation, spiritual discernment, and honest prayer. Incorporating helpful spiritual exercises throughout, Silf shows both tentative and seasoned believers how to keep faith despite the odds.

Just Call Me Minnie

Just Call Me Minnie
Author: Minnie Minoso
Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 205
Release: 1994-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780915611904

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On May 1, 1951, a legend was born. So was an era. Newly acquired Orestes Minoso, the first Black to play Major League Baseball in the city of Chicago, stepped into the batter's box for his first turn at bat in a Chicago White Sox uniform. On the mound for the New York Yankees that May afternoon was hard-throwing right-hander Vic Raschi, one of baseball's best. With a runner on first and one out, Minoso took Raschi's first pitch, then coolly blasted his second offering 415 feet into the centre field bullpen. The crowd of Comiskey Park faithfuls cheered wildly. Today, more than 40 years later, those cheers can still be heard. The living drama of this six-decade baseball legend is told with a rare blend of candor, insight, and honesty.

SunshineSnow

SunshineSnow
Author: Jeremiah T. Sailor
Publisher: Luminary 3D Publishing. LLC
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2021-12-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1956995021

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Healing begins when two troubled souls from very different worlds collide—Elizabeth Spoon ("Sunshine") and Lopez Santana ("Snow"). Elizabeth is from a wealthy Idaho family. Scandal, abuse, and betrayal are deeply buried family secrets. After witnessing her father commit an unspeakable act, Elizabeth runs away to California to start a new life. The truth is ultimately revealed after a murder-suicide in the Spoon family. Lopez is from an infamous South Florida family. Lopez fled Cuba with his family as a young child because his father was accused of killing a government official. He lived a privileged life in Miami, well-sheltered from the source of his family's wealth. Jealousy and greed destroyed Lopez's world on his 18th birthday. Facilitated by a plan his father set in motion years beforehand, Lopez fled to California to escape his parents' killers. Pain is the common thread that binds Elizabeth and Lopez. Love and friendship ultimately conquer and heal all, even the scars of murder and family betrayal.

Running for My Life

Running for My Life
Author: Lopez Lomong
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1595555153

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Offers the true story of a Sudanese boy who, through unyielding faith, overcame a wartorn nation to become an American citizen and an Olympic contender.

The Pilgrim's Story

The Pilgrim's Story
Author: Brendan Comerford
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2021
Genre:
ISBN: 9780829450118

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The Pilgrim's Story is a concise account of the life and spirituality of Ignatius of Loyola, stressing the importance of one's personal experience of God.

By Order of the President

By Order of the President
Author: W.E.B. Griffin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 622
Release: 2005-12-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1440630313

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When a leased Boeing 727 is violently hijacked from Angola and flown to parts unknown, the President turns to an outsider—Major Carlos Guillermo Castillo—for answers. A pilot, West Point graduate, and veteran of Desert Storm, Castillo has a sharp eye for the facts—and the truth behind them. In Africa, he is helped and hindered by unexpected allies and ruthless enemies, and begins to untangle a plot of horrific dimensions—a plot that, unless Castillo acts quickly, will end very, very badly.

Just Right Family

Just Right Family
Author: Silvia Lopez
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2018-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0807540838

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Winner, 2018 Gwen P. Reichert Gold Medal for Children's Literature, Florida Book Award Meili, who is six years old and adopted from China, learns that her parents are going to adopt a baby from Haiti. She's not happy. Why do they need a new baby? Their family is just right as it is. As Meili learns more about her new sibling and the importance of being a big sister, will she realize that a new addition can be just right for their family too?