Lauren Johnson
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Joe knows kung fu. In fact, he loves it more than anything. Every single evening, Joe walks to his neighborhood kung fu studio to practice for hours on end... until the day he arrives to find his studio is closed--permanently. Unperturbed, Joe decides to pursue his second-favorite activity--basketball. He joins his school's team only to find that the players are disorganized, timid, and lacking in discipline! So, Joe uses his experience in martial...
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"An ill-timed storm on Christmas Eve buries the residents of Gracetown under multiple feet of snow and causes quite a bit of chaos. One brave soul ventures out into the storm from her stranded train, setting off a chain of events that will change quite a few lives. Over the next three days one girl takes a risky shortcut with an adorable stranger, three friends set out to win a race to the Waffle House (and the hash brown spoils), and the fate of...
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In Sydney, Australia, an 18-year-old homeless Filipino man, Nathaniel, has nowhere to go, even his mother has turned him away. When he comes across a 19-year-old Christian woman, Rachel, in a soup kitchen, his life begins to change. Rachel takes him into her home, offering him a view of her life, which involves feeding the homeless, spending time with disabled people, and talking with the elderly, all of which show him a fresh perspective on God and...