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Deep Dive Into Nonfiction

2025

Colorado, Wyoming (Rocky Mountain)

England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland (British Isles)

Ascension Press

Rachel has a deathly fear of water. She hears Jesus tell his followers that if they believe and are baptized, they will be saved, but she is confused and still frightened. When she learns that the waters of baptism make her a child of God and bring eternal life, her fears get washed away.

Through Living Waters

Our Sunday Visitor

Saint Paul is imprisoned, and an angry group of men plots to kill him. Paul's nephew Jonathan overhears their evil plan, and even though he's small and afraid, he knows he needs to do something to stop them. In this story, based on true events from Saint Paul's life as recounted in the Acts of the Apostles, children learn about heroism in the face of danger and what it means to be a Christian witness. St. Paul's Nephew to the Rescue will captivate the imagination of young readers and inspire them to live courageous lives, doing all things through Christ who strengthens them.

St. Paul's Nephew to the Rescue

After Jesus' death and Resurrection, his followers went into hiding for fear of persecution. Hannah, a young believer in Christ, struggles to overcome the fear of what others have to say about her beliefs.

Despite adversity, Hannah and her family remember the promise Jesus made to them: that he would send a Helper who would encourage and strengthen them.

To the amazement of Hannah and all gathered in the Upper Room, the Holy Spirit descends upon them and replaces their fear with boldness that helps them joyfully proclaim the story of Jesus.

The Day God's Helper Came

It is a hot and humid August day in Rome, and competitive twin boys Ignatius and Paulus are arguing as only brothers can. The boys and their parents live and work in the home of a wealthy Christian couple, Master Giovanni and Mistress Julia. One afternoon, when the boys suffer an unfortunate mishap, a wedge is driven between them.

Meanwhile, in answer to a prayer from Giovanni and Julia, the Blessed Virgin Mary appears to them and to their friend Pope Liberius in a dream. She predicts a shocking miracle -- a snowfall in summer! She also makes a request that Ignatius and Paulus can help fulfil

The Miracle of the August Snow

When it comes time to make his Lenten resolution, Louie is stumped. While his classmates take the traditional approach of giving up something for Lent, Louie embarks on a different course of action and in so doing, discovers what Jesus meant when he said, "I desire mercy and not sacrifice."

A Miracle for Micah

Tabby Long is a modern-day teen living in a family without faith. But on Good Friday, her father experiences a miraculous healing and immediate conversion to Christ -- something her mother cannot accept. As the fabric of her family unravels, Tabby turns to Scripture for answers. In her meditations, she imagines herself to be living at the time of Jesus. She sees herself at the crucifixion where she is Tabitha Longinus, the daughter of the Roman centurion who crucifies Christ, only to healed by the Lord's blood. A witness to the miracle, Tabitha is beckoned to the foot of the cross, but in the future that awaits her, she will be faced with danger, despair, and death. Can she possibly follow her father's path to faith and stich her family back together?

Beckoning

When it comes time to make his Lenten resolution, Louie is stumped. While his classmates take the traditional approach of giving something up for Lent, Louie embarks on a different course of aciton. As a result, Louie discovers what Jesus meant when He said, "I desire mercy, and not sacrifice."

Louie's Lent

Zedekiah and Abigail, two young cousins living in Capernaum at the time of Jesus, argue about everything. They want Jesus to judge which of their families' crops is better--grain or grapes? But when they find themselves in the Upper Room at the Last Supper with gifts of their harvests for Jesus, they witness the Institution of the Eucharist and discover something more important than their presents.

The Real Presence

The daughter of the Bethlehem innkeeper is cold and cranky in her crowded home. When she brings fire for warmth to the couple in her family's stable, she encounters the newborn Jesus and finds her mood suddenly altered and her life forever changed, thanks to the Christmas Light.

The Christmas Light

Rhyming text takes children through aspects of the Catholic faith from A to Z.

"E" is for Eucharist: A Catholic ABC

Shira, a young weaver in Jerusalem known for her talents, wants to do something special for the Lord Yeshua. She wishes she could join the crowd in singing and praising him as he enters the city, but she is mute. Instead, she offers the finest work of her hands and presents an incredible gift that speaks more clearly of her love for the Lord than words ever could. (This is a fictional story about the origins of the Shroud of Turin.)

The Wordless Weaver

The Mermaid's Gift

It’s Christmas Eve in the year 722, and Kristoph, a young orphan boy, is accompanying the missionary priest, Boniface, through the German countryside on their way to the first Christmas the boy will celebrate outside the orphanage. When the pair happens upon a group of men worshiping a sacred oak and preparing to sacrifice the son of the village chieftain, Boniface’s brave actions change their hearts and initiate the tradition of bringing evergreen trees into the home to shelter “loving gifts and lights of kindness.”  

Kristoph and the First Christmas Tree

Photographs and rhyming couplets invite readers to experience the flowers
and fields, mountains and plains, snow and sunsets that comprise the splendor of
Colorado.

A, B, See Colorado  An Alphabet Book of the Centennial State

During the holidays each year, the giant evergreen tree hoped that a family would pick it to be the centerpiece of their home, and it would finally be a part of the miracle of Christmas. But as year after year passed and no one seemed to want it because it was so big, the tree began to despair that it would never be selected . . . until one special season when it was chosen, for a purpose far beyond what could ever have been expected.

The Christmas Tree Cried

When someone steals the prize buckle of a junior bull-riding champion, amateur sleuth Kirsten Camarata sets her mind to solving the mystery.  She takes part in a rodeo in order to et behind the scenes, and even though someone goes to extreme measures to prevent her from doing so, her detective skills pay off as she pieces together the clues to solve the mystery.

Riddle at the Rodeo

A 21st-century girl is struggling with her faith following the deaths of her dad and brother who died saving the life of another.  She doesn't understand the value of sacrifice, and when she takes ill and awakens in 1st-century Jerusalem two days before the crucifixion, she tries to stop Jesus' death.

Awakening

Readers young and old delight in discovering the hidden worlds within Colorado’s beautiful landscapes in photos by John Fielder. For each photo, a cutout and imaginative poetry verse explore the mysteries of a small detail of the natural world, while turning the page reveals its place in one of nature's grand landscapes.

Do You See What I See?

Whimsical verse combines with the spectacular photographs of Texas nature photographer Richard Reynolds in this 48-page, full-color book that explores the details of nature and their places in larger landscapes. This book challenges not only young readers but those of all ages to recognize that Nature's details are often as magnificent and mysterious as Nature's landscapes.

Do You See What I See? Texas

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