Additional Book List I

Faith & Inspiration and Self-Help

Title: “365 Days of Wonder,” 2014

Author: R.J. PALACIO

Description: A book which contains 365 precepts or principles “that will enlighten, engage, inspire, comfort, and challenge readers every day of the year”

Title: “God is in the Small Stuff,” 2011

Authors: BRUCE BICKEL and STAN JANTZ

Description: A book written to help people in our changing and stressful times to “turn to the one true God and to God’s eternal Word, the Bible” in order “to stop worrying and invite God into the details” of one’s life

Title: "Good News Bible: Today’s English Version," 1992 (Philippine Bible Society Copyright, 1995)

Translator: AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY

Description:  An updated version of the Holy Bible which “seeks to state clearly and accurately the meaning of the original texts in words and forms that are widely accepted by people who use English as a means of communication” and aims “to give today’s reader maximum understanding of the content of the original texts”

Title: "Holy Bible, New Living Translation," 2nd Edition, 2004

Publisher: TYNDALE HOUSE PUBLISHERS, INC.

Description: The Word of God as translated by a team of scholars who utilized the “formal-equivalence” theory and the “functional-equivalence” theory in their translation work and who prayed that the reader “will meet the God of the Bible and be changed forever by knowing him”

Title: “Limitless,” 2013

Author: NICK VUJICIC

Description: A Christian devotional book written by a man born without arms and feet in order to share “God’s limitless love and power” and to be “transformed with Him” and to help the readers to “come to trust that, through Him, all things are possible”

Title: "The Holy Bible, International Children’s Bible," 2005

Publisher: TOMMY NELSON, A DIVISION OF TOMAS NELSON, INC.

Description: “...a translation of God’s Word from the original Hebrew and Greek languages...and the first translation of the Holy Scriptures prepared specifically for children”

Title: “The Little Prince,” (First Published in 1945), Printed Edition of 2012 by Egmont UK Limited, Copyright Editions Gallimard 1946 and 2009

Author: ANTIONE DE SAINT-EXUPERY / Translator: KATHERINE WOODS

Description: A fiction that tells the story of a little prince and the wonderful worlds he encountered, and a book which contains quotes - that find essential validity in life - such as “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye”  and  “It is the time that you have (spent) for your rose that makes your rose so important”

General References

Title: “Random House Webster’s Easy English Dictionary,” 2001

Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE, INC.

Description: A dictionary “specially written and composed for novice learners of English, with broad coverage of American English” and which contains “definitions written using a simplified vocabulary…grammar patterns… (and) over 400 illustrations….”

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