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  • Out with Joy
    Richard R. Roach MD FACP
    What does it take for a boy from rural Minnesota to become a global physician? Faith, grit, and a heart open to joy.Out with Joy is a deeply personal and reflective memoir by Dr. Richard Roach that traces his remarkable transformation from a clumsy, curious child into an internationally respected medical missionary. Raised in a poor but loving home, Roach shares vivid tales of ...
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    16,91 €

  • Toxic Fr.O.G.
    Dr. Richard Roach / DrRichard Roach
    Fran is a senior in high school who has always been odd. Her best friend is a full-blooded Potawatomie First Nation woman. Fran’s friends call her 'Frog' because of her science interest. But her interest soon sends her into the French Guiana jungle to become a shaman’s apprentice. The two friends have separate interests, but what binds them together is a man who hates Indians a...
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    24,03 €

  • Never a Woman
    Richard Roach
    It is 2002 when Kwamboka, a Kisii girl from western Kenya who refused female genital mutilation as part of her tribe’s puberty rites, returns home after laboring in the fields all day. Exhausted, Kwamboka falls asleep and awakens a few hours later to the smell of smoke. She manages to escape the fire that engulfs her house, only to see her uncle waiting outside-the one who is s...
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    23,99 €

  • Physician’S Muse
    Richard Roach
    Tenth grader Barak Shelton hates school. He feels his assignments are unfair, his homework is a waste of time, and even worse yet, he hates having his mother as his teacher. The only thing that is preventing him from dropping out is his fascination with the opposite sex.One day after Barak and his family are invited to Dr. Heidi Barton’s house, he meets her daughter, Lily, an A...
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    16,35 €

  • Never a Woman
    Richard Roach
    It is 2002 when Kwamboka, a Kisii girl from western Kenya who refused female genital mutilation as part of her tribe’s puberty rites, returns home after laboring in the fields all day. Exhausted, Kwamboka falls asleep and awakens a few hours later to the smell of smoke. She manages to escape the fire that engulfs her house, only to see her uncle waiting outside-the one who is s...
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    15,37 €

  • Faith, Love, and Mercy
    Richard R. Roach / Richard RRoach
    Faith, Love, and Mercy is a selection from the weekly homilies of noted moral theologian and pastor Fr. Richard Roach SJ, who retired from university teaching to lead a small island parish in his last decade. His theologically rigorous yet accessible writing reflects decades-long contemplation on the significance of Catholic identity in our modern era. Combining deep-rooted wis...
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    29,31 €

  • Releasing Lisa
    MD FACP Richard R. Roach / MD FACP Richard RRoach
    Lisa Zuccerelli just wants to be normal. At the end of her senior year in high school, she has the distinction for the most detentions in the history of the school, thanks to an English teacher’s betrayal. Seemingly left with no other choice after a distressing graduation ceremony, she packs two weeks’ worth of rations, a canoe, and her broken heart and flees to the Canadian wi...
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    16,04 €

  • Saving Skunk
    Richard R. Roach MD / Richard RRoach MD
    As the cold wind whistles through a tiny reservation shack, an Ojibwa Indian girl watches as her drunken father staggers and throws a box containing her birthday cake on the table. A few minutes later, he drives away, leaving her alone to celebrate eighteen years of life. As she nibbles the cake and feels the sweetness quickly sour in her stomach, Heidi Barton has no idea that ...
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    11,08 €