suffering

Uses the biblical figure of Job as an illustration of the suffering and injustice of the twentieth century.

Provides insight into the question of how to deal with human suffering and death.

Drew Brees, a starting quarterback for the New Orleans Saints, discusses the shoulder injury that almost destroyed his career, the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and the comeback made by himself, the city, and his team during the 2009 season.

A young journalist steps off a curb and into the path of a taxicab. Gravely injured and unable to choose between life and death, Eliezer relives the horrors of Auschwitz, his tragic childhood, and a passionate affair.

The captain of a steamship on the Congo River meets and observes Mr. Kurtz, the fabled chief of the Inner Station for the trading company on that river in 1890.

Text and photographs describe some of the devastating results of World War II, including refugees, battle fatigue, internment, and destruction of cities.

A translation of twentieth-century German playwright Bertolt Brecht's work in which a seventeenth-century woman, "Mother Courage, " accompanied by her children, pulls a trading wagon throughout wartorn Europe and becomes a symbol of human suffering and endurance.

The angel Gabriel helps Mikey, an angel-in-training, to understand why bad things happen for what seems to be no reason and how to hold on to hope and faith during difficult times.

Contains over one hundred inspirational short stories about people who have survived cancer with courage, determination, love, and laughter.