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To redeem a book you have purchased, log into Bookshelf online and click Redeem Codes on the homepage or Tools Redeem Codes in the menu bar along the top. Your library will then update to display the new book.

Redemption books focus on protagonists whose strength and character flaws or weakness conflict with each other. Their unmet needs lead to others extending help and redemption.

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

A spellbinding testament to the resilience of the human spirit, Unbroken is the true story of Louie Zamperini, Olympic athlete and bombardier in World War II. Hillenbrand, author of the blockbuster Seabiscuit, brings to her work on this Redeem book unsung hero a rich and vivid narrative voice.

She has done meticulous research, reading diaries and memoirs, as well as interviewing veterans from both the United States and Japan. The book covers the history of the Pacific Theater of World War II in great detail, including many episodes of atrocity committed by the Japanese.

Hillenbrand also delves into the nature of forgiveness, which is at the heart of this amazing tale. Those who have seen the movie version of this story will want to read the book to better understand the nuances of Zamperini’s struggle with PTSD and finding redemption after his return home. He was able to overcome his experiences in part because of his ability to forgive the abusers who tortured him.

The Last Sin Eater by Francine Rivers

A ten-year-old girl finds hope in her community of Welsh immigrants in the 1850s. Set in the misty peaks and valleys of Appalachia, this story starts out creepy with religous and historical overtones. An elderly woman dies and, as is the custom of this community, a shrouded man drifts in, removes food from her corpse, eats it, and tells the woman’s family that he takes her sins on himself so she can rest in peace.

The community doesn’t accept the new “religion” and kills the man of God. Cadi, however, finds the man and confesses her sins to him. He baptizes her, and she begins to teach the village about Jesus. The horrid truth of the community’s murderous past soon comes to light and the man of God is put in danger, but Cadi is committed to her new faith. She shows her village the only way to find true freedom—by faith in Jesus Christ.

The Greatest Story Ever Told by Charles Dickens

Tomalin has been a force in Dickens biographies, and this is one of her most solid works. While it doesn’t contain many revelations that scholars haven’t already uncovered, she adds two ideas that no other biography has explored.

Dickens was a master of invention, and his inventions sometimes came back to haunt him. He often failed to understand the people closest to him, and his heroines read like little girls or melodramatic breast beaters from the sentimental stage plays of his day.

Dickens’ most famous novel is a Christmas staple and a classic tale of redemption. The miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is transformed through visits from the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. A Christmas Carol is a perfect illustration of Dickens’ hatred of greed and cruelty in both individuals and society. Dickens took great pains over the design of this book, deciding on gold-stamped covers and colored endpapers. He priced it low so that it could reach a wide audience.

The Story of God’s Love by John Piper

John Piper was born on January 11, 1946 and is a popular pastor and theologian. He is the founder and senior teacher of desiring God dot org. His works and sermons are among the best in the church.

In this book, he pleads that Christians should embrace serious thinking and reject either-or thinking when it comes to head and heart, thinking and feeling, reason and faith, theology and doxology. He also warns against anti-intellectualism and provides biblical foundations for an integrated life of knowing and loving God.

The main theme of this book is the beauty and glory of God as revealed in Scripture, especially his purposes for creation and redemption. It aims to humble, awe, comfort, strengthen, encourage, and gladden believers in the greatness of God’s intrinsic glory and purposeful sovereignty. This book is a must-read for any serious Christian! However, some of Piper’s ideas are questionable. For example, he takes Psalm 37.4 and creates a commandment out of it by adding ‘Delight yourself in the Lord!’ which could be misinterpreted as a call for mystical self-indulgence.