Washoe County Library System

Shares the story of the man behind the ice bucket challenge, Pete Frates, who after being diagnosed with ALS at twenty-seven mobilized an army to fight the disease.

After nearly twenty years, sports columnist Mitch Albom reconnected with his college professor and mentor, Morrie Schwartz, as the older man was dying from ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. During their weekly visits, Morrie shared his insights and wisdom on living.

When an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy, Albom goes back to his nonfiction roots and becomes involved with a Detroit pastor--a reformed drug dealer and convict--who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof. A timely, moving, and inspiring look at faith: not just who believes, but why. Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient...