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The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors

DAN JONES · Viking
Pages: 428
Format: Hardcover

A narrative history of the Knights Templar draws on extensive original sources to separate fact from myth, exploring their actual work and influence, the reasons they fell out of favor, and whether or not they were guilty of heresy.
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Christmas: A Biography

JUDITH FLANDERS · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author explores the Christmas holiday, from the original festival through present day traditions.Christmas has always been a magical time. Or has it? Thirty years after the first recorded Christmas, the Pope was already warning that too many...
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Let God Fight Your Battles: Being Peaceful in the Storm

Joyce Meyer · FaithWords
Format: Hardcover

La vida le presenta varias batallas, desde las preocupaciones por la salud, los retos financieros o los asuntos familiares. Los tiempos difíciles usualmente son llamados las tormentas de la vida, y sobrellevarlos a solas puede ser muy duro, o hasta puede parecer imposible. ¡Anímese!...
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The Murderous History of Bible Translations: Power, Conflict, and the Quest for Meaning

Harry Freedman · Bloomsbury
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

In 1535, William Tyndale, the first man to produce an English version of the Bible in print, was captured and imprisoned in Belgium. A year later he was strangled and then burned at the stake. His co-translator was also burned. In that same year the translator of the first Dutch Bible was arrested...
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Present over perfect : leaving behind frantic for a simpler, more soulful way of life

Shauna Niequist · Zondervan
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

LIVE A LIFE OF MEANING AND CONNECTIONInstead of pushing for perfectionA few years ago, I found myself exhausted and isolated, my soul and body sick. I was tired of being tired, burned out on busy. And, it seemed almost everyone I talked with was in the same boat: longing for connection,...
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Breaking Cover: My Secret Life in the CIA and What It Taught Me about What's Worth Fighting For

Michele Rigby Assad · Tyndale Momentum
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The CIA is looking for walking contradictions. Recruiters seek people who can keep a secret, yet pull classified information out of others; who love their country, but are willing to leave it behind to head into dangerous places; who live double lives, but can be trusted with some of the nation's...
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Still Life: A Memoir of Living Fully with Depression

Gillian Marchenko · IVP Books
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

"I stand on the edge of a cliff in my own bedroom." Gillian Marchenko continues her description of depression: "I must keep still. Otherwise I will plunge to my death. 'Please God, take this away,' I pray when I can." For Gillian, "dealing with depression"...
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Creating a Beautiful Life: A Woman's Guide to Good-Better-Best Decision Making

Elizabeth George · Harvest House Publishers
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

What Will You Do with This Beautiful Day God Is Giving You? Each new day presents opportunities to grow your faith, manage your work and your goals, and make good use of the time God gives you. But making the right choices moment by moment isn't easy. And the first decisions of your...
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Call to mercy

Mother Teresa · Image
Pages: 364
Format: Print book

Published to coincide with Pope Francis's Year of Mercy and the Vatican's canonization of Mother Teresa, this new book of unpublished material by a humble yet remarkable woman of faith whose influence is felt as deeply today as it was when she was alive, offers Mother Teresa's profound...
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A Way to God: Thomas Merton's Creation Spirituality Journey

Matthew Fox · New World Library
Pages: 308
Format: Print book

This powerful book was prompted by an invitation Matthew Fox received to speak on the centennial of Thomas Merton's birth. Fox says that much of the trouble he's gotten into - such as being expelled from the Dominican Order in 1993, after thirty-four years, by Cardinal Ratzinger (who...
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Protestants: The Faith That Made the Modern World

ALEC RYRIE · VIKING
Pages: 528
Format: Print book

Protestant Christianity began with one stubborn monk in 1517. Now it covers the globe and includes almost a billion people. On the 500th anniversary of Luther's theses, a global history of the revolutionary faith that shaped the modern world Five hundred years ago an obscure monk challenged...
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C. S. Lewis's "Mere Christianity": A Biography

George M Marsden · Princeton University Press
Pages: 280
Format: Print book

Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis's eloquent and winsome defense of the Christian faith, originated as a series of BBC radio talks broadcast during the dark days of World War Two. Here is the story of the extraordinary life and afterlife of this influential and much-beloved book.George...
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Our Father: Reflections on the Lord's Prayer

POPE FRANCIS · Image
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

Pope Francis provides new insights into the most popular prayer in Christianity, offering readers a guide to living a life of meaning, purpose and strength.This new work by Pope Francis illuminates the most important prayer in all of Christianity, verse by verse, in conversation with Father...
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Is This the End? Study Guide: Signs of God's Providence in a Disturbing New World

David Jeremiah · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

The world seems more fractured each day. People are asking, "Is this the end?" Never have the headlines been this jarring, the cultural changes this rapid, or the moral decay this pronounced. After each new occurrence, the most often-heard questions are, What on earth is happening?...
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The Soul of Christmas

Thomas Moore · Franciscan Media
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

"If you enter the spirit of Christmas, the child could be born in you. You have a chance to rise above the unconsciousness that is widespread in the world today." With his trademark blend of storytelling, faith, and psychological insight, New York Times bestselling author Thomas...
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