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Laugh It Up!: Embrace Freedom and Experience Defiant Joy

Candace Payne · Zondervan
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

The world knows Candace Payne as "Chewbacca Mom," the wife and mother of two from Dallas who captured the hearts of nearly 200 million people around the world with nothing but a toy Chewbacca mask, a smart phone, and infectious laughter.Candace's viral moment of simple joy became...
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A Midwife in Amish Country: Celebrating God's Gift of Life

Kim Woodard Osterholzer · Regnery Faith
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Kim Osterholzer, a midwife who's caught over 500 babies since 1993, ushers readers behind the doors of Amish homes as she recounts her lively, entertaining, and life-changing adventures learning the heart and art and craft of midwifery. In A Midwife in Amish Country, Kim chronicles...
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The Fisherman's Tomb: The True Story of the Vatican's Secret Search

John O'Neill · Our Sunday Visitor
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

A Texas oilman. A brilliant female archaeologist. An unknown world underneath the Vatican.In 1939, a team of workers beneath the Vatican unearthed an early Christian grave. This surprising discovery launched a secret quest that would last decades a quest to discover the long-lost burial...
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Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

KATE BOWLER · Random House
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

A divinity professor and young mother with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis explores the pain and joy of living without certainty. Thirty-five-year-old Kate Bowler was a professor at the school of divinity at Duke, and had finally had a baby with her childhood sweetheart after years of trying,...
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The Zombie Gospel: The Walking Dead and What it Means to Be Human

Danielle Strickland · IVP Books
Pages: 118
Format: Paperback

What can zombies teach us about the gospel? The hit show The Walking Dead is set in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by mindless zombies. The characters have one goal: survive at all costs. At first glance there doesn't seem to be much the show can teach us about God or ourselves....
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The Mountains Are Calling: Making the Climb for a Clearer View of God and Ourselves

Jarrett Stephens · Multnomah
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

The teaching pastor of one of America's largest megachurches gives a call to action: Study the mountains mentioned in Scripture. Learn what God reveals there about himself, and you. Then take those truths back to the people.An overview of the mountaintop experiences mentioned in Scripture...
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God Is Young: A Conversation with Thomas Leoncini

POPE FRANCIS · Random House
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

Pope Francis examines the role of millennials in the future of the Catholic Church in this urgent call to believers of all generations to work together to build a better world.Since his election in 2013, Pope Francis has reinvigorated the Catholic Church and become one of the most popular...
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The Rise and Fall of the Christian Myth: Restoring Our Democratic Ideals

Burton L. Mack · Yale University Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

This book is the culmination of a lifelong scholarly inquiry into Christian history, religion as a social institution, and the role of myth in the history of religions. Mack shows that religions are essentially mythological and that Christianity in particular has been an ever-changing mythological...
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For the Glory: The Untold and Inspiring Story of Eric Liddell, Hero of Chariots of Fire

Duncan Hamilton · Penguin Books
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

The untold and inspiring story of Eric Liddell, hero of Chariots of Fire, from his Olympic medal to his missionary work in China to his last, brave years in a Japanese work camp during WWIIMany people will remember Eric Liddell as the Olympic gold medalist from the Academy Award winning...
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Cole and Sav: Our Surprising Love Story

Cole and Savannah LaBrant · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

A chance meeting, a kiss, and the surprise of a lifetime ... Millions around the world followed the fairytale love story of viral YouTube stars Cole and Savannah LaBrant and watched as they said "I do." Their subsequent YouTube channel, dedicated to family and faith, garners...
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Going Solo: Hope and Healing for the Single Mom or Dad

Robert Beeson · Focus on the Family
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

As parents face the difficult reality of a broken home, a sense of being completely overwhelmed can shut down the perspective they need to find restoration. Parents need to know that they can choose to define this season of their lives, instead of becoming defined by circumstances. They...
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Martin Luther in His Own Words: Essential Writings of the Reformation

Martin Luther · Baker Books
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Though most of the Protestant world can trace its roots back to the Reformation, many people today have only a vague knowledge of Martin Luther's writings. "Didn't he write the Ninety-Five Theses?" Jack Kilcrease and Erwin Lutzer step into this vacuum with a carefully...
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Hope, Not Fear: Changing the Way We View Death

Benjamin Blech · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

In Hope, Not Fear Benjamin Blech helps readers approach the end of life with calm. More than six years ago Blech was diagnosed with a fatal illness and given six months to live. Over the course of his career Rabbi Blech had counseled hundreds of people through the losses of loved ones and their...
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Be the Hands and Feet: Living Out God's Love for All His Children

NICK VUJICIC · WaterBrook
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Nothing in life is as exciting and satisfying as introducing Jesus to people who have never met him. New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned motivational speaker Nick Vujicic is known worldwide as the man without arms and legs who personifies a "can do" spirit....
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The Dream-Centered Life: Discovering What Drives You

Luke Barnett · WaterBrook
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

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