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A Death on Diamond Mountain: A True Story of Obsession, Madness, and the Path to Enlightenment

Scott Carney · Gotham Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

An investigative reporter explores an infamous case where an obsessive and unorthodox search for enlightenment went terribly wrong. When thirty-eight-year-old Ian Thorson died from dehydration and dysentery on a remote Arizona mountaintop in 2012, The New York Times reported the story under...
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The Healing Place: Where All Hurts Are Healed

Adaline Bates · WestBow Press
Pages: 174
Format: Print book

This book was designed to provide you with helpful tools and direction for positioning yourself to be able to receive the healing you desire. Far too often we get in our own way and prevent healing from taking place in our lives. We think it is God not doing his job, when in reality...

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Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

ROBERT WRIGHT · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller
From one of America's greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness.

Robert Wright famously explained in The Moral Animal how...
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Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise

Thich Nhat Hanh · HarperOne
Pages: 189
Format: Print book

The Zen master and one of the world's most beloved teachers returns with a concise, practical guide to understanding and developing our most powerful inner resource - silence - to help us find happiness, purpose, and peace.

Many people embark on a seemingly futile search for happiness,...

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Miracle on Voodoo Mountain: A Young Woman's Remarkable Story of Pushing Back the Darkness for the Children of Haiti

Megan Boudreaux · Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

It took months of God waking me up in the middle of the night before I realized I was the one He was calling to leave my comfortable American life and move to Haiti.Miracle on Voodoo Mountain is the inspirational memoir of an accomplished and driven 24-year old who quit her job, sold everything,...
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Choosing Donald Trump: God, Anger, Hope, and Why Christian Conservatives Supported Him

Stephen Mansfield · Baker Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

The 2016 election of Donald J. Trump exposed a deep divide in American politics and culture, one that pollsters and pundits didn't seem to realize was there. But Trump did, and he used it to his advantage in ways that surprised nearly everyone, even those who voted for him. Perhaps the biggest...
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Introduction to Islam

Tariq Ramadan · Oxford University Press
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Whether the issue is violence, terrorism, women's rights, or slavery, Muslims today are expected to provide answers and to justify what Islam is-or is not. But little opportunity exists, either in the media or in society as a whole, to describe Islam. In simple, direct language, An Introduction...
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Infinity in Christ

Ivy Oppan · WestBow Press
Pages: 112
Format: Print book

This book contains true revelations and manifestations of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, which was to be spoken to all humanity.
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Be the Best Mom You Can Be: A Practical Guide to Raising Whole Children in a Broken Generation

Marina Slayton · Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

What if you could sit down with a wise, experienced mom--someone who has dealt with her child being bullied, who has seen the impact of permissiveness, who has been forced to depend on God for every single day, and still talks with grace and compassion?Through many years of tested faith,...
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Here Are Your Answers Vol.3

Flower Arlene Sechler Newhouse · The Christward Ministry
Format: Hardcover

Written by the insightful mystic Flower A. Newhouse, these three volumes offer questions and answers on a wide range of subjects for the sincere truth-seeker. Topics include Angels, Inner Planes, spiritual growth, health, karma, and prayer.
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Wisdom from Women in the Bible: Giants of the Faith Speak into Our Lives

John C. Maxwell · FaithWords
Format: Hardcover

If you could spend a few minutes with biblical heroines Ruth, Sarah, Mary, and others, what valuable lessons would they share with you? In the tradition of Running with the Giants and Learning from the Giants, John Maxwell shares wisdom on life and leadership inspired by the Bible-this...
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How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee

Bart D. Ehrman · HarperOne; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesuss divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early church.The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples believed...
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Common Ground: Lessons and Legends from the World’s Great Faiths

Todd Outcalt · Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover

As the spice maker’s cabinet is full of many herbs, so should a scholar be full of Scripture, Talmud, and Legend—an ancient Jewish proverbThis reference to legend—or the teaching tales used by the sages—is a remarkable testimony to the power of story and its place in the history,...
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