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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

Lawrence Wright · Vintage

National Book Award Finalist A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current...
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12 Days of Christmas With Six Sisters' Stuff: Recipes, Traditions, Homemade Gifts, and So Much More

Six Sisters' Stuff · Shadow Mountain

Overflowing with creative ideas for the holidays, 12 Days of Christmas with Six Sisters Stuff includes dozens of recipes, projects, and ideas for bringing the excitement of the season into your home. With full-color photographs and easy-to-follow instructions, you will find 12 Family Traditions,...
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The Handy Bible Answer Book

Jennifer R. Prince · Visible Ink Press
Pages: 420
Format: Paperback

Get More from the BibleThe Bible is a beloved text owned by nearly all Americans. It's probably on your reading list, but it can be a daunting work to master. The Handy Bible Answer Book illuminates the secrets and reveals the wisdom of the Bible. Through easy-to-understand explanations...
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Vanishing Grace: What Ever Happened to the Good News?

Philip Yancey · Thomas Nelson Publishing
Format: Hardcover

"Why does the church stir up such negative feelings?" Philip Yancey has been asking this all his life as a journalist. His perennial question is more relevant now than ever: in a twenty-year span starting in the mid-nineties, research shows that favorable opinions of Christianity...
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Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair

Anne Lamott · Riverhead
Format: Kindle Edition

Publishers Weekly10/28/2013 Lamott's (Help, Thanks, Wow) latest inspirational title explores how we can find significance in the face of pain or disaster. Readers are guided by an older, wiser Lamott than we met 20 years ago, when Operating Instructions was published. This narrator...
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Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism

Karima Bennoune · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Eye-opening accounts of heroic resistance to religious extremism In Lahore Pakistan Faizan Peerzada resisted being relegated to a xCdark cornerxD by staging a performing arts festival despite bomb attacks In Senegal wheelchair-bound Aissatou CissxE produced a comic book to illustrate the injustices...
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