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As My Parents Age: Reflections on Life, Love, and Change

Cynthia Ruchti - Worthy Inspired
Format: Hardcover

Insights and encouragement for readers who are struggling with the changes in their relationships with aging parents. For most of us it is not the ifs but the whens: when I notice the first signs; when we mourn the role reversal; when my children need me too; or when I don't know how to pray....
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I Love Growing Older, But I'll Never Grow Old

J Ellsworth Kalas - Abingdon Press
Format: Print book

Growing older is a process. Growing old is a conclusion. If you're growing older you see some hope because you have perspective and you keep learning. If you've grown old, you may cynically think that times have never been as bad as they are now, and that they can only get worse....
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A Bigger Table: Building Messy, Authentic, and Hopeful Spiritual Community

John Pavlovitz - Westminster John Knox Press
Format: Paperback

No one likes to eat alone; to approach a table filled with people, only to be told that despite the open chairs there isnt room for you. The rejection stings. It leaves a mark. Yet this is exactly what the church has been saying to far too many people for far too long: "Youre not welcome...
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Birthing Hope: Giving Fear to the Light

Rachel Marie Stone - IVP Books
Format: Paperback

"Love is always a risk, beginning with that first blood sacrifice: when a woman consents to nurture a child with her body and allow it to be torn open for the sake of new life: that's the miracle that saves the world. That's where fragile hope is found."While living and working...
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This Life I Live: One Man's Extraordinary, Ordinary Life and the Woman Who Changed It Forever

Rory Feek - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

The story she said he was born to write. Her story. His story. The love story of Joey and Rory. By inviting so many into the final months of Joey's life as she battled cancer, Joey and Rory Feek captured hearts around the world with how they handled the diagnosis; the inspiring, simple...
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Slow Work of God, The: Living the Gospel Today

Thomas P Rausch - Paulist Press
Format: Paperback

Designed for spiritual reading or retreats, these brief meditations on the Christian life holiness, silence, spirituality, the mystery of evil, the Beatitudes, the Paschal Mystery, reconciliation, holy families and the diversity of family life today, and the true self among others, are inspired...
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I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

ANNE BOGEL - Baker Books
Format: Hardcover

For so many people, reading isn't just a hobby or a way to pass the time--it's a lifestyle. Our books shape us, define us, enchant us, and even sometimes infuriate us. Our books are a part of who we are as people, and we can't imagine life without them.I'd Rather Be Reading...
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All But Normal: Life on Victory Road

Shawn Thornton - Tyndale House Publishers
Format: Print book

Growing up, Shawn Thornton's life was anything but normal -- but then, so was his mother.After waking from a coma following a car crash, Beverly Thornton's once sweet and gentle disposition had been replaced by violent mood swings, profanity-laced tirades, and uncontrollable fits...
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What Are We Doing Here?: Essays

Marilynne Robinson - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

New essays on theological, political, and contemporary themes, by the Pulitzer Prize winnerMarilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National...
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A History of the Church in 100 Objects

Mike Aquilina - Ave Maria Press
Format: Paperback

The star of Bethlehem exemplifies the birth of Jesus, the Wittenberg Door is synonymous with the Protestant Reformation, and "the pill" symbolizes the sexual revolution. It's "stuff" that helps tell the story of Christianity. In this unique, rich, and eye-catching...
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Not the Boss of Us: Putting Overwhelmed in Its Place in a Do-All, Be-All World

KAY WILLS WYMA - Revell
Format: Paperback

Too much to manage and not enough time or energy to do it? Join the club. Life is a pressure cooker and, more and more, being overwhelmed is just considered normal. But, truth be told, life's stresses and circumstances aren't the boss of us. What if we could take Overwhelmed and diffuse...
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The Untold Story: The Story of Adversity, Pain, and Resilience

Eddie L Long - Four Rivers Design
Format: Paperback

Apostle Eddie L. Long is known worldwide as a pioneering leader, revolutionary mind changer, a family man, and a caring and loving pastor. As a pioneering leader, Apostle Long is highly regarded for his vision, boldness, and unapologetic courage to walk in the supernatural. As a pastor,...
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The DIY Home Planner: Practical Tips and Inspiring Ideas to Decorate It Yourself

KariAnne Wood - Harvest House Publishers
Format: Paperback

Your Decorating Dreams Can Come True Welcome to the only house decorating journal you'll ever need. Come inside and make yourself comfortable. As you enter, you'll find encouragement and inspiration to get your decorating journey started, as well as helpful instructions on how to use this...
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The Turquoise Table: Finding Community and Connection in Your Own Front Yard

KRISTIN SCHELL - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

A simple way to connect your neighborhood, your community and build friendships. Are you consumed with a busy life but unsure how to slow down? Do you desire connection within your community and think, "Absolutely, but I don't have time for that" or "I can't create that"?...
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Higher Is Waiting

Tyler Perry - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover

An intimate book of inspiration by the one and only Tyler Perry - actor, producer, director, philanthropist, and the creator of Madea Higher Is Waiting is a spiritual guidebook, a collection of teachings culled from the experiences of a lifetime, meant to inspire readers to climb...
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On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books

KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR - Brazos Press
Format: Hardcover

Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue. Great literature increases knowledge of and desire for the good life by showing readers what virtue looks like and where vice leads. It is not just what one reads but how one reads that cultivates virtue. Reading...
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The True Jesus: Uncovering the Divinity of Christ in the Gospels

David Limbaugh - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover

David Limbaugh, the New York Times bestselling author of Jesus on Trial and The Emmaus Code, now approaches the question of Jesus Christ's divinity--In what sense was Jesus God? How do we know?--with the same precise, methodical form of enquiry he has employed in his career...
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The Year of Small Things: Radical Faith for the Rest of Us

Sarah Arthur - Brazos Press
Format: Print book

When Sarah and Tom Arthur were appointed to a suburban church after three years in an urban Christian community, they faced a unique challenge: how to translate the practices of "radical" faith into their new context. Together with their friends and fellow church members Erin...
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The Francis Effect: A Radical Pope's Challenge to the American Catholic Church

JOHN GEHRING - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback

The Francis Effect explores how a church once known as a towering force for social justice became known for a narrow agenda most closely aligned with one political party, and then looks at the opportunities for change in the "age of Francis." Pope Francis has become an unlikely...
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Frederick Douglass: America's Prophet

D H Dilbeck - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover

From his enslavement to freedom, Frederick Douglass was one of America's most extraordinary champions of liberty and equality. Throughout his long life, Douglass was also a man of profound religious conviction. In this concise and original biography, D. H. Dilbeck offers a provocative interpretation...
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Rethink Happiness: Dare to Embrace God and Experience True Joy

Paul George - Ave Maria Press
Format: Paperback

For more than twenty years, life coach and Steubenville speaker Paul George has helped fellow Catholics discover their purpose by searching themselves, reorganizing their priorities, and establishing a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. In his debut book, George invites you to pursue...
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This Child of Faith: Raising a Spiritual Being in a Secular World

Sophfronia Scott - Paraclete Press
Format: Paperback

Tain Gregory was present in his third grade classroom on the morning of December 14, 2012, the date of the Sandy Hook shootings. As part of the healing process for the community after the tragedy Tain was asked "What's the most important thing in the world to you?" His mother...
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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
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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Ready or Not: Leaning into Life in Our Twenties

Drew Moser - NavPress
Format: Paperback

Discerning a calling is a messy undertaking. You are already involved in many good things now, even as you are being called to many good things in your future. The good life -- good work, good relationships, good citizenship, good faith -- is to be enjoyed now and pursued on every horizon....
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Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies about Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be

Rachel Hollis - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERDo you ever suspect that everyone else has life figured out and you don't have a clue? If so, Rachel Hollis has something to tell you: that's a lie.As the founder of the lifestyle website TheChicSite.com and CEO of her own media company, Rachel Hollis developed...
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How to Live: What the Rule of St. Benedict Teaches Us About Happiness, Meaning, and Community

Judith Valente - Hampton Roads Publishing
Format: Paperback

The Rule of St. Benedict arose from an era when a great civilization was threatened by violence, economic forces that favored the wealthy, political leaders that lacked the trust of the public, and rampant xenophobia. Similar to the anxieties and frustrations of the 6th century, we are living...
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Convicted: A Crooked Cop, an Innocent Man, and an Unlikely Journey of Forgiveness and Friendship

JAMEEL ZOOKIE MCGEE - WaterBrook
Format: Hardcover

Jameel McGee: "For the next three years not a day went by that I didn't think about my son who I had never seen and the cop who had kept me from him. And for most of those three years I promised myself that if I ever saw this cop again, I was going to kill him. I intended to keep...
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The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America

Frances FitzGerald - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"A page turner ... We have long needed a fair-minded overview of this vitally important religious sensibility, and FitzGerald has now provided it." - The New York Times Book Review "Massively learned and electrifying ... magisterial." - The Christian Science...
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Dangerous Good: The Coming Revolution of Men Who Care

KENNY LUCK - NavPress
Format: Paperback

It's time to wake the sleeping giant in our world, in our communities, in our churches, and in our homes.There's a revolution brewing, a sleeping giant coming out of a long slumber. For years men have been sitting to the side, minding their own business, nursing their own wounds....
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Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America

Jack Barsky - Tyndale Momentum
Format: Print book

One decision can end everything . . . or lead to unlikely redemption.Millions watched the CBS 60 Minutes special on Jack Barsky in 2015. Now, in this fascinating memoir, the Soviet KGB agent tells his story of gut-wrenching choices, appalling betrayals, his turbulent inner world,...
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Healing the Soul of a Woman: How to Overcome Your Emotional Wounds

Joyce Meyer - FaithWords
Format: Hardcover

Internationally renowned Bible teacher Joyce Meyer draws on her own history of abuse to show women how Christ's redeeming love heals emotional wounds and brings joy to life.Can a woman who has been deeply hurt by life's circumstances be healed, heart and soul? If she has been wounded by a man she loved...
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Like Me or Not: Overcoming Approval Addiction

Dawn Owens - Worthy Publishing
Format: Paperback

Everyone craves approval, but when that desire becomes an addiction where nothing is ever good enough, it is time to step off the hamster wheel of people pleasing and seek the only approval you really need -- God's. There is a difference between being someone other people like and being...
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Christian: The Politics of a Word in America

Matthew Burton Bowman - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover

Religious diversity has long been a defining feature of the United States. But what may be even more remarkable than the sheer range of faiths is the diversity of political visions embedded in those religious traditions. Matthew Bowman delves into the ongoing struggle over the potent word...
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The Women of Easter: Encounter the Savior with Mary of Bethany, Mary of Nazareth, and Mary Magdalene

Liz Curtis Higgs - Waterbrook Pr
Format: Print book

Prepare for a life-changing encounter with Jesus, seeing him afresh through the eyes of three women who worship and adore him. Mary of Bethany prepares the way for the Lord's burial when she anoints his feet and fills the air with her perfume. His mother, Mary of Nazareth, stands by her son from...
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Costly Grace: An Evangelical Minister's Rediscovery of Faith, Hope, and Love

ROBERT SCHENCK - Harper
Format: Hardcover

A leading American evangelical minister - whom public figures long turned to for guidance in faith and politics - recounts his three conversions, from childhood Jewish roots to Christianity, from a pure faith to a highly politicized one, and from the religious right to the simplicity of Jesus'...
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Holy Rover: Journeys in Search of Mystery, Miracles, and God

Lori Erickson - Fortress Press
Format: Hardcover

"Whether describing mystical visions or the rhythms of everyday life, Erickson turns the spiritual journey into a series of exciting transformations." Publishers Weekly (starred review) From her childhood on an Iowa farm, Lori Erickson grew up to travel the world as a writer...
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The Chamberlain Key: Unlocking the Biblical Code That Proves the Existence of God

Timothy P Smith - WaterBrook
Format: Hardcover

Imagine you are a young, ambitious, successful appraiser of artifacts and antiquities - your services in demand by many of the most powerful individuals and branches of government in Washington, D. C. Your future could not seem brighter - except for a troubling dream...with the same mysterious...
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Approaching the End of Life: A Practical and Spiritual Guide

Donna Schaper - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback

In her more than forty years as a minister, Rev. Donna Schaper has been approached hundreds of times by people wanting to know how to prepare for the end of life in both practical and spiritual matters. Countless others have turned to her for guidance on how to handle the death of a loved...
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Seize the Day: Living on Purpose and Making Every Day Count

Joyce Meyer - FaithWords
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer shares a purposeful approach to everyday living, helping readers claim the good things God has in store for them each day. Today is no ordinary day. You may perform simple routines, feel uninspired, or lack the excitement of hope....
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Lessons in Hope: My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II

George Weigel - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A preeminent authority on the Catholic Church and papal biographer describes what he learned from chronicling the life of Pope John Paul IIIn Lessons in Hope, George Weigel tells the story of his unique friendship with St. John Paul II. As Weigel learns the pope "from inside,"...
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A Path Revealed: How Hope, Love and Joy Found Us Deep in a Maze Called Alzheimer's

Carlen Maddux - Paraclete Press Inc.
Format: Print book

A Path Revealed is the story about a young family's sudden shift from a comfortable, middle-class American life into an alien world shaped and defined by Alzheimer's disease. Just days after turning 50, Martha Maddux was hit with this diagnosis. The news devastated her and husband...
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Is This the End?: Signs of God's Providence in a Disturbing New World

David Jeremiah - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

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. What on earth is happening? After each new occurrence, the most oft-heard questions are,...
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The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist

Marcus Rediker - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of lifeThe Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing man - a Quaker dwarf who became one of the first ever...
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The Four Last Things: A Catechetical Guide to Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell

NOT AVAILABLE. - EWTN Publishing, Inc.
Format: Paperback

Few things in this earthly life are absolutely certain, but the most undebatable of these is death. Every person, even the atheist, will admit that death is certain. Death, however, is not the last event in this life of ours. Immediately after death, we shall be judged and then again on the Day of Judgment...
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Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World

Eric Metaxas - Viking
Format: Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas comes a brilliant and inspiring biography of the most influential man in modern history, Martin Luther, in time for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation On All Hallow's Eve in 1517, a young monk named Martin Luther posted...
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I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

AUSTIN CHANNING BROWN - Convergent Books
Format: Hardcover

From a powerful new voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female in middle-class white America. Austin Channing Brown's first encounter with a racialized America came at age 7, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to deceive future...
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Think Better, Live Better: A Victorious Life Begins in Your Mind

Joel Osteen - FaithWords
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author Joel Osteen shares how reprogramming your thoughts to remove negativity will lead to a more blessed, fulfilled life. Your mind has incredible power over your success or failure. THINK BETTER, LIVE BETTER offers a simple yet life-changing strategy for erasing the thoughts...
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Going Solo: Hope and Healing for the Single Mom or Dad

Robert Beeson - Focus on the Family
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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Unified: How Our Unlikely Friendship Gives Us Hope for a Divided Country

Tim Scott - Tyndale Momentum
Format: Hardcover

In a divided country desperate for unity, two sons of South Carolina show how different races, life experiences, and pathways can lead to a deep friendship -- even in a state that was rocked to its core by the 2015 Charleston church shooting.Tim Scott, an African-American US senator, and Trey...
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The Evangelicals You Don't Know: Introducing the Next Generation of Christians

Tom Krattenmaker - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback

So you have a problem with evangelical Christians? Which ones? These are the provocative questions Tom Krattenmaker poses to his fellow progressives in The Evangelicals You Don't Know. He challenges stereotypes about evangelical Christians and introduces readers to a movement of "new...
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Mindfulness and Christian Spirituality: Making Space for God

Tim Stead - Westminster John Knox Press
Format: Paperback

The spiritual practice of mindfulness has continued to gain popularity throughout the years. But what exactly does this practice offer to Christians? In Mindfulness and Christian Spirituality, Tim Stead explores how practicing mindfulness can help Christians better live out their faith....
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Your Comeback: Your Past Doesn't Have to Determine Your Future

Tony Evans - Harvest House Publishers
Format: Paperback

Do You Feel Like You're 31 Points Behind at Halftime? If you believe you've fallen too far or experienced too much defeat to ever be used in mighty ways by God, you need a glimpse of real hope. Tony Evans throws open the windows to show you the glorious truth reflected all through...
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Lies Men Believe: And the Truth that Sets Them Free

ROBERT WOLGEMUTH - Moody Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Have you fallen for the enemy's lies?Our enemy may prowl around like a roaring lion, but his weapon of choice is deception. And whether we care to admit it or not, we believe him ... a lot. These lies cause us to feel pain, lose or injure relationships, and miss out on the abundant...
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Pilgrimage: My Search for the Real Pope Francis

Mark Shriver - Random House
Format: Print book

A down-to-earth and deeply intimate portrait of Pope Francis and his faith, based on interviews with the men and women who knew him simply as Jorge Mario Bergoglio Early on the evening of March 13, 2013, the newly elected Pope Francis stepped out onto the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica...
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I Will Not Fear: My Story of a Lifetime of Building Faith under Fire

Melba Pattillo Beals - Revell
Format: Hardcover

In 1957, Melba Beals was one of the nine African American students chosen to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. But her story of overcoming didn't start--or end--there. While her white schoolmates were planning their senior prom, Melba was facing the business end of a double-barreled...
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Staying Stylish: Cultivating a Confident Look, Style, and Attitude

Candace Cameron Bure - Zondervan
Format: Hardcover

Candace Cameron Bure, best known as D.J. Tanner from Full House and Fuller House and a New York Times bestselling author, whose faith and wit have delighted audiences for decades, lets you in on her best-kept secrets for Staying Stylish. This gorgeous manual for beauty, style, health, and spiritual...
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Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

RACHEL HELD EVANS - Thomas Nelson
Format: Paperback

If the Bible isn't a science book, instruction manual, or position paper, then what is it? New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans invites readers on a journey of rediscovery as she explores the magic of the Bible, engaging the old, familiar stories in new ways that honor the past...
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Wait and See: Finding Peace in Gods Pauses and Plans

Wendy Pope - David C Cook
Format: Paperback

Every woman struggles with times of waiting - for a spouse, a child, a job. In Wait and See, Wendy Pope guides readers to focus on the Person of their faith rather than the object of their wait. Pope draws on the story of King David, who was anointed king nearly twenty years before he took...
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I'd Like You More If You Were More Like Me: Getting Real about Getting Close

John Ortberg - Tyndale Momentum
Format: Hardcover

I'd Like You More if You Were More like Me takes on one of life's most important questions: How can I get closer to God and other people?We were created for deep connections. When people have deep connections, says John Ortberg, they win in life. When they don't have deep connections,...
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The Forgotten Creed: Christianity's Original Struggle against Bigotry, Slavery, and Sexism

Stephen J. Patterson - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

Long before the followers of Jesus declared him to be the Son of God, Jesus taught his followers that they too were the children of God. This ancient creed, now all but forgotten, is recorded still within the folds of a letter of Paul the Apostle. Paul did not create this creed, nor did he fully...
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Spread Too Thin: Opting Out of Frantic Living. Opting In to Lasting Peace

Ellen Miller - Tyndale Momentum
Format: Paperback

You know the drill. Somebody asks, "How are you?" and you respond automatically: "Crazy busy!" "I'm exhausted!" "Running too fast."And it's no wonder! Between the breakneck speed of your job, the one million family activities on the calendar,...
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Please Be Patient, I'm Grieving: How to Care For and Support the Grieving Heart

Gary Roe - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback

Please Be Patient, I'm Grieving is a 2016 Best Book Awards FinalistLoss hurts. It's tough to go through, and painful to watch.Do you know someone who's grieving and wish you could help?Are you the one grieving and wonder if what you're going through is normal? Do you wish...
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Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

KATE BOWLER - Random House
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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Reading People: How Seeing the World through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything

Anne Bogel - Baker Books
Format: Paperback

If the viral Buzzfeed-style personality quizzes are any indication, we are collectively obsessed with the idea of defining and knowing ourselves and our unique place in the world. But what we're finding is this: knowing which Harry Potter character you are is easy, but actually knowing...
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Mercy: Life in the Season of Dying

Peter Roebbelen - Paraclete Press
Format: Paperback

In this Tuesdays with Morrie-type book, a pastor reveals lessons for living he's learned from the dying. What would you do with your life, if you knew it was going to end soon? Mercy is a pastor's recording of the life lessons he's discovered as a result of sitting at the bedsides...
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Penned Without Ink - Trusting God to Write Your Story

Sarah Lynn Phillips - Straight Street Books
Format: Paperback

With a near-fatal car crash resulting in trauma, uncertainty, and life-long limitations, Penned Without Ink: Trusting God to Write Your Story will draw you into the true story of one family's journey of faith. The experiences shared within the pages of this book will lead you to sit beside...
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God's Challenge for Dads: A 90-Day Devotional Experiencing God's Truths

Eric Ballard - Good Books
Format: Paperback

Have you gotten comfortable -- maybe even complacent -- in your spiritual life? Maybe you can check off all the right boxes -- going to church, reading your Bible, praying before meals. Maybe you even lead a small group or serve as a deacon and tithe regularly. But when was the last time...
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A Midwife in Amish Country: Celebrating God's Gift of Life

Kim Woodard Osterholzer - Regnery Faith
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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Vesper Time: The Spiritual Practice of Growing Older

Frank J Cunningham - Orbis Books
Format: Paperback

With a Foreword by Joyce Rupp"Reading Vesper Time is like taking a long walk with a wise but down to earth friend. Relax with this book. It will nourish your tired soul." --Robert WicksNoted Catholic editor and publisher Frank Cunningham shows how growing old -- all by itself...
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The More of Less: Finding the Life You Want Under Everything You Own

Joshua Becker - WaterBrook Press
Format: Print book

Don't Settle for More Most of us know we own too much stuff. We feel the weight and burden of our clutter, and we tire of cleaning and managing and organizing. While excess consumption leads to bigger houses, faster cars, fancier technology, and cluttered homes, it never brings happiness....
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The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids

SARAH MACKENZIE - Zondervan
Format: Paperback

Connecting deeply with our kids can be difficult in our busy, technology-driven lives. Reading aloud offers us a chance to be fully present with our children. It also increases our kids' academic success, inspires compassion, and fortifies them with the inner strength they need to face...
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Unshakeable Trust: Find the Joy of Trusting God at All Times, in All Things

Joyce Meyer - FaithWords
Format: Hardcover

In her new book, New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer explores a life lived in complete and total dependence on God. Drawing on her own experiences and inspiration from the Word of God, Joyce makes the case that in every area of your life--spiritually, relationally, emotionally,...
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Everybody Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People

Bob Goff - ‎Nelson Books; 1st edition
Format: Paperback

What if we stopped avoiding the difficult people in our lives and committed to simply loving everybody? What happens when we give away love like were made of it? In Everybody, Always

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Madison Park: A Place of Hope

Eric L. Motley - Zondervan
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to Madison Park, a small community in Alabama founded by freed slaves in 1880. And meet Eric Motley, a native son who came of age in this remarkable place where constant lessons in self-determination, hope, and unceasing belief in the American dream taught him everything he needed...
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Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks

Diana Butler Bass - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

The author of the multiple award-winning Grounded and leading trend spotter in contemporary Christianity explores why gratitude is missing as a modern spiritual practice, offers practical suggestions for reclaiming it, and illuminates how the shared practice of gratitude can lead to greater...
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Of Mess and Moxie: Wrangling Delight Out of This Wild and Glorious Life

Jen Hatmaker - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

Life is messy for each of us. But Jen Hatmaker reminds us that its okay to admit that were all in the same boat. Join New York Times bestselling author and honorary big sister Jen as she shares hilarious tales, shameless honesty, and unconditional hope for the woman whos forgotten her moxie.We...
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My Journey Of Faith: An Encounter with Christ: And how He used me to spread His love to the poor.

Charles Mulli - Castle Quay Books
Format: Paperback

At six years old Charles Mulli woke up one morning in his poor Kenyan hut to find he had been completely abandoned by both parents. All alone he fell into a life of abject poverty, forcing Mulli to wander from hut to hut begging for food for his very survival, unable even to attend school....
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God, Improv, and the Art of Living

MaryAnn McKibben Dana - Eerdmans
Format: Hardcover

We are all improvisers!The principle of "yes, and . . ." in improvisational theater has produced a lot of great comedy. But it also offers an invigorating approach to life in general, and the spiritual life in particular. From Moses to Ruth to Jesus, scripture is full of people...
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More Than Just Making It: Hope for the Heart of the Financially Frustrated

ERIN ODOM - Zondervan
Format: Paperback

When you're trapped in a cycle of financial frustration, and you feel like you've tried everything only to end up with more month than money yet again, More Than Just Making It is your promise and pathway to thriving again.Take it from someone who's been there. Erin Odom grew...
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Gracious Uncertainty: Faith in the Second Half of Life

Jane Sigloh - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback

Gracious Uncertainty: Faith in the Second Half of Life reflects on issues that concern everyone but intensify as we grow older - loving more fully, dealing with loss, finding consolation, and having the courage to gaze (even while shaking inwardly) at the nearing reality of death. Author...
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Lies We Believe About God

Wm Paul Young - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the twenty million plus copy bestselling novel The Shack and the New York Times bestsellers Cross Roads and Eve comes a compelling, conversational exploration of the wrong-headed ideas we sometimes have and share about God.Wm. Paul Young has been...
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God's Answer to the Growing Crisis: A Bold Call to Action in the End Times

Mike Bickle - Charisma House
Format: Paperback

The dramatic shifts seen over the last few years - from economic to political to moral to beyond - have set the stage for a crisis that will affect every sphere of society. But this crisis isn't just looming in the United States; all of humanity is at a crossroads like never before....
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