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Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life

CALEB WILDE · HarperOne
Pages: 193
Format: Hardcover

The blogger behind Confessions of a Funeral Director - what Time magazine called a "must read" - reflects on mortality and the powerful lessons death holds for every one of us in this compassionate and thoughtful spiritual memoir that combines the humor and insight of Smoke...

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Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father

THOMAS S KIDD · Yale University Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A major new biography, illuminating the great mystery of Benjamin Franklin's faith

Renowned as a printer, scientist, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin also published more works on religious topics than any other eighteenth-century American layperson. Born to Boston Puritans, by his teenage...
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Seeing Beautiful Again: 50 Devotions to Find Redemption in Every Part of Your Story

Lysa TerKeurst · Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

In the middle of the pain you didn't cause, the change you didn't want, the reality you didn't know was coming . . . your life can still be beautiful. We all have stories full of sorrow and celebration because of situations we've faced. But with God, there's always more...
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Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope

Esau McCaulley · IVP Academic
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

Growing up in the American South, Esau McCaulley knew firsthand the ongoing struggle between despair and hope that marks the lives of some in the African American context. A key element in the fight for hope, he discovered, has long been the practice of Bible reading and interpretation...
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How to Graduate Debt Free: The Best Strategies to Pay for College #notgoingbroke

Kristina Ellis · Worthy Publishing
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Learn specific, effective strategies to avoid sinking into overwhelming debt while pursuing a career-advancing degree. Seventy percent of college students graduate with an average of nearly $30,000 in debt -- more than many college graduates make in their first year out of school. Motivated,...
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I Give Up: The Secret Joy of a Surrendered Life

Laura Story · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Most of us long to be in control - of our schedule, our relationships, and our future.

Newlywed Laura Story thought she had control over the great life ahead of her. After all, she followed Jesus and had a promising new job as a worship leader. Why would God not want to fulfill...

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NIV Study Bible, Fully Revised Edition, Large Print, Hardcover, Red Letter, Comfort Print

Zondervan · Zondervan; Large type / Large print edition
Format: Hardcover

Know what the Bible says. Understand why the Bible matters.Set in Zondervan's exclusive NIV Comfort Print® typeface, this stunning, full-color study Bible answers your pressing questions with just the right amount of information, placed in just the right location.With its decades-long...
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Just Pray

John F. Hannah · Charisma House
Format: Paperback

While prayer has not been a "hot" topic for many Christians, it is the most substantive course one could ever enroll in. I haven't met a person who didn't want to be better. I haven't spoken to an individual who didn't want to have the best job and the best spouse,...
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Contemplative Knitting

Julie Cicora · Morehouse Publishing
Format: Paperback

One third (53 million) of American women know how to knit, and knitting is becoming increasingly popular with men as well. Many of these knitters belong to social knitting circles, charity knitting groups, or knit with others in churches, cafes--and even in bars! This book shows how knitting...
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Wounded Shepherd: Pope Francis and His Struggle to Convert the Catholic Church

Austen Ivereigh · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Following his critically acclaimed The Great Reformer, Austen Ivereigh's colorful, clear-eyed portrait of Pope Francis takes us inside the Vatican's urgent debate over the future of the church in Wounded Shepherd.

This deeply contextual biography centers on the tensions...

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