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Uncommon Marriage: Learning about Lasting Love and Overcoming Life's Obstacles Together

Tony Dungy - Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.,
Format: Print book

What does it take to build a marriage that will last? Tony and Lauren Dungy have together known the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. They fell in love, built a family, and made sports history when Tony became the first African American head coach to win the Super Bowl. Yet they've...
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Mandala Source Book: 150 Mandalas to Help You Find Peace, Awareness, and Well-being

David Fontana - Fair Winds Press (MA)
Format: Paperback

Mandalas are symbolic pictures used in meditation. They express through symbolism something innate in ourselves, and can lead us to new levels of peace and awareness. Within the pages of Mandala Source Book you will find 150 examples to use as motifs such as: the lotus, fire, animals, heavenly...
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The Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz

Jack Fairweather - Custom House
Format: Hardcover

"Superbly written and breathtakingly researched, The Volunteer smuggles us into Auschwitz and shows us - as if watching a movie - the story of a Polish agent who infiltrated the infamous camp, organized a rebellion, and then snuck back out. We are squarely confronted with the other...
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Making Sense of the Bible: Rediscovering the Power of Scripture Today

Adam Hamilton - HarperOne
Format: Paperback

Denominations from evangelical to mainline continue to experience deep divisions over universal social issues. The underlying debate isn't about a particular social issue, but instead it is about how we understand the nature of scripture and how we should interpret it. The world's...
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If I Had Lunch with C. S. Lewis: Exploring the Ideas of C. S. Lewis on the Meaning of Life

Alister McGrath - Tyndale House Publishers
Format: Hardcover

What if you could ask C. S. Lewis his thoughts on some of the most difficult questions of life? If you could, the result would be Dr. Alister McGrath's provocative and perceptive book, If I Had Lunch with C. S. Lewis. Best-selling author, prominent academic, and sought-after speaker,...
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The Artisan Soul: Crafting Your Life into a Work of Art

Erwin Raphael McManus - HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Format: Print book

In The Artisan Soul, Erwin Raphael McManus, author, thought leader, and founder of MOSAIC in Los Angeles, pens a manifesto for human creativity and the beginning of a new renaissance. McManus not only calls us to reclaim our creative essence, but reveals how we can craft our lives into...
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The Islam Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

DK - DK
Format: Hardcover

This comprehensive, accessible, and authenticated guide to Islam is essential to understanding the world's fastest-growing religion. This essential guide to Islam covers every aspect of the Muslim faith and its history - from the life of the Prophet Muhammad and the teachings of the Koran...
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Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance

Jeremy Eichler - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A stirring account of how music bears witness to history and carries forward the memory of the wartime past. In 1785, when the great German poet Friedrich Schiller penned his immortal "Ode to Joy," he crystallized the deepest hopes and dreams of the European Enlightenment for a new era of peace...
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War and Religion

Jeffrey M Shaw - ABC-CLIO
Format: Hardcover

This three-volume reference provides a complete guide for readers investigating the crucial interplay between war and religion from ancient times until today, enabling a deeper understanding of the role of religious wars across cultures.* Enables readers to explore the ongoing and important...
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Untangled: Walking the Eightfold Path to Clarity, Courage, and Compassion

Koshin Paley Ellison - Balance
Format: Hardcover

Though we are seemingly more connected to our world than ever before, many of us cannot ignore a nagging sense of loneliness and isolation. To keep this anxiety and discontentment at bay, we can search for connection through unhealthy distractions, believing these will bring us true nourishment....
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