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A Gift of Hope
How We Survive Our Tragedies
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Tragedy is a part of life, it is a part of the human mystery which we all must face. A Gift of Hope is a moving, beautifully written book that will give you the understanding and the self-assurance to overcome the anger and the loneliness, the suffering and the pain of your own personal travail: the...
Vienna Nocturne
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
In the tradition of Paula McLain’s The Paris Wife and Laura Moriarty’s The Chaperone comes a sweeping historical love story and a portrait of an age. Vienna Nocturne is a deeply moving debut novel that brings to life two extraordinary figures—a thirty-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and a young...
The Opposite of Worry
The Playful Parenting Approach to Childhood Anxieties and Fears
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
“The most helpful book on childhood anxiety I have ever read.”—Michael Thompson, Ph.D.
Whether it’s the monster in the closet or the fear that arises from new social situations, school, or sports, anxiety can be especially challenging and maddening for children. And since anxiety has a...
The Battle for God
A History of Fundamentalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Karen Armstrong's Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life.
In the late twentieth century, fundamentalism has emerged as one of the most powerful forces at work in the world, contesting the dominance of modern secular values and threatening peace and...
In the Beginning
A New Interpretation of Genesis
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
“Karen Armstrong is a genius.”—A. N. Wilson
As the foundation stone of the Jewish and Christian scriptures, The Book of Genesis unfolds some of the most arresting stories of world literature—the Creation; Adam and Eve; Cain and Abel; the sacrifice of Isaac. Yet the meaning of Genesis...
The Mill River Recluse
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
The sensational New York Times bestseller The Mill River Recluse reminds us that friendship, family, and love can come from the most unexpected places. Perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy.
From the outside, Mill River looks like any sleepy little Vermont town where everyone knows everyone and...
Take This Bread
A Radical Conversion
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
“Mine is a personal story of an unexpected and terribly inconvenient Christian conversion, told by a very unlikely convert.”
–Sara Miles
Raised as an atheist, Sara Miles lived an enthusiastically secular life as a restaurant cook and a writer. Then early one winter morning, for no earthly...
by Og Mandino
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
"A very special story about life and love and courage."
MERLIN OLSEN, SPORTSCASTER
John Harding had a high-powered career, a loving wife, and a beautiful son. He's lost it all and has returned to his home town of Boland, New Hampshire, teetering on the brink of suicide. But an old friend...
The Good Enough Catholic
A Guide for the Perplexed
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Many Catholics face a dilemma: how can one be faithful to traditions, yet remain open to new discoveries, both about yourself and Catholicism?
In The Good Enough Catholic, Paul Wilkes plumbs the hunger in Catholic souls for a relationship with God and a spiritual life, and boldly confronts...
To Begin Again
The Journey Toward Comfort, Strength, and Faith in Difficult Times
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
To Begin Again signals the arrival of an important new voice. In words that are as wise as they are comforting and as universal as they are specific, Rabbi Naomi Levy tells us how to survive, emotionally and spiritually, when we feel overwhelmed by grief, loss, or life itself. Her book provides a...
by Jan Price
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
"I saw and felt the most beautiful luminous blue. I was serene, tranquil, free, and could happily have stayed there forever."
Jan Price was destined not to linger in paradise but to return to the physical world and the body she had left behind during a nearly fatal heart attack.
This book...
Feed Me!
Writers Dish About Food, Eating, Weight, and Body Image
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
In our appearance-obsessed society, eating is about much more than hunger and sustenance. Food inspires pleasure and anxiety, shame and obsession. We are constantly judged on how we look, so we’ve come to judge ourselves (and others) on what and how we eat.
Joyce Maynard writes about learning...
How I Pray
People of Different Religions Share with Us That Most Sacred and Intimate Act of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Religion writer Jim Castelli set out to answer these profound questions by talking with twenty-six spiritual leaders and practitioners representing the wide spectrum of faith in America today. How I Pray gathers these remarkable conversations into a thought-provoking, personal, and deeply meaningful...
In Search of Mary
The Woman and the Symbol
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Mary--relic of the religious past or beacon of the future?
Mary is more alive today than she was in the early Christian church, surfacing in art and worship in almost every culture on earth. Her appeal bridges the gap between the devotional and the secular, the uneducated and the sophisticated. But...