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Creation regained Creation regained Albert M. Wolters In print for two decades and translated into eight languages, Albert Wolters's classic formulation of an integrated Christian worldview has been revised and expanded to reach new readers beyond the g… OL120906W
Confessions Confessions Augustine of Hippo Garry Wills’s complete translation of Saint Augustine’s spiritual masterpiece—available now for the first time Garry Wills is an exceptionally gifted translator and one of our best writers on religio… OL137872W
House of dolls House of dolls Francesca Lia Block In a little house from another time, with lace curtains in every window and paintings hung in gold doily frames, Wildflower, Rockstar, and Miss Selene live a warm and cozy life. They wear fancy dress… OL14925040W
Brief Lives Brief Lives Neil Gaiman An attempt to summon and imprison Death, results, instead, in the capture of Morpheus, the Sandman, who must regain the tools of his powers. OL14975235W
The Way Home The Way Home George P. Pelecanos Christopher Flynn is trying to get it right. After years of trouble and rebellion that enraged his father and nearly cost him his life, he has a steady job in his father's company, he's seriously dat… OL15164716W
Stealing Fatima Stealing Fatima Frank Gaspar Father Manny's nightly ritual of gin, pills and prayer is interrupted by the sudden appearance of an long-lost childhood friend who describes his recurring visits from the Virgin Mary, in this story … OL15468938W
Finding Her Way Home Finding Her Way Home Linda Goodnight Welcome To Redemption, Oklahoma The idyllic little town Cheyenne Rhodes has chosen for her fresh start is almost *too* welcoming. After all, she's come here to hide from her past--not to make new … OL15836277W
Calico Joe Calico Joe John Grisham Review Written by Bernie Weisz, Historian Pembroke Pines, Florida, U.S.A. September 30, 2012 Contact: [email protected] Title of Review: The Code of Baseball, A Ruined Childhood & A Trip Down Memory L… OL16628377W
The shepherd's bride The shepherd's bride Patricia Davids Shunned by the Amish community, shepherd Carl King has given up on his dream for a family. Yet, when captivating Lizzie Barkman shows up at the sheep farm where he works, Carl sees the wife he once d… OL17794933W
Wolf Creek homecoming Wolf Creek homecoming Penny Richards "Gabe Gentry used to live entirely in pursuit of carefree pleasure. It cost him his relationship with his brother, and with the one woman who believed in him. Now, with newfound faith, he's coming ho… OL17796164W
Time of the locust Time of the locust Morowa Yejide ". . . A novel about an autistic boy whose drawings represent something much deeper than even the doctors who study can grasp; his father, serving 25 to life for murder; his mother, trying to hold he… OL17879796W
The redemption The redemption Stephen T. Davis,Daniel Kendall,Gerald O'Collins "Twenty-four scholars from different universities, churches, and continents have worked on this book - a volume on the central Christian belief: the redemption of human beings through Jesus Christ"--… OL18205435W
The masterpiece The masterpiece Francine Rivers Struggling to make a home for herself and her five-month-old son Samuel, Grace Moore accepts a position as a personal assistant to Roman Velasco, a temperamental but successful artist. "A successf… OL19730225W
The further adventures of Ebenezer Scrooge The further adventures of Ebenezer Scrooge Charles C. Lovett A sequel to "A Christmas Carol" set twenty years after Scrooge's famous reformation finds him teaming up with a returning cast of ghosts to help the restless spirit of Jacob Marley make amends to vic… OL20010449W
The dinner party and other stories The dinner party and other stories Joshua Ferris These eleven stories by Joshua Ferris, many of which were first published in The New Yorker, are at once thrilling, strange, and comic. The modern tribulations of marriage, ambition, and the fear of … OL20054894W
Thinking about God's love Thinking about God's love Lorraine Cavanagh There are many people who are put off Christianity by the way the doctrines of atonement and redemption are communicated. People find it hard to believe in a loving God who appears at the same time t… OL20974812W
Between these walls Between these walls John Herrick "Hunter is a Christian. Hunter is the man next door. Hunter Carlisle is gay. At 26 years old, Hunter Carlisle has a successful sales career, a devoted girlfriend, and rock-solid faith. He also guards… OL21767885W
Judaica 5 Judaica 5 Gershon Scholem Zwanzig Jahre vor dem monumentalen Sabbatai Zwi, dessen deutsche Erstausgabe 1922 im Jüdischen Verlag erschienen ist, erschütterte Gersholm Scholem 1937 mit seinem Aufsatz Erlösung durch Sünde die tr… OL24235839W
Radicals Radicals Donna Howell Throughout time, when it seemed mankind was slipping irrevocably into ungodly decay from which the world might never recover, God did something unexpected and released a fresh wind of His presence th… OL24294468W
A Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol Timothy Krause <p>This version of the classic holiday story has been slightly abridged and lightly adapted for advanced students of English language. The text includes comprehension checks, discussion questions, an… OL27777816W
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