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The New Parish: How Neighborhood Churches Are Transforming Mission, Discipleship and CommunityChristianity Today Award of Merit Readers' Choice Awards Honorable Mention Best Books About the Church from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore "When . . . faith communities begin connecting together, in and for the neighborhood, they learn to depend on God for strength...
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A Peculiar People: The Church as Culture in a Post-Christian SocietyChristians feel increasingly useless, argues Rodney Clapp, not because we have nothing to offer a post-Christian society, but because we are trying to serve as "sponsoring chaplains" to a civilization that no longer sees Christianity as necessary to its existence. In our individualistic, technologically...
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Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the SouthNew York Times Best Seller 2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition 2015 Lillian Smith Book Award 2015 AAUP Books Committee "Outstanding" Title Based on more than eighty interviews, this fast-paced, richly detailed biography of Perry Wallace, the first African American basketball player in the...
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Leaving TinkertownWhen Tanya Ward Goodman came home to New Mexico to visit her dad at the end of 1996, he was fifty-five years old and just beginning to show symptoms of the Alzheimer's disease that would kill him six years later. Early onset dementia is...
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Children of Time: Evolution and the Human StoryAncient relics--stone tools, bones, footprints, and even DNA--offer many clues about our human ancestors and how they lived. At the same time, our kinship with our human ancestors lies as much in their sense of humor, their interactions with others, their curiosity and their...
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Open IntervalDrawing upon intersections of astronomy and mathematics, history, literature, and lived experience, the poems in Open Interval locate the self in the interval between body and name.Author: Lyrae Van Clief-StefanonPublisher: University of Pittsburgh PressPublished: 04/10/2009Pages: 72Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.70h x 6.00w x 0.40dISBN:...
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Closet Devotions - PBReligion and sex, body and soul, sacred and profane: In Closet Devotions, Richard Rambuss traces the relays between these cultural formations by examining the issue of "sacred eroticism," the literary or artistic expression of devotional feelings in erotic terms that has repeatedly occurred over...
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Yamasaki in Detroit: A Search for SerenityAlthough his best-known project was the World Trade Center in New York City, Japanese American architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912-1986) worked to create moments of surprise, serenity, and delight in distinctive buildings around the world. In his adopted home of Detroit, where he lived and...
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A Sweet PassoverIn this charming and humorous story, Miriam discovers--with the help of her family and a little matzah bread--the true meaning and importance of Passover. Miriam loves spending time with her family during Passover, and all week long she is happy to eat lots of...
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Like Pickle Juice on a CookieI had a bad August. A very bad August. As bad as pickle juice on a cookie. As bad as a spider web on your leg. As bad as the black parts on a banana.I hope your August was better. I really do. When...
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Nurse, Soldier, Spy: The Story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War HeroA thrilling picture book biography of Civil War soldier Sarah Emma Edmonds, from award-winning creators Marissa Moss and John Hendrix When Frank Thompson sees a recruitment poster for the new Union army, he's ready and willing to enlist. Except Frank isn't his real name....
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HereditiesIn his award-winning first book, J. Michael Martinez reenvisions Latino poetics and its current conceptions of cultural identity. In Heredities, he opens a historically ravaged continental body through a metaphysical dissection into Being and silence. The hand manipulates a surgical etymology through the spine:...
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When Money Grew on Trees: A. B. Hammond and the Age of the Timber BaronBorn in the timber colony of New Brunswick, Maine, in 1848, Andrew Benoni Hammond got off to an inauspicious start as a teenage lumberjack. By his death in 1934, Hammond had built an empire of wood that stretched from Puget Sound to Arizona--and in...
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Cherokee Syllabary: Writing the People's PerserveranceIn 1821, Sequoyah, a Cherokee metalworker and inventor, introduced a writing system that he had been developing for more than a decade. His creation-the Cherokee syllabary-helped his people learn to read and write within five years and became a principal part of their identity....
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Alternative Oklahoma: Contrarian Views of the Sooner StateHow many of us really know every side to Oklahoma's past and present?In this companion to his previous volume, "An Oklahoma I Had Never Seen Before," Davis D. Joyce presents fourteen essays that interpret Oklahoma's unique populist past and address current political and social...
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Traveling Route 661926. Gas is 17 a gallon. Haircuts are 25 cents. And U.S. Route 66--two thousand miles of road and concrete--connects Chicago with Los Angeles, making long-distance travel a reality for millions of Americans. Often called America's Main Street, this famous highway played a key...
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K Is for Killer: A Kinsey Millhone NovelLorna Kepler was beautiful and willful, a loner who couldn't resist flirting with danger. Maybe that's what killed her. Her death had raised a host of tough questions. The cops suspected homicide, but they could find neither motive nor suspect. Even the means were...
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Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail MovementThe story of the American Quilt Trail, featuring the colorful patterns of quilt squares painted large on barns throughout North America, is the story of one of the fastest-growing grassroots public arts movements in the United States and Canada. In Barn Quilts and the...
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Wild Idea: Buffalo and Family in a Difficult LandFor more than forty years the prairies of South Dakota have been Dan O'Brien's home. Working as a writer and an endangered-species biologist, he became convinced that returning grass-fed, free-roaming buffalo to the grasslands of the northern plains would return natural balance to the...
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I Told Me So: Self-Deception and the Christian LifeThink you've ever deceived yourself? Then this book is for you. Think you've never deceived yourself? Then this book is really for you. Author: Gregg A. Ten ElshofPublisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing CompanyPublished: 06/01/2009Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.50dISBN: 9780802864116Award:...
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