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Paperback. Zustand: Good. This book will introduce the John 17 experience and journey. A journey that began with a Pentecostal leader, Joe Tosini, and has since included Church leaders across the United States in a spirit of deep communion. This experience has included two personal and profound meetings with Pope Francis, each over two hours long, and more that forty Church leaders from the Evangelical, Pentecostal, and Catholic worlds. Those encounters have then been repeated locally in Arizona, Oregon, Texas, and New York. It is a movement led by the spirit that is not so much about ecumenical dialogue as a communion of friendship and love, as asked for by Jesus in John 17.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Poetry. Latinx Studies. Illustrations by Nereida Garcia Ferraz. FABLE OF THE PACK-SADLE CHILD is an illustrated book-length poem for adult readers steeped in the world of Micaela, a ten-year old, who lives in an unnamed, Spanish-speaking city by the sea. Seeking emotional refuge after a traumatic assault, Micaela withdraws from the world of adults, almost losing her burgeoning sense of self. But she becomes enchanted by language, beginning with the tilde that sits atop the Spanish letter N, and her new love of the written word helps her find redemption in surprising places. Garcia Ferraz, Nereida (illustrator).…

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. An informative and fascinating look at Mertons life and writings by a fellowTrappist. Pennington describes Merton as a monk, a mystic yes A merry, mischievous monk and a modern, muddied mystic. Deadly intent upon becoming a saint what else is there to do knowing that a can of beer is a help along the way. Father Basil takes us on a whirlwind review through the seasons of Mertons life and work.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. An informative and fascinating look at Mertons life and writings by a fellowTrappist. Pennington describes Merton as a monk, a mystic yes A merry, mischievous monk and a modern, muddied mystic. Deadly intent upon becoming a saint what else is there to do knowing that a can of beer is a help along the way. Father Basil takes us on a whirlwind review through the seasons of Mertons life and work.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. What do people see when they look at us? Someone who reminds them of Jesus?Reflecting the Image is about moving closer to Christ so that we reflect his image brilliantly, as if in a mirror. It's about getting so immersed in our relationship with Jesus that when people see us, they see him. The closer we are to him, the greater is his reflection in us.Drawing on Scripture and personal experiences, Reflecting the Image is an inspiring call to the individual and the church as a whole to turn completely to God and allow his grace to restore us fully to Christ's image. Allow him to polish you so that when others see you, they see him instead.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Finding God in the rough times of life can be difficult. But be encouraged The God of the universe is active and working in ever aspect of life, evenwhen the world is violentwhen the church is disappointingwhen family life is chaoticwhen divorce happenswhen we're trying to make decisionswhen everything seems fine.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. In this unique and essential collection, Katha Pollit, Patricia Williams, Barbara Ehrenreich, Jill Nelson, Vandana Shiva, and a host of other frontline thinkers, journalists, and activists employ wit, outrage, and cold, hard facts to expose the comprehensive incursion into women's rights. Taking stock of Bush-era policies at home and abroad, the writers in this book measure the gap between the women-friendly rhetoric and the deadly realities happening as a result of Bush era policies--what editor Laura Flanders calls "The W Effect." Both a harsh reality check and a hopeful starting point for new action, The W Effect brings together today's premier feminist voices to provide cutting-edge reports; fresh, empowering analysis; and engaging, provocative ideas for the future. As their work demonstrates, women around the globe have come under increasing attack in the new millennium, both literally, in the case of war, incarceration, and punitive repression, and more subtly, in the case of eroded rights and lost economic ground. The W Effect puts together the pieces: tax cuts and a marriage initiative for welfare recipients, civilian casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq and a militarized United States, Title IX under siege and macho political posturing for the media, and yes, Roe v. Wade threatened and the return of the international gag rule. A necessary book for anyone interested in current politics, for feminists of all ages and genders, for the activist community, for general readers, and for students, The W Effect provides the real information women need--and can't find in the mainstream media--about their rights and their future.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. What happens when children are denied love and then left to their own devices? Follow Me into the Dark traces the unraveling of a family marred by perverse intergenerational abuse. Kate is a young baker whose mother is dying of cancer. Gillian is an oversexed, hyper-intellectual who looks like Kate and is sleeping with Kate's stepfather. Jonah is Gillian's odd but devoted stepbrother, who increasingly matches the description of the Doll Collector, a menacing serial killer. With Kate flailing in her mourning and beating back unwelcome memories, snippets of her family legacy are revealed just as the Doll Collector's body count grows. A complex, dark expression of the deprived heart and the desperate lengths children will go to in order to create family. …

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Personal. Practical. Relational.The Pastor's Funeral Planner provides busy pastors with fresh insights on conducting funerals. It includes funeral messages, customs, etiquette, eulogies, and order of services. The messages cover a wide range of topics; there are messages for crisis situations, public servants, and different age groups. Practical lists are also included, such as graveside service checklists, committals, illustrations, and poetic readings. This planner goes beyond the typical guide to funerals; it provides how to minister to those who are grieving by teaching how to give resources to grieving families, send correspondence, and how to continue outreach.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Moon City Press's most recent edition features an array of brand-new contemporary literature. Up-and-coming and established writers contribute short stories, poems, essays, and translations that help shape the future of American letters.   The issue includes voices such as Amanda Auchter, Wendy Barker, María Alejandra Barrios, Roy Bentley, Andrew Bertaina, Ace Boggess, Meagan Cass, Pat Daneman, Ed Falco, Kathy Goodkin, Alyse Knorr, Erica Plouffe Lazur, Nancy Chen Long, Kim Magowan, Matthew Pitt, Michelle Ross, Bret Shepard, Noel Sloboda, Anthony Varallo, Siamak Vossoughi, Laura Lee Washburn, Charles Harper Webb, Gabe Welsch, Jeremy T. Wilson, and many others. &nbsp.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. In these powerfully rendered, prizewinning stories, working-class African Americans across the South strive for meaning and search for direction in lives shaped by forces beyond their control. The ten stories in this resonant collection deal with both the ties that bind and the gulf that separates generations, from children confronting the fallibility of their own parents for the first time to adults finding themselves forced to start over again and again.In Highway 18 a young Jehovah's Witness going door to door with an expert field-service partner from up north is at a crossroads: will she go to college or continue to serve the church? If You Hit Randolph County, You've Gone Too Far tells of a family trying to make it through a tense celebratory dinner for a son just out on bail. And in the collection's title story, a young girl experiences loss for the first time in the fallout from her father's relationship with her babysitter. Startling, intimate, and prescient on their own, these stories build to a kaleidoscopic understanding of both the individual and the collective black experience over the last fifty years in the American South. With We Are Taking Only What We Need, Stephanie Powell Watts has crafted an incredibly assured and emotionally affecting meditation on everything from the large institutional forces to the small interpersonal moments that impress upon us and directour lives.--New Yorker.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. David Ostrowsky tells you what happens to professional athletes after the cheering stops. - Dan Shaughnessy, Boston Globe Game Over Or Game On: How Pro Athletes Leave Sports and Enjoy the Game of Life provides an account of how various pro athletes from the past several decades have made contributions in the fields of entertainment, business, politics, community service, coaching, management, and broadcasting upon retirement. After all, the stigma of pro athletes struggling financially and emotionally is not always applicable. Author David Ostrowsky focuses on the stories of athletes who have leveraged their resources, money, fame, and time for having a positive influence in their respective endeavors. Some of the athletes profiled include: David Robinson, Dikembe Mutombo, Steve Finley, Scott Brosius, Butch Hobson, Tony Amonte, Dontrelle Willis, Dolph Schayes, Ron Mix, Kevin Johnson, Warrick Dunn, Shawn Kemp, Mo Vaughn, and Kellen Winslow, among others.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. 'Faith brings hope and comfort where there is despair and sorrow.'--First Lady Laura Bush 'Faith is what gives me comfort, humility, and hope, even through the darkest hours.'--Condoleezza RiceMy Faith Still Holds is filled with stories of faith shared by godly women from around the world. Celebrate God's faithfulness to His people and join these women as they share their inspirational journeys.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Realities such as divorce, stepfamilies, adoption, single parenting, and gay and lesbian parenting are explored through the curious, affectionate, and nonjudgemental eyes of six-year-old Angie as she introduces readers to her multicultural groups of friends, who are loved and cared for within many different types of families. Meredith Tax's funny, engaging text reveals what families have in common while encouraging an acceptance of difference. Marilyn Hafner's appealing illustrations convey the warmth and individuality of the characters. In the end, the book's message is a simple and heart-felt one: as Angie says, Families are who you live with and who you love. As one of the earliest books on nontraditional families, Families has been revered by a generation of parents, teachers, and children, and also attacked by censors. It remains a simple testament to the importance of acceptance, respect, and love. Hafner, Marylin (illustrator).…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Welcome to the South as only Kirk Neely can describe it. In Banjos, Barbecue and Boiled Peanuts, Kirk Neely uses his precise eye, keen ear, and down home voice to capture those small truths of life in the South, as he spins yarns about groundhogs and black snakes, mockingbirds and bluebirds, pound cake and cypress knees. A fitting sequel to A Good Mule Is Hard To Find, 2010 finalist for best book of nonfiction from the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance, this collection delves even deeper into the humor and lore of Southern life, the mysteries and truths that are wedged between its mountains, snake down its rivers, stalk its gardens and graveyards, lie hidden in its abandoned boxcars, collect beneath its fingernails. Banjos, Barbecue and Boiled Peanuts pulls back the curtain of kudzu to reveal a place of weirdness and wonder, a place where a five-string banjo may lead to insanity, the art of preparing slow-cooked barbecue is compared to making love, and the texture and taste of boiled peanuts startle visitors from above the Mason-Dixon Line. These are stories of warmth and wit, of heart and humor. Thoroughly engaging and undeniably touching, Banjos, Barbecue and Boiled Peanuts is a delight for folks of all ages. So familiar and yet so fresh are these tales that, once you leave, you may want to come back. …

Paperback. Zustand: Good. The Wooden King is a powerful and timely novel about denial, desire, and family drama against the backdrop of WWII Czechoslovakia. For fans of The Women in the Castle and A Gentleman in Moscow.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 'Faith brings hope and comfort where there is despair and sorrow.'--First Lady Laura Bush 'Faith is what gives me comfort, humility, and hope, even through the darkest hours.'--Condoleezza RiceMy Faith Still Holds is filled with stories of faith shared by godly women from around the world. Celebrate God's faithfulness to His people and join these women as they share their inspirational journeys.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. In Table Talk, one pilgrim shares his attempt to grasp the Gospel of Luke, based on his own journeys through the lectionary as a writer, teacher and disciple. These reflections will help spark the Sunday conversation about Luke around the parish table: the homilist who will preach on it, the catechist who will teach it to children, the RCIA team who will lead candidates through a discussion of that weeks passage, or individual disciples looking for a companion on their day-to-day journey to Emmaus. Jay Cormier draws upon his 20-plus years experience as editor of Connections to cast the Gospel stories in a contemporary setting through a series of reflections that will provoke Table Talk insightful reflection about Gods Word as it is proclaimed at the table of the Lord. He follows the pericopes of both the Roman Catholic lectionary and the common lectionary used by many Protestant churches. God's word contains multiple layers of meaning. In Jay Cormier's Table Talk, the reader will find new insights, see connections to real life, and hear a call to a more mature discipleship. Table Talk is more than a simple conversation. It is a call to live the Christian life more fully. Robert F. Morneau In stories, incidents, quotations from literature and life, Jay Cormier roots the narratives and sayings of the lectionary Gospel readings in the stuff of daily life, and in the imaginative life of the faithful believer. From the changing of diapers to a missed exit on the freeway, from a blind date with a young doctor to the hunt for a lost wedding ring at the town dump, he encourages the reader/hearer, in his own words for the Sunday in Advent, to pay attention, to wake up and realize the many signs of Gods love in our midst. These immensely creative and helpful meditations, with their brief and graceful concluding prayers, should prove invaluable to preacher and teacher alike. The Rev. J. Barrie Shepherd Author of Whatever Happened to Delight: Preaching the Gospel in Poetry and Parables.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Late one night at the end of a scorching summer, a phone call rouses Sheriff Furman Chambers out of bed. Two men have been shot dead on Highway 9 in front of the Hillside Inn, a one-time boardinghouse that is now just a front for Larthan Tull's liquor business. When Sheriff Chambers arrives to investigate, witnesses say a man named Mary Jane Hopewell walked into the tavern, dragged two of Tull's runners into the street, and laid them out with a shotgun. Sheriff Chambers's investigation leads him into the Bell village, where Mary Jane's family lives a quiet, hardscrabble life of working in the cotton mill. While the weary sheriff digs into the mystery and confronts the county's underground liquor operation, the whiskey baron himself is looking for vengeance. Mary Jane has gotten in the way of his business, and you don't do that to Larthan Tull and get away with it. Hailed as a grand new talent (Bret Lott) and a significant new voice in Southern fiction (Ron Rash), Jon Sealy has written a haunting debut novel. With its unforgettable characters and evocative setting, The Whiskey Baron is a gripping drama about family ties and bad choices, about the folly of power and the limitations of the law.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Mustard, Milk, and Gin, a debut poetry collection by Megan Denton Ray, follows identical twin sisters in the wake of their parents' addiction in an unblinking and beautifully wrought vision of the opioid crisis in the American South and the poet's growth toward understanding.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Moon City Press presents another edition of its annual examination of the best in contemporary literature. Both established and up-and-coming writers contribute short stories, poems, essays, book reviews, and translations of works not originally penned in English. Contributors to this 2014 edition of MCR include Craig Albin, Roy Bentley, Vanessa Blakeslee, Cynthia Marie Hoffman, George Looney, Richard Newman, Phoebe Reeves, Amber Sparks, Matthew Vollmer, and Gabriel Welsch. …