They Flew: A History of the Impossible
By: Carlos M.N. Eire
4.10
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning historian’s examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their…
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1. Single, Gay, Christian: A Personal Journey of Faith and Sexual Identity
By: None
3.33
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
In an age where neither society nor the church knows what to do with gay Christians, Greg Coles tel… read more
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2. The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
By: Iain McGilchrist
4.35
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
In a book of unprecedented scope, Iain McGilchrist presents a fascinating exploration of the differ… read more
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"We don't need a lot more quick fixes. We need a change in the paradigm."-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
"[C]hildren with right-brain deficit disorder ignore task obstacles, accept impossible challenges, make grossly inadequate efforts, and are stunned by the poor outcomes. These children act fearless be…"-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
"The left hemisphere prefers the impersonal to the personal, and that tendency would be in any case be instantiated in the fabric of a technologically driven and bureaucratically administered society.…"-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
"Believing is not to be reduced to thinking that such-and-such might be the case. It is not a weaker form of thinking, laced with doubt. Sometimes we speak like this: ‘I believe that the train leaves …"-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
3. Home (Gilead, #2)
By: Marilynne Robinson
3.84
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Home parallels the story told in Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead. It is a moving and heali… read more
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4. Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars
By: Scotty Bowers , Lionel Friedberg
4.49
Format: 563 pages,
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5. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
By: Vladislav M. Zubok
4.26
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to … read more
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6. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that b… read more
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7. The Wood Between the Worlds: A Poetic Theology of the Cross
By: Brian Zahnd
4.53
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
The cross is the heart of Scripture Everything about the gospel message leads to the cross, and pro… read more
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8. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
9. After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations
By: Eric H. Cline
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened a… read more
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10. Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences
By: D.W. Pasulka
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A revolution is underway. For the first time in human history, we are at the cusp of experiencing c… read more
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11. The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization
By: Paul Strathern
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and magisterial four-hundred-year history of both the city and the people who gave birth… read more
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12. Reading Genesis
By: Marilynne Robinson
4.10
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book… read more
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13. Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
By: Camilla Townsend
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingd… read more
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"Letters and diaries sometimes bring us close to grand moments or touching scenes in the history of Euro-Americans, but harkening back to the thoughts and feelings of the less powerful, we meet only s…"-Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
14. Courting the Wild Twin
By: Martin Shaw
4.30
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Master mythologist Martin Shaw uses timeless story-wisdom to examine our broken relationship with t… read more
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15. Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair
By: Christian Wiman
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Christian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work. … read more
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16. Crisis of Confidence: Reclaiming the Historic Faith in a Culture Consumed with Individualism and Identity
By: Carl R. Trueman
4.41
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Carl Trueman Analyzes How Ancient Creeds and Confessions Protect and Promote Biblical Christianity … read more
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17. They Flew: A History of the Impossible
By: Carlos M.N. Eire
4.10
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning historian’s examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their… read more
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18. The Devil's Best Trick: How the Face of Evil Disappeared
By: Randall Sullivan
3.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Part true crime story, part historical account, part religious and literary analysis, an investigat… read more
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19. The Book of All Books
By: Roberto Calasso
4.04
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A book that begins before Adam and ends after us. In this magisterial work by the Italian intellect… read more
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20. Smothermoss
By: Alisa Alering
3.57
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A haunting, imaginative, and twisting tale of two sisters and the menacing, unexplained forces that… read more
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21. Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs
By: Luis Elizondo
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The former head of the Pentagon program responsible for the investigation of UFOs—now known as unid… read more
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