6 Top theology books like American Methodism: A Compact History by Jeanne Miller Schmidt

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American Methodism: A Compact History

By: Jeanne Miller Schmidt

3.66

Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition

In this engaging and artful overview, Russell Richey, Kenneth Rowe, and Jean Miller Schmidt, some o…

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1. The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

By: Louise Penny

4.07

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide w… read more

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"If love was compass enough, said Armand quietly, there would be no missing children."

-Louise Penny, The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

"You too?" She asked Ruth. "How do your poems start out?" "They start as a lump in the throat," she said."

-Louise Penny, The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

"Like a ship changing course. It might take a while to get to port, but at least it was going in the right direction."

-Louise Penny, The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

"He wasn't addicted to pain, to panic, but he might be addicted to the bliss of having them stop. The mind, he knew, really was its own place."

-Louise Penny, The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

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2. You Are My People: An Introduction to Prophetic Literature

By: Louis Stulman , Hyun Chul Paul Kim

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Building on recent developments in biblical studies, this book introduces the prophetic literature … read more

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3. The Orphan's Tale

By: Pam Jenoff

5.00

Format: None pages,

A powerful novel of friendship set in a traveling circus during World War II, The Orphan's Tale int… read more

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4. The Interestings

By: Meg Wolitzer

4.00

Format: 202 pages, Hardcover

The Interestings explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy; the roles of class, art, money… read more

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5. Glass Houses (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #13)

By: Louise Penny

4.03

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

When a mysterious figure appears on the village green on a cold November day in Three Pines, Armand… read more

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6. Hearts of Fire: Eight Women in the Underground Church and Their Stories of Costly Faith

By: Gracia Burnham , The Voice of the Martyrs

3.60

Format: 404 pages, Paperback

Eight women from eight very different backgrounds. Yet the struggles they each faced rang with eeri… read more

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7. A Trick of the Light (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #7)

By: Louise Penny

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"Hearts are broken," Lillian Dyson carefully underlined in a book. "Sweet relationships are dead." … read more

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8. Camino Island

By: John Grisham

4.01

Format: 511 pages, Hardcover

A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University's Firest… read more

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9. Silver Sparrow

By: Tayari Jones

4.30

Format: None pages,

With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, "My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist," author Taya… read more

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10. Wesley and the People Called Methodists

By: Richard P. Heitzenrater

4.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

This survey of the Wesleyan movement in the eighteenth century is the story of many people whose li… read more

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11. A Great Reckoning (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #12)

By: Louise Penny

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Louise Penny pulls back the layers to reveal a brilliant and emotionally powerfu… read more

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12. The Nature of the Beast (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #11)

By: Louise Penny

4.00

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

Hardly a day goes by when nine-year-old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions, to w… read more

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13. How the Light Gets In (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #9)

By: Louise Penny

3.62

Format: 272 pages,

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec digs beneath the idyllic surface of village … read more

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14. The Story of Christianity: Volume 2: The Reformation to the Present Day

By: Justo L. González

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

This highly informative, narrative history covers the events, persons, external influences, and for… read more

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15. Hinds' Feet on High Places

By: Hannah Hurnard

3.67

Format: 220 pages,

Hinds' Feet on High Placesis one of Hannah Hurnard's best known and best loved books. This book is … read more

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16. Jesus and the Disinherited

By: Vincent Harding , Howard Thurman

4.57

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

In this classic theological treatise, the acclaimed theologian and religious leader Howard Thurman … read more

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17. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

By: Dan Flores

3.98

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa So… read more

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"The prescription I've come to seems to be this. Know the heaven and earth that was, but experience the world that is."

-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

"Our disruption of ecologies around the world isn't just threatening wildife extinctions. It's posing an existential threat to our own species."

-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

"And it wasn't just passenger pigeons and buffalo. A legacy of animal cleansing was visible everywhere you looked in the United States of the 1920s."

-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

"...we Americans have never been good at accepting blame for screwing up the world. Surely the gods, or the government, or the Chinese, or the sun! must be doing this. It can't be us."

-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

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18. Camino Winds (Camino Island, #2)

By: John Grisham

3.80

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen—even a murder in the midst of a hurricane,… read more

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"Okay, I talked to my lieutenant and he said don’t touch the body. He’s trying to find our homicide guy."

-John Grisham, Camino Winds (Camino Island, #2)

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19. Call Us What We Carry

By: Amanda Gorman

4.28

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, Amanda Gorman’s remarkable new collection reveal… read more

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"Loss is the cost of loving"

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"We write Because you might listen."

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"And the norms and notions of what “just is"

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"We've learned that quiet isn't always peace."

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

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20. All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)

By: Louise Penny

4.43

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

The 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sû… read more

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"You were going to say the Death Star, weren’t you?"

-Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)

"I just sit where I'm put, composed of stone and wishful thinking: That the deity that kills for pleasure will also heal, That in the midst of your nightmare, the final one, a kind lion will pick your…"

-Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)

"Regarding Notre Dame cathedral: "He could see the huge rose window that had, incredibly, survived the fire. It looked, behind the works, like a giant third eye. Gazing perpetually out at the City of …"

-Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)

"I just sit where I’m put, composed of stone and wishful thinking: That the deity that kills for pleasure will also heal, That in the midst of your nightmare, the final one, a kind lion will come with…"

-Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)

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21. A Better Man (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #15)

By: Louise Penny

4.30

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

Catastrophic spring flooding, blistering attacks in the media, and a mysterious disappearance greet… read more

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"Consequences,"

-Louise Penny, A Better Man (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #15)

"Civility. How can we expect it if we don't give it?"

-Louise Penny, A Better Man (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #15)

"It was, he knew, a sign of End of Days. Ruth refusing booze."

-Louise Penny, A Better Man (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #15)

"Chief Inspector Gamache’s says there are ‘four sentences that lead to wisdom: I don’t know. I need help. I’m sorry. I was wrong."

-Louise Penny, A Better Man (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #15)

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22. Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)

By: Louise Penny

4.33

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farmhouse, the former head o… read more

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"I don’t know. I need help. I was wrong. I’m sorry."

-Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)

"In time, it wasn't all that long ago, but measured in events, it was an eternity."

-Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)

"They looked at each other, and then, in unison, all three said, "Tell me what you know."

-Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)

"Entitlement was, she knew, a terrible thing. It chained the person to their victimhood. It gobbled up all the air around it. Until the person lived in a vacuum, where nothing good could flourish."

-Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)

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23. While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students

By: J. Reuben Appelman

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of the “Univers… read more

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24. The Method of Our Mission: United Methodist Polity & Organization

By: Laceye C. Warner

3.81

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Theology shapes who we are and how we organize to transform the world. Especially written for requi… read more

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  • theology
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25. Responsible Grace: John Wesley's Practical Theology (Kingswood Series)

By: Randy Maddox

4.02

Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition

Of special focus in this reflective overview of Wesley's theological convictions is highlighting th… read more

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  • theology
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26. Do I Stay Christian?: A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned

By: Brian D. McLaren

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Dubbed "a heroic gate-crasher" by New York Times bestselling author Glennon Doyle, Brian D. McLaren… read more

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27. An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination

By: Walter Brueggemann

4.09

Format: 452 pages, Paperback

In this book Walter Brueggemann, America's premier biblical theologian, introduces the reader to th… read more

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  • theology
"In the end, ethical interpretation of the Bible means to think critically about how our practices of textual engagement might help us to become both more human and more humane. We are constantly craf…"

-Walter Brueggemann, An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination

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28. The Spirit of Soul Food: Race, Faith, and Food Justice

By: Christopher Carter

4.28

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Soul food has played a critical role in preserving Black history, community, and culinary genius. I… read more

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29. John Wesley (Library of Protestant Thought)

By: John Wesley

4.10

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

A major figure in eighteenth-century Christianity, John Wesley sought to combine the essential elem… read more

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  • religion
  • history
  • theology
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30. From Pew to Pulpit: A Beginner's Guide to Preaching

By: Clifton F. Guthrie

4.18

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

A down-to-earth, practical introduction to the ins and outs of preaching for lay preachers, bivocat… read more

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31. American Methodism: A Compact History

By: Jeanne Miller Schmidt

3.66

Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition

In this engaging and artful overview, Russell Richey, Kenneth Rowe, and Jean Miller Schmidt, some o… read more

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3.81

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4.02

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