Christmaker: A Life of John the Baptist
By: James F. McGrath
4.32
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Meet the real John the Baptist. For many, John the Baptist is a footnote in the gospels—Jesus’…
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1. Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.93
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
For almost 1,500 years, the New Testament manuscripts were copied by hand––and mistakes and intenti… read more
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2. Travels with Charley: In Search of America
By: John Steinbeck
4.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
An intimate journey across and in search of America, as told by one of its most beloved writers, in… read more
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3. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
By: Daniel Walker Howe
4.42
Format: 288 pages,
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4. Peace Like a River
By: Leif Enger
4.09
Format: 315 pages,
Once in a great while, we encounter a novel in our voluminous reading that begs to be read aloud. L… read more
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5. Goebbels: A Biography
By: Peter Longerich , Alan Bance , Jeremy Noakes , Lesley Sharpe
3.33
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
From renowned German Holocaust historian Peter Longerich comes the definitive one-volume biography … read more
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6. Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.88
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus, one of the most renowned and controversial Bible schola… read more
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7. Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
By: Parker J. Palmer
4.18
Format: 411 pages, Hardcover
With wisdom, compassion, and gentle humor, Parker J. Palmer invites us to listen to the inner teach… read more
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8. I Cheerfully Refuse
By: Leif Enger
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more
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"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
9. The Lyrics
By: Paul McCartney
4.59
Format: 960 pages, Hardcover
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Washington Post Notable Book Excerpted in The New Yorker A work of… read more
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10. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
By: Sarah McCammon
4.21
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more
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11. Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies
By: N.T. Wright
4.14
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Should Christians be politically withdrawn, avoiding participation in politics to maintain their pr… read more
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12. The Other Valley
By: Scott Alexander Howard
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A literary speculative novel about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future Sixtee… read more
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13. Advent: The Season of Hope (Fullness of Time)
By: Tish Harrison Warren
4.52
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
"Christians believe not just in one coming of Christ, but in three." We tend to think of Advent as … read more
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14. Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story.
By: Robert Hardman
3.92
Format: 456 pages, Kindle Edition
The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller‘Fascinating . . . The book everyone is talking about’ – Daily Mai… read more
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"He's a very charming person - very warm and very friendly...I admire the way he interacts with people. That, to me, speaks to the measure of our King."-Robert Hardman, Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story.
15. Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
4.23
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Ours is the age of authoritarian rulers: self-proclaimed saviors of the nation who evade accountabi… read more
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"Designed for instant impact and encouraging feelings of omnipotence, Twitter is the perfect tool for an impulsive, attention-addicted strongman."-Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
"Many strongmen, past and present, have used populist rhetoric that defines their nations as bound by faith, race, and ethnicity rather than by legal rights. For authoritarians, only some people are "…"-Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
16. Ghosted: An American Story
By: Nancy French
4.45
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A riveting look inside a life of poverty, success, and the inner circles of political influence--fr… read more
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17. John for Normal People: A Guide through the Depth & Drama of the Fourth Gospel (The Bible for Normal People)
By: Jennifer Bashaw
4.18
Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition
In this thoughtfully researched, playful commentary, Jennifer Garcia Bashaw illuminates the theolog… read more
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18. Jonah for Normal People: A Guide to the Most Misunderstood Prophet of the Bible (The Bible for Normal People)
By: Jared Byas
4.49
Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition
Jonah’s encounter with a big fish is one of the most widely recognised—and misunderstood—stories in… read more
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19. Common English Bible Acts of the Apostles
By: Luke the Evangelist
4.65
Format: 99 pages, Kindle Edition
Common English Bible Acts of the Apostles eBook. read more
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20. God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible
By: Candida Moss
3.97
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From an award-winning biblical scholar, the untold story of how enslaved people created, gave meani… read more
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21. Epiphany: The Season of Glory (Fullness of Time)
By: Fleming Rutledge
4.41
Format: 165 pages, Kindle Edition
"We have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father." This line from the prologue … read more
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22. Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
By: Shai Held
4.57
Format: 546 pages, Hardcover
A profound, startling new understanding of Jewish life, illuminating the forgotten heart of Jewish … read more
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23. Flood and Fury: Old Testament Violence and the Shalom of God
By: Matthew J. Lynch
4.29
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
What do we do with a God who sanctions violence? Old Testament violence proves one of the most trou… read more
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24. The First Biography of Jesus: Genre and Meaning in Mark's Gospel
By: Helen K. Bond
4.45
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
What difference does it make to identify Mark's gospel as an ancient biography? Reading the gospel… read more
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25. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
26. Women Remembered: Jesus' Female Disciples
By: Joan E. Taylor
3.96
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A history of the women, both named and implied, in the New Testament - and their integral roles in … read more
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27. Jesus for Everyone: Why He Should Matter More to Everyone (Even Christians)
By: Amy-Jill Levine
4.07
Format: 256 pages, ebook
The renowned biblical scholar, Vanderbilt University Divinity School Professor, and author of Short… read more
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28. Christmaker: A Life of John the Baptist
By: James F. McGrath
4.32
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Meet the real John the Baptist. For many, John the Baptist is a footnote in the gospels—Jesus’… read more
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29. The Widening of God's Mercy: Sexuality Within the Biblical Story
By: Christopher B. Hays
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A fresh, deeply biblical account of God’s expanding grace and mercy, tracing how the Bible’s narrat… read more
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30. The Historical Jesus: A Guide for the Perplexed (Guides for the Perplexed)
By: Helen K. Bond
4.13
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
The introduction to this new guide sets out the sources (Graeco-Roman, Jewish and Christian), notin… read more
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31. Christmas: Tradition, Truth and Total Baubles
By: Nick Page
4.11
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Why is Christmas the way it is? How did we get from the birth of Jesus to everyone maxing out their… read more
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