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Advent of Dyingby Carol Anne O'MarieISBN 0312978677 (0-312-97867-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Advent of Dying'Book summary:Readers have come to delight in the murder-solving exploits of septuagenarian Sister Mary Helen and her cohort Sister Eileen, two nuns with a nose for nabbing killers. Publishers Weekly calls the Sister Mary Helen Mysteries "refreshingly different" and a "heady mix of humor and suspense." Once you meet this spry, clever sleuth, you'll want to make a habit of reading her adventures again and again.[via]
Timid little Suzanne Barnes was the perfect ecclesiastical secretary: efficient, discreet, self-effacing. So it came as a shock when Suzanne invited Sisters Mary Helen, Eileen and Anne to Ghiradelli Square's Sea Wench Bar to hear her belt out the blues. Sister Mary Helen wondered what secrets lay behind those watery blue eyes. The Sea Wench Suzanne was a revelation: sassy, sexy, dressed to kill. It was her first-and last-performance, punctuated by a silver letter opener in the heart. Who killed the canary? Sister Mary Helen and her faithful band must unearth Suzanne's secrets to solve the murder before all hell breaks loose-again...More editions of Advent of Dying:
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African Traditional Religion in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliographyby David Chidester, Robert Petty, Chirevo Kwenda, Judy Tobler, Darrell WrattenISBN 0313304742 (0-313-30474-2)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'African Traditional Religion in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography'Book summary:In a changing South Africa, recovering the meaning and power of African tradition is a matter of crucial importance. This work participates in that recovery by providing a comprehensive guide to research on the indigenous religious heritage of this dynamic country. Detailed reviews of over 600 books, articles, and theses are offered along with introductory essays and detailed annotations that define the field of study. This work plus two forthcoming volumes, Christianity in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography and Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography will become the standard reference work on South African religions. Scholars and students in Religious Studies, Social Anthropology, History, and African Studies will find this set particularly useful.
This work organizes and annotates all the relevant literature on Khoisan, Xhosa, Zulu, Sotho-Tswana, Swazi, Tsonga, and Venda traditions. The annotations are concise yet detailed essays written in an engaging and accessible style and supported by an exhaustive index, which comprise a full and complex profile of African traditional religion in South Africa.
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Age of Reformationby E. Harris HarbinsonISBN 0313235554 (0-313-23555-4)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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American Freedom and Catholic Powerby Paul BlanshardISBN 0313246203 (0-313-24620-3)
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The Angel and the Swordby Cecelia HollandISBN 0312868898 (0-312-86889-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Angel and the Sword'Book summary:Holland turns her remarkable storytelling talents to the dark and bloody Ninth Century. Into this history rides a young warrior with the face of an angel and the heart of a lion. But a perilous secret may prove the young knights undoingfor the one known as Roderick is in truth a maiden princess named Ragny, who has taken up the sword to avenge the death of her mother and reclaim her own rightful crown. [via]
Approaches to Godby Jacques MaritainISBN 0313206066 (0-313-20606-6)
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Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Churchby Michael Paulson, Kevin Cullen, Matt Carroll, Thomas Farragher, Stephen Kurkjian, Sacha Pfeiffer, Michael Rezendes, Walter V. RobinsonISBN 0316075582 (0-316-07558-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church'Book summary:With this expose, The "Boston Globe" aims to present the single most comprehensive account of the cover-ups, hush money and emotional manipulation used by the Catholic Church to keep its long history of sexual abuse secret. The case of Father John Geoghan, who has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and whose 130 victims have been awarded $30 million, has dominated news headlines. The newspaper maintains that the 2000 related civil suits pending against the Church are just the tip of the iceberg. With the same incisive reportage that first broke the scandal open, The "Boston Globe"'s team of investigative reporters also provides important analyses of what's at stake and what this "crisis of faith" means for Catholics everywhere. [via]
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinkingby Malcolm GladwellISBN 0316010669 (0-316-01066-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blink: The Power Of Thinking Without Thinking'Book summary:Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling. Building his case with scenes from a marriage, heart attack triage, speed dating, choking on the golf course, selling cars, and military maneuvers, he persuades readers to think small and focus on the meaning of "thin slices" of behavior. The key is to rely on our "adaptive unconscious"--a 24/7 mental valet--that provides us with instant and sophisticated information to warn of danger, read a stranger, or react to a new idea.
Gladwell includes caveats about leaping to conclusions: marketers can manipulate our first impressions, high arousal moments make us "mind blind," focusing on the wrong cue leaves us vulnerable to "the Warren Harding Effect" (i.e., voting for a handsome but hapless president). In a provocative chapter that exposes the "dark side of blink," he illuminates the failure of rapid cognition in the tragic stakeout and murder of Amadou Diallo in the Bronx. He underlines studies about autism, facial reading and cardio uptick to urge training that enhances high-stakes decision-making. In this brilliant, cage-rattling book, one can only wish for a thicker slice of Gladwell's ideas about what Blink Camp might look like. --Barbara Mackoff [via]
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The Blue Hawkby Peter DickinsonISBN 0316184292 (0-316-18429-2)
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The Catholic Experience in Americaby Joseph A. VaracalliISBN 0313325839 (0-313-32583-9)
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Conversations With Glenn Gouldby Jonathan CottISBN 0316157767 (0-316-15776-7)
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Cooking With the Bible: Biblical Food, Feasts, And Loreby Anthony F. Chiffolo, Rayner W. HesseISBN 0313334102 (0-313-33410-2)
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Crazy Timeby Kate WilhelmISBN 0312913877 (0-312-91387-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Death Goes on Retreatby Carol Anne O'MarieISBN 0312985290 (0-312-98529-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death Goes on Retreat'Book summary:Sister Mary Helen and her Irish friend, Sister Eileen, need some R&R away from the pressures of their inner city vocation. A week at the idyllic St. Colette's Retreat House, snuggled amid towering redwoods 65 miles from San Francisco, sounds like heaven. Unfortunately the muddled sisters mistakenly arrive a week too early and find that St. Colette's is hosting a convention of hard drinking, high spirited priests. And when the serenity is further shattered by the murder of a former seminary student, suspicion falls on the holy fathers. But Sister Mary Helen has another theory about the perpetrator, and in her inimitable way she intends to uncover the deadly secrets and passions that the flesh is heir to...[via]More editions of Death Goes on Retreat:
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Death in Ecstasyby Ngaio MarshISBN 0312963602 (0-312-96360-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death in Ecstasy'Book summary:The Ritual Wine Taste of Evil[via]
When lovely Cara Quayne dropped dead to the floor after drinking the ritual wine at the House of the Sacred Flame, she was having a religious experience of a sort unsuspected by the other initiates. Discovering how the fatal prussic acid got into the bizarre group's wine is but one of the perplexing riddles that confronts Scotland Yard's Inspector Rocerick Alleyn when he's called to discover who sent this wealthy cult member to her untimely death.More editions of Death in Ecstasy:
Death of an Angelby Carol Anne O'MarieISBN 0312963963 (0-312-96396-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Deathbird Storiesby Harlan EllisonISBN 031294084X (0-312-94084-X)
Softcover, Bluejay Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deathbird Stories'Book summary:Harlan Ellison's masterwork of myth and terror as he seduces all innocence on a mind-freezing odyssey into the darkest reaches of mortal terror and the most dazzling heights of Olympian hell in his finest collection.
His stories will rivet you to the floor and change your heartbeat-as unforgettable a chamber of horror, fantasy and reality as you-ll ever experience.
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Decipherby Stel PavlouISBN 0312996438 (0-312-99643-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Decipher'Book summary:MANKIND HAS HAD 12,000 YEARS TO DECIPHER THE MESSAGE,[via]
WE HAVE ONE WEEK LEFT....
There is a signal emanating from deep within the ice of Antarctica. Atlantis has awoken. Ancient monuments all over the worlds from the Pyramids of Giza, to Mexico to the ancient sites of China are reacting...to a brewing crisis not of this earth, but somewhere out in the solar system. Connecting to each other through the oceans. Using low frequency sound waves to create an ancient network. The earth is thrown into panic stations. For it seems that the signals emanating from Atlantis are a prelude to something much greater. Could it be that the entire city is in fact one giant ancient machine? And to what end? For what purpose?
It is the year 2012, the same year Mayan belief prophesised the end of the world. Two armies, American and Chinese stand on the brink of war for the control of the most potent force ever known to man. The secrets of Atlantis. Secrets which are encoded in crystal shards retrieved from the sunken city. Secrets which Mankind has had twelve thousand years to decipher...but which will now destroy it within one week.More editions of Decipher:
The Devil in a Forestby Gene WolfeISBN 031289032X (0-312-89032-X)
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The Door into Fireby Diane DuaneISBN 0312941072 (0-312-94107-2)
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The Door into Shadowby Diane DuaneISBN 0312941102 (0-312-94110-2)
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Earthbornby Orson Scott CardISBN 0312930402 (0-312-93040-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Earthborn'Book summary:In the epic conclusion of the Homecoming Saga, when the children of Harmony return to Earth, they find a much-altered world in which two intelligent races challenge the humans, while Shedemi and the Oversoul set out to find the Keeper of Earth. [via]
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Eclogues and Georgicsby VirgilISBN 0312892195 (0-312-89219-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eclogues and Georgics'Book summary:It is a collection of essays by famous writers. [via]
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Ender's Gameby Orson Scott CardISBN 0312932081 (0-312-93208-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ender's Game'Book summary:Ender Wiggin is a very bright young boy with a powerful skill. One of a group of children bred to be military geniuses and save Earth from an inevitable attack by aliens, known here as "buggers," Ender becomes unbeatable in war games and seems poised to lead Earth to triumph over the buggers. Meanwhile, his brother and sister plot to wrest power from Ender. Twists, surprises and interesting characters elevate this novel into status as a bona fide page turner. It captured the Nebula and Hugo Awards. [via]
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An Essay on Morals: A Science of Philosophy and a Philosophy of Scienceby Philip WylieISBN 0313202729 (0-313-20272-9)
Hardcover, Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
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Essentials of Shinto: An Analytical Guide to Principal Teachingsby Stuart D.B. PickenISBN 0313264317 (0-313-26431-7)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Essentials of Shinto: An Analytical Guide to Principal Teachings'Book summary:Shinto is finally receiving the attention it deserves as a fundamental component of Japanese culture. Nevertheless, it remains a remarkably complex and elusive phenomenon to which Western categories of religion do not readily apply. A knowledge of Shinto can only proceed from a basic understanding of Japanese shrines and civilization, for it is closely intermingled with the Japanese way of life and continues to be a vital natural religion. This book is a convenient guide to Shinto thought.
As a reference work, the volume does not offer a detailed critical study of all aspects of Shinto. Instead, it overviews the essential teachings of Shinto and provides the necessary cultural and historical context for understanding Shinto as a dynamic force in Japanese civilization. The book begins with an historical overview of Shinto, followed by a discussion of Japanese myths. The volume then discusses the role of shrines, which are central to Shinto rituals. Other portions of the book discuss the various Shinto sects and the evolution of Shinto from the Heian period to the present. Because Japanese terms are central to Shinto, the work includes a glossary.
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Evolution Vs. Creationism: An Introductionby Eugenie C. ScottISBN 0313321221 (0-313-32122-1)
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Exorcising the Trouble Makers: Magic, Science, and Cultureby Francis L. HsuISBN 0313237808 (0-313-23780-8)
Hardcover, Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Exorcising the Trouble Makers: Magic, Science, and Culture'Book summary:The very human need for religion and magic as supplements to scientific and technological knowledge is the subject of this work. In 1942 Hsu witnessed a cholera epidemic in a small rural settlement in Yunnan province, China, and found that, contrary to anthropological expectations, the Chinese responded to the crisis with a combination of conciliatory rituals and practical hygienic measures. More than thirty years later, he witnessed the elaborate ritualistic prepartions for another epidemic in the Shatin sub-division of Hong Kong and found the supernatural/empirical response to be virtually the same as in 1942. The author argues that, in spite of technological and intellectual sophistication, the human psychic need for magic and religion persists. He pursues this contention in a longitudinal analysis of this phenomenon in the South Seas, East Africa, and Indian and white America.
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Family Treasury of Jewish Holidaysby Malka Drucker, Nancy PatzISBN 0316193135 (0-316-19313-5)
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Fight Against Fearsby Lucy Freeman, George S. StevensonISBN 0313233527 (0-313-23352-7)
Hardcover, Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
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The Final Encyclopediaby Gordon R. DicksonISBN 0312932413 (0-312-93241-3)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Finality of Faithby FerreISBN 0313211825 (0-313-21182-5)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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Full Blast: Library Editionby Charlotte Hughes, Janet EvanovichISBN 0312983301 (0-312-98330-1)
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Gravity Dreamsby L.E. ModesittISBN 031286826X (0-312-86826-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gravity Dreams'Book summary:A Zen master in a primitive society gets turned into a nanotech-enhanced "demon" by a mad, malicious mushroom-farmer. The master, now gifted with superhuman strength and senses, must flee his fearful Luddite fellows or face death. The similarly gifted, space-faring Rykashans take him in and use more "nanites" to bring their low-tech stray up to speed. Pssht! A spray can of nanites teaches the master the rudiments of Rykashan society. Pssht! He then learns to be a space janitor. Pssht! He later becomes a "needle jockey," a sort of interstellar flying-ace/truck driver, who even gets to talk to God (or a god, at any rate).
Leave it to L.E. Modesitt, Jr. (Fall of Angels, Ghost of the Revelator) to pull this sort of weirdness. But, as should be expected from such an inventive author, the quirky mise-en-scène serves a purpose: setting a story of personal transformation against a Twilight Zone-ian backdrop of contrasting societies, ethics, and tech levels. Although flat in spots and maybe a little pokey, Gravity Dreams is a winning little SF drama, the tale of one man's realization that true knowledge doesn't come from a can. --Paul Hughes [via]
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Greenmantleby Charles De LintISBN 0312865104 (0-312-86510-4)
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Hell Houseby Richard MathesonISBN 0312868855 (0-312-86885-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hell House'Book summary:Rolf Rudolph Deutsch is going die. But when Deutsch, a wealthy magazine and newpaper publisher, starts thinking seriously about his impending death, he offers to pay a physicist and two mediums, one physical and one mental, $100,000 each to establish the facts of life after death.[via]
Dr. Lionel Barrett, the physicist, accompanied by the mediums, travel to the Belasco House in Maine, which has been abandoned and sealed since 1949 after a decade of drug addiction, alcoholism, and debauchery. For one night, Barrett and his colleagues investigate the Belasco House and learn exactly why the townfolks refer to it as the Hell House.More editions of Hell House:
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History, Religion and Meaning : American Reflections on the Holocaust and Israelby Julius SimonISBN 0313312885 (0-313-31288-5)
Hardcover, Harcourt Education
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History, Religion and Meaning : American Reflections on the Holocaust and Israel'Book summary:The Holocaust continues to be a defining event for understanding not only the course of history during the 20th century but the course of human events in general. Perhaps the most contentious issue is that of how the Holocaust continues to be understood, explained, and appropriated. The chapters focus on questions arising from the Holocaust and that have to do with the American understandings of the interrelated web of history, religion, and meaning. In addition, the contributors, from a variety of disciplines, express views that range across several dimensions of receptivity and both support and challenge other views of how the Holocaust should be commemorated and/or historically situated.
The chapters included in this volume demonstrate that the ongoing rethinking and integrating of memories and questions from and on the Holocaust result in ever-new ethical orientations and demands that continue to affect religious praxis and the work of historians. They deal both explicitly and implicitly with how the Holocaust has been understood or misunderstood. The contributors write from across the disciplinary boundaries of philosophy, theology, history, aesthetics, and political science and raise important ethical issues while providing fresh perspectives from both established and emerging scholars. This unique, cross-disciplinary approach is an essential addition to the literature on the Holocaust.
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In the Walled Gardensby Anahita FirouzISBN 0316169013 (0-316-16901-3)
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Incantationby Alice HoffmanISBN 0316010197 (0-316-01019-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incantation'Book summary:From a New York Times bestselling author comes a journey ofloss and rebirth with a startling premise inspired by historical fact.Estrella is a Marrano: one of the Spanish Jews living double lives whenthose who refused conversion risked everything. Estrella's discovery thather family secretly practices the ancient way of wisdom known as kabbalahleads her to her true self and true love-but also to a devastatingconfrontation with unimaginable evil, unleashed by the betrayal of afriend. With themes of faith, friendship, and persecution, Alice Hoffman'stragic and beautiful novel resonates profoundly in our times. [via]
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The Inside of History : Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigne and Romantic Historiographyby John B. RoneyISBN 0313288070 (0-313-28807-0)
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The Jesterby James Patterson, Andrew GrossISBN 0316147877 (0-316-14787-7)
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Jupiterby Ben BovaISBN 0312872178 (0-312-87217-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jupiter'Book summary:He made planetfall on Venus and all but colonized Mars, so it's not surprising that SF don Ben Bova finally set his sights on our solar system's swirling, red-eyed sovereign.
As with his previous planetary exploration books, Jupiter plants you right in the heart of the action, witness to the speculative science and political intrigue--and in this case, religious machination--that surround a fast-paced, dangerous, and technically fleshed-out mission. Our unlikely hero on this touchdown is an earnest, likeable, hard-working grad student named Grant Archer, a frustrated astrophysicist who's been shanghaied aboard Jupiter's Gold space station to fulfill a ROTC-style public-service commitment. What's worse, this devout young man has been ordered by the New Morality--the American flavor of the conservative religious order that runs Earth nowadays--to spy on some suspicious research involving alleged Jovian life forms.
Bova begins his book with an A.C. Clarke quote: "The rash assertion that 'God made man in His own image' is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths." This tells you pretty much everything you need to know about where this book's going, and who, respectively, will be wearing the white and the black hats (unfortunately, some of the characterizations don't get much deeper). That the central protagonist is both a Christian and a scientist makes for some fertile character development, but Bova's not exactly gunning for God here--he's happy just to blast away at narrow-minded ideologues and other assorted religious fanatics. (But that, of course, is about as easy as making teenagers depressed.) --Paul Hughes [via]
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Keys to Health: The Promise and Challenge of Holismby Eric A. MeinISBN 0312956169 (0-312-95616-9)
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The Last Jewby Noah GordonISBN 0312978391 (0-312-97839-1)
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Lazarusby Morris L. WestISBN 0312924607 (0-312-92460-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lazarus'Book summary:Faced with open-heart surgery, Supreme Pontiff Leo XIV sees his life flashing before him. In reforming the Church, he created a wasteland and made enemies, and now he vows to destroy the repression for which he was responsible. But a terrorist group, the Sword of Islam, has other ideas. [via]
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Life of Jesusby Edgar J. GoodspeedISBN 0313207283 (0-313-20728-3)
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Lighten Their Darkness: The Evangelical Mission to Working-Class London, 1828-1860by Donald M. LewisISBN 0313255776 (0-313-25577-6)
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Little Women, Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amyby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0316031054 (0-316-03105-4)
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The Lord God Made Them Allby James HerriotISBN 0312966202 (0-312-96620-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lord God Made Them All'Book summary:With each book more embraceable than the last, James Herriot once again brings us the magical beauty of Yorkshire through his heartwarming experiences as a country veterinarian. These new stories provide a grand finale to the wonderful books that began with all Creatures Great and Small.[via]
It is just after World War II, and James has returned from the R.A.F. to do battle with the diseases and injuries that befall the farm animals and pets of Skeldale and the surrounding moors. Four-year-old Jimmy Herriot, Humphrey Cobb and his little beagle Myrtle, Norman the book-loving veterinary assistant, and many more new faces join old favorites among the green hills of Yorkshire, as James takes an unforgettable voyage to Russia on a freighter with 383 pedigreed sheep. Touching our hearts with laughter and wisdom, lifting our spirits with compassion and goodness, James Herriot never fails to delight.More editions of The Lord God Made Them All:
Lost Lightby Michael ConnellyISBN 0316154601 (0-316-15460-1)
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The Lovely Bonesby Alice SeboldISBN 0316166685 (0-316-16668-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lovely Bones'Book summary:On her way home from school on a snowy December day, 14-year-old Susie Salmon is lured into a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold's haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, unfolds from heaven, where "life is a perpetual yesterday" and where Susie narrates and keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working on her case.
As Sebold fashions it, everyone has his or her own version of heaven. Susie's resembles the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban high school: a heaven of her "simplest dreams", where "there were no teachers... We never had to go inside except for art class... The boys did not pinch our backsides or tell us we smelled; our textbooks were Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue".
The Lovely Bones works as an odd yet affecting coming-of-age story. Susie struggles to accept her death while still clinging to the lost world of the living, following her family's dramas over the years. Her family disintegrates in their grief: her father becomes determined to find her killer, her mother withdraws, her little brother Buckley attempts to make sense of the new hole in his family and her younger sister Lindsey moves through the milestone events of her teenage and young adult years with Susie riding spiritual shotgun. Random acts and missed opportunities run throughout the book--Susie recalls her sole kiss with a boy on earth as "like an accident--a beautiful gasoline rainbow".
Though sentimental at times, The Lovely Bones is a moving exploration of loss and mourning that ultimately puts its faith in the living and that is made even more powerful by a cast of convincing characters. Sebold orchestrates a big finish and though things tend to wrap up a little too well for everyone in the end, one can only imagine (or hope) that heaven is indeed a place filled with such happy endings. --Brad Thomas Parsons, Amazon.com [via]
The Man from Nazareth As His Contemporaries Saw Himby Harry Emerson FosdickISBN 0313206031 (0-313-20603-1)
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Michelle Remembersby Michelle Smith, Lawrence PraderISBN 031292531X (0-312-92531-X)
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Middlesexby Jeffrey EugenidesISBN 0312991738 (0-312-99173-8)
Softcover, Picador USA
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Milton's Godby William EmpsonISBN 0313210217 (0-313-21021-7)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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Mind Trystby Robyn CarrISBN 0312929323 (0-312-92932-3)
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Miracles Do Happenby Briege McKenna, Henry LibersatISBN 0312929722 (0-312-92972-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Miracles Do Happen'Book summary:Living proof that love works miracles...[via]
Today, the power of the miraculous is very much a part of our lives, from appearances of the Virgin Mary at Medjugorje, Yugoslavia, to the places where Sister Briege McKenna has healed the sick and the lame.
Once so crippled by rheumatoid arthritis that medication was ineffective and a wheelchair was her future, Sister Briege experienced a sudden, remarkable healing-and received the gift of healing others.
So began Sister Briege's renowned worldwide ministry. On five continents, she has changed the lives of political leaders, clerics, and thousands of people from all walks of life.
Here is Sister Briege's living proof of the power of love and her inspiring message: God's love will heal you, strengthen you, and enable you to find true joy-because, every day, miracles DO happen!More editions of Miracles Do Happen:
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Murder In Ordinary Timeby Carol Anne O'MarieISBN 0312936184 (0-312-93618-4)
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Had Christina's investigations led her to her dead end? Or was the fatal cookie meant for someone else: the notorious womanizer; the hard-drinking floor manager with something to hide; or perhaps Wicked Wendy, who certainly fit her nickname? Or was the intended victim the intrepid nun herself?
Heaven help her as Sister Mary Helen charges in where angels fear to tread to trap a killer before he strikes again.More editions of Murder In Ordinary Time:
Murder Makes a Pilgrimageby Carol Anne O'MarieISBN 0312985282 (0-312-98528-2)
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Music and Musket: Bands and Bandsmen of the American Civil Warby Kenneth E. OlsonISBN 031322112X (0-313-22112-X)
Hardcover, Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
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A Novena for Murderby Carol Anne O'MarieISBN 031293355X (0-312-93355-X)
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Political Thought in Medieval Islam: An Introductory Outlineby Erwin I. RosenthalISBN 0313250944 (0-313-25094-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt Education
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Prentice Alvinby Orson Scott CardISBN 0312931417 (0-312-93141-7)
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Psychotherapy and a Christian View of Manby David E. RobertsISBN 0313253269 (0-313-25326-9)
Hardcover, Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
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Red Prophetby Orson Scott CardISBN 0312930437 (0-312-93043-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Prophet'Book summary:The first tale of Alvin Maker, "Seventh Son", introduced people to a very familiar but just slightly different pioneer America where magic works, and many people have special talents. In "Red Prophet", listeners learn more about those talents, both the minor gifts of the white people and the much grander gifts of the Indians. Abridged. November '98 publication date. [via]
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Religion Journals and Serials: An Analytical Guideby Fieg, Eugene C., Jr.ISBN 0313245134 (0-313-24513-4)
Hardcover, Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
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Sea Dragon Heirby Storm ConstantineISBN 0312873662 (0-312-87366-2)
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Seventh Sonby Orson Scott CardISBN 0312930194 (0-312-93019-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seventh Son'Book summary:From the author of Enders Game, an unforgettable story about young Alvin Maker: the seventh son of a seventh son. Born into an alternative frontier America where life is hard and folk magic is real, Alvin is gifted with the power. He must learn to use his gift wisely. But dark forces are arrayed against Alvin, and only a young girl with second sight can protect him.[via]More editions of Seventh Son:
Sex and Spiritby Clifford Bishop, Amanda MurrayISBN 0316096067 (0-316-09606-7)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Shadow of the Hegemonby Orson Scott CardISBN 0312876513 (0-312-87651-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shadow of the Hegemon'Book summary:Orson Scott Card finally explores what happened on earth after the war with the Buggers in the sixth book of his Ender series, Shadow of the Hegemon. This novel is the continuation of the story of Bean, which began with Ender's Shadow, a parallel novel to Card's Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Ender's Game.
While Ender heads off to a faraway planet, Bean and the other brilliant children who helped Ender save the earth from alien invaders have become war heroes and have finally been sent home to live with their parents. While the children try to fit back in with the family and friends they haven't known for nearly a decade, someone's worried about their safety. Peter Wiggins, Ender's brother, has foreseen that the talented children are in danger of being killed or kidnapped. His fears are quickly realized, and only Bean manages to escape. Bean knows he must save the others and protect humanity from a new evil that has arisen, an evil from his past. But just as he played second to Ender during the Bugger war, Bean must again step into the shadow of another, the one who will be Hegemon.
In Shadow of the Hegemon, Card can't help but fall back into old patterns. But while the theme is the same as in previous books--brilliant, tragic children with the fate of the human race resting on their shoulders--Shadow of the Hegemon does a wonderful job of continuing Bean's tale against a backdrop of the politics and intrigue of a fragile earth. While the novel is accessible, new readers to the series would be wise to begin with Ender's Game or Ender's Shadow. --Kathie Huddleston [via]
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Singing In A Strange Land: C.L. Franklin, the Black Church, And The Transformation of Americaby Nick SalvatoreISBN 0316160377 (0-316-16037-7)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Sister Light, Sister Darkby Jane YolenISBN 0312930917 (0-312-93091-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sister Light, Sister Dark'Book summary:[via]Raised on a mountainside, Jenna learned the arts of the warrior, and from the mountain women the magic of the ancient lore. But the greatest magic of all was her ability to call forth her dark sister from the depths of the mirror of the land of light and shadow.
Skada was the dark one, able to exist only when the moonlight cast a shadow or lamplight flickered in a darkened room.
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Six Thinking Hatsby Edward De BonoISBN 0316178314 (0-316-17831-4)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Six Thinking Hats'Book summary:YOUR SUCCESS IN BUSINESS DEPENDS ON HOW WELL YOU THINK Six Thinking Hats can help you think better-with its practical and uniquely positive approach to making decisions and exploring new ideas. It is an approach that thousands of business managers, educators, and government leaders around the world have already adopted with great success. "The main difficulty of thinking is confusion," writes Edward de Bono, long recognized as the foremost international authority on conceptual thinking and on the teaching of thinking as a skill. "We try to do too much at once. Emotions, information, logic, hope, and creativity all crowd in on us. It is like juggling with too many balls." The solution? De Bono unscrambles the thinking process with his "six thinking hats": * WHITE HAT: neutral and objective, concerned with facts and figures * RED HAT: the emotional view * BLACK HAT: careful and cautious, the "devil's advocate" hat * YELLOW HAT: sunny and positive * GREEN HAT: associated with fertile growth, creativity, and new ideas * BLUE HAT: cool, the color of the sky, above everything else-the organizing hat Through case studies and real-life examples, Dr. de Bono reveals the often surprising ways in which deliberate role playing can make you a better thinker. He offers a powerfully simple tool that you-and your business, whether it's a start-up or a major corporation-can use to create a climate of clearer thinking, improved communication, and greater creativity. His book is an instructive and inspiring text for anyone who makes decisions, in business or in life. [via]
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Six Thinking Hats: An Essential Approach to Business Management from the Creator of Lateral Thinkingby Edward De BonoISBN 0316177911 (0-316-17791-1)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Company
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Snareby Katharine KerrISBN 0312890451 (0-312-89045-1)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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Song of Kaliby Dan SimmonsISBN 031286583X (0-312-86583-X)
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Splintered Iconby Bill NapierISBN 0312936680 (0-312-93668-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Splintered Icon'Book summary:As an antique map dealer in a small English town, Harry Blake appreciates the quiet life. But when a local landowner asks him to value a 400-year-old journal and is then brutally murdered twelve hours later, Harry begins to suspect he's being pulled into something sinister. What does the dusty journal contain that is a matter of life and death? Why is someone prepared to pay Harry a fortune for it? He turns to marine historian Zola Kahn to uncover the mysteries. And when they meet at the old Greenwich Observatory, Harry is convinced there is more to Zola than meets the eye. The trail of the journal leads him into a world of deadly Elizabethan conspiracies, with a thread of history that takes him through a thousand years of religious intrigue back to the blood-soaked Crusades and a long lost icon whose rediscovery has the potential to ignite a worldwide religious war. Combining the thrill of a contemporary chase novel with a historical puzzle this is one novel that will leave readers gasping for breath.[via]More editions of Splintered Icon:
Storeys from the Old Hotelby Gene WolfeISBN 0312890494 (0-312-89049-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
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The Temple of Jerusalemby Andre Parrot, Beatrice E. HookeISBN 0313242240 (0-313-24224-0)
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There Once Was a World: A Nine-Hundred-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshokby Yaffa ElaichISBN 0316232394 (0-316-23239-4)
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True Believersby Jane HaddamISBN 0312982860 (0-312-98286-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'True Believers'Book summary:There's hell to pay in Philadelphia when Marty Kelly commits suicide over his wife's body in the sacristy of St. Anselm's Church. Everyone assumes that Bernadette Kelly, a diabetic, died of natural causes--until the autopsy reveals death by arsenic. But one of the nuns a St. Anselm's, certain of Marty innocence, recruits retired director of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit Gregor Demarkian to investigate for the new Cardinal Archbishop. His Eminence, dispatched to Philadelphia to clean up a scandal, expects Demarkian to act with discretion. But when a third death by arsenic is revealed in the neighboring Episcopal Church, not even God's grace can help the priest who becomes a prime suspect--and the murderer's next victim. Moving among three combustible parishes--Catholic, Episcopalian, and rabble-rousing fundmentalist--Demarkian must negotiate his way through holy hell to find the diabolically clever killer. Only then may God's will--and a homicidal reign of terror--be done...[via]More editions of True Believers:
The Unitarians and the Universalistsby David RobinsonISBN 0313248931 (0-313-24893-1)
Softcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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Urth of the New Sunby Gene WolfeISBN 031293033X (0-312-93033-X)
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When the Sky Fell: In Search of Atlantisby Rand Flem-AthISBN 0312964013 (0-312-96401-3)
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White Oleanderby Janet FitchISBN 0316182540 (0-316-18254-0)
Softcover, Little Brown & Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Oleander'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, May 1999: Astrid Magnussen, the teenage narrator of Janet Fitch's engrossing first novel, White Oleander, has a mother who is as sharp as a new knife. An uncompromising poet, Ingrid despises weakness and self-pity, telling her daughter that they are descendants of Vikings, savages who fought fiercely to survive. And when one of Ingrid's boyfriends abandons her, she illustrates her point, killing the man with the poison of oleander flowers. This leads to a life sentence in prison, leaving Astrid to teach herself the art of survival in a string of Los Angeles foster homes.
As Astrid bumps from trailer park to tract house to Hollywood bungalow, White Oleander uncoils her existential anxieties. "Who was I, really?" she asks. "I was the sole occupant of my mother's totalitarian state, my own personal history rewritten to fit the story she was telling that day. There were so many missing pieces." Fitch adroitly leads Astrid down a path of sorting out her past and identity. In the process, this girl develops a wire-tight inner strength, gains her mother's white-blonde beauty, and achieves some measure of control over their relationship. Even from prison, Ingrid tries to mold her daughter. Foiling her, Astrid learns about tenderness from one foster mother and how to stand up for herself from another. Like the weather in Los Angeles--the winds of the Santa Anas, the scorching heat--Astrid's teenage life is intense. Fitch's novel deftly displays that, and also makes Astrid's life meaningful. --Katherine Anderson [via]
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A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for College Writersby Lee A. JacobusISBN 0312892217 (0-312-89221-7)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Zen in the Art of the Tea Ceremonyby Horst HammitzschISBN 0312898592 (0-312-89859-2)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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