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- America Isn’t Done With Jesus — and the Bestseller List Just Proved It
- 7 Books the Church Once Tried to Ban — and What We Can Learn From Them
- He Spent Months Visiting Death Row Inmates and Witnessed Three Executions. Here’s What He’s Learned
- 20 Surprising C.S. Lewis Quotes and 10 Facts You Didn't Know
- 6 Multi-Faceted Christian Authors Who Delight Readers
- 5 Ways C.S. Lewis Inspires Us
- Why We All Should Be Reading More Books
- Beliefs of C.S. Lewis You Did Not Know About
- America's Continuous Quest For Religious Freedom
- Does ‘Harry Potter’ Encourage Witchcraft?
- 10 Health Benefits of Reading
- 4 Bible Books With Secret Histories
- 7 Classic Books About the Beatitudes
- Lessons Children Learn From Fairy Tales
- Is It OK For Christians to Read Fairy Tales?
- What Religions Influenced Famous Fiction
- 4 Things You Might Not Know About Peter Rabbit
- 6 Young Adult Books That You Won't be Able to Put Down
- 4 Prayers From Julia Cameron's 'Life Lessons' That Will Heal Your Soul
- 6 Books Every Christian Should Read
- 7 Life-Changing Books by Saints
- Matthew West: ‘We All Have a Difficult Journey’
- 5 Spiritual Weapons for the End Times
- 6 Upcoming Self-Help Books You Don't Want to Miss
- Connecting Christianity to Culture
- Changing the World From the Inside Out
- A Guide to the Major Works of C.S. Lewis
- 10 Books Every Christian Teen Should Consider Reading
- Faith and Fantasy
- The Need to Read
- The Man Who Inspired C.S. Lewis
- A Call to Arms
- 7 Books Your Kids Will Want to Read This Holiday Season
- Cookie Johnson Recaptures the “Magic” in Life and Love
- 5 Ways Harry Potter Mirrors the Christian Story
- The 6 Strangest Characters of Roald Dahl
- Breaking Chains
- This Summer’s Best Beach Reads
- ‘Drop the Baggage’ Wrote Christine Caine
- Holy Estrogen!
- The Top 100 Inspirational Books: 20 - 11
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- Beverly Lewis Talks Life, Fame
- Books that Shed Light on the Holocaust
- Loyola Press Touches the World with Dear Pope Francis
- What’s Too Violent for Christian Readers?
- Pat Conroy Dies at 70
- A Day with Father Joe
- Out of Sight, Out of History
- One God to Bind Them All
- Coffin and His Contemporaries
- Looking on the Bright Side of Paganism
- 'I Talked Him Quite Silent'
- The Trial of Anne Hutchinson
- Advice to a Young Minister
- The Man Behind the A.A. Revolution
- The Book of Joe
- Left Behind: Glorious Appearing
- The Spook Room
- The Best Spiritual Book of the Year
- How Dark Nights Transform
- The Soul and the Snow
- A Minister's Meditations
- Other Notable Books of the Year
- Journey to Kars
- "Our Homeland Was America"
- Heaven Is Not a State of Mind
- Rx for Energy
- Pastor of His People
- A Penthouse in the Sky
- India's Faiths in New Frames
- Whose 'Footprints' Is It?
- Killer Ending
- Something About Mary
- That Old, Old Story
- 'Intensely, Miserably Spiritual'
- What Christians Can Learn from Keeping Kosher
- Summary of the Maker's Diet
- William Sloane Coffin: Sayings on Social and Economic Justice
- A Perfect Weight for Summer
- Saved by Welfare--and by Work
- 'Lord, This Is Car #17'
- Responsibility Knocks
- The American Pilgrimage Toward Perfection
- Duct Tape and the Word
- Amish Gone Wild?
- Christian Fiction Grows Up
- Great Spiritual Beach Books 2005
- The Town that Grace Built
- 'The Shroud of Harmony'
- 'I Hired God as My Agent'
- Harry Potter and the Prophet of Doom
- Praying for the Part
- America's Roadside Miracles
- Was Dracula a Christian Hero?
- 'If Christianity Is True, People I Love Will Burn in Hell'
- Pastoral Counsel for Heartsick Muggles
- Difficult Characters
- Excerpt from 'Any Bitter Thing'
- Keep on Pushing
- God's Plans for Father Tim
- Fifteen Fall Books for Kids
- The Best Spiritual Book of the Year
- 'Cons Who Rule a Ruined World'
- What 'Da Vinci' Spawned
- Great Books to Give Kids
- Magdalene Family Revelations
- A Bonhoeffer Bibliography
- When the Devil Comes to Town
- Questioning Life's Journey
- Left, Right and Wrong
- The Essential Emerson
- When is a Book Review Not A Review?
- Eyes Wide Open
- America's Founding Spiritual Seeker
- America's Founding Seeker
- The Clash of Globalizations
- Franklin Defines His God
- The DaVinci Code
- A Harry Potter Villain Beat His 'Dark Mark.' So Can We
- Deepak Chopra on Beliefnet
- Discovering the Truth
- 'Be Not Afraid': Interview with Tim LaHaye
- Doing the Time Warp
- The Burning of a Convent
- Practical Resurrection
- If God Loves Us, Why Judge Us At All?
- Other Notable Books of the Year
- The Best Spiritual Book of the Year
- Indigo Children and the New Age of Peace
- Coined By God
- The School of the Holy Ghost
- 'These people were trying to make points with their whole lives'
- Overture
- Brood Indigo
- Jonathan Edwards: An Introduction
- Team Spirit
- Rumors of Another World
- The World As Evidence of God
- Why Liberals Should Read the Bible
- 'The Powerhouse of Creative Thought'
- Is Jonathan Edwards History?
- Rewriting the Psalms
- Entertaining Eros
- Fact Flirts With Fiction in `The Da Vinci Code'
- Bible Bites
- 'The Da Vinci Code': Don't Believe Everything You Read
- Divine Hours
- Joseph Girzone's Penance
- Shuls and Churches
- Miracles From All Over
- The Orthodox Are Coming
- Spiritual Suspense
- How the West Was Won
- Fire Show
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The Blue Bottle Club: A Novel
by Penelope J. Stokes
Word, 342 pp. -
Women's Uncommon Prayers
Ed. Elizabeth Rankin Geitz, Marjorie A. Burke, and Ann Smith
Morehouse, 370 pp. -
Chinese Power Animals
By Pamela Leigh Powers
Samuel Weiser, 321 pp. -
The Scopes Trial: A Photographic History
by Edward Caudill, et al.
The University of Tennessee Press, 88 pp. -
The Unborn
Translated by Norman Waddell
North Point Press, 198 pp. -
Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh
By Matthew Fox
Harmony Books, 385 pp. -
A Life Complete
By Sallirae Henderson
Scribner, 224 pp. - Revisioning Work
- Millennial Moxie
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A String Of Pearls
By Bettie B. Youngs
Adams Media, 254 pp. - American Jews Embrace the Yoke of the Law!
- A Convent on Fire
- Making Their 'Mark'
- Banishing the Bible from Campus
- E Pluribus Unum
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Living with Loss, Healing with Hope: A Jewish Perspective
By Rabbi Earl A. Grollman
Beacon Press, 103 pp. - The New Convenant
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Achieving Moral Health
By Charles Shelton
Crossroad Publishing, 235 pp. - Hillary's Higher Power
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And I Will Dwell in Their Midst
By Etan Diamond
University of North Carolina Press, 208 pp. -
The Best Spiritual Writing 2000
Edited by Philip Zaleski
Harper San Francisco, 354 pp. -
The Bialy Eaters
By Mimi Sheraton
Broadway Books, 160 pp. -
No Future Without Forgiveness
By Desmond Tutu
Image Books, 294 pp. -
The Family Orchard
By Nomi Eve
Knopf, 316 pp. -
Jayber Crow
By Wendell Berry
Counterpoint, 363 pp. - The Stephen Carter Moment
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Arlo, Alice and Anglicans: The Lives of a New England Church
By Laura Lee
Berkshire House, 227 pp. -
A Matter of Diamonds: A Faith Abbey Mystery
By David Manuel
Paraclete Press, 324 pp. - Pearls of Wisdom
- Remembering the Holocaust
- The Best Christian Book of the Year
- The Best Spiritual Book of the Year
- Re-Contextualizing Christianity
- The Ancient Synagogue
- A Jerusalem With Good Guys and Bad
- Merit Goes Down the Rabbit Hole
- Creating Christmas
- Brazos Pushes the Evangelical Envelope
- Easy Adultery
- The Best Christian Albums of the Year
- Dance of the Dolphin
-
Overnight Float
By Clare Munnings
Norton, 288 pp. - Embracing Change
- Fevers
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Chocolate for a Woman's Blessing
Edited by Kay Allenbaugh
Fireside, 304 pp. -
The Tao of the Jump Shot
By John Fitzsimmons Mahoney
Ulysses Press, 137 pp. -
Llewellyn's 2001 Magical Almanac
Llewellyn, 352 pp.Llewellyn's 2001 Herbal Almanac
Llewellyn, 317 pp. -
Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
By Jonathan Glover
Yale, 464 pp. - Wake Up, Sleepyhead, and Get It Together With God
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Que(e)rying Religion
Edited by Gary David Comstock and Susan E. Henking
Continuum, 552 pp. -
Reaching Out in Love
Edited by Edward Le Joly and Jaya Chaliha
Continuum, 164 pp. -
The Faith of Biology & the Biology of Faith
By Robert Pollack
Columbia University Press, 125 pp. - The Prophet
- The Last Days of Puu Jih
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The Midday Office
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The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for Temple Mount
By Gershom Gorenberg
The Free Press, 288 pp. -
Walking the World in Wonder: A Children's Herbal
By Ellen Evert Hopman
Healing Arts Press, 152 pp. -
The Kindness of Children
By Vivian Gussin Paley
and
Growing Strong Daughters
By Lisa Graham McMinn - Seasons Greetings!
- Half-Jews
- Thou Shalt Not Covet
- The Year in Religion Books
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A Mom Just Like You
By Vickie and Jayme Farris
Loyal Publishing, 287 pp. - What There Is To Like About Being Catholic
- Everyday Grace
- Monstrously Enlightening
- Nine Lives
- Grandfathers and Godmothers
- 30 Days to a Brand New You
- Dueling Talmuds
- Episcopal Epiphanies
- Bible CD-ROMs for Kids
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Lives of the Psychics
By Fred M. Frohock
University of Chicago Press, 286 pp. -
Little Saint
By Hannah Green
Random House, 276 pp. - Reclaiming Rituals
- Coming to Terms with My Otherness
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Surviving Betrayal
By Alice May
HarperSanFrancisco, 370 pp. -
What's in the Bible for Mothers?
By Judy Bodmer and Larry Richards
Starburst Publishers, 350 pp. - We're Here, We're Queer, and We're Spiritual
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Prayers for the Road: Psalm Meditations for College Students
By Thomas W. Currie III
Geneva Press, 175 pp. -
The Angel is Near
By Deepak Chopra and Martin Greenberg
St. Martin's, 338 pp. -
Fragile Branches: Travels through the Jewish Diaspora
by James R. Ross
Riverhead, 240 pp. - Let's Call It Good Christian Writing
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Prayers in the Precincts: The Christian Right in the 1998 Elections
By John Green
Georgetown University Press, 312 pp. -
King David
By Jonathan Kirsch
Ballantine, 368 pp. - God in Three Persons, Blessed Trinity
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Endangered
By Johann Christoph Arnold
Plough, 160 pp. -
Moment by Moment: A Retreat in Everyday Life
By Carol Ann Smith and Eugene Merz
Ave Maria Press, 96 pp. -
Sarah's Seasons: An Amish Diary and Conversation
by Martha Moore Davis
University of Iowa, 179 pp. -
Bridesmaids Revisited: An Ellie Haskell Mystery
By Dorothy Cannell
Viking, 244 pp. -
Clowning in Rome
By Henri J. M. Nouwen
Doubleday, 110 pp. -
Coloring Your Prayers
By Carolyn Manzi
Harmony Books, 190 pp. -
Bringing the Psalms to Life
By Daniel F. Polish
Jewish Lights, 176 pp. -
Climbing the Mountain: My Search for Meaning
By Kirk Douglas
Touchstone, 269 pp. -
Big Stone Gap
By Adriana Trigiani
Random House, 272 pp. - Couples' Christianity
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A Theory of Everything
By Ken Wilber
Shambhala, 208 pp. - Mini Vacations From Logic
- Reveling in Revenge
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Chant Made Simple
By Robert M. Fowells
Paraclete Press, 59 pp. - The Greatness of the Gita
- I Brought Goliath Down With a Verse
- Morning Prayer
- Grading the New Gitas
- Suburban Rabbi Seeks the Elements
- An Adoption Begins With a Donation
- Grading the Gita
-
Practical Miracles
from Chapter One - Evening Prayer
- Help for Doubting Thomases
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Sisters
By Tim Stafford
Thomas Nelson, 370 pp. -
Night Light
By Dr. James and Shirley Dobson
Multnomah, 304 pp. - Women Are From Moab, Men Are From Israel
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Joshua: The Homecoming
By Joseph F. Girzone
Image Books, 259 pp. -
This Far by Faith
By Linnie Frank and Andria Hall
Doubleday, 248 pp. -
Help Yourself: Celebrating the Rewards of Resilience and Gratitude
By Dave Pelzer
Dutton, 218 pp. - You've Got to Pray That Lonesome Prayerbook, You've Got to Do It by Yourself
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No God but God: Egypt and the Triumph of Islam
By Geneive Abdo
Oxford, 214 pp. -
Lying Awake
By Mark Salzman
Alfred A. Knopf, 181 pp. -
The Little Book of Letting Go
By Hugh Prather
Conari Press, 223 pp. -
Get Well Wishes: Prayers, Poems and Blessings
By June Cotner
Harper San Francisco, 152 pp. - 'Like Having an Intimate Friend'
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The Case for Marriage
By Linda J. Waite and Maggie Gallagher
Doubleday, 260 pp. -
Achieving Moral Health
By Charles Shelton
Crossroad Publishing, 235 pp. -
The Illustrated Rumi: A Treasury of Wisdom From the Poet of the Soul
By Jalalu'ddin Rumi
Harper San Francisco, 256 pp. -
The Gay Man as Spiritual Adept
from the introduction to 'Gay Spirituality' - What Ruth Talks About When She Talks About Love
- This Is My Body
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The Heart of a God Chaser
By Tommy Tenney
Albury Publishing, 160 pp. -
Failing Forward
By John C. Maxwell
Thomas Nelson, 209 pp. - Act for the Action's Sake
- Arjuna's Despair
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Chamique
By Chamique Holdsclaw, with Jennifer Frey
Scribner, 192 pp. -
An American Family: The Kennans
By George F. Kennan
Norton, 136 pp. -
Communion With God
By Neale Donald Walsch
Putnam, 229 pp. - Gandhi on Prayer
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Beyond the Walls: Monastic Wisdom for Everyday Life
By Paul Wilkes
Image Books, 244 pp. -
Cherry
By Mary Karr
Viking, 276 pp. - Gandhi on Faith
- Gandhi on Living
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Embracing Persephone
- Gandhi on Love
- Gandhi on Sin
- Gandhi on the World's Religions
- Gandhi on Christianity
- Gandhi on Himself
- Good Grief
- The Mind of the Mahatma
- Gandhi's Passion
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Gandhi's Passion
From Chapter Three - Ghandi on Non-violence
- Books We've Given Our Mothers
- Imitation of Christ?
- My Mother, My Friend
- Beliefnet's Basic Books
- Tame Lions & Pathetic Suits: The Selling of Narnia
- Something Rotten in Narnia?
- The Bhagavad Gita: A Walkthrough for Westerners
- Oliver North Signs Book Deal With Christian Publishing House
- Eating Without Food, Hearing Without Sound
- The Beach Bum's Booklist
- Marianne Williamson Chat
- Learning to Love Heather
- Creating a Christian Home
- Between the Lines
- Intuition
- Reading Midrashically
- Heather Has One Decade
- Finding Conviction in an Ex-Con
- Under the Joy, Dark Notes
- British Scientist-Priest Wins $1M Templeton Prize
- The World Is Real
-
Heather Has Two Mommies
An excerpt - Spinning Yarns That Deceive
- Son of a Preacher Man
- Easy Readers and Witchy Chillers
- Memoir of a Movement Child (The Civil Rights Movement, That Is)
- From 'Myth Became Fact'
- From 'Problem of Pain,' Chapter 3
- From 'The Weight of Glory'
- From 'Problem of Pain,' Chapter 10
- From 'A Grief Observed'
- From 'What Are We to Make of Jesus Christ?'
- Desecration: Chapter One
- From 'Miracles,' Chapter 11
- What Do Christians Want?
- From 'God in the Dock'
- C.S. Lewis Links
- Kertzer Handles Radioactive Material With Academic Coolness
-
The Screwtape Letters
Chapter One - From 'Mere Christianity,' Book II, Chapter 1
- Living a Life That Matters
- A New Kind of Christian
- By Our Columnists
- A Home in Heaven
-
My Name Is Red
from Chapter One - A Mystery in Red
- Paradise Lotz
- Honeycreepers
- Poor, Ignorant and Licentious No More
- Piety
- The Roman Ghetto
- The Best Spiritual Book of the Year
- Spiritual Exercises for Compassion
-
The Truth of Catholicism
from Chapter One - She's Found What She Was Looking For
- Rich Christians in an Age of...Wealth
- The Gospel Working Up
- After the Fall
- Southern and Jewish
- The Most Segregated Hour
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Aromatherapy and Massage for Mother and Baby
By Allison England
Healing Arts Press, 163 pp. - Double-Edged Sword
- Raising Mensches
- Prostestantism's Progess
- The Lake of History Becomes a River
- If Screwtape Had Watched CNN
- Basic Books
- Favorite Spiritual Books
- Wolves in Lamb's Clothing
- Prisoners of Hope
- Present at the Awakening
- Poll Shell for Paul
- Order Vs. Random Chance
- A One-Year Crash Diet for the Mind
- Whatever Happened to Sally Kempton?
- Christ Is Not an Idea
-
The Remnant
Chapter One - Mitford, Monks and Mujahideen
- Making a Name for Herself
- Spiritual, But Not Religious
- Right Words, Wrong Words
- Prayer: The Common Thread
- Cruxificion and the Conscience of the West
- Gift Ideas for Christian Moms
- A May Bouquet
- 'Plenty of Identity to Go Around'
- Is the Good News a Good Book?
- The Pulpit Power of Martin Luther King Jr.
- The Lake Becomes a River
- New Book Dissects Martin Luther King Jr.'s Sermons
- Goldhagen's Smear
- Marked by Suffering
- Apocalypse Soon: `Left Behind' Series Picks Up Steam
- Shedding Light on Buddhist Practice
- The Shadow of the Cross
- Magic Wands for New Possibilities
- De-Christianizing America
- Suffering Your Way to God
- Spiritual News You Can Use
- A New Use of 'Faith'
- Did Christ Invent Christianity?
- The Best Spiritual Book Of The Year
- Harry Potter, Christ Figure?
- What the World Needs Now
- The Reason for My Hope
- 'It's Todd's character that shines through'
- Suffering Your Way to Knowing God
- New Catholic Books
- Christian Books: The Fall Crop
- Girl Meets God
- Spiritual Books for Fall
- How the Black and White Divide Caused a Furor over Church and State
- Canticles, Kabbalah and Day of the Dead for Kids
- 6 Books to Read Before They Hit the Big Screen
- Being 'Still' with Lauren F. Winner
- Shawn Johnson Strikes a Winning Balance
- Book Review: 'As One Devil to Another'
- Live God’s Story for Your Life
- What No One’s Telling Parents About Comic Books
- Top Children's Book Series
- 10 Steps to Becoming Fearless
- Best Books for Kids This Summer
- 10 Books on Faith and Justice
- 10 Ways Facebook Can Change Your Life
- Top 100 Inspirational Books: 100 - 81
- Toying with God
- Look! It's Jesus!
- "Look! It's Jesus!" Book Contest: Official Rules
- Children's Book Review 2009
- Masonic Myths
- An 'American Idol' Star Shares 10 Tips for Happiness
- Inspiring Wisdom from a Basketball Star's Mom
- 'Worse than Hell': Christopher Hitchens on the Religious Mind
- Enter to Win A Copy of Mitch Albom's New Book
- Angelic Messenger Cards Prize Promotion: Official Rules and Regulations
- Dean Koontz: Angels, Demons, and Our Mysterious World
- An Unforgettable Season
- Letting Go of a Dream
- Harry Potter Your Predictions
- Contest: Win a Holiday Entertaining Book Set
- 10 Tips to be a Winner in Life
- America's Roadside Miracles
- Win Rick Warren's "The Purpose of Christmas"
- The Lady in the Library
- Facing the Fear with Michelle Aguilar
- Chuck Pagano - World Class Act
- Review on Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Total Recall
- A Review on Michael Vick's Book Finally Free
- A Wrestler of Faith and Fortitude
- It's All Good
- Bear Grylls Talks Man vs. Life
- How God Became More Real to Me
- Our Panel of 50 Shades
- Gold Medal-Winning Gymnast Shawn Johnson Pens Inspirational Story in Winning Balance
- Jay Milbrandt on How to Change the World One Story at a Time
- Fighting for Souls in Hollywood
- Celebrate the Dreamer in You
- Fighting Back
- Karin Slaughter Leaves Readers in Awe with Pretty Girls
- Writers Who Never Gave Up on Their Dreams
- What's on Your E-Reader? - Top Books Read in America
- Learn How to Own It
- The Dog-eared Days of Summer
- Cruz Control
- The Berenstain Bears Continue to Teach Children
- Miriam: Repentance and Redemption in Rome
- Whitney Was Whitney BeBe Winans Remembers Whitney Houston
- Winter Moon Rises
- She’s Still Got It: Interview with Author Liz Curtis Higgs
- Summer Reading for Catholic Families
- Alice, Queen of Hearts?
- Amanda Peet Ties Jewish Roots With New Children’s Book
- Expect a Miracle: A Mother's Tale of Brotherly Love
- Did Jane Austen foresee the Zombie Apocalypse?
- Si-cology: Wit and Wisdom from Everybody’s Favorite Uncle
- 5 Things You Didn’t Know about The Hobbit Book
- Best Beach Reads
- The Tehran Initiative
- You Mean My Attitude Stinks?
- 7 Wonders of C. S. Lewis’ Narnia Chronicles
- 5 Books Every Catholic Should Read
- Books That Grab Our Heart Strings
- Review on Elizabeth: A Holy Land Pilgrimage
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- Best Spiritual Books of the Year
- A Conversation with Paulo Coelho
- Match the Quote to the Classic Book
