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New copy From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a reexamination of the biblical David, legendary warrior, poet, and king, by one of America's most respected rabbis "An excellent study of the most fascinating character in the Old Testament."--Wall Street Journal "A portrait of David that is vibrant and nuanced, full of the complications that marked his life."--Jewish Week Of all the figures in the… Read more about this item

In the 1780s, around 40,000 slaves a year were taken from Africa in British ships, on the notorious "Middle Passage," to the Caribbean. In 1787, under an oak tree in Kent, the British Prime Minister, William Pitt, invited his friend William Wilberforce to introduce a parliamentary bill outlawing the slave trade. Neither of them imagined a twenty-year political campaign that… Read more about this item

New copy; exhibits minor shelf wear. During a career spanning sixty years, the Reverend Billy Graham's resonant voice and chiseled profile entered the living rooms of millions of Americans with a message that called for personal transformation through God's grace. How did a lanky farm kid from North Carolina become an evangelist hailed by the media as "America's pastor"? Why did… Read more about this item

Library of Religious Biography "So you're the little woman who started this big war," Abraham Lincoln is said to have quipped when he met Harriet Beecher Stowe. Her 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabinconverted readers by the thousands to the anti-slavery movement and served notice that the days of slavery were numbered. Overnight Stowe became a celebrity, but to defenders of slavery… Read more about this item

A new comprehensive biography of this hugely important Christian martyr, 60 years after his execution at the hands of the Nazis Bonhoeffer has gained a position as one of the most prominent Christian martyrs of the last century. His influence is so widespread that even 60 years after his execution by the Nazis, Bonhoeffer's life and work are still the subject… Read more about this item

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? NAMED ONE OF PASTE'S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY… Read more about this item

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK by Salon, The Week, Elle, Bustle, and more. Full of intimate stories, from chasing down secret love affairs to battling body image and struggling with familial strife, Pageboy is a love letter to the power of being seen. With this evocative and lyrical debut, Oscar-nominated star Elliot Page captures the universal human experience of searching for… Read more about this item

Augustine's 'Confessions', written at the close of the fourth century CE, is a highly significant text in the history of European culture. Augustine explains just how and why he came to abandon a successful career and the personal enjoyments of a largely secular existence to follow a life of prayer and study, leading to a true comprehension of God and… Read more about this item

The essential writings of one of the most significant Christian witnesses of this century sends a challenging message about martyrdom and resistance to evil.—Publisher

Translated from Widerstand and Ergebung: Briefe und Aufzeichnungen aus der Haft (Munich: Christian Kaiser Verlag, 1970). | One of the great classics of prison literature, Letters and Papers from Prison effectively serves as the last will and testament of the Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a young German pastor who was executed by the Nazis in 1945 for… Read more about this item

Fair example. Paper cover is loose and chipped. Back cover has become detached. Interior pages are clean and unmarked. Edges of textblock are soiled. Back cover has stamp of Erich Carlsohn Buchhandlung, Leipzig.

Marriage doesn't define a relationship. Unless you want it to. In Marry Me a Little, Rob Kirby recounts his experience of marrying his longtime partner, John, just after gay marriage was legalized in Minnesota in 2013, and two years before the Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges made gay marriage the law of the land. This is a personal… Read more about this item

"You can't let people be treated in an inhuman way around you. . . . Otherwise you start to become inhuman." So speaks rescuer Hetty Voûte in The Heart Has Reasons, a remarkable book that provides both a fresh look at the "righteous gentiles," and a meditation on what they might have to teach us more than half a century… Read more about this item

These extraordinary essays on art, family, and faith are divided into the four seasons, each of which Tom searches for the miracle of ordinary wisdom: in the barren death of a goldfinch, in the resurrection of wildflowers in the meadow, in the raccoons that "waddle through the forsythia like furry tanks," and in his son's birth, a moment of "both… Read more about this item

Summary: Presents a collection of writings by Verna Dozier, eloquent prophet and teacher of the Bible, featuring selections from her work, including "The Authority of the Laity", "Equipping the Saints", her manuscript on the Bible, sermons, and interviews.

From award-winning author Tonya Bolden comes a biography of the first Black woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and the first Black woman to run for president with a major political party: Shirley Chisholm. | Before there was Barack Obama, before there was Kamala Harris, there was Fighting Shirley Chisholm. A daughter of Barbadian immigrants, Chisholm developed her… Read more about this item

Table of contents | Merton's ministry of letters | Blessings : the Merton-Aziz letters | Love : the Merton-Chakravarty letters | Wisdom : the Merton-Wu letters | Holiness : the Merton-Heschel letters | Zen : the Merton-Suzuki letters | Openness : the Merton-Hinson letters | Compassion : the Merton-Nhat Hanh letters | Courage : the Merton-Yungblut letters | Unity :… Read more about this item

New copy; back cover has a minor tear but is otherwise in new condition.

2020 Stonewall -- Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir… Read more about this item

Father Shannon Kearns is familiar with liminal spaces. He's lived in them his whole life. And while his experience as a transgender man has often made it difficult for him to fit in--especially in the context of Christianity--it has also shaped his perspective in important ways on complicated, gender-transgressing aspects of theology and Scripture. In the Margins weaves stories from Shannon's… Read more about this item