Great new book recommendations for our Spiritual Seeker this Summer
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september new releases
A Reason to See You Again
by Jami Attenberg
A Most Anticipated Book from: New York Times * People* Associated Press * Time * Saturday Evening Post * Real Simple * Book Bub * Alta
From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling novel of family, following a troubled mother and her two daughters over forty years and through a swiftly changing American landscape as they seek lives they can fully claim as their own.
The women of the Cohen family are in crisis. Triggered by the death of their patriarch, Rudy, the glue that held them all together, everyone's lives soon take a dramatic turn.
Shelly, the younger of the two Cohen sisters, runs off to the West Coast to immerse herself in the emerging (and lucrative) world of technology. Her sister, Nancy, gets married at the age of twenty-one to a traveling salesman with a shadowy lifestyle, while their mother, Frieda, hurls herself into a boozy, troubled existence in Miami, trying to forget the past even as it haunts her.
What about Me?: Get Out of Your Own Way and Discover the Power of an Unselfish Life
by Joyce Meyer
Experience the true satisfaction and power of living unselfishly with #1 New York Times bestselling author and renowned Bible teacher Joyce Meyer.
As we go about our daily lives, there is a little voice in our minds that's always asking, "What about me?" Maybe your voice says, "When is it my turn to be noticed at work?" or "When will someone in this family do something for me?" That voice may be whispering to you about your finances, your job, or your friends, but it is always encouraging you to think about something you don't have. And sadly, social media and culture in general lead us to focus on this world's concept of happiness and success--but does it work?
The Dragon's Prophecy: Israel, the Dark Resurrection, and the End of Days
by Jonathan Cahn
Just when you thought Jonathan Cahn's books couldn't get more explosive, comes ...
THE DRAGON'S PROPHECY: Israel, the Dark Resurrection, and the End of Days.
Is there more to the world than meets our eyes - another realm that's transforming our world at this very moment?
Is there an ancient vision that unlocks what is really happening to our world and what is yet to come?
A dangerous force from ancient times that is now operating in the world and determining the course of world events?
Did a three-thousand-year old mystery actually foretell the invasion of Israel by Hamas down to the year - and even the exact date?
Is there a secret to the Book of Revelation that actually reveals what is taking place right now?
After eight New York Times bestsellers, Jonathan Cahn NOW releases his newest stunning blockbuster....
THE DRAGON'S PROPHECY: Israel, the Dark Resurrection, and the End of Days.
For the first time ever, Jonathan Cahn will open up End-Time Prophecy to reveal the mysteries behind the End of the Age and what is now happening before our eyes - even the hidden keys to victory in the light of what's coming - and how to overcome your Dragon!
I Once Was Lost: My Search for God in America
by Don Lemon
In a deeply personal follow-up to his #1 bestseller This is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends about Racism, a modern media iconoclast faces a test of faith--and reveals how such tribulations can make us stronger, as individuals and as a nation.
Renowned journalist Don Lemon always had a complicated relationship with God. He cherished the Southern Black church he was raised in, but struggled with the fundamentalist rejection of his right to exist as a gay man--one who wanted to marry his longtime love in a church wedding with all the traditional trimmings. In his work as a reporter, moreover, he saw his fellow Americans losing faith in a higher power, in institutions, and in each other.
August new releases
Needles Out: Boho Embroidery: Mixed Media Techniques
by Nichole Vogelsinger
Needles Out is the third title in artist and author Nichole Vogelsinger's bestselling embroidery series, and the first to feature mixed-media techniques.
With more than 100 illustrations and 50 photographs, this highly illustrated hardcover book will reestablish the techniques discussed in Nichole's previous books and lay a foundation for four new ones: beading/embellishing, stumpwork, fabric painting, and needle felting. Each technique will have three projects, so readers can continue to deepen their embroidery skills.
Healing from Codependency: A Devotional with Prayers and Practices for Healthy Boundaries
by Wendy Lehnertz
The only Christian devotional on healing from codependency and establishing healthy boundaries
People struggling with codependency need God more than ever. Healing from Codependency invites you, the readers, to find your center by seeking God and looking inward before focusing on others. Codependency can keep you in self-neglect and preoccupied with what you cannot control, or emotionally isolated and believing you need only be self-reliant to get through the day. Whichever side you find yourself on, codependency perpetuates loneliness and isolation. But no one is alone in God's embrace. With weekly devotions, prayers, and practices based on biblical principles, this book will empower you to step out of codependent roles, embrace healthy boundaries, and live interdependently.
Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
by Brenda Wineapple
In this magnificent book, award-winning author of The Impeachers brings to life the dramatic story of the 1925 Scopes trial, which captivated the nation and exposed profound divisions in America that still resonate today--divisions over the meaning of freedom, religion, education, censorship, and civil liberties in a democracy.
"No subject possesses the minds of men like religious bigotry and hate, and these fires are being lighted today in America." So said legendary attorney Clarence Darrow as hundreds of people descended on the sleepy town of Dayton, Tennessee, for the trial of a schoolteacher named John T. Scopes, who was charged with breaking the law by teaching evolution to his biology class in a public school.
JULY New Releases
You Don't Have to Do It Alone: The Power of Friendship
by Mark Nepo
A celebration of friendship and community from bestselling author Mark Nepo
In his newest book, New York Times bestselling author Mark Nepo turns his attention to the value of community, offering another insightful and inspiring take on our shared human experience. You Don't Have to Do It Alone is an earnest exploration and joyous affirmation of one of the most important aspects of being human: friendship.
Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion
by Michael Taylor
When the twelve-year-old daughter of a British carpenter pulled some strange-looking bones from the country's southern shoreline in 1811, few people dared to question that the Bible told the accurate history of the world. But Mary Anning had in fact discovered the "first" ichthyosaur, and over the next seventy-five years--as the science of paleontology developed, as Charles Darwin posited radical new theories of evolutionary biology, and as scholars began to identify the internal inconsistencies of the Scriptures--everything changed. Beginning with the archbishop who dated the creation of the world to 6 p.m. on October 22, 4004 BC, and told through the lives of the nineteenth-century men and women who found and argued about these seemingly impossible, history-rewriting fossils, Impossible Monsters reveals the central role of dinosaurs and their discovery in toppling traditional religious authority, and in changing perceptions about the Bible, history, and mankind's place in the world.
Original Love: The Four Inns on the Path of Awakening
by Henry Shukman
The essential meditation guide for the twenty-first century: renowned mindfulness teacher Henry Shukman replaces the concept of original sin with original love, teaching us to tap into the love that shapes our world and can transform who we are.
An increasing number of people today feel disconnected, disengaged, and lonely. Many of us are seeking solace, beginning with ourselves. Original Love is the secular spiritual handbook we need to ease our troubles and find the highest possible happiness.
Henry Shukman, spiritual director of Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, provides a way forward based on four paths--Mindfulness, Support, Absorption, and Awakening--that promote growth and healing through meditation for practitioners of any level. And it works! Shukman includes inspiring stories from the students of his Original Love program that reveal how it has transformed their lives.