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This was a great story of a family and their dog. it was extremely sad (sobs in the last two chapters) but well worth reading it. I will be a mess again when I have to say goodbye to by childhood dog. Good read.

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

by Donald Miller

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. . . . I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened. In Donald Miller's early years, he was vaguely familiar with a distant God. But when he came to know Jesus Christ, he pursued the Christian life with great zeal. Within a few years he had a successful ministry that ultimately left him feeling empty, burned... (more)

Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith (Unabridged)

Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith (Unabridged)

by Rob Bell

God never changes, nor do the central truths of Christianity. But our understanding of those truths is in constant flux. Christians will always be exploring and discovering what it means to live in harmony with God and each other. Now in softcover, Velvet Elvis offers original and refreshingly personal perspectives on what Christianity is really about.

A Grief Observed

by C. S. Lewis

In this classic trial of faith, C. S. Lewis probes the fundamental issues of life and death, and summons those who grieve to honest mourning and hope in the midst of loss.

The Oath: Special Collection 10th Anniversary Edition

The Oath: Special Collection 10th Anniversary Edition

by Frank Peretti

Frank Peretti has again drawn he lines for a battle of cosmic proportions between the forces of good and evil in his new book, The Oath. A chilling murder brings wildlife biologist Steve Benson to investigate, but more than murder meets the eye.

Praise Habit: Finding God In Sunsets And Sushi

Praise Habit: Finding God In Sunsets And Sushi

by David Crowder

Praise is something we are, not something we do. This book reflects on psalms from The Message//Remix and explains how to develop a habit of praise in your everyday life. Learn a new way of thinking about praise––focusing on it as a lifestyle, not an event.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

by Mitch Albom

A specially produced paperback edition -- with flaps -- of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller, that has sold more than six million copies in hardcover Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. His days are a dull routine of work, loneliness, and regret. Then, on his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies in a tragic accident, trying... (more)

Tuesdays With Morrie

An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

by Mitch Albom

It’s been ten years since Mitch Albom first shared the wisdom of Morrie Schwartz with the world. Now–twelve million copies later–in a new afterword, Mitch Albom reflects again on the meaning of Morrie’s life lessons and the gentle, irrevocable impact of their Tuesday sessions all those years ago. . . _____ Maybe it was a grandparent, or a... (more)

Dinner with a Perfect Stranger: An Invitation Worth Considering

Dinner with a Perfect Stranger: An Invitation Worth Considering

by David Gregory

You are Invited to a Dinner with Jesus of Nazareth The mysterious envelope arrives on Nick Cominsky’s desk amid a stack of credit card applications and business-related junk mail. Although his seventy-hour workweek has already eaten into his limited family time, Nick can’t pass up the opportunity to see what kind of plot his colleagues have hatched. The normally confident, cynical Nick soon finds himself thrown... (more)

The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story

by Richard Preston

A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot" virus. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account of the appearance of rare and lethal... (more)

Into the Wild

by Jon Krakauer

In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. How... (more)

The Martyr's Song

by Ted Dekker

What would you die for? That's the question suddenly thrust upon a small band of women and children in Bosnia at the close of World War II. When a group of bitter soldiers stumble upon their peaceful village, they suddenly face an insidious evil...and the ultimate test. It is then, in the midst of chaos and pain that the Martyr's Song is first heard. It is then that the window into heaven first opens. It is... (more)

Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays : Picasso at the LapinAgile, the Zig-Zag Woman, Patter for a Floating Lady, WASP

Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays : Picasso at the LapinAgile, the Zig-Zag Woman, Patter for a Floating Lady, WASP

by Steve Martin

Steve Martin is one of America's most treasured actors, having appeared in some of the most popular moves of our time. He is also an accomplished screenwriter who has in the past few years turned his hand to writing plays. The results, collected here, hilariously explore serious questions of love, happiness and the meaning of life; they are rich with equal parts of pain and slapstick humour, torment and wit.

Wanting More

by Joel Vestal

Wanting More will inspire, instruct, and motivate you in the pursuit of knowing and serving Jesus. Through his remarkable real life stories and passionate voice, author Joel Vestal challenges you to live out the biblical practices of prayer, compassion, justice, simplicity, and service in a creative authentic way. The goal of this book is nothing less than to inspire and unleash a new army of workers around the... (more)

A Day with a Perfect Stranger

by David Gregory

What if a fascinating stranger knew you better than you know yourself? When her husband comes home with a farfetched story about eating dinner with someone he believes to be Jesus, Mattie Cominsky thinks this may signal the end of her shaky marriage. Convinced that Nick is, at best, turning into a religious nut, the self-described agnostic hopes that a quick business trip will give her time to think things... (more)

Almanac of Complete World Knowledge: Book 1

The Areas of My Expertise

by John Hodgman

Hot on the heels of the #1 bestsellers The Onion's Our Dumb Century and Jon Stewart's America comes The Areas of My Expertise , the brilliant and uproarious #15 bestseller (i.e., a runaway phenomenon in its own right-no, seriously)-a lavish compendium of handy reference tables, fascinating trivia, and sage wisdom-all of it completely unresearched, completely undocumented and (presumably) completely untrue,... (more)

Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories

by Elmore Leonard

Trust was rare and precious in the wide-open towns that sprung up like weeds on America's frontier—with hustlers and hucksters arriving in droves by horse, coach, wagon, and rail, and gunmen working both sides of the law, all too eager to end a man's life with a well-placed bullet. The New York Times -bestselling Grand Master of suspense deftly displays the other side of his genius, with seven classic western... (more)

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

by Ishmael Beah

My new friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life. “Why did you leave Sierra Leone?” “Because there is a war.” “You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?” “Yes, all the time.” “Cool.” I smile a little. “You should tell us about it sometime.” “Yes, sometime.” This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s.... (more)

The Next Level: A Parable of Finding Your Place in Life

The Next Level: A Parable of Finding Your Place in Life

by David Gregory

Business degree in hand, Logan enters the immense Universal Systems building and is hired as an organizational analyst — a trouble-shooter. His job: evaluate the company’s five divisions, each on a separate level and each operating on startlingly unique principles. Which set of principles is successful? Why is most of the company’s profit generated by one tiny division? What is real profit, anyway? And who is the... (more)

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Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog

by John Grogan

by Donald Miller

by Rob Bell

by C. S. Lewis

by Frank Peretti

by David Crowder

by Mitch Albom

An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

by Mitch Albom

by David Gregory

by Richard Preston

by Jon Krakauer

by Ted Dekker

by Steve Martin

by Joel Vestal

by David Gregory

by John Hodgman

by Elmore Leonard

by Ishmael Beah

by David Gregory