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People of the Lie: the Hope For Healing Human Evil

People of the Lie: the Hope For Healing Human Evil

by M. Scott Peck MD

A description of the author's experience of psychiatric therapy with patients who appear manifestly evil which attempts to show that a spiritual or even religious dimension is required to aid in the understanding of human nature.

The Mitford Years: Book 7

In This Mountain

by Jan Karon

Restless with his retirement, Father Tim, accompanied by Cynthia, gears up for a year-long ministry across the state line, but a series of events sends shock waves throughout the town of Mitford and through Father Tim's faith.

The Mitford Years: Book 5

A New Song

by Jan Karon

Jan Karon's millions of fans can't wait to sit down with her heartwarming and hilarious characters, who have a way of becoming family. In A New Song , Mitford's longtime Episcopal priest, Father Tim, retires. However, new challenges and adventures await when he agrees to serve as interim minister of a small church on Whitecap Island. He and his wife, Cynthia, soon find that Whitecap has its own unforgettable... (more)

The Mitford Years: Book 1

At Home in Mitford

by Jan Karon

A heartwarming portrait of the mysteries and miracles of everyday life in a small town introduces the charming North Carolina town of Mitford and its colorful inhabitants, including Tim, a bachelor rector, who is falling in love with his neighbor. Reprint.

The Mitford Years: Book 4

Out to Canaan

by Jan Karon

Thousands of readers have come home to Mitford, the little town with the big heart, whose endearing and eccentric residents have become like family members. But now change is coming to the hamlet. Father Tim, the Episcopal rector, and his wife Cynthia are pondering retirement; a brash new mayoral candidate is calling for aggressive development; a suspicious realtor with plans for a health spa is eyeing the beloved... (more)

The Road Less Traveled

A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

by M. Scott Peck MD

Perhaps no book in this generation has had a more profound impact on our intellectual and spiritual lives than The Road Less Traveled. With sales of more than seven million copies in the United States and Canada, and translations into more than twenty-three languages, it has made publishing history, with more than ten years on the New York Times bestseller list. Now, with a new Introduction by the author,... (more)

Wish You Well

by David Baldacci

Precocious 12-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes--and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on their great-grandmother's farm in the Virginia mountains. Suddenly Lou finds herself coming of age in a new landscape, making her first true friend, and experiencing adventures tragic, comic, and audacious. But... (more)

The Christmas Train

by David Baldacci

Disillusioned journalist Tom Langdon must get from Washington to L.A. in time for Christmas. Forced to take the train across the country because of a slight "misunderstanding" at airport security, he begins a journey of self-discovery and rude awakenings, mysterious goings-on and thrilling adventures, screwball escapades and holiday magic. He has no idea that the locomotives pulling him across America will... (more)

Joy in the Morning

by Betty Smith

In Brooklyn, New York, in 1927, Carl Brown and Annie McGairy meet and fall in love.Though only eighteen, Annie travels alone to the Midwestern university where Carl is studying law to marry him. Little did they know how difficult their first year of marriage would be, in a faraway place with little money and few friends. But Carl and Annie come to realize that the struggles and uncertainty of poverty and... (more)

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

by Sarah Delaney, Amy Hill Hearth, Sarah Louise Delany

A collection of humorous and inspirational quotes by a feisty pair of century-old sisters offers advice on living a long life while reflecting on the monumental changes in African-American history throughout their lifetimes. Reprint. AB.

My Cousin Rachel

by Daphne du Maurier

"From the first page…the reader is back in the moody, brooding atmosphere of Rebecca." —The New York Times From the bestselling author of Rebecca, another classic set in beautiful and mysterious Cornwall. Philip Ashley's older cousin Ambrose, who raised the orphaned Philip as his own son, has died in Rome. Philip, the heir to Ambrose's beautiful English estate, is crushed that the man he loved died far from... (more)

Are You Running With Me, Jesus? 40th Anniversary Edition

Are You Running With Me, Jesus? 40th Anniversary Edition

by Malcolm Boyd

At once informal and literate, these prayers are also deeply personal...Their eloquence comes from the personal struggle they contain--a struggle to believe, to keep going, a spiritual contest that is agonized, courageous and not always won.

Our Appalachia

An Oral History

"The whole history, past and present, of Appalachia is in this book in the words of the people most fit to tell it. The editors have done a superb job of arranging and commenting on the interviews -- juxtaposing contrary opinions about issues as varied as strip-mining, traditional way and modern life, tourism and local politics, and the future of the whole region.-- New York Times Book Review " -- New York Times... (more)

Growing Up Hard in Harlan CountryG. C. Jones

Growing Up Hard in Harlan Country

by G. C. Jones

Burly men with stern expressions, coal dust on their callused ready hands, and Christian values in their hearts settled the mountains of Appalachia over a century ago. G.C. "Red" Jones, a determined boy from Harlan County, Kentucky, found himself in the company of these "true mountain men" in the early 1900s. After being thrown out of his home without money or food, Jones set out to prove his independence and... (more)

The Shepherd

by Joseph F. Girzone

A GENTLEMAN NAMED JOSHUA AND A SIMPLE MESSAGE THAT COULD REVOLUTIONIZE THE CHURCH... It is the end of a bitter cold winter. A crowd of people files into a cathedral to celebrate the consecration of a new bishop -- a good man, they think, strict in doctrine but capable of compassion. A man of tradition, not of reform. A "company man." His name is David Campbell. And sitting in the last pew of the cathedral... (more)

A Woman in the House

by William E. Barrett

A novel about a young monk who owned nothing of his own, but found himself holding the world's most priceless possession. The author tells a love story symbolic of the love and hope men yearn for everywhere.

Hagar : A Novel

by Lois T. Henderson

Ruth, a NovelLois T. Henderson

Ruth, a Novel

by Lois T. Henderson

Wish You WellDavid Baldacci

Wish You Well

by David Baldacci

A genuinely touching, thoughtful, triumphant novel that will endure for years to come. Two chidren who must leave their home in NY to live with their mysterious great grandmother on a farm high in the mountains of Virginia. Time fills their hearts and give them faith to believe in miracles again.

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by M. Scott Peck MD

by Jan Karon

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by Jan Karon

A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

by M. Scott Peck MD

by David Baldacci

by David Baldacci

by Betty Smith

by Sarah Delaney, Amy Hill Hearth, Sarah Louise Delany

by Daphne du Maurier

by Malcolm Boyd

An Oral History

by G. C. Jones

by Joseph F. Girzone

by William E. Barrett

by Lois T. Henderson

by Lois T. Henderson

by David Baldacci

by Elizabeth Berg