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  Here I Stand

  A Life of Martin Luther

  by Roland Herbert Bainton

  Available for the first time in trade paperback, this authoritative biography of the great religious leader was hailed by Time magazine as "the most readable Luther biography in English." This edition showcases the intricate woodcuts and engravings that enhance the text and give the flavor of the era in which Martin Luther lived. More than 100 woodcuts and engravings.
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  Wolf Hall Trilogy: Book 1

  Wolf Hall

  by Hilary Mantel

  In inimitable style, Hilary Mantel presents a picture of a half-made society on the cusp of change, where individuals fight or embrace their fate with passion and courage. With a vast array of characters, overflowing with incident, the novel re-creates an era when the personal and political are separated by a hairbreadth, where success brings unlimited power but a single failure means death.
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  The Betrayal

  A Novel on John Calvin

  by Douglas Bond

  Set amidst the backdrop of the scholarship and humanism of renaissance France, and its love of luxury, power, and decadence, this fast-paced biographical novel on John Calvin is told from the perspective of a rival whose envy escalates to violent intrigue and shameless betrayal. The Betrayal is the tale of the private war of one man who was determined to sell all for a convoluted allegiance to the King of France... (more)
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  Matthew Shardlake Mysteries: Book 3

  Sovereign

  by C. J. Sansom

  The third installment of C. J. Sansom’s acclaimed Matthew Shardlake mystery series C. J . Sansom has garnered a wider audience and increased critical praise with each new novel published. His first book in the Matthew Shardlake series, Dissolution , was selected by P. D. James in The Wall Street Journal as one of her top-five all-time favorite books. Now in Sovereign, Shardlake and his loyal assistant, Jack... (more)
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  The Preacher's Bride

  by Jody Hedlund

  In 1650s England, a young Puritan maiden is on a mission to save the baby of her newly widowed preacher--whether her assistance is wanted or not. Always ready to help those in need, Elizabeth ignores John's protests of her aid. She's even willing to risk her lone marriage prospect to help the little family. Yet Elizabeth's new role as nanny takes a dangerous turn when John's boldness from the pulpit makes... (more)
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  A World Lit Only by Fire

  The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age

  by William Manchester

  Chronicles the historical transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance and focuses on riveting figures such as Leonardo da Vinci, Lucrezia Borgia, Henry VIII, and others. By the author of Death of a President. Reprint. PW.
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  Matthew Shardlake Mysteries: Book 1

  Dissolution

  by C. J. Sansom

  Exciting and elegantly written, Dissolution is an utterly compelling first novel and a riveting portrayal of Tudor England. The year is 1537, and the country is divided between those faithful to the Catholic Church and those loyal to the king and the newly established Church of England. When a royal commissioner is brutally murdered in a monastery on the south coast of England, Thomas Cromwell,... (more)
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  Calvin Institutes of the Christian Religion

  by John Calvin

  This limited edition of John Calvin's Reformation classic, Institutes of the Christian Religion , commemorates the 500th anniversary of Calvin's birth in 1509. This beautiful new jacketed cloth volume features: * An eight-page, four-color insert on coated stock, including a frontispiece featuring the title page of the original publication and a timeline of the Reformation and of John Calvin's life * Two... (more)
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  Matthew Shardlake Mysteries: Book 5

  Heartstone

  by C. J. Sansom

  It was summer, 1545. England is at war. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel. As the English fleet gathers at Portsmouth, the country raises the largest militia army it has ever seen. The King has debased the currency to pay for the war, and England is in the grip of soaring inflation and economic crisis. Meanwhile Matthew... (more)
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  Q: Book 1

  Q

  by Luther Blissett

  1517 Martin Luther nails his ninety-five theses to the door of Wittenburg Cathedral, and a dance of death begins between a radical Anabaptist with many names and a loyal papal spy, known mysteriously as "Q." In this brilliantly conceived literary thriller set in the chaos of the Reformation-an age devastated by wars of religion-a young theology student adopts the cause of heretics and the disinherited and finds... (more)
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  Penguin Lives

  Martin Luther

  A Life

  by Martin E. Marty

  Martin Marty—professor, author, pastor, historian, and journalist—is, in Bill Moyers’s words, "the most influential interpreter of American religion." In Martin Luther this man of unswerving faith, rooted in his own Lutheran tradition yet deeply committed to helping enrich a pluralist society, brings to powerful life the devout Reformation figure whose despair for a perilous world, felt anew in our own times,... (more)
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  The Reformation

  by Diarmaid MacCulloch

  At a time when men and women were prepared to kill—and be killed—for their faith, the Reformation tore the Western world apart. Acclaimed as the definitive account of these epochal events, Diarmaid MacCulloch’s award-winning new history brilliantly re-creates the religious battles of priests, monarchs, scholars, and politicians—from the zealous Martin Luther to the radical Loyola, from the tortured Cranmer... (more)
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  Reformed Doctrine of Predestination

  by Loraine Boettner

  One of the 20th-century's most reasoned explanations of the sovereignty of God and the Reformed interpretation of salvation. "Whoever really wants to know what Calvinism teaches cannot do better than to read this book from cover to cover".--United Presbyterian magazine.
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  Luther

  Man Between God and the Devil

  by Heiko Augustinus Oberman

  Written by an authority on Martin Luther, this is the definitive biography of the central figure of the Protestant Reformation.
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  The Pelican History of the Church: Book 3

  The Reformation

  by Owen Chadwick

  The beginning of the sixteenth century brought growing pressure within the Western Church for Reformation. The popes could not hold Western Christendom together and there was confusion about Church reform. What some believed to be abuses, others found acceptable. Nevertheless over the years three aims emerged: to reform the exactions of churchmen, to correct errors of doctrines and to improve the moral awareness... (more)
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  Christianity's Dangerous Idea: The Protestant Revolution--A History from the Sixteenth Century to the Twenty-First

  by Alister E. McGrath

  The "dangerous idea" lying at the heart of Protestantism is that the interpretation of the Bible is each individual's right and responsibility. The spread of this principle has resulted in five hundred years of remarkable innovation and adaptability, but it has also created cultural incoherence and social instability. Without any overarching authority to rein in "wayward" thought, opposing sides on controversial... (more)
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  Matthew Shardlake Mysteries: Book 4

  Revelation

  by C. J. Sansom

  Spring, 1543. King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife. But this time the object of his affections is resisting. Archbishop Cranmer and the embattled Protestant faction at court are watching keenly, for Lady Catherine is known to have reformist sympathies. Matthew Shardlake, meanwhile, is working on the case of a teenage boy, a religious maniac locked in the Bedlam hospital... (more)
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  Martin Luther

  Selections from His Writings

  by Martin Luther, John Dillenberger

  The development of Martin Luther's thought was both a symptom and moving force in the transformation of the Middle Ages into the modern world. Geographical discovery, an emerging scientific tradition, and a climate of social change had splintered the unity of medieval Christian culture, and these changes provided the background for Luther's theological challenge. His new apprehension of Scripture and fresh... (more)
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  The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century

  by Roland Herbert Bainton

  According a page in the book: Roland Herbert Bainton was (maybe still?) Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale and he served in World War I with the Quaker unit of the American Red Cross. On the back cover: "A vigorous, popularly written hostory of the Reformation which contracts a vast body of scholarship into a little space...Contemporary woodcuts handsomely set off the text." - ALA Booklist.
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  Portrait of an Unknown Woman

  by Vanora Bennett

  In the year 1527, the great portraitist Hans Holbein, fleeing the Protestant Reformation, comes to England under commission to Sir Thomas More. Over the course of the next six years, Holbein paints two nearly identical portraits of the More family, his dear and loyal friends. But closer examination of the second painting reveals several mysteries. . . . Set against the turmoil and tragedy of Henry VIII's... (more)