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Author
Publisher
Zoderkidz
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
On a visit to a tree lot, the Johnson family sees three beautifully decorated trees standing in the center of the lot. A mysterious silver gift-wrapped box is under one of the trees. The old lot owner notices their intrigue and what he tells them, not only marks the beginning of a new family tradition, but also brings meaning and understanding into their Christmas celebration. In The Legend of the Christmas Tree, children ages 4 to 8 will discover...
Author
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xii, 467 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Science and religion have always been at each other’s throats, right? Not so. Most things you ‘know’ about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today. The true history of science and religion is a human one. It’s about the role of religion in inspiring, and strangling, science before the scientific revolution. It’s about the sincere but eccentric faith...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Analyzing the theories and findings of such titans as Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin, a renowned science writer and mathematician demonstrates in multiple ways that science has not, as yet, provided any definitive proof refuting the existence of God.
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Why, asks Rebecca Davis, did conversions seem so prevalent between the mid-1940s and the late 1990s, and why did people care? Examining the highly-publicized and controversial conversions of individuals include Clare Boothe Luce (Protestantism to Catholicism), Whittaker Chambers ("godless Communist" to Christianity), Sammy Davis, Jr., (Christianity to Judaism), and Muhammad Ali (Christianity to Islam), Davis roots this dynamic in Cold War culture,...
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
191 pages : portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Frederick Douglass was born into slavery on Maryland's Eastern Shore and became an extraordinary champion of liberty and equality. Throughout his long life, Douglass was also a man of profound religious conviction. ... With an eye toward explaining how Douglass's religious beliefs shaped his influential public career, Dilbeck retells the story of Douglass's life"--
32) Wicked Saints
Author
Series
Something Dark and Holy volume 1
Publisher
Wednesday Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition ;
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
385 pages : 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Some stories are so beautiful, so brutal, that they claw at your heart and refuse to let go. Welcome to the world of Wicked Saints--an epic, passionate novel that you won't soon forget. Prepare to meet: A girl named Nadya, who hears the whispers of the gods inside her head, a Prince surrounded by desperate suitors and deadly assassins, and a monster hidden behind pale, tortured eyes--and a smile that cuts like a knife. The paths of these three characters...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In God's Battalions, award-winning author Rodney Stark takes on the long-held view that the Crusades were the first round of European colonialism, conducted for land, loot, and converts by barbarian Christians who victimized the cultivated Muslims. To the contrary, Stark argues that the Crusades were the first military response to unwarranted Muslim terrorist aggression.Stark reviews the history of the seven major Crusades from 1095 to 1291, demonstrating...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xiv, 237 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In middle age, Ehrenreich came across the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence and set out to reconstruct that quest, which had taken her to the study of science and through a cataclysmic series of uncanny-or as she later learned to call them, "mystical"-experiences. A staunch atheist and rationalist, she is profoundly shaken by the implications of her life-long search. Part memoir, part philosophical and spiritual inquiry, LIVING...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Millions of readers have thrilled to bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and historian Martin Dugard's Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln, page-turning works of nonfiction that have changed the way we read history. Now the anchor of The O'Reilly Factor details the events leading up to the murder of the most influential man in history: Jesus of Nazareth. Nearly two thousand years after this beloved and controversial young revolutionary was brutally...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Near-death experiences are controversial. Thousands of people have had them, but many in the scientific community have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those people. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that what people of faith call the "soul" is really a product of brain chemistry. NDEs, he would have been the first to explain, might feel real, but they are fantasies produced by brains under extreme stress....
37) Together We Rot
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
258 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Wil Greene and Elwood Clarke used to be inseparable. That was before she accused his family of killing her mother.
These days, Wil spends her time gathering not-so-legal evidence on her mom's disappearance for an apathetic sheriff, while she and her checked-out dad try to make ends meet at their failing motel. They're a hair's breadth away from foreclosure, and the powerful Clarkes have their eye on the property.
Elwood has been counting down the...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After her parents are arrested by Chinese soldiers because of their religious beliefs, twelve-year-old Tash and her best friend Sam travel from their home in Tibet across the Himalayas to India in order to seek the help of the Dalai Lama.
Author
Publisher
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xiv, 197 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Search of Mister Rogers pursues a rich understanding of this good, kind, sometimes strange, deeply influential, holy man: the neighborhood he came from, the neighborhood he built, and the kind of neighbor he, by his example, calls all of us to be evennow, in our own troubled time"--
