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David C Cook Publishing Company A Lifelong Love: Discovering How Intimacy with God Breathes Passion Into Your Marriage
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David C Cook Publishing Company My Bible Colouring Book
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David C Cook Publishing Company A Horse for Kate: Volume 1
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David C Cook Publishing Company Erasing Hell: What God Said About Eternity and the Things We Made Up
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David C Cook Publishing Company 1 Peter
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David C Cook Publishing Company The Mosaic Course: Understanding World Religions from a Christian Perspective
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David R. Godine Publisher Inc The Presence of Absence
“Flows with depth and power....wide-open wonder.”—Washington Post“Simon Van Booy electrifyingly combines story with parable....wise, witty and always breathtakingly beautiful.”—San Francisco Chronicle, Best Fiction of the Year As a writer lies dying, he has one last story to tell: a tale of faith and devotion, a meditation on what lies beyond this life, and a prayer of gratitude that may lead to rebirth. This is Simon Van Booy at his visionary best. “Language is a map leading to a place not on the map,” announces a young writer lying in a hospital bed at the beginning of The Presence of Absence. As he contemplates his impending physical disappearance and the impact on his beloved wife, he realizes, “Life doesn’t start when you’re born . . . it begins when you commit yourself to the eventual devastating loss that results from connecting to another person.” Infused with poetic clarity and graced with humor, Simon Van Booy’s innovative novella asks the reader to find beauty—even gratitude—in the cycle of birth and death. Stripped of artifice, The Presence of Absence is a meditation between the writer and the reader, an imaginative work that challenges the deceit of written words and explores our strongest emotions. Simon Van Booy is not only a master storyteller but a writer whose fiction is rich with philosophical insights into things both mapped and undiscovered. The Presence of Absence parts the darkness to reveal what has been just out of sight all along.
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David C Cook Publishing Company Psalms
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David R. Godine Publisher Inc Birds Beasts and Flowers
D H Lawrence (1885-1930) made a contribution to poetry that, in the words of Louis Bogan, "Can now be recognized as one of the most important, in any language, of our time." "Birds, Beasts, and Flowers!" was his first great experiment into the form of free verse. This edition re-sets the text in the format of the first edition.
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David C Cook Publishing Company Anxious for Nothing: God's Cure for the Cares of Your Soul
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David C Cook Publishing Company Big Book of Bible Story Coloring Pages for Elementary Kids
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David C Cook Publishing Company 1&2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon
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David C Cook Publishing Company Be Committed - Ruth & Esther: Doing God's Will Whatever the Cost
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David C Cook Publishing Company Be Complete - Colossians: Become the Whole Person God Intendsyou to be
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David C Cook Publishing Company Wait and See Participant's Guide: A Six-Session Study on Waiting Well
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David C Cook Publishing Company Fresh Eyes on Famous Bible Sayings: Discovering New Insights in Familiar Passages
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David C Cook Publishing Company Action Bible Handbook
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David C Cook Publishing Company Praying for Your Child from Head to Toe: A 30-Day Guide to Powerful and Effective Scripture-Based Prayers
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David C Cook Publishing Company Proverbs: A Strong Man Is Wise: A 30-Day Devotional
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David C Cook Publishing Company She's Not Your Enemy - Includes Ten-Session Video Series: Conquering Our Insecurities So We Can Build God's Kingdom Together
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David C Cook Publishing Company She Belongs - Includes Six-Session Video Series: Finding Your Place in the Body of Christ
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David C Cook Publishing Company The Sacred Us: A Call to Radical Christian Community
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David C Cook Publishing Company Saints Alive Course DVD
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David C Cook Publishing Company Writing Worship: How to Craft Heartfelt Songs for the Church
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David C Cook Publishing Company God Loves You!: A Read-aloud Coloring Book About God's Plan for Salvation
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David R. Godine Publisher Inc Herbs and the Earth
“Charming, delightful, and a great companion for gardeners and naturalists alike.”—Booklist Lavender, basil, hyssop, balm, sage, rue — the thinking gardener’s guide to herbs. Writer/naturalist Henry Beston, a founding father of the environmental movement, believed that a strong connection to nature is essential. “It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live,” Beston says in his now-classic Herbs and the Earth. In this book, Beston shares one of those connections as seen through the oldest group of plants known to gardeners. “A garden of herbs,” he writes, “is a garden of things loved for themselves in their wholeness and integrity. It is not a garden of flowers, but a garden of plants which are sometimes very lovely flowers and are always more than flowers.” Whether you are already a committed herbalist or ju
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David R. Godine Publisher Inc Late Wonders: New & Selected Poems
“Wesley McNair, an unassuming, avowedly regional pastoral poet from Western Maine, is writing the best poetry of his life—poetry uniquely capable of, and interested in, addressing our larger moment.”—Los Angeles Review of Books Wesley McNair’s story-like poems have long celebrated eccentrics and misfits, the hopeful and the lost, with a tenderness that transcends the everyday. This career-spanning collection brings together his very best poems from the past four decades alongside his newest poems. Since the publication of his first book in the early 1980s, Wesley McNair has earned a reputation as a poet of place, an intimate observer of the speech and character of New England. In fact, McNair’s “place” is unlimited, as he proves in the lucid, far-ranging poems of this volume. “Whole lives fill small lines,” wrote Donald Hall of McNair’s work. He is truly, as Philip Levine wrote, “One of the great storytellers of contemporary poetry.” Late Wonders: New & Selected Poems includes “The Long Dream of Home” the complete trilogy of McNair’s masterful, long narrative poems written over the last thirty years: “My Brother Running,” “Fire,” and “Dwellers in the House of the Lord.” This is a collection for anyone who believes mixing a little sorrow and little comedy makes for poetry that moves the heart.
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David R. Godine Publisher Inc The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual
“Farnsworth beautifully integrates his own observations with scores of quotations from Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Montaigne and others. This isn’t just a book to read—it’s a book to return to, a book that will provide perspective and consolation at times of heartbreak or calamity.”—The Washington PostSee more clearly, live more wisely, and bear the burdens of this life with greater ease—here are the greatest insights of the Stoics, in their own words. Presented in twelve lessons, Ward Farnsworth systematically presents the heart of Stoic philosophy accompanied by commentary that is clear and concise.A foundational idea to Stoicism is that we appear to go through life reacting directly to events. That appearance is an illusion. We react to our judgments and opinions—to our thoughts about things, not to things themselves. Stoics seek to become conscious of those judgments, to find the irrationality in them, and to choose them more carefully.In chapters including Emotion, Adversity, Virtue, and What Others Think, here is the most valuable wisdom about living a good life from ages past—now made available for our time.
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David C Cook Publishing Company Suddenly Single Journal: Processing Your First Year After Divorce
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David C Cook Publishing Company Beholding: Deepening Our Experience in God
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David C Cook Publishing Company Raised to Stay: Persevering in Ministry When You Have a Million Reasons to Walk Away
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David C Cook Publishing Company Letters to the Church: Study Guide
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David C Cook Publishing Company Action Bible Devotional: 52 Weeks of God-inspired Adventure
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David C Cook Publishing Company The Action Bible: God's Redemptive Story
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David C Cook Publishing Company Joshua: Putting God's Power to Work in Your
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David C Cook Publishing Company Colossians
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David C Cook Publishing Company Romans
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David C Cook Publishing Company Be Determined ( Nehemiah ): Standing Firm in the Face of Opposition
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David C Cook Publishing Company Be Strong ( Joshua ): Putting God's Power to Work in Yourlife
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David C Cook Publishing Company Be Obedient ( Genesis 12- 24 ): Learning the Secret of Living by Faith
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David C Cook Publishing Company Be Counted ( Numbers ): Living A Life That Counts for God
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David C Cook Publishing Company Be Delivered ( Exodus ): Finding Freedom by Following God
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David R. Godine Publisher Inc Foodtopia: Radicals, Progressives, and Farmers in Pursuit of the Good Life
“Insightful...empathetic...a thoughtful consideration of a topic that will have a substantial impact on our future.”—BooklistReadable Feast, Book Award Winner for Socially Conscious Writing * Civil Eats’ Food and Farming Book Pick Ever wonder if there’s a better way to live, work, and eat? You’re not alone. Here is the story of five back-to-the-land movements, from 1840 to present day, when large numbers of utopian-minded people in the United States took action to establish small-scale farming as an alternative to mainstream agriculture. Then and now, it’s the story of people striving to live freely and fight injustice, to make the food on their table a little healthier, and to leave the planet less scarred than they found it. Throughout America’s history as an industrial nation, sizable countercultural movements have chosen to forgo modern comforts in pursuit of a simpler life. In this illuminating alternative American history, Margot Anne Kelley details the evolution of food-centric utopian movements that were fueled by deep yearnings for unpolluted water and air, racial and gender equality, for peace, for a less consumerist lifestyle, for a sense of authenticity, for simplicity, for a healthy diet, and for a sustaining connection to the natural world.Millennials who jettisoned cities for rural life form the core of America’s current back-to-the-land movement. These young farmers helped meet surges in supplies for food when COVID-19 ravaged lives and economies, and laid bare limitations in America’s industrial food supply chain. Their forebears were the utopians of the 1840s, including Thoreau and his fellow Transcendental friends who created Brook Farm and Fruitlands; the single taxers and “little landers” who created self-sufficient communities at the turn of the last century; Scott and Helen Nearing and others who decamped to the countryside during the Great Depression; and, of course, the hippie back-to-the-landers of the 1970s. Today, food has become an important element of the social justice movement. Food is no longer just about what we eat, but about how our food is raised and who profits along the way. Kelley looks closely at the efforts of young farmers now growing heirloom pigs, culturally appropriate foods, and newly bred vegetables, along with others working in coalitions, advocacy groups, and educational programs to extend the reach of this era’s Good Food Movement. Foodtopia is for anyone interested in how we all might lead much better—and well-fed—lives.
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David R. Godine Publisher Inc Rosemary Verey: The Life & Lessons of a Legendary Gardener
This is an insightful and enlightening look at the life and works of the internationally renowned English garden designer. Rosemary Verey was the last of the great English garden legends. Although she embraced gardening late in life, she quickly achieved international renown. She was the acknowledged apostle of the "English style," the "must have" adviser to the rich and famous - including Prince Charles and Elton John - and a wildly popular lecturer. She was a natural teacher who encouraged her fans to believe that they were fully capable of creating beautiful gardens while validating their quest for a native vernacular, She also re-introduced the English to their own gardening traditions. A demanding taskmaster and a relentless perfectionist, Rosemary Verey, in her life as in her work, was the very personification of the English garden style.
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David C Cook Publishing Company Letters from A Skeptic: A Son Wrestles with His Father's Questions About Christianity
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David C Cook Publishing Company Saying Goodbye
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David C Cook Publishing Company Unquestioned Answers: Rethinking Ten Christian Clichés to Rediscover Biblical Truths
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David C Cook Publishing Company Be Dynamic ( Acts 1- 12 ): Experience the Power of God's People
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