| The White Knight: 1942 (The House of Winslow #40) Release Date: February 1, 2007A fighter pilot in Spain, Luke Winslow loses the woman heloves and turns from his faith. When he accidentally kills an old friendwhile drunk, out of guilt, he tries to help his friend's sister, Joelle, inher work with troubled girls. In the Army Air Corps, he fights his nemesisfrom the war in Spain, the Black Knight. Now dubbed the White Knight, Lukefights his foe and for the woman he loves, Joelle. In the heat of life'sbattles, will Luke turn to his only true refuge? Book 40 in the bestsellingHouse of Winslow. ...
| | The Last Nude Release Date: January 5, 2012A stunning story of love, sexual obsession, treachery, andtragedy, about an artist and her most famous muse in Paris between theworld wars. Paris, 1927. In the heady years before the crash, financiers drapetheir mistresses in Chanel, while expatriates flock to the avant-gardebookshop Shakespeare and Company. One day in July, a young Americannamed Rafaela Fano gets into the car of a coolly dazzling stranger, theArt Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka.Struggling to halt a downward slide toward prostitution, Rafaelaagrees to model for the artist, a dispossessed Saint Pe...
| | One For the Road Publication Date: September 30, 2011Tom Young wants to make a difference in the world.He joins the Peace Corps and is sent to an impoverished farm community in remote southern Chile where a reforestation project is the campesinos’ only hope for a better future. Tom finds himself in a breathtakingly beautiful land from a bygone era.Horses and oxen provide transportation, light is from kerosene lamps, and water is fetched with buckets from springs.He is drawn to the closeness of Chilean family life, and desperately wants to fit in as he struggles with the language and customs.Fighting d...
| | Rain Play Release Date: April 1, 2008| Age Level: 3 and up Here it comes! Cool drops splash down, scattering the grown-ups. But the children love romping in the rain, until—BOOM! This joyous, rhyming poem captures the many delights of a rainy day. ...
| | White Socks Only Release Date: January 1, 1996| Grade Level: K and up In the segregated south, a young girl thinks that she can drink from a fountain marked "Whites Only" because she is wearing her white socks. ...
| | What Water Taught the First People: A Story about Peacefulness ...
| | Lucy Finds Her Way (Faithgirlz! / A Lucy Novel) Release Date: August 4, 2009| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Aunt Karen is taking over Lucy's life---what's left of it. Lucy is a feisty, precocious tomboy who questions everything---even God. It's not hard to see why: a horrible accident killed her mother and blinded her father, turning her life upside down. It will take a strong but gentle housekeeper---who insists on Bible study along with homework---to show Lucy that there are many ways to become the woman God intends her to be. Lucy is faced with her toughest obstacles yet in her quest to find out just what it means to be a...
| | Wolves (Endangered!) Publication Date: September 1995| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
| | Scooby-Doo Mystery #1: Hotel of Horrors (Scooby-Doo Mysteries) Publication Date: August 1, 2012| Age Level: 7 and up...
| | Insectigations: 40 Hands-on Activities to Explore the Insect World Publication Date: August 1, 2005| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up From butterflies and beetles to crickets and katydids, these experiments, art projects, and games will bring out the entomologist in every kid. Activities include collecting and sketching insects, making a terrarium for observation, raising mealworms, using math to measure bug strength, gardening to attract butterflies and other insects, and making an insect amplifier. A unique insect board game helps kids learn fascinating bug facts while they play. Sidebars offer a look into the world of professional entomology, ...
| | Everywhere Release Date: September 15, 1990| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up The deep bond between a boy and his grandfather may be the only thing that can save the old man's life when he suffers a heart attack. But first the boy must overcome his feelings of helplessness and guilt.With the imaginative assistance of Dooley, the nephew of a local nurse who knows a mysterious ritual called "soul switching," the narrator discovers, in a reluctant flight to the farthest edges of faith, the miraculous and healing power of love.In the best literary tradition of Truman Capote and Carson McCullers,...
| | Don't Try This at Home!: The Science of Extreme Behaviors (Shockwave: Science) Publication Date: September 1, 2007| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
| | As Long as the Rivers Flow Publication Date: February 2003| Age Level: 10 and up Starting in the 1800s and continuing into the 20th century, First Nations children were forcibly taken to government-sponsored residential schools to erase their traditional languages and cultures. This moving book tells of one such child, author Larry Loyie, and his last summer with his Cree tribe. It is a time of learning and adventure. He cares for an abandoned baby owl, watches his grandmother make winter moccasins, and sees her kill a huge grizzly with one shot. The sensitive text and Heather Holmlund's expressive illustrations beaut...
| | Terror at Turtle Mountain (Disaster Strikes!) Release Date: April 30, 2006| Grade Level: 4 and up...
| | What's in Your Basket? (Sparkle 'n' Twinkle Books) Publication Date: February 1, 1998| Age Level: 2 and up...
| | A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I am a missional, evangelical, post/protestant, liberal/conservative, mystical/poetic, biblical, charismatic/contemplative, ... anabaptist/anglican, metho (emergentYS) Release Date: January 31, 2006| Series: emergentYS Why I am a missional, evangelical, post/protestant, liberal/conservative, mystical/poetic, biblical, charismatic/contemplative, fundamentalist/Calvinist, Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, catholic, green, incarnational, depressed- yet hopeful, emergent, unfinished Christian. A confession and manifesto from a senior leader in the emerging church movement. A Generous Orthodoxycalls for a radical, Christ-centered orthodoxy of faith and practice in a missional, generous spirit. Brian McLaren argues for a post-liberal, post-conservative, post-prote...
| | Reliving the Passion Publication Date: March 7, 1992No story has more significance than this: the death and resurrection of Jesus. But somehow the oft-repeated tale of Christ's passion can become too familiar, too formalized, for us to experience its incredible immediacy. The meditations in Reliving the Passion, which received a Gold Medallion Award in 1993, follow the story as given in the gospel of Mark---from the moment when the chief priests plot to kill Jesus to the Resurrection. But these readings are more than a recounting of events; they are an imaginary reenactment, leading the reader to re-experience t...
| | An Explanation Of Luther's Small Catechism; A Handbook For The Catechetical Class ...
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| | Christianity According to the Wesleys ...
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