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Prophet of Purpose
The Life of Rick Warren
Written by Jeffery L. Sheler
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $22.99
Rick Warren is arguably the most influential man in American religion today. Megachurch pastor, friend of world leaders, and trend-setting spiritual entrepreneur, he is widely recognized as the new public face of evangelical Christianity in America. No other modern churchman has matched his success as a leader and motivator of Christians... Read more >
The Life of Rick Warren
Written by Jeffery L. Sheler
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $22.99
Rick Warren is arguably the most influential man in American religion today. Megachurch pastor, friend of world leaders, and trend-setting spiritual entrepreneur, he is widely recognized as the new public face of evangelical Christianity in America. No other modern churchman has matched his success as a leader and motivator of Christians... Read more >
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Prophet of Purpose
The Life of Rick Warren
Written by Jeffery L. Sheler
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $22.99
Rick Warren is arguably the most influential man in American religion today. Megachurch pastor, friend of world leaders, and trend-setting spiritual entrepreneur, he is widely recognized as the new public face of evangelical Christianity in America. No other modern churchman has matched his success as a leader and motivator of Christians... Read more >
The Life of Rick Warren
Written by Jeffery L. Sheler
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $22.99
Rick Warren is arguably the most influential man in American religion today. Megachurch pastor, friend of world leaders, and trend-setting spiritual entrepreneur, he is widely recognized as the new public face of evangelical Christianity in America. No other modern churchman has matched his success as a leader and motivator of Christians... Read more >
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Prophet of Purpose
The Life of Rick Warren
Written by Jeffery L. Sheler
Read by Danny Campbell
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $35.00
Rick Warren is arguably the most influential man in American religion today. Megachurch pastor, friend of world leaders, and trend-setting spiritual entrepreneur, he is widely recognized as the new public face of evangelical Christianity in America. No other modern churchman has matched his success as a leader and motivator of Christians... Read more >
The Life of Rick Warren
Written by Jeffery L. Sheler
Read by Danny Campbell
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $35.00
Rick Warren is arguably the most influential man in American religion today. Megachurch pastor, friend of world leaders, and trend-setting spiritual entrepreneur, he is widely recognized as the new public face of evangelical Christianity in America. No other modern churchman has matched his success as a leader and motivator of Christians... Read more >
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Prophet of Purpose
The Life of Rick Warren
Written by Jeffery L. Sheler
Read by Danny Campbell
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $22.50
Rick Warren is arguably the most influential man in American religion today. Megachurch pastor, friend of world leaders, and trend-setting spiritual entrepreneur, he is widely recognized as the new public face of evangelical Christianity in America. No other modern churchman has matched his success as a leader and motivator of Christians... Read more >
The Life of Rick Warren
Written by Jeffery L. Sheler
Read by Danny Campbell
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $22.50
Rick Warren is arguably the most influential man in American religion today. Megachurch pastor, friend of world leaders, and trend-setting spiritual entrepreneur, he is widely recognized as the new public face of evangelical Christianity in America. No other modern churchman has matched his success as a leader and motivator of Christians... Read more >
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Moses
A Life
Written by Jonathan Kirsch
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2009
Price: $23.00
Lawgiver and liberator. Seer and prophet. The only human permitted to converse with God "face-to-face." Moses is the most commanding presence in the Old Testament. Yet as Jonathan Kirsch shows in this brilliant, stunningly original volume, Moses was also an enigmatic and mysterious figure--at once a good shepherd and a ruthless... Read more >
A Life
Written by Jonathan Kirsch
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2009
Price: $23.00
Lawgiver and liberator. Seer and prophet. The only human permitted to converse with God "face-to-face." Moses is the most commanding presence in the Old Testament. Yet as Jonathan Kirsch shows in this brilliant, stunningly original volume, Moses was also an enigmatic and mysterious figure--at once a good shepherd and a ruthless... Read more >
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Mrs. Robert E. Lee
The Lady of Arlington
Written by John Perry
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 7, 2009
Price: $14.99
Many know about her husband, Robert E. Lee, and her great-grandmother, Martha Washington; many have visited the cemetery that now occupies her family estate. But few today know much about Mary Custis Lee herself. Chronically ill and often in excruciating pain, Mary raised seven children, faithfully witnessing to her husband for... Read more >
The Lady of Arlington
Written by John Perry
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 7, 2009
Price: $14.99
Many know about her husband, Robert E. Lee, and her great-grandmother, Martha Washington; many have visited the cemetery that now occupies her family estate. But few today know much about Mary Custis Lee herself. Chronically ill and often in excruciating pain, Mary raised seven children, faithfully witnessing to her husband for... Read more >
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Rashi
Written by Elie Wiesel
Translated by Catherine Temerson
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $22.00
From Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, comes a magical book that introduces us to the towering figure of Rashi—Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki—the great biblical and Talmudic commentator of the Middle Ages.
Wiesel brilliantly evokes the world of medieval European Jewry, a world of profound scholars and closed communities ravaged... Read more >
Written by Elie Wiesel
Translated by Catherine Temerson
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $22.00
From Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, comes a magical book that introduces us to the towering figure of Rashi—Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki—the great biblical and Talmudic commentator of the Middle Ages.
Wiesel brilliantly evokes the world of medieval European Jewry, a world of profound scholars and closed communities ravaged... Read more >
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Rashi
Written by Elie Wiesel
Translated by Catherine Temerson
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $22.00
From Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, comes a magical book that introduces us to the towering figure of Rashi—Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki—the great biblical and Talmudic commentator of the Middle Ages.
Wiesel brilliantly evokes the world of medieval European Jewry, a world of profound scholars and closed communities ravaged... Read more >
Written by Elie Wiesel
Translated by Catherine Temerson
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $22.00
From Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, comes a magical book that introduces us to the towering figure of Rashi—Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki—the great biblical and Talmudic commentator of the Middle Ages.
Wiesel brilliantly evokes the world of medieval European Jewry, a world of profound scholars and closed communities ravaged... Read more >
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King David
The Real Life of the Man Who Ruled Israel
Written by Jonathan Kirsch
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2009
Price: $17.00
David, King of the Jews, possessed every flaw and failing a mortal is capable of, yet men and women adored him and God showered him with many more blessings than he did Abraham or Moses. His sexual appetite and prowess were matched only by his violence, both on the battlefield and... Read more >
The Real Life of the Man Who Ruled Israel
Written by Jonathan Kirsch
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2009
Price: $17.00
David, King of the Jews, possessed every flaw and failing a mortal is capable of, yet men and women adored him and God showered him with many more blessings than he did Abraham or Moses. His sexual appetite and prowess were matched only by his violence, both on the battlefield and... Read more >
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Jezebel
The Untold Story of the Bible's Harlot Queen
Written by Lesley Hazleton
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Price: $14.95
There is no woman with a worse reputation than Jezebel, the ancient queen who corrupted a nation and met one of the most gruesome fates in the Bible. Her name alone speaks of sexual decadence and promiscuity. But what if this version of her story, handed down to us through the... Read more >
The Untold Story of the Bible's Harlot Queen
Written by Lesley Hazleton
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Price: $14.95
There is no woman with a worse reputation than Jezebel, the ancient queen who corrupted a nation and met one of the most gruesome fates in the Bible. Her name alone speaks of sexual decadence and promiscuity. But what if this version of her story, handed down to us through the... Read more >
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Burnt Bread and Chutney
Growing Up Between Cultures - A Memoir of an Indian Jewish Childhood
Written by Carmit Delman
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $13.95
“From the outside, no matter what the gradations of my mixed heritage, the shadow of Indian brown in my skin caused others to automatically perceive me as Hindu or Muslim. . . . Still, I trekked through life with the spirit of a Jew, fleshed out by the unique challenges and... Read more >
Growing Up Between Cultures - A Memoir of an Indian Jewish Childhood
Written by Carmit Delman
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $13.95
“From the outside, no matter what the gradations of my mixed heritage, the shadow of Indian brown in my skin caused others to automatically perceive me as Hindu or Muslim. . . . Still, I trekked through life with the spirit of a Jew, fleshed out by the unique challenges and... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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The Open Road
The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Written by Pico Iyer
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
For over three decades, Pico Iyer, one of our most cherished travel writers, has been a friend to the Dalai Lama. Over these years through intimate conversations, he has come to know him in a way that few can claim. Here he paints an unprecedented portrait of one of the most... Read more >
The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Written by Pico Iyer
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
For over three decades, Pico Iyer, one of our most cherished travel writers, has been a friend to the Dalai Lama. Over these years through intimate conversations, he has come to know him in a way that few can claim. Here he paints an unprecedented portrait of one of the most... Read more >
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Maimonides
The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds
Written by Joel L. Kraemer
Format: Hardcover, 640 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $35.00
The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds
Written by Joel L. Kraemer
Format: Hardcover, 640 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $35.00
This authoritative biography of Moses Maimonides, one of the most influential minds in all of human history, illuminates his life as a philosopher, physician, and lawgiver. A biography on a grand scale, it brilliantly explicates one man’s life against the background of the social, religious, and political issues of his time.
Maimonides...
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Maimonides
The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds
Written by Joel L. Kraemer
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $35.00
This authoritative biography of Moses Maimonides, one of the most influential minds in all of human history, illuminates his life as a philosopher, physician, and lawgiver. A biography on a grand scale, it brilliantly explicates one man’s life against the background of the social, religious, and political issues of his time.
Maimonides... Read more >
The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds
Written by Joel L. Kraemer
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $35.00
This authoritative biography of Moses Maimonides, one of the most influential minds in all of human history, illuminates his life as a philosopher, physician, and lawgiver. A biography on a grand scale, it brilliantly explicates one man’s life against the background of the social, religious, and political issues of his time.
Maimonides... Read more >
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Footprints in the Snow
The Autobiography of a Chinese Buddhist Monk
Written by Master Chan Sheng Yen
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $24.95
The Autobiography of a Chinese Buddhist Monk
Written by Master Chan Sheng Yen
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $24.95
In this landmark memoir, a renowned Buddhist master traces his spiritual journey against the panoramic story of China from the pre-Communist era to the present.
Master Sheng Yen has devoted much of his life to spreading the teachings of Chinese Buddhism—a practice that antedates the more familiar Japanese and Tibetan traditions—throughout the...
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Footprints in the Snow
The Autobiography of a Chinese Buddhist Monk
Written by Master Chan Sheng Yen
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $24.95
In this landmark memoir, a renowned Buddhist master traces his spiritual journey against the panoramic story of China from the pre-Communist era to the present.
Master Sheng Yen has devoted much of his life to spreading the teachings of Chinese Buddhism—a practice that antedates the more familiar Japanese and Tibetan traditions—throughout the... Read more >
The Autobiography of a Chinese Buddhist Monk
Written by Master Chan Sheng Yen
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $24.95
In this landmark memoir, a renowned Buddhist master traces his spiritual journey against the panoramic story of China from the pre-Communist era to the present.
Master Sheng Yen has devoted much of his life to spreading the teachings of Chinese Buddhism—a practice that antedates the more familiar Japanese and Tibetan traditions—throughout the... Read more >
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Churched
One Kid's Journey Toward God Despite a Holy Mess
Written by Matthew Paul Turner
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $18.99
He spent his childhood trapped within the confines of countless bizarre, strict rules. And lived to tell about it.
In this first-hand account, author Matthew Paul Turner shares amusing–sometimes cringe-worthy–and poignant stories about growing up in a fundamentalist household, where even well-intentioned contemporary Christian music was proclaimed to be “of the devil.”... Read more >
One Kid's Journey Toward God Despite a Holy Mess
Written by Matthew Paul Turner
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $18.99
He spent his childhood trapped within the confines of countless bizarre, strict rules. And lived to tell about it.
In this first-hand account, author Matthew Paul Turner shares amusing–sometimes cringe-worthy–and poignant stories about growing up in a fundamentalist household, where even well-intentioned contemporary Christian music was proclaimed to be “of the devil.”... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Churched
One Kid's Journey Toward God Despite a Holy Mess
Written by Matthew Paul Turner
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $18.99
He spent his childhood trapped within the confines of countless bizarre, strict rules. And lived to tell about it.
In this first-hand account, author Matthew Paul Turner shares amusing–sometimes cringe-worthy–and poignant stories about growing up in a fundamentalist household, where even well-intentioned contemporary Christian music was proclaimed to be “of the devil.”... Read more >
One Kid's Journey Toward God Despite a Holy Mess
Written by Matthew Paul Turner
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $18.99
He spent his childhood trapped within the confines of countless bizarre, strict rules. And lived to tell about it.
In this first-hand account, author Matthew Paul Turner shares amusing–sometimes cringe-worthy–and poignant stories about growing up in a fundamentalist household, where even well-intentioned contemporary Christian music was proclaimed to be “of the devil.”... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Life of David
Written by Robert Pinsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $12.95
Poet, warrior, and king, David has loomed large in myth and legend through the centuries, and he continues to haunt our collective imagination, his flaws and inconsistencies making him the most approachable of biblical heroes. Robert Pinsky, former poet laureate of the United States, plumbs the depths of David’s life: his... Read more >
Written by Robert Pinsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $12.95
Poet, warrior, and king, David has loomed large in myth and legend through the centuries, and he continues to haunt our collective imagination, his flaws and inconsistencies making him the most approachable of biblical heroes. Robert Pinsky, former poet laureate of the United States, plumbs the depths of David’s life: his... Read more >
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Maimonides
Written by Sherwin B. Nuland
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $12.95
Sherwin B. Nuland—best-selling author of How We Die—focuses his surgeon’s eye and writer’s pen on this greatest of rabbis, most intriguing of Jewish philosophers, and most honored of Jewish doctors.
Moses Maimonides was a Renaissance man before there was a Renaissance: a great physician, a dazzling Torah scholar, a daring philosopher. Eight... Read more >
Written by Sherwin B. Nuland
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $12.95
Sherwin B. Nuland—best-selling author of How We Die—focuses his surgeon’s eye and writer’s pen on this greatest of rabbis, most intriguing of Jewish philosophers, and most honored of Jewish doctors.
Moses Maimonides was a Renaissance man before there was a Renaissance: a great physician, a dazzling Torah scholar, a daring philosopher. Eight... Read more >
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Maimonides
Written by Sherwin B. Nuland
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $12.95
Moses Maimonides was a Renaissance man before there was a Renaissance: a great physician who served a sultan, a dazzling Torah scholar, a community leader, a daring philosopher whose greatest work——The Guide for the Perplexed——attempted to reconcile scientific knowledge with faith in God. He was a Jew living in a Muslim... Read more >
Written by Sherwin B. Nuland
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $12.95
Moses Maimonides was a Renaissance man before there was a Renaissance: a great physician who served a sultan, a dazzling Torah scholar, a community leader, a daring philosopher whose greatest work——The Guide for the Perplexed——attempted to reconcile scientific knowledge with faith in God. He was a Jew living in a Muslim... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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The Open Road
The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Written by Pico Iyer
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2008
Price: $24.00
One of the most acclaimed and perceptive observers of globalism and Buddhism now gives us the first serious consideration—for Buddhist and non-Buddhist alike—of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama’s work and ideas as a politician, scientist, and philosopher.
Pico Iyer has been engaged in conversation with the Dalai Lama (a friend of his father’s)... Read more >
The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Written by Pico Iyer
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2008
Price: $24.00
One of the most acclaimed and perceptive observers of globalism and Buddhism now gives us the first serious consideration—for Buddhist and non-Buddhist alike—of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama’s work and ideas as a politician, scientist, and philosopher.
Pico Iyer has been engaged in conversation with the Dalai Lama (a friend of his father’s)... Read more >
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eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Open Road
Written by Pico Iyer
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2008
Price: $14.95
For over three decades, Pico Iyer, one of our most cherished travel writers, has been a friend to the Dalai Lama. Over these years through intimate conversations, he has come to know him in a way that few can claim. Here he paints an unprecedented portrait of one of the most... Read more >
Written by Pico Iyer
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2008
Price: $14.95
For over three decades, Pico Iyer, one of our most cherished travel writers, has been a friend to the Dalai Lama. Over these years through intimate conversations, he has come to know him in a way that few can claim. Here he paints an unprecedented portrait of one of the most... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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A Life with Karol
My Forty-Year Friendship with the Man Who Became Pope
Written by Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $24.00
My Forty-Year Friendship with the Man Who Became Pope
Written by Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $24.00
This intimate, affectionate portrait of Pope John Paul II by his longtime secretary and confidant reveals fascinating new details about the opinions, hopes, fears, and dramatic life of this public man.
“I had accompanied him for almost forty years: twelve in Kraków and then twenty-seven in Rome. I was always with him...
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A Life with Karol
My Forty-Year Friendship with the Man Who Became Pope
Written by Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $24.00
This intimate, affectionate portrait of Pope John Paul II by his longtime secretary and confidant reveals fascinating new details about the opinions, hopes, fears, and dramatic life of this public man.
“I had accompanied him for almost forty years: twelve in Kraków and then twenty-seven in Rome. I was always with him... Read more >
My Forty-Year Friendship with the Man Who Became Pope
Written by Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $24.00
This intimate, affectionate portrait of Pope John Paul II by his longtime secretary and confidant reveals fascinating new details about the opinions, hopes, fears, and dramatic life of this public man.
“I had accompanied him for almost forty years: twelve in Kraków and then twenty-seven in Rome. I was always with him... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
