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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"In Anne Lamott's new book, she confronts the harsh truth that many of us grapple with every day: How can we recapture the confidence we once had in the world and in the future as we stumble through the dark times that seem increasingly bleak? As bad news piles up every day -- from climate crises to threats to democracy to daily assaults on civility -- how can we mere mortals cope? Where, Lamott asks, "do we start to get our joy and hope and our faith...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
203 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Gypsies, faith-healers, moonshiners, and snake handlers weave through Dremas childhood in 1940s Appalachia after her father is killed in the coal mines, her mother goes off to work as a Rosie the Riveter, and she is left in the care of devout Pentecostal grandparents. What follows is a spitfire of a memoir that reads like a novel with intrigue, sweeping emotion, and indisputable charm. Dremas coming of age is colored by tent revivals with Grandpa,...
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xvii, 201 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
"Beginning with his earliest memories of growing up a shy boy in New Orleans, Perry recalls the moments of grace and beauty in a childhood marked by brutality, deprivation, and fear. With tenderness he sketches portraits of the people who sustained him and taught him indelible lessons about integrity, trust in God, and the power of forgiveness: his aunt Mae, who cared for her grandfather, who was born a slave, and sewed quilts that told a story of...
Author
Description
"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
xiii, 255 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
Full of beautiful, heart-wrenching, and hilarious stories, "A Million Miles in a Thousand Years" details one man's opportunity to edit his life as if he were a character in a movie, showing how to get a second chance at life the first time around.
Author
Publisher
Paraclete Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
vii, 212 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
A guide to celebrating the rhythm of life's calendar of events, as well as the Christian liturgical year, focusing on God's love in our lives. Greer weaves her own faith story with original recipes, crafts and entertaining ideas, creating a vibrant, personal narrative that is a modern take on timeless traditions.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
ix, 218 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
The author shares details of her spiritual journey, family, and Christian faith, and how they all served to shape her successful career in journalism.
Author
Description
"An incredibly thoughtful, disarmingly funny, and intensely vulnerable glimpse into the life and ministry of a woman familiar to many but known by few. All My Knotted-Up Life is a beautifully crafted portrait of resilience and survival, a poignant reminder of God's enduring faithfulness, and proof positive that if we ever truly took the time to hear people's full stories...we'd all walk around slack-jawed"--
Author
Publisher
Convergent
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 20 cm
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Description
"A stirring meditation of being Black and learning to love in a loveless, anti-Black world. In Shoutin' in the Fire, Dantae Stewart gives breathtaking language to his reckoning with the legacy of white supremacy-both the kind that hangs over our country and the kind that is internalized on a molecular level. Stewart uses his personal experiences as a vehicle to reclaim and reimagine spiritual virtues like rage, resilience, and remembrance-and explores...
Author
Publisher
Convergent Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
x, 211 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
In Accidental Saints, author Nadia Bolz-Weber invites readers into a surprising encounter with what she calls a religious but not-so-spiritual life. Tattooed, angry and profane, this former standup comic turned pastor stubbornly, sometimes hilariously, resists the God she feels called to serve. But God keeps showing up in the least likely of people--a church-loving agnostic, a drag queen, a felonious Bishop and a gun-toting member of the NRA.
Author
Publisher
Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
x, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"The daughter of a Pentecostal evangelist and a race-car driver, Jessi Colter played piano and sang in church before leaving Arizona to tour with rock-n-roll pioneer Duane Eddy, whom she married. Colter became a successful recording artist, appearing on American Bandstand and befriending stars such as the Everly Brothers and Chet Atkins, while her songs were recorded by Nancy Sinatra, Dottie West, and others. Her marriage to Eddy didn?t last, however,...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Anne Lamott writes about community, family and faith in essays that are wise, irreverent, funny and poignant--a style that has become her trademark. Now in Small Victories, Lamott has once again written a brilliant and insightful book that offers a message of hope that celebrates the triumph of light over the darkness in our lives. Our victories over hardships and pain may be small, they may be infrequent, but they keep us going and they often come...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
320 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
A spiritual guide shares humorous and inspirational advice on how to manage with grace in today's world of terrorism, while caring for aging parents and children simultaneously, and in the face of environmental threats.
Author
Publisher
Nelson Books
Pub. Date
c2021.
Physical Desc
xv, 235 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A wickedly smart, utterly hilarious debut from a Southern Living columnist - mother of three, Southerner married to a New Yorker, evangelical Christian, and Democrat - about the absurdity, chaos, and strange sacredness of her life on Manhattan's Upper West Side"--
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