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Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott Staff Pick Readers of Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, Lamott's previous book on spirituality, will find here the same thoughtfulness and humor we've come to love. Whether writing about battles with her son, her mother's death, the church she's found to... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Maus, A Survivor's Tale, Book I: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman Staff Pick Two powerful, definitive chronicles of modern atrocities — the perfect books for anyone who doubts comix have grown up. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus is a staggering personal depiction of the Holocaust, rendered all the stronger by Spiegelman's... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life by Karen Armstrong Staff Pick A thoughtful guidebook designed to make for a kinder humanity, Armstrong's inspiring and transformative examination of altruism and empathy will hopefully reach the wide audience it rightly deserves.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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Into the Garden: A Wedding Anthology: Poetry and Prose on Love and Marriage by Robert Hass and Stephen Mitchell Staff Pick The best collection of wedding-related poetry I found. The editors also include an useful primer on wedding service scripts (in case you're writing your own), presenting standard examples from Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, and Zen traditions.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know--And Doesn't by Stephen Prothero Staff Pick Having called us a nation of "religious illiterates" on the first page, Steven Prothero had me intrigued and ready to read Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know. Prothero contends that while contemporary America values its position as a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Case for God by Karen Armstrong Staff Pick Karen Armstrong writes about religion the way that Michael Pollan writes about food — methodically, insightfully, and with an obvious passion for the subject matter. Covering everything from antiquity's caves deep below the earth to the modern... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life by Donald Miller Staff Pick Miller's latest book is a meditation on the hard lessons he learned about himself while watching his bestselling memoir Blue Like Jazz turned into a narrative film. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years is inviting and engaging — and just might inspire... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian Staff Pick You would think that any novel attempting to conflate the best elements of Scrubs, Noah's Ark, and Lord of the Flies would necessarily be too overwrought and/or gimmicky, but this story is intensely compelling from its first pages. Adrian is obviously... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America by Stephen G Bloom Staff Pick "You have got to read this book. The clash of cultures portrayed in this small town in Iowa is illuminating and riveting. When Orthodox Jews move into Postville and open a kosher slaughterhouse, local (and non-Jewish) Iowans figure this is just another... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Annunciation of Francesca Dunn (P.S.) by Janis Hallowell Staff Pick The Annunciation of Francesca Dunn is a simply written, enjoyable, and sometimes touching story of a modern-day madonna and the madness surrounding her.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews: A History by James Carroll Staff Pick "An impressive dissection of anti-semitism by an ex-Roman Catholic priest. His starting point is the placing of crosses at Auschwitz and the ensuing controversy over the canonization of Edith Stein. As a Jew, I have understood the presence of anti... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt by Anne Rice Staff Pick Anne Rice certainly does her homework. Although she writes fiction, she is well-versed in the historical background of her subjects. Christ the Lord is no exception. The story centers on Jesus' life as a seven-year-old. Rice presents Jesus at this age as... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Undoing Yourself: With Energized Meditation and Other Devices by Christopher Hyatt Staff Pick I never had much success with meditation until I chanced upon the system of energized meditation. The very first session broke up areas of body tension and granted me a peaceful "at-one-ness" with the world around me. I would recommend it to anyone who... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Annunciation of Francesca Dunn by Janis Hallowell Staff Pick The Annunciation of Francesca Dunn is a simply written, enjoyable, and sometimes touching story of a modern-day madonna and the madness surrounding her.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.48 Used - Hardcover
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The Bible: A Biography (Books That Changed the World) by Karen Armstrong Staff Pick Part of the Books that Changed the World series, this is a great overview of the history, writing, and translations of the Bible. Armstrong never fails to entertain and impress.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Where God Was Born: A Journey by Land to the Roots of Religion by Bruce Feiler Staff Pick From the beginning of pre-history, human cultures have rooted sacred stories in actual landscapes, a legacy that becomes increasingly untenable as ballooning populations find it difficult to share their sacred places. Nowhere is this trend more evident... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions by Karen Armstrong Staff Pick During the Axial Age — 900 to 200 B.C.E. — the world's major religious traditions responded to their surrounding cultural influences and developed the philosophical attitudes they exhibit to this day. In lucid and reasoned prose Karen Armstrong... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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