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Under the Banner of Heaven : Story of Violent Faith (03 Edition)
by Jon Krakauer  
Powells.com Staff Pick "Under the Banner of Heaven is not a typical Krakauer book that takes you on an adventure into the wilderness. Instead, it delves into a world that is misunderstood by most of America, the world of Mormonism and Fundamental Mormonism...
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The Bible: A Biography (Books That Changed the World)
by Karen Armstrong
Powells.com 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. Recommended by Robin, Powells.com...
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The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
by Tom Reiss
Powells.com Staff Pick Islamic prince, Hollywood intimate, Mussolini's biographer, Jewish tycoon's son, international bestselling author (Goebbels was a big fan), chummy with the Nabakovs and Pasternaks: Lev Nussimbaum (aka Kurban Said, aka Essad Bey) was all these things...
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God Laughs and Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right
by David James Duncan
Powells.com Staff Pick David James Duncan, the author of God Laughs and Plays, uses his collection of "churchless sermons" to build a rebuttal platform against conservative fundamentalist politicians and to illuminate the genuine teachings of Jesus. Without overtly making a...
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Into the Garden: A Wedding Anthology: Poetry and Prose on Love and Marriage
by Robert Hass and Stephen Mitchell
Powells.com 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. Dave...
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Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt
by Anne Rice
Powells.com 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...
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Where God Was Born: A Journey by Land to the Roots of Religion
by Bruce Feiler
Powells.com 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...
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A Treasury of Adoption Miracles: True Stories of God's Presence Today
by Karen Kingsbury
Powells.com Staff Pick An amazing collection of essays that will easily move you to tears. Life has a funny way of working out; this remarkable little book is proof. Deeply moving and emotional accounts of how people came to be an adoptive parent or an adoptive family. In some...
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Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
by Anne Lamott
Powells.com Staff Pick Readers of Traveling Mercies, 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 be home, or her loathing...
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Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America
by Chris Hedges
Powells.com Staff Pick In 2002, after fifteen years traversing the world's most dangerous places, war correspondent Chris Hedges published a widely-acclaimed meditation on the psychology of war. Now, he's entered yet another battlefield. In Losing Moses on the Freeway, Hedges...
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The Children's Hospital
by Chris Adrian
Powells.com 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...
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Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America
by Stephen G Bloom
Powells.com 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...
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To Own a Dragon: Reflections on Growing Up without a Father
by Donald Miller and John MacMurray
Powells.com Staff Pick Fathers, says Miller, are like dragons. They're mythological creatures that simply don't exist in the lives of many children and adults. So Miller sets out a not-so-lost wanderer, plotting the various characters who have appeared as fathers in one form...
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The Annunciation of Francesca Dunn (P.S.)
by Janis Hallowell
Powells.com 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. Recommended by Adrienne, Powells.com...
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Undoing Yourself: With Energized Meditation and Other Devices
by Christopher Hyatt
Powells.com 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...
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Yes, But Is It Good for the Jews?
by Jonny Geller
Powells.com Staff Pick Games: Six Degrees of Larry David. Advice: Do not take Viagra on Kol Nidre. But most important, a secret formula: What's good for the Jews? Do the math! Recommended by Kyle, Powells.com...
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Stalking the Divine
by Kristin Ohlson
Powells.com Staff Pick "Goodness gets a bad wrap in our culture," remarks the author, who stumbled into a Cleveland monastery and discovered a group of singing nuns with a mission to pray day and night for the sorrows of the world. "Think of how our lips curl at the words 'do...
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Tanakh-TK
by Jps
Powells.com Staff Pick I still like to read the Psalms in the King James Bible; but when I want to read a clear and modern language version of the scriptures, I prefer the Jewish Publication Society's (JPS) Tanakh. This version of what is also known as the Old Testament was...
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