Search Results: Returned 11 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 11
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c2014., General, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Call No: SC Fic Fab Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A devoted man of faith, Peter is called to the mission of a lifetime, one that takes him galaxies away from his wife, Bea. Peter is immersed in the mysteries of an astonishing new environment, overseen by a corporation known only as USIC. But Peter is rattled when Bea's letters from home become increasingly desperate: typhoons and earthquakes are devastating whole countries and governments are crumbling. Bea's faith, once the guiding light of their lives, begins to falter.
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2006., Pan Books Call No: LLC Fic Wal Lev. 2-6 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Lifelong learning collection
![Chickenfeed [LLC]](/Library/images/~imageCT67297.JPG "Chickenfeed [LLC]")
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2019., Adult, Simon & Schuster Call No: Fic Wal Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Charles and Lily, James and Nan. They meet in Greenwich Village in 1963 when Charles and James are jointly hired to steward the historic Third Presbyterian Church through turbulent times. Their personal differences however, threaten to tear them apart. Charles is destined to succeed his father as an esteemed professor of history at Harvard, until an unorthodox lecture about faith leads him to ministry. How then, can he fall in love with Lily--fiercely intellectual, elegantly stern--after she tells him with certainty that she will never believe in God? And yet, how can he not? James, the youngest son in a hardscrabble Chicago family, spent much of his youth angry at his alcoholic father and avoiding his anxious mother. Nan grew up in Mississippi, the devout and beloved daughter of a minister and a debutante. James's escape from his desperate circumstances leads him to Nan and, despite his skepticism of hope in all its forms, her gentle, constant faith changes the course of his life. Against the backdrop of turbulent changes facing the city and the church's congregation, these four forge improbable paths through their evolving relationships, each struggling with uncertainty, heartbreak, and joy. A poignant meditation on faith and reason, marriage and children, and the ways we find meaning in our lives, Cara Wall's The Dearly Beloved is a gorgeous, wise, and provocative novel that is destined to become a classic."--Publisher.
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c2013., Adult, Simon & Schuster Call No: Fic Pyp Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: One afternoon Professor David Ullman receives a visitor at his campus office, a strikingly thin woman who offers him an invitation: travel to Venice, Italy, witness a "phenomenon," and offer his professional opinion, in return for an extravagant sum of money. What happens in Venice will send David on an unimaginable journey from skeptic to true believer.
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-- Self-deception, false beliefs, and the origins of the human mind2013., Adult, Twelve Call No: 121.63 V313d Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Presents a radical new theory on the origins of our species. It was not, the authors argue, a biological leap that set humanity apart from other species, but a psychological one: namely, the uniquely human ability to deny reality in the face of inarguable evidence--including the willful ignorance of our own inevitable deaths. The awareness of our own mortality could have caused anxieties that resulted in our avoiding the risks of competing to procreate--an evolutionary dead-end. Humans therefore needed to evolve a mechanism for overcoming this hurdle: the denial of reality. As a consequence of this evolutionary quirk we now deny any aspects of reality that are not to our liking--we smoke cigarettes, eat unhealthy foods, and avoid exercise, knowing these habits are a prescription for an early death. Reality-denial affords us many valuable attributes, such as optimism, confidence, and courage in the face of long odds.
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-- 1st phone call from heavenc2013., General, Harper Call No: Fic Alb Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax? Sully Harding, a grief-stricken single father, is determined to find out.
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-- 1st phone call from heaven2013., General, HarperCollins Publishers Call No: CD Fic Alb Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax? Sully Harding, a grief-stricken single father, is determined to find out.
![The first phone call from heaven [CD] : a novel](/Library/images/~imageCT76942.JPG "The first phone call from heaven [CD] : a novel")
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-- God :2014., Adult, Harmony Call No: 202.11 C549f Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Can God be revived in a skeptical age? What would it take to give people a spiritual life more powerful than anything in the past? Deepak Chopra tackles these issues with eloquence and insight in this book. He proposes that God lies at the source of human awareness. Therefore, any person can find the God within that transforms everyday life. God is in trouble. The rise of the militant atheist movement spearheaded by Richard Dawkins signifies to many that the deity is an outmoded myth in the modern world. The author passionately disagrees, saying now is the perfect time to make spirituality what it should be: reliable knowledge about higher reality. Outlining a path to God that turns unbelief into the first step of awakening, Deepak shows us that a crisis of faith is like the fire we must pass through on the way to power, truth, and love. Deepak Chopra invites us on a journey of the spirit, providing a practical path to understanding God and our own place in the universe. Now, is a moment of reinvigoration, he argues. Now is moment of renewal. Now is the future"--Provided by publisher.
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By Hayder, Moc2007., HarperCollins Call No: Fic Hay Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Journalist Joe Oakes makes a living exposing supernatural hoaxes. A born skeptic, he believes everything has a rational explanation. But when he visits a secretive religious community on a remote Scottish island, everything he thought he knew is overturned. Questions mount: Why has the community been accused of Satanism? What has happened to their leader, Pastor Malachi Dove? And perhaps most important, why will no one discuss the strange apparition seen wandering the lonely beaches of Pig Island? A confrontation, and its violent and bloody aftermath, is so catastrophic that it forces Oakes to question the nature of evil and whether he might not be responsible for a terrible crime himself."--Back cover.
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2023., Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic Call No: Fic Abo Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This enchanting and eye-opening new novel from Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela follows an embattled young woman coming of age during the Mahdist War in nineteenth-century Sudan, and illuminates the tensions that shape her course: between Britain and Sudan, Christianity and Islam, colonizer and colonized. In River Spirit, Aboulela gives us the unforgettable story of a people who--against the odds and for a brief time--gained independence from foreign rule through their willpower, subterfuge, and sacrifice.
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c2013., Adult, ECW Press/MisFit Call No: Fic Lov Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Alternating between a woman's childhood in a small town and as an adult in the city, this novel traces a Jehovah Witness family's splintering belief system, their isolation, and the erosion of their relationships.
