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Summer Reading Suggestions in Your Church Library

Selected by Nell Young, Librarian

Fiction

Two titles a new Amish series, The Sisters of Holmes County: 

Brunstetter, Wanda E. A Sister’s Secret 2007

Brunstetter, Wanda E.   A Sister’s Test. 2007

Young, William P. The Shack 2007.

A father returns to the shack from which his youngest daughter, Misty, had been abducted four years earlier. The book answers the question, “Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?”

Non-Fiction 

231 Ehrman, Bart D. God’s Problem: Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question: Why We Suffer? 2008

231 Keller, Timothy The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism 2008

232 Borg, Marcus J. Jesus: Uncovering the Life, Teachings and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary 2008

248 Eldredge, John Walking With God 2008 

261.7 Hedges, Chris American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America 2008

261.7 Sider, Ronald J. The Scandal ofEvangelical Politics: Why Are Christians Missing the Chance to Really Change the World? 2008

286 Bradley, Matt & Susan The Gift: A World Solution to Hunger and Poverty (Heifer International) 1998

303.49 Zakaria, Fareed The Post-American World 2008

941.4 Higgs, Liz Curtis My Heart’s in the Lowlands: Ten Days in Bonny Scotland 2007

921 Pausch, Randy The Last Lecture 2008

 

Springtime Reads in Your Church Library

Selected by Nell Young, Librarian 

Fiction 

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks. 2008
Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment  by Deepak Chopra. 2007

Non-Fiction 


205 The Ten Commandments of Common Sense by Hal Urban. 2007
221 How to Read the Bible ( Old Testament) by James L. Kugel. 2007
226 What the Gospels Meant by Garry Wills. 2008
232 The Case for the Real Jesus by Lee Strobel. 2007
248 The Way of the Wild Heart: A Map for the Masculine Heart by John Eldredge. 2006
269.0973 The Great Awakening by Jim Wallis. 2008
371.8 Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace—-One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Fulghum. 2007
814 What On Earth Have I Done ? by Robert Fulghum. 2007
821.008 Love Poetry Out Loud edited by Robert Alden Rubin. 2007
 940.53 The Zookeeper’s Wife : A War Story by Diane Ackerman. 2007

 

“Cool” Books for Your Fall Reading: New In Your Church Library 

selected by Nell Young, Librarian


248 There Is More To “The Secret” by Ed Gungor (2007).
248 When The Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction For Life’s Sacred Questions by Sue Monk Kidd (1992).
261.7 Failing America’s Faithful: How Today’s Churches Are Mixing God With Politics And Losing Their Way by Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (2007).
305.42 The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too Much? By Leslie Bennetts (2007).
306.81 The Five Love Languages: Men’s Edition by Gary Chapman (2004).
306.874 Wisdom Of Our Fathers: Lessons And Letters From Daughters & Sons by Tim Russert (2007).
364.1 Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase For Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson (2007).
949.207 Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2007).
973.931 The One Percent Solution: Deep Inside America’s Pursuit Of Its Enemies Since 9/11 by Ron Suskind (2007).