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Released: Feb. 7, 2013
"A learned, highbrow approach to matters mystical and extrasensory."
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Released: Feb. 5, 2013
"Alternately thought-provoking and dull but certainly from the author's heart."
Prolific writer and prodigious traveler McKenna (
Breaking the Word: Reflections for Lectionary Readings Cycle B, 2012, etc.) reimagines the Gospels for the 21st century.
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Released: Feb. 5, 2013
"Long on evangelism, short on reform."
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Released: Feb. 4, 2013
"A bold, impressive study that makes refreshing assertions about our ability to redirect history."
A complicated, ultimately rewarding history tracing how the engagement with "Jewish questions" have shaped 3,000 years of Western thought.
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Released: Feb. 1, 2013
"Hours of taped and edited interviews do not add up to a satisfying book."
A collection of sympathetic interviews with members of the Peoples Temple and others who were connected with the mass suicide/murders of more than 900 people at Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978.
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Released: Jan. 24, 2013
"A levelheaded, elegant look at the life of the prophet amid the making of a legend."
A longtime reporter on the Middle East, Hazleton (
After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam, 2009, etc.) carefully delineates the great events in the life of the "first Muslim," who, like the Christian prophet Jesus, was chosen as the "translator" of God's message to mankind.
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 22, 2013
"Finding nourishment, kosher-style, clever chick lit expands its usual boundaries."
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Released: Jan. 17, 2013
"A patient, wholly compelling investigation into a paranoid "religion" and the faithful held in its sweaty grip."
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Released: Jan. 15, 2013
"An authoritative study of a deeply flawed and tragic figure of history."
Another close scrutiny of the pope excoriated for his silence during World War II and no nearer to redemption.
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Released: Jan. 8, 2013
"An excellent choice for readers interested in religion, philosophy and the elusive concept of home."
Rather than a simple analysis of where scattered Africans ended up geographically, Raboteau (
The Professor's Daughter, 2006) dissects the search for home as a search for belonging.
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Released: Jan. 1, 2013
"Although readers may not be able to spend five hours a day in meditation and prayer like the Dalai Lama, they will come away with a better sense of the importance of communication, forgiveness and empathy, regardless of the circumstances."
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Released: Dec. 27, 2012
"If Kirn has continued reading the Bible, he should continue writing about it, for his responses to Job and the New Testament (as well as his mother's) might well be even pricklier than what he offers here."
In what reads like a Bible blog--a literary, layman's interpretation--the author comes to terms with the death of his mother and a whole lot more after discovering her biblical notes and annotations.
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