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Released: May 14, 2013
"An incendiary piece of work that will hopefully encourage other victims to escape the IFB's web."
A damning memoir of life under the thumb of the Independent Fundamental Baptist Church, from former member Zichterman.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 7, 2013
"Refreshingly free of self-serious dogmatism, the author's study of other religions shows how it deepened his commitment to his Christian faith."
An American Catholic theologian offers a candid memoir about his unusual spiritual journey and a plea for ecumenical tolerance.
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Released: April 16, 2013
"A brief look at what may surely be a historic class in American educational history--a subject worthy of deeper exploration."
The inaugural class of the first Islamic college in America share their hopes and dreams with a visiting journalist.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 16, 2013
"Shepherd's experience with Zen is not everyone's, but it should prove helpful to those struggling with spiritual practice."
NONFICTION
Released: April 16, 2013
"A disappointing rehash of the science-vs.-religion debate."
An emeritus professor of physics and astronomy traces the roots of modern science, including the discovery of the Higgs boson, to the materialist Greek and Roman philosophers 2,500 years ago.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 12, 2013
"A generally persuasive, impassioned book-length essay. While his conclusions (and language) sometimes grow repetitive, they nonetheless serve to underscore at every turn an incisive argument buttressed by millennia of evidence."
Historian and editor Cannadine (History/Princeton Univ.;
Mellon, 2006, etc.) constructs a stirring critique of history that questions conventional approaches to narrating the human chronicle.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 2, 2013
"Scripture and science meet in a pop-archaeological text; Scripture prevails."
The story of the author's claim to have found long-lost Sodom, the world's most wicked city.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2013
"Yes, Chu concludes in his revealing book, Jesus really loves him. Other Christians? The jury's still out."
NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2013
"An earnest exegesis of a powerful legend of the first Jew, designed for the faithful--not for atheist or pagan readers."
NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2013
"A bright light within a dark, deeply distressing time in history."
Zuccotti (
Holocaust Odysseys: The Jews of Saint-Martin-Vesubie and Their Flight through France and Italy, 2007, etc.) pursues the undercover work by a French priest in aiding the Jews in Marseille and then Rome elude capture and death by the Nazis during World War II.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2013
"An admirable, worthy message that could be contained on a bumper sticker."
NONFICTION
Released: March 28, 2013
"Is there a clash of civilizations, as Samuel Huntington maintained, between the Muslim world and the West? Norton's response will be of interest to students of geopolitics and Islamic studies."
What to do about the Muslims? It's a question, writes Norton (Political Science/Univ. of Pennsylvania;
Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire, 2004, etc.), that non-Muslims have been asking, and the answers have been few.
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