Thank God

Item #: UE6212
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A Booker Prize finalist first published in 1978, God on the Rocks is a coming-of-age novel, family drama, and period satire all in one. Having grown up in an oppressively religious household on the English coast between the two world wars, eight-year-old Margaret Marsh finds her eyes opened to a whole new world when her parents hire a buxom and vivacious nanny, Lydia, to entertain her. And the change in the air seems to infect her parents, as well: Mr. Marsh begins to take an uncomfortable interest in Lydia's "soul," and Mrs. Marsh reconnects with friends from her past, exposing Margaret to a side of her mother she has never known. But soon pent-up passions and repressed emotions rise to the surface, hurtling the whole family toward a dramatic precipice where young Margaret's life lies in the balance.

Item #: UE5302
Price: $16.99
This unique and beautiful book invites Christians to celebrate the season of Thanksgiving through thoughtful reflection and grateful living. Lovely hymns, prayers, scriptures, and quotations--from a diverse collection of historical luminaries from Saint Francis of Assisi to William Blake to Albert Einstein--are among the treasures here, along with Abraham Lincoln's "Thanksgiving Day Proclamation" and Louisa May Alcott's short story "An Old-fashioned Thanksgiving." What a wonderful reminder to count our blessings!

Item #: UE8532
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Leo Tolstoy devoted much of the last decade of his life to creating a "guide to living a good life" based on spiritual wisdom drawn from literature, religious texts, and philosophical systems from around the world. Wise Thoughts for Every Day was a part of that project, originally published in 1909, and now a century later translated and published in English for the first time. Enjoy a page a day throughout the year, contemplating themes of faith, love, death, temptation, virtue, prayer, suffering, happiness, and so much more.

Item #: UE7762
Price: $21.95
The "she" in the excerpt above is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, referring to herself in the third person (as "Mommy"), speaking to her beloved flock of chickens. This unique memoir presents thirty-seven short musings--on the joys to be found in the natural world, the heartaches mankind inflicts upon itself, and Walker's personal journey through life. Many of the entries are written as letters to the "girls," with fond salutations such as "Dear feathered mysteries" and "Beloved sister travelers on the journey." The Chicken Chronicles offers a simultaneously uplifting and heartbreaking view of the world through Alice Walker's eyes.