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Earth Habitat: Eco-Injustice and the Church's Response. Fortress. Jun. 2001. c.272p, permanent paper, ed. by Dieter Hessel & Larry Rasmussen. ISBN 0-8006-3295-8. pap. $20. REL The papers collected in this [...]

Wilkes, Paul. Excellent Protestant Congregations: The Guide to Best Places and Practices. Westminster/John Knox. Apr. 2001. c.272p. permanent paper. photogs. index. LC 00-053455. ISBN 0-664-22329-X. pap. $18.95. REL This readable [...]

Heller, Jane. Female Intelligence. St. Martin's. Apr. 2001. c.352p. ISBN 0-312-26159-4. $24.95. F Linguist Dr. Lynn Wyman becomes a media celebrity and best-selling author by teaching men to speak to [...]

Gayle, Mike. Mr. Commitment. Doubleday. Dec. 2000. c.320p. ISBN 0-385-50100-5. $22.95. F Gayle, a popular advice columnist whose first novel, My Legendary Girlfriend, sold well in his native Britain but [...]

Parks, Adele. Playing Away. Pocket. Jul. 2000. 336p. ISBN 0-671-77543-X. $23.95. F Parks's first novel is another disappointing imitation of Helen Fielding's British best seller Bridget Jones's Diary. Connie is [...]

Schmais, Libby. The Perfect Elizabeth: A Romantic Comedy. Thomas Dunne Bks: St. Martin's. Jul. 2000. c.240p. ISBN 0-312-25225-0. $22.95. F This absorbing first novel by a medical librarian is a [...]

Maxted, Anna. Getting Over It. Regan Bks: HarperCollins. Jun. 2000. c.416p. ISBN 0-06-039320-3. $24. Maxted, contributing editor to Cosmopolitan UK, has a quick wit and creates amusing characters in her [...]

Preston, Caroline. Lucy Crocker 2.0. Scribner. May 2000. c.352p. ISBN 0-684-85449-X. $23. F The titular heroine of Preston's second novel, a children's librarian and a techno-phobe, creates a computer game [...]

Ephron, Delia. Big City Eyes. Putnam. May 2000. c.240p. ISBN 0399-14391-2. $23.95. F This second novel (after Hanging Up) by screenwriter Ephron, sister of writers Nora and Amy, is a [...]

Freedman, J.F. Above the Law. Dutton. Feb. 2000. c.464p. LC 99-045095. ISBN 0-525-94479-6. $24.95. F Legal thrillers of near-epic proportions are the author's forte. Luke Garrison, criminal lawyer hero of [...]

Nichols, Linda. Handyman. Delacorte. Jan. 2000. c.296p. ISBN 0-385-33437-0. $20. F Jake, a carpenter, and Maggie, an underemployed, unwed mother, are the hero and heroine of this light romantic comedy, [...]

Forrester, Anouchka Grose. Ringing for You. Scribner. Aug. 1999. c.208p. ISBN 0-684-86292-1. $22. F Laugh-out-loud moments abound in this comic first novel about an overeducated young woman who takes a [...]

Lette, Kathy. Altar Ego. Morrow. Sept. 1999. c.353p. ISBN 0-688-17145-1. $23. F This bawdy contemporary novel is studded with lively moments. Thirtyish Rebecca gets married and divorced in the same [...]

MILLER, M. REX. The Millennium Matrix: Reclaiming the Past, Reframing the Future of the Church. Jossey-Bass. 2004. index. ISBN 0-7879-6267-8. $23.95. REL This ambitious, Protestant-oriented manual for church growth sweeps […]

Knopf. Mar. 2004. c.336p. ISBN 0-375-41318-9. $24. REL A former Roman Catholic nun and a critically acclaimed British writer on contemporary theology, Armstrong (e.g., Islam) here offers a moving, insightful [...]

Univ. of Chicago. (Morality & Society). May 2003. c.208p. permanent paper. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-226-04281-2. $40; pap. ISBN 0-226-04282-0. $16. SOC SCI Of Mennonite background, Bender (sociology and religion, Columbia […]

Church, Forrest. Bringing God Home: A Traveler's Guide. St. Martin's. 2002. c.256p. ISBN 0-312-28218-4. $22.95. Moore, Thomas. The Soul's Religion: Cultivating a Profoundly Spiritual Way of Life. HarperCollins. 2002. c.320p. [...]

Bass, Diana Butler. Strength for the Journey: A Pilgrimage of Faith in Community. Jossey-Bass. Feb. 2002. c.271p. bibliog. ISBN 0-7879-5578-7. $23.95. REL A graduate of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and a [...]

Kay writes novels set in rural Georgia in the postwar years prior to the Civil Rights Movement. A former journalist, the writer (To Dance with the White Dog, Peachtree, 1990) [...]

Rosenblatt, Naomi Harris. After the Apple: Women in the Bible; Timeless Stories of Love, Lust, and Longing. Miramax: Hyperion. Mar. 2005. c.288p. ISBN 0-7868-6908-9. $23.95. REL Rosenblatt (Wrestling with Angels) [...]

Norton. 2003. 288p. illus. ISBN 0-393-05746-1. $24.95. REL The senior vice president of Farrar, Straus, & Giroux here offers a loving memoir of her father, Reinhold Niebuhr, the Union Theological [...]

Beacon, dist. by Houghton. Oct. 2003. c.304p. 0-8070-7256-7. $26. REL Newly ordained Lutheran minister Neumark, a risk taker who knew Spanish from mission work in Latin America, answered a call [...]

St. Anthony Messenger. 2003. 280p. photogs. LC 2002009391. ISBN 0-86716-502-2. $29.95. REL Straub, a Hollywood television producer and director whose best-known credit is General Hospital, is also a secular Franciscan. [...]

Beacon, dist. by Houghton. Jun. 2003. c.224p. permanent paper. ISBN 0-8070-1052-9. $24. REL This book began as a study/discussion guide for an adult education series taught by the author, with [...]

Houghton. Mar. 2003. c.416p. bibliog. ISBN 0-618-92262-7. $25. TRAV The author of the much-publicized autobiographical narrative A Likely Story: One Summer with Lillian Hellman and Whoredom in Kimmage: The Private […]

Facts On File. 2002. 368p. permanent paper. bibliog. index. LC 2002023540. ISBN 0-8160-4375-2. $45. REF The editor of Facts On File's Encyclopedia of Saints and a lecturer and writer on […]

Blackwell. (Brief Histories of Religion). Apr. 2003. c. 176p. illus. index. ISBN 0-631-23353-9. $54.95; pap. ISBN 0-63123354-7. $17.95. REL A professor of historical theology at Oxford and author of the [...]

Algonquin. 2002. c.320p. ISBN 1-56512-309-3. $23.95. REL A senior writer for Christianity Today and an essayist whose works have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Winner is a […]

Doubleday. 2002. c.304p. index. ISBN 0-385-50234-6. $23.95. REL A Roman Catholic psychotherapist and motor home pilgrim who wrote the oral history classic Tying Rocks to Clouds: Meetings and Conversations with [...]

Morrow. Sept. 2002. c.240p. permanent paper. maps. ISBN 0-380-97776-1. $23.95. REL [9/11] Journalist Feiler, a fifth-generation American Jew from the Deep South, wrote the best-selling Walking the Bible, his account [...]

Image: Doubleday. Sept. 2002. c.176p. index. ISBN 0-385-50665-1. pap. $10.95. REL 'The moral Universe of Potterworld,' says Bridger, 'is one [of] real evil and real good.' An Anglican scholar from [...]

Doubleday. 2002. c.176p. ISBN 0-385-50298-2. $19.95. REL This spiritual memoir by poet Caley (creative writing & composition, Eastern Nazarene Coll.) is set in New Hampshire's granite hills during the mid-1960s. [...]

Gallagher, Winifred. Spiritual Genius: The Mastery of Life's Meaning. Random. 2002. c.290p. ISBN 0-375-50310-2. $24.95. REL Gallagher, a social science writer and freelance journalist, penned the popular Working on God, [...]

Kasdorf, Julia. The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life. Johns Hopkin Univ. 2001. illus. c.234p. ISBN 0-8018-6662-6. $26. REL These essays, poems, and illustrations illuminate the Mennonite [...]

Wolf, Molly. Angels and Dragons: On Sorrow, God, and Healing. Doubleday. Oct. 2001. c.256p. ISBN 0-385-50122-6. $19.95. REL Canadian essayist Wolf posts one brief spiritual meditation on the Anglican Sabbath [...]

What Children Need in Order To Read: Preparing Young Children for Reading Success. color. 30 min. Susan DeBeck, dist. by DeBeck Educational Video, 3873 Airport Way, PO Box 9754, Bellingham, [...]

Finnamore, Suzanne. Otherwise Engaged. Knopf. May 1999. c.206p. ISBN 0-375-40352-2. $22. F The heroine of Finnamore's first novel, an advertising copywriter with a six-figure income, survives her first engagement with [...]

Appollo, Annette. The Last One Home. HarperCollins. Mar. 1999. c.352p. ISBN 0-06-019208-9. $24. F First novelist Appollo, a former attorney, blends vividly realized characters with startling plot twists in this [...]

Kay, Terry. The Kidnapping of Aaron Greene. Morrow. 1999. c.320p. ISBN 0-68815034-9. $25. F Smooth storyteller Kay (To Dance with the White Dog, Peachtree, 1990) creates a rich assortment of [...]

Ellis, Trey. Right Here, Right Now. S. & S. Jan. 1999. c.288p. ISBN 0-684-84592-X. $23. F Ellis, who is both a novelist (Home Repairs, LJ 6/1/93) and an award-winning screenwriter [...]

This cinematic comic novel is a smoothly written upscale retelling of Aristophanes' Lysistrata. When the House of Representatives refuses to impeach the Supreme Court Chief Justice for the death of [...]

Sourcebooks. Jan. 1998. c.320p. LC 97 26187. ISBN 1-57071-144-5. pap. $18.95. ED The attractive, easy-to-grasp format and unique focus of this directory are its greatest strengths. The unnamed editors work [...]

Princeton Univ. Apr. 1997. c.280p. ed. by Alvin Kernan. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-691-01155-9. $29.95. ED The current state of the humanities in American colleges and universities is the topic [...]

Powell, Arthur G. Harvard Univ. Feb. 1997. c.304p. index. ISBN 0-674-52549-3. $35. ED Powell (Annenberg Inst. for School Reform, Brown Univ.) is author of the acclaimed Shopping Mall High School [...]