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Hume's Abject Failure : The Argument Against Miracles by John Earman
As the song says, "Do you believe in miracles?" Philosopher David Hume didn't and went out of his way to make a philosophical argument particularly against religious miracles, those that in Hume's ...
(October 2006)
A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
How can God permit his creatures such pain and suffering? That is a central question of this book, which consists of C.S. Lewis' journal entries written in the wake of his wife's ...
(January 2005)
Life of Pi : a Novel by Yann Martel
Prepare yourself for another adventure on the sea. Picine "Pi" Patel, a young man traveling with his family from India to Canada with a contingent of zoo animals, is the only survivor ...
(February 2004)
Joy to the World: Two Thousand Years of Christmas by Francis G. James and Miriam G. Hill
Just a few hectic weeks before Christmas! Frustrated by searching for affordable gifts together with crowds of other late shoppers, you may wonder if in past times this holiday season was such ...
(December 2003)
The Heirloom : One Family's Courageous Sacrifice Sparks Hope in the Midst of Despair by Colleen L. Reece and Julie Reece-DeMarco
As the busy holidays approach, take the time to read this small book which will make you reflect on what the holidays are about. The year is 1929 in Spruce Hollow, North ...
(November 2003)
Tariki: Embracing Despair, Discovering Peace by Hiroyuki Itsuki
After writing 143 novels, six of which sold more than a million copies, Japan’s best-selling novelist, Hiroyuki Itsuki, interrupted his exceedingly successful career to study Pure Land Buddhism. In Tariki, Itsuki interweaves ...
(July 2002)
Life on the Other Side: A Psychic's Tour of the Afterlife by Sylvia Browne, Lindsay Harrison
Local psychic Sylvia Browne's latest book stands in a tradition of spiritualistic (more properly, spiritistic) writing that, between the 1840's and the 1920's, had about as many believers as mainstream Christianity, (though ...
(March 2002)
Sweeping Changes: Discovering the Joy of Zen in Everyday Tasks by Gary Thorp
Author Gary Thorp is a married, home-owning lay monk in Marin County, ordained in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. He's also an excellent writer, a jazz pianist, a gentle man, and ...
(December 2001)
One Last Time : a Psychic Medium Speaks To Those We Have Loved And Lost by John Edward
In a compelling story-telling, fictional approach, John Edward -- a famous medium -- recounts how he discovered his psychic ability to communicate with the spirits in other worlds, and describes séances he ...
(September 2001)
The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman
Finkelstein and Silberman make an assertion sure to prove controversial among Biblical scholars: the Old Testament as we have it dates from centuries later than we have supposed, and was composed to ...
(August 2001)
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