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Spirituality and Religion July 2020
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Jesus : the god who knows your name
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Max Lucado
What it's about: Updated with previously unreleased content, an exploration of the life and character of Jesus by the beloved pastor and best-selling author of How Happiness Happens shares insights into Christ’s friendships, private pursuits and public appearances.
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Joan of Arc: A History by Helen Castor What it's about: the life and legend of Joan of Arc, the devout peasant girl who galvanized a divided France to defeat their English occupiers and later became a Catholic saint.
What sets it apart: rather than a biography, this history of the Hundred Years' War examines the "Maid of Orléans" as a social force, from the circumstances that allowed for her ascent to the later attempts to control her legacy. | | The Witches: Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem by Stacy Schiff What it's about: the road to and fallout of the notorious witch trials that took place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692.
Read it for: the analysis of the social, political and religious forces that created the perfect circumstances for paranoia and superstition to spiral out of control.
Author alert: Guggenheim fellow and Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff has also written biographies of historical and cultural notables such as Cleopatra, Vera Nabokov, Benjamin Franklin, and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. | |
Eight Women of Faith
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Michael A. G. Haykin
This eBook is available on CMRLS.Freading.com. Ask staff if you need assistance.
What it's about: Throughout history, women have been crucial to the growth and flourishing of the church. Historian Michael A. G. Haykin highlights the lives of eight of these women who changed the course of history, showing how they lived out their unique callings despite challenges and opposition—inspiring modern men and women to imitate their godly examples today.
Listed are: Jane Grey, Anne Steele, Margaret Baxter, Esther Edwards Burr, Anne Dutton, Ann Judson, Sarah Edwards, and Jane Austen.
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The Queen and the Heretic : How Two Women Changed the Religion of England
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Derek Wilson
This eBook is available on CMRLS.Freading.com. Ask staff if you need assistance.
Who it's about: Catherine Parr and Anne Askew: united in faith and danger, divided in death.
What it's about: One was the last queen of a powerful monarch, the second a countrywoman from Lincolnshire. But they were joined together in their love for the new learning - and their adherence to Protestantism threatened both their lives. Both women wrote about their faith, and their writings are still with us. Powerful men at court sought to bring Catherine down, and used Anne Askew's notoriety as a weapon in that battle. Queen Catherine Parr survived, while Anne Askew, the only woman to be racked, was burned to death. This book explores their lives, and the way of life for women from various social strata in Tudor England.
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