NCW Libraries

"Are you overwhelmed by the weight of your worry? Let Lucado gently guide you toward the peace only God promises! Offering short stories, illuminating teachings, inspiring Scripture, practical applications, and plenty of journaling space, Lucado's readings will help you face your fears, end your "if only" thinking, practice gratitude, and experience serenity" -- christianbook.com.

"Is religion a right given to us by the state? Is it an opium for the masses? Is it private opinion with no role in the public sphere? In It Is Right and Just, bestselling author Scott Hahn and Brandon McGinley challenge our idea of religion and its role in society. Hahn and McGinley argue that to answer questions over religious liberty, justice, and peace, we must first reject the insidious lie perpetuated by secular-liberal culture: that religion...

"The first comprehensive account of David Koresh, the tragedy at Waco, and the rise of government mistrust in America"-- The first comprehensive account of David Koresh's life, his road to Waco, and the rise of government mistrust in America, from a master of narrative nonfiction. No other event in the last fifty years is shrouded in myth like the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas. Today, we remember this moment for the 76 people,...

"Few things bring more immediate scrutiny and impassioned angst among young adult Christians today than hearing the words "purity culture." Serious flaws from purity culture deserve to be scrutinized, especially given its lasting negative effects on some raised in the movement. Many Christians today reject the movement--and all that it stood for--wholesale. However, we can't ignore the clear sexual ethics of the Bible. Pure dives into the big picture...

An intelligent and outspoken only child, Marjane Satrapi--the daughter of radical Marxists and the great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor--bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country. Marjane's graphic depiction of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen brings home, with eloquence and force, the contradictions between private and public life in a country plagued by political upheavals. Her child's eye view...

"In an earnest and searing wake-up call, the author of the bestseller Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy warns of the haunting similarities between today's American church and the German church of the 1930s. Echoing Bonhoeffer's prophetic call, Eric Metaxas exhorts his fellow Christians to repent of their silence in the face of evil before it is too late"--

"Join the Israelites as they journeyed from the wilderness into the land that God had granted them. Each chapter will challenge you to move from a fear stop to a faith step. And once you've started taking those steps with God, there's no telling what great places He'll take you"-- "Isn't it time you said yes to God?What's holding you back? The risk? The unknown? The unwillingness to shake up the comfortable status quo? Whatever it is, if you're not...

"In sixteen intimate essays, poet Molly McCully Brown explores living within and beyond the limits of a body-in her case, one shaped since birth by cerebral palsy, a permanent and often painful movement disorder. In spite of-indeed, in response to-physical constraints, Brown leads a peripatetic life: the essays comprise a vivid travelogue set throughout the United States and Europe, ranging from the rural American South of her childhood to the cobblestoned...

In 1929, the Mexican government declared war on the Catholic Church. Priests were killed and exiled, churches looted and destroyed, and Mexican Catholics were forced to live through unfortunate persecution. But in the darkest moments, the faith of the nation's Catholics was unshakeable. Courageous in the face of harsh persecution, Mexico's faithful, known as Cristeros, refused to cower in the face of intimidation, and took up arms during a three-year...

In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.