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In the Land of Believers: An Outsider's Extraordinary Journey into the Heart of the Evangelical Church

10 best books like In the Land of Believers: An Outsider's Extraordinary Journey into the Heart of the Evangelical Church (Gina Welch): The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World, Stuart Little, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations, Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, Mr. Popper's Penguins, The Moffats, Caddie Woodlawn, The Trumpet of the Swan, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, Jesus Land: A Memoir

The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
AuthorMelinda Gates
ISBN1250313570
A debut from Forbes' third most powerful woman in the world, Melinda Gates, a timely and necessary call to action for women's empowerment.

For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission. Her goal, as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has been to find solutions...
Stuart Little
AuthorE.B. White
ISBN0064400565
A paperback edition of E.B. White's classic novel about one small mouse on a very big adventure! With black and white illustrations.

Stuart Little is no ordinary mouse. Born to a family of humans, he lives in New York City with his parents, his older brother George, and Snowbell the cat. Though...
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
AuthorMira Jacob
A bold, wry, and intimate graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us, from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing.

“By turns hilarious and heart-rending, it’s exactly the book America needs at this moment.”—Celeste...
Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
AuthorBetty MacDonald
ISBN0064401499
At last my 8 year old knows why sometimes I refer to him as Harbin Quadrangle! (The infamous slowpoke of the final chapter!)
This book is light on actual Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle appearances, but heavy on the "cures" for some very bad habits, including bullying, gossiping, and being a slowpoke. (If you...
Mr. Popper's Penguins
AuthorRichard Atwater
ISBN0316058432
The single greatest book of my childhood. (Nerd alert warning)...This will explain how much I enjoyed this book. When I first read it, I had inherited a copy from one of my older siblings. They had written their name in the front of it, because our mother has a weird obsession with putting our names on everything...
The Moffats
AuthorEleanor Estes
ISBN0152025413
The Moffats, who live in the same town as the owners of Ginger Pye, are a close-knit family of four children and a hard-working seamstress mother, whose bust "Madame" occupies a central position in the family's little brown house. Although the children are essentially good-hearted, they get into an...
Caddie Woodlawn
AuthorCarol Ryrie Brink
ISBN1416940286
Caddie Woodlawn is a real adventurer. She'd rather hunt than sew and plow than bake, and tries to beat her brother's dares every chance she gets. Caddie is friends with Indians, who scare most of the neighbors -- neighbors who, like her mother and sisters, don't understand her at all. Caddie is brave,...
The Trumpet of the Swan
AuthorE.B. White
ISBN0064408671
Swan Song

Like the rest of his family, Louis is a trumpeter swan. But unlike his four brothers and sisters, Louis can't trumpet joyfully. In fact, he can't even make a sound. And since he can't trumpet his love, the beautiful swan Serena pays absolutely no attention to him.

Louis tries...
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
AuthorBetty MacDonald
ISBN0064401480
Everyone loves Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle lives in an upside-down house and smells like cookies. She was even married to a pirate once. Most of all, she knows everything about children. She can cure them of any ailment. Patsy hates baths. Hubert never puts anything away. Allen...
Jesus Land: A Memoir
AuthorJulia Scheeres
ISBN1582433542
For Julia Scheeres and her adopted brother David, "Jesus Land" stretched from their parents' fundamentalist home, past the hostilities of high school, and deep into a Christian reform school in the Dominican Republic. For these two teenagers - brother and sister, black and white - the 1980s were a...
Shameless: A Sexual Reformation
AuthorNadia Bolz-Weber
Raw, intimate, and timely, Nadia Bolz-Weber’s latest book offers a full-blown overhaul of our harmful and antiquated ideas about sex, gender, and our bodies.
 
Christians are obsessed with sex. But not in a good way. For generations countless people have suffered pain, guilt, and judgment...
WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game
AuthorAbby Wambach
ISBN1250217709
Based on her inspiring, viral 2018 commencement speech to Barnard College’s graduates in New York City, New York Times bestselling author, two-time Olympic gold medalist and FIFA World Cup champion Abby Wambach delivers her empowering rally cry for women to unleash their individual power, unite...
Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
AuthorSendhil Mullainathan
ISBN0805092641
Audiobook: 8 hrs and 47 mins

A surprising and intriguing examination of how scarcity—and our flawed responses to it—shapes our lives, our society, and our culture

Why do successful people get things done at the last minute? Why does poverty persist? Why do organizations get...
Out of a Far Country: A Gay Son's Journey to God, a Broken Mother's Search for Hope
AuthorChristopher Yuan
ISBN0307729354
Coming out, Then coming home. "'Christopher, you must choose! You must choose the family or choose homosexuality.' He looked at me and said, 'It's not something I can choose. I am gay. If you can't accept me, then I have no other choice but to leave.'"

Christopher Yuan, the son of Chinese immigrants,...
Hands Free Mama: A Guide to Putting Down the Phone, Burning the To-Do List, and Letting Go of Perfection to Grasp What Really Matters!
AuthorRachel Macy Stafford
ISBN0310338131
Discover the power, joy, and love of living "hands free" from New York Times bestselling author Rachel Macy Stafford. Hands Free Mama is the digital society's answer to finding balance in a media-saturated, perfection-obsessed world.

If technology is the new addiction, then multi-tasking...
Loving the Little Years: Motherhood in the Trenches
AuthorRachel Jankovic
ISBN1591280818
From the author: "I didn t write this book because mothering little ones is easy for me. I wrote it because it isn t. I know that this is a hard job, because I am right here in the middle of it. I know you need encouragement because I do too. "This is not a tender reminiscence from someone who had children so long...
Blush: A Mennonite Girl Meets a Glittering World
AuthorShirley Hershey Showalter
ISBN0836196260
Little Shirley Hershey, named for a movie star, grew up with her nose pressed to the window of the glittering world. Three locations shaped her-a family farm, a country school, and Lititz Mennonite Church. She later became a college president and then a foundation executive, but the rosy-cheeked,...
Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism
AuthorMichelle Goldberg
ISBN0393329763
Michelle Goldberg, a senior political reporter for Salon.com, has been covering the intersection of politics and ideology for years. Before the 2004 election, and during the ensuing months when many Americans were trying to understand how an administration marked by cronyism, disregard for the...
The Complete Brambly Hedge
AuthorJill Barklem
ISBN0001983679
Brambly Hedge is my ideal world. The way the mice live is completely natural, which is how I think life ought to be. They appreciate and use everything that grows around them. Theirs is a loving, caring society, but the mice are not just serious and worthy. They have FUN! The much-loved Brambly Hedge mice...
The Golly Sisters Go West
AuthorBetsy Byars
ISBN0064441326
A funny introduction to pioneer life, perfect for classrooms and homeschoolers

The Golly Sisters are heading west. They’ve got new dresses and the best show on either side of the Mississippi. But can they keep their act together long enough to get this show on the road? Find out in this hilarious...
The Insanity of Obedience: Walking with Jesus in Tough Places
AuthorNik Ripken
ISBN1433673096
Wise Sheep Among the Wolves

All Christian disciples have one thing in common: as they carry the gospel across the ocean and across the street, persecution will become the norm for those who choose to follow Jesus. How believers respond in the face of persecution reveals everything about their...
The Art of Frugal Hedonism: A Guide to Spending Less While Enjoying Everything More
AuthorAnnie Raser-Rowland
ISBN0994392818
It sounds too good to be true. You can save money and the world, inoculate yourself against many of the ills of modern life, andenjoy everything more on both the sensual and profound levels? Preposterous!

Yet here is a toolkit to help you do just that. A tweak here, a twiddle there; every strategy...
Thirst: A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World
AuthorScott Harrison
ISBN1524762849
An inspiring personal story of redemption, second chances, and the transformative power within us all, from the founder and CEO of the nonprofit charity: water.

At 28 years old, Scott Harrison had it all. A top nightclub promoter in New York City, his life was an endless cycle of drugs, booze,...
Hooray for the Golly Sisters
AuthorBetsy Byars
ISBN0064441563
Easy-to-read Books:

The book follows a pair of sisters, May May and Rose, who travel from town to town in a horse drawn buggy to perform their variety show at each stop they make. The two sisters are extremely goofy and do silly things in each story making it fun and light hearted in nature, which...
The Golly Sisters Ride Again
AuthorBetsy Byars
ISBN0064442071
It's show time!May-May and Rose, those hilarious singing and dancing Golly sisters, return for five more zany adventures in which they find a talking rock, run into some bad luck, and take a vacation that's pure Golly folly.

Betsy Byars' third book about his wacky pair, brought to life by Sue...
These ARE My Church Clothes
AuthorJerry Rice
Set in the heart of Appalachia, where his stories about shootings, baptizing in icy creek waters during a snow storm, people living in an old school bus with no electric, a drunken hero God used to save the preacher's own family from the unthinkable and even the best way to eat the head of a squirrel—Jerry...
The Magic of Motherhood: The Good Stuff, the Hard Stuff, and Everything In Between
AuthorAshlee Gadd
ISBN0310084601
The Magic of Motherhood celebrates your life as a mom—the good stuff, the hard stuff, and everything in between.

From the writers behind the popular blog Coffee + Crumbs comes a beautiful new book to remind you of your identity, both as a woman and as a mother.

Motherhood can often...
Raising Grateful Kids in an Entitled World: How One Family Learned That Saying No Can Lead to Life's Biggest Yes
AuthorKristen Welch
ISBN1496405293
"But everyone else has it." "If you loved me, you'd get it for me!" When you hear these comments from your kids, it can be tough not to cave. You love your children--don't you want them to be happy and to fit in?

Kristen Welch knows firsthand it's not that easy. In fact, she's found out that when you...
Neither Complementarian Nor Egalitarian: A Kingdom Corrective to the Evangelical Gender Debate
AuthorMichelle Lee-Barnewall
ISBN0801039576
Regarding gender relations, the evangelical world is divided between complementarians and egalitarians. While both perspectives have much to contribute, the discussion has reached a stalemate. Michelle Lee-Barnewall critiques both sides of the debate, challenging the standard premises and...
Sacred Cows: A Lighthearted Look at Belief and Tradition Around the World
AuthorSeth Andrews
ISBN1478749962
Did you know God forbids the tying of shoelaces on Saturday? Or that humans emit an color aura which can only be discerned with a Third Eye? That bountiful harvest requires the flinging of a live goat from a church bell tower? That instead of wishing upon a star, we can wish upon a...cow? Well into the 21st...
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