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10 best books like My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus (Kelly Barth): Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender, Girl Unwrapped, Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America, Jesus Freak: Feeding, Healing, Raising the Dead, This Odd and Wondrous Calling: The Public and Private Lives of Two Ministers, A Final Arc of Sky: A Memoir of Critical Care, The Maternal Is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood and Social Change, Wallace Stegner and the American West, Sundays in America: A Yearlong Road Trip in Search of Christian Faith, Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith

Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender
AuthorNick Krieger
ISBN0807000922
Honor Book for the 2012 Stonewall Book Awards in non-fiction 

The next-generation Stone Butch Blues--a contemporary memoir of gender awakening and a classic tale of first love and self-discovery.

Ambitious, sporty, feminine “capital-L lesbians” had been Nina Krieger’s...
Girl Unwrapped
AuthorGabriella Goliger
ISBN1551523752
Girl Unwrapped is a girl's coming-of-age story set in 1960s Montreal about the burdens and blessings of history, the divided self, and the quest to be whole. Toni Goldblatt's awakening to taboo desire conflicts with her Holocaust-scarred parents' expectations. Yearning to reinvent herself, she...
Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America
AuthorMel White
ISBN0452273811
Until Christmans Eve 1991, Mel White was regarded by the leaders of the religious right as one of their most talented and productive supporters. He penned the speeches of Ollie North. He was a ghostwriter for Jerry Falwell, worked with Jim Bakker, flew in Pat Robertson's private jet, walked sandy beaches...
Jesus Freak: Feeding, Healing, Raising the Dead
AuthorSara Miles
ISBN0470481668
"I came late to Christianity," writes Sara Miles, "knocked upside down by a mid-life conversion centered around eating a literal chunk of bread. I hadn't decided to profess an article of doctrine, but discovered a force blowing uncontrollably through the world."In this new book, Sara Miles tells...
This Odd and Wondrous Calling: The Public and Private Lives of Two Ministers
AuthorLillian Daniel
ISBN0802864759
This Odd and Wondrous Calling offers something different from most books available on ministry. Two people still pastoring reflect honestly here on both the joys and the challenges of their vocation. Anecdotal and extremely readable, the book covers a diversity of subjects revealing the incredible...
A Final Arc of Sky: A Memoir of Critical Care
AuthorJennifer Culkin
ISBN0807072850
Buckling herself into the rear of an Agusta A109A, Jennifer Culkin prepares for the moment of lift. The deafening thrum of the helicopter announces the unknown perils and potential havoc that await. A critical care and emergency flight nurse, Culkin treats patients who are most often in mortal danger....
The Maternal Is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood and Social Change
AuthorShari MacDonald Strong
ISBN1580052436
Exploring the vital connection between motherhood and social change, The Maternal Is Political features thirty powerful, hard-hitting literary essays by women who are striving to make the world a better place for children and families--both their own and other women's--in this country and globally....
Wallace Stegner and the American West
AuthorPhilip L. Fradkin
ISBN1400043913
Wallace Stegner was the premier chronicler of the twentieth-century western American experience, and his novels, the Pulitzer Prize–winning Angle of Repose and the National Book Award–winning The Spectator Bird, brought the life and landscapes of the West to national and international attention....
Sundays in America: A Yearlong Road Trip in Search of Christian Faith
AuthorSuzanne Strempek Shea
ISBN0807072249
When Pope John Paul II died, Suzanne Strempek Shea, who had not been an active member of a church community for some years, recognized in his mourners a faith-filled passion that she longed to recapture in her own life. Shea, never one to do things in a conventional manner or by halves, set out on a pilgrimage...
Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith
AuthorNora Gallagher
ISBN0679775498
"Gracefully written and moving ... Things Seen and Unseen starts with Nora Gallagher entering the labyrinth of her life ... and ultimately it leads to the center of her being."--The Boston Globe

It started with an occasional Sunday, a "tourist's" visit to a local church. Eventually Nora Gallagher...
The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus: What's So Good About the Good News?
AuthorPeter J. Gomes
ISBN0060000732
Jesus came preaching, but the church wound up preaching Jesus. Why does the church insist upon making Jesus the object of its attention rather than heeding his message? Esteemed Harvard minister Peter J. Gomes believes that excessive focus on the Bible and doctrines about Jesus have led the Christian...
Faitheist: How An Atheist Found Common Ground With The Religious
AuthorChris Stedman
ISBN0807014397
The stunning popularity of the "New Atheist" movement--whose most famous spokesmen include Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens--speaks to both the growing ranks of atheists as well as their vehement disdain for religion. In Faitheist, Chris Stedman challenges the orthodoxies...
Hope Will Find You: My Search for the Wisdom to Stop Waiting and Start Living
AuthorNaomi Levy
ISBN0385531702
How can I get my life off hold? When will my life really begin? We all ask ourselves the same questions when we are struggling to move forward. As a rabbi, Naomi Levy frequently offered spiritual guidance to people seeking the answers. But when a doctor told her that her young daughter, Noa, had a fatal...
Grounded: Finding God in the World. A Spiritual Revolution
AuthorDiana Butler Bass
ISBN0062328549
The headlines are clear: religion is on the decline in America as many people leave behind traditional religious practices. Diana Butler Bass, leading commentator on religion, politics, and culture, follows up her acclaimed book Christianity After Religion by arguing that what appears to be a decline...
My Baby Rides the Short Bus: The Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities
AuthorYantra Bertelli
ISBN1604861096
The stories in this collection provide parents of special needs kids with a dose of both laughter and reality. Featuring works by so-called alternative parents who have attempted to move away from mainstream thought, this anthology carefully considers the implications of raising children with...
First Person Queer: Who We Are
AuthorRichard Labonté
ISBN1551522276
In this amazing, wide-ranging anthology of nonfiction essays, contributors write intimate and honest first-person accounts of queer experience, from coming out to “passing” as straight to growing old to living proud. These are the stories of contemporary gay and lesbian life—and by definition,...
A Woman Like That: Lesbian And Bisexual Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories
AuthorJoan Larkin
ISBN0380802473
The act of "coming out" has the power to transform every aspect of a woman's life: family, friendships, career, sexuality, spirituality. An essential element of self-realization, it is the unabashed acceptance of one's "outlaw" standing in a predominantly heterosexual world.

These accounts...
Ask a Queer Chick: A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life for Girls Who Dig Girls
AuthorLindsay King-Miller
ISBN0147516781
Ask a Queer Chick is a guide to sex, love, and life for lesbian, gay, bi, and queer women. Based on the long-running and popular advice column for The Hairpin, but featuring entirely new content, Ask a Queer Chick cuts through all of the bizarre conditioning imparted by parents, romantic comedies, and...
Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel
AuthorKate Bowler
ISBN0199827699
How have millions of American Christians come to measure spiritual progress in terms of their financial status and physical well-being? How has the movement variously called Word of Faith, Health and Wealth, Name It and Claim It, or simply prosperity gospel come to dominate much of our contemporary...
Ethical Chic: The Inside Story of the Companies We Think We Love
AuthorFran Hawthorne
ISBN0807000949
“Hawthorne gives readers an impartial picture of the difficulties of running a profitable company while trying to maintain a positive corporate belief system…Highly recommended.”—Library Journal, starred review

Consumers are told that when they put on an American Apparel...
Power, Inc.: The Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Government- —and the Reckoning That Lies Ahead
AuthorDavid Rothkopf
ISBN0374151288
The world's largest company, Wal-Mart Stores, has revenues higher than the GDP of all but twenty-five of the world's countries. Its employees outnumber the populations of almost a hundred nations. The world's largest asset manager, a secretive New York company called Black Rock, controls assets...
This Time I Dance!: Creating the Work You Love
AuthorTama J. Kieves
ISBN1585425273
These are all things that we have to deal with when going through a career change. What is most difficult is deciding to make the change, especially when you are good at what you do, and wonder whether you should just stick it out in an unhappy-albeit well-paid-environment instead of taking a risk and starting...
Little Wilson and Big God
AuthorAnthony Burgess
ISBN0802132405
The first volume of the two-volume autobiography.

In an extraordinarily candid book of confessions, Anthony Burgess tells the story of a disaffected Manchester Catholic from his birth in 1917 up to 1959 and the commencement of his career as a professional writer. He details his burgeoning...
Golfing with God: A Novel of Heaven and Earth
AuthorRoland Merullo
ISBN1565125495
Herman "Hank" Fins-Winston was a pro golfer destined for greatness. Now he lives in a condominium on the thirteenth fairway of one of heaven's glorious courses – a fact he finds surprising and amusing, since for one reason or another, a fair percentage of golfers never make it to paradise. Hank is having...
The Husbands and Wives Club: A Year in the Life of a Couples Therapy Group
AuthorLaurie Abraham
ISBN1416585478
Book Description Publication Date: March 9, 2010 For more than a year, journalist Laurie Abraham sat in with five troubled couples as they underwent the searing process of group marriage therapy. Published as The New York Times Magazine's cover story "Can This Marriage Be Saved?" the resulting article...
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