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Praying for Strangers: An Adventure of the Human Spirit

10 best books like Praying for Strangers: An Adventure of the Human Spirit (River Jordan): Fireflies in December, Southern Lady Code, The Dearly Beloved, Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island, Learning to Walk in the Dark, An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith, The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why, Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence, Homes: A Refugee Story, The Invisible Girls

Fireflies in December
AuthorJennifer Erin Valent
ISBN1414324324
2010 Christy Award winner!
Jessilyn Lassiter never knew that hatred could lurk in the human heart until the summer of 1932 when she turned 13. When her best friend, Gemma, loses her parents in a tragic fire, Jessilyn's father vows to care for her as one of his own, despite the fact that Gemma is black...
Southern Lady Code
AuthorHelen Ellis
ISBN0385543891
The bestselling author of American Housewife is back with a fiercely funny collection of essays on marriage and manners, thank-you notes and three-ways, ghosts, gunshots, gynecology, and the Calgon-scented, onion-dipped, monogrammed art of living as a Southern Lady.

Helen Ellis has...
The Dearly Beloved
AuthorCara Wall
Charles and Lily, James and Nan. They meet in Greenwich Village in 1963 when Charles and James are jointly hired to steward the historic Third Presbyterian Church through turbulent times. Their personal differences however, threaten to tear them apart.

Charles is destined to succeed his...
Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island
AuthorRegina Calcaterra
ISBN0062218832
The book's a genuine tear-jerker. Five little children all abused, a couple of them worse than the others with beatings and imprisonment, starvation and whatever else their mother (their five fathers were not present) could think up when she was present and not off on one of her months-long jaunts....
Learning to Walk in the Dark
AuthorBarbara Brown Taylor
ISBN0062024353
From the New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World, Barbara Brown Taylor’s Learning to Walk in the Dark provides a way to find spirituality in those times when we don’t have all the answers.

Taylor has become increasingly uncomfortable with our tendency to associate all...
An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
AuthorBarbara Brown Taylor
ISBN0061370460
In her critically acclaimed Leaving Church ("a beautiful, absorbing memoir."—Dallas Morning News), Barbara Brown Taylor wrote about leaving full-time ministry to become a professor, a decision that stretched the boundaries of her faith. Now, in her stunning follow-up, An Altar in the World,...
The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why
AuthorPhyllis A. Tickle
ISBN1596445750
From the church's birth to the reign of St. Gregory the great, to the Great Schism and through the Reformation, Phyllis Tickle notes that every 500 years the church has been rocked by massive transitions. Remarkably enough, Tickle suggests to us that we live in such a time right now. The Great Emergence...
Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence
AuthorMatthew Sanford
ISBN1594863024
Matthew Sanford's inspirational story about the car accident that left him paralyzed from the chest down is a superbly written memoir of healing and journey--from near death to triumphant life.

Matt Sanford's life and body were irrevocably changed at age 13 on a snowy Iowa road. On that day,...
Homes: A Refugee Story
AuthorAbu Bakr al Rabeeah
ISBN1988298288
In 2010, the al Rabeeah family left their home in Iraq in hope of a safer life. They moved to Homs, in Syria — just before the Syrian civil war broke out.

Abu Bakr, one of eight children, was ten years old when the violence began on the streets around him: car bombings, attacks on his mosque and school,...
The Invisible Girls
AuthorSarah Thebarge
ISBN1455523917
Twenty-seven-year-old Sarah Thebarge had it all - a loving boyfriend, an Ivy League degree, and a successful career - when her life was derailed by an unthinkable diagnosis: aggressive breast cancer. After surviving the grueling treatments - though just barely - Sarah moved to Portland, Oregon to...
Yoga for Golfers: A Unique Mind-Body Approach to Golf Fitness
AuthorKatherine Roberts
ISBN0071428704
From the unquestioned expert in the field, the authoritative guide to yoga for golfers

"Working with Katherine for the last couple of years has allowed me to compete at a very high level."

--Gary McCord, CBS golf commentator and Senior PGA Tour player

Katherine Roberts,...
Yoga for Osteoporosis: The Complete Guide
AuthorLoren Fishman
ISBN0393334856
Osteoporosis leads to painful fractures due to loss of bone mass; yoga strengthens bones without endangering joints: it stands to reason that yoga is the perfect therapy for osteoporosis. Forty-four million Americans suffer from low bone mass, and osteoporosis is responsible for more than 1.5 million...
Everyday Yoga: At-Home Routines to Enhance Fitness, Build Strength, and Restore Your Body
AuthorSage Rountree
ISBN1937715353
America's leading expert on yoga for active people, Sage Rountree, shares her approach to practicing yoga every day in this colorful, lay-flat guide to yoga poses and routines.

Flexibility, balance, whole-body strength, recovery, range of motion, focus--a regular yoga practice brings...
A Brief History of Seventh-Day Adventists (Adventist heritage series)
AuthorGeorge R. Knight
ISBN0828014302
The SDA church, at least in its early years, was like a mystery novel, many twists and turns
no doubt keeping the early members guessing how it would turn out. Officially established in 1863 and being formed by survivors of the "Great Disappointment" of 1844, until the 1890s they were not much interested...
Taft
AuthorAnn Patchett
ISBN0060540761
John Nickel is a black ex-jazz musician who only wants to be a good father. But when his son is taken away from him, he's left with nothing but the Memphis bar he manages. Then he hires Fay, a young white waitress, who has a volatile brother named Carl in tow. Nickel finds himself consumed with the idea of Taft...
Chair Yoga For Seniors: A Gentle Sequence to Get You Started
AuthorNancy Coffin
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The Favorite Daughter
AuthorPatti Callahan Henry
ISBN0399583130
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Bookshop at Water's End, here is a lush, heart-wrenching novel about the power of memory, the meaning of family, and learning to forgive.

Ten years ago, Lena Donohue experienced a wedding-day betrayal so painful that she fled the small town...
Elizabeth the First Wife
AuthorLian Dolan
ISBN1938849051
Elizabeth Lancaster, an English professor at Pasadena City College, finds her perfectly dull but perfectly orchestrated life upended one summer by three men: her movie-star ex-husband, a charming political operative, and William Shakespeare. Until now, she’d been content living in the shadow...
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