The Lively Lady
10 best books like The Lively Lady (Kenneth Roberts): Hannah Coulter, Remembering, Crucible, Go to the Widow-Maker, The Shapiro Matrix, Crowned Heads, The Kingdom of Ohio, An Affair of State, Emma McChesney and Co., Doing Life Together: Building Community for Families Affected by Disability
| Author | Wendell Berry |
| ISBN | 1593760787 |
Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry's seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman character in its telling. Hannah, the now-elderly narrator, recounts the love she has for the land and for her community. She remembers each of her two husbands, and all places and community connections threatened...
| Author | Wendell Berry |
| ISBN | 0865473315 |
Andy Catlett has lost his right hand in a corn picker along with his purpose. In the months following the accident he makes life hard for himself and everyone around him that cares for him--he just can't let the loss of his hand go and forgive himself for the one moment of thoughtlessness that led from his...
| Author | James Rollins |
| ISBN | 0062381784 |
In the race to save one of their own, Sigma Force must wrestle with the deepest spiritual mysteries of mankind in this mind-expanding adventure from the #1 New York Times bestselling author, told with his trademark blend of cutting edge science, historical mystery, and pulse-pounding action.
Arriving...
| Author | James Jones |
| ISBN | 1453218475 |
A playwright vacationing in Jamaica becomes dangerously obsessed with deep-sea diving
Ron Grant is one of the finest playwrights of his generation, second only to Tennessee Williams in pure genius. But success does not mean he feels like a man. On vacation in Jamaica with his mistress, an...
What would you get if you combined 1984, Blade Runner, and Brazil, and added a sprinkling of wry humor to lighten the darkness a bit? It would be my latest book, The Shapiro Matrix. It stands on its own as a look at a dystopian near future in an America where all freedoms have been taken away by the government...
| Author | Thomas Tryon |
| ISBN | 0340213698 |
Thomas Tryon brings to breathtaking life the Golden Age of Hollywood and the great golden people who became the crowned heads of this kingdom of stars.
FEDORA: Her enigma unriddled—the greatest, the most exquisite, the longest-reigning Hollywood star of them all. Now she has made an incredible...
| Author | Matthew Flaming |
| ISBN | 0399155600 |
An incredibly original, intelligent novel?a love story set against New York City at the dawn of the mechanical age, featuring Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, and J. P. Morgan.
After discovering an old photograph, an elderly antiques dealer living in present-day Los Angeles is forced to revisit...
I found this novel published in 1948 fascinating. It is about a veteran from the Italian campaign who joins the State Department after the war as a foreign service officer. He is dispatched to Budapest to participate in a secret program involving covert action. Setting aside that this would probably...
| Author | Edna Ferber |
| ISBN | 0252070887 |
Edna Ferber, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Show Boat and Giant, achieved her first great success with a series of stories featuring Emma McChesney: a smart, stylish, divorced mother who in a mere twelve years rose from stenographer to traveling sales representative to business manager and...
Doing Life Together: Building Community for Families Affected by Disability
Do you want your church to be a place of belonging? Do you want your church to be Irresistible?
An Irresistible Church is an authentic community built on the hope of Christ that compels people affected by disability to fully belong. Doing Life Together will equip your church to serve families...
Strangers Next Door: Immigration, Migration and Mission
| Author | J.D. Payne |
| ISBN | 0830857583 |
More than ever, North America is being flooded by people from all around the world, many of them here illegally. How should the church respond to these sojourners among us? In Strangers Next Door professor of evangelism and church planting J. D. Payne introduces the phenomenon of migrations of peoples...
United: Captured by God's Vision for Diversity
| Author | Trillia J. Newbell |
| ISBN | 0802410146 |
What’s the view from where you worship—racially diverse or racially monochrome?
On the Last Day every tongue and tribe will be represented in the glorious chorus praising God with one voice. Yet today our churches remain segregated. Can we reflect the beauty of the last day this day?
United...
Start with Hello: Introducing Your Church to Special Needs Ministry
Do you want your church to be a place of belonging? Do you want your church to be Irresistible?
An Irresistible Church is an authentic community built on the hope of Christ that compels people affected by disability to fully belong. Start with Hello was written with the goal of introducing your...
Call Me Friend: Building Compelling Relationships through One-on-One Ministry
Do you want your church to be a place of belonging? Do you want your church to be Irresistible?
An Irresistible Church is an authentic community built on the hope of Christ that compels people affected by disability to fully belong. Start with Hello was written with the goal of introducing your...
Disability and the Gospel: How God Uses Our Brokenness to Display His Grace
Michael Beates's concern with disability issues began nearly 30 years ago when his eldest child was born with multiple profound disabilities. Now, as more families like Michael's are affected by a growing number of disorders and difficulties ranging from autism to food allergies, the need for programs...
Do you long to be part of a church community where people of all abilities gather to worship, a church where the sounds of worship include a wheelchair rolling down the aisle, the tap of a cane, and the sound of people with differing intellectual disabilities lifting their voices together in praise and...
| Author | Douglas Reeman |
| ISBN | 0425103773 |
They were the men and women of the Royal Navy's Special Operations units. Carrying out lightening raids on hostile coasts, they become a navy within a navy -- each handpicked for their individual skills, and all of them courageous. Against the mighty backdrop of World War II, they performed their small...
| Author | Wendell Berry |
| ISBN | 1582430438 |
In a rural Kentucky river town, "Old Jack" Beechum, a retired farmer, sees his life again through the sades of one burnished day in September 1952. Bringing the earthiness of America's past to mind, The Memory of Old Jack conveys the truth and integrity of the land and the people who live from it. Through...
