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10 best books like The Nonviolent Atonement (J. Denny Weaver): Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, Hunger, Black: The Birth of Evil, Red: The Heroic Rescue, White: The Great Pursuit, Animal Liberation, Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, God of the Oppressed (This Gift Edition, Printed In), The Exodus, Green: The Beginning and the End

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
AuthorAnne Lamott
ISBN0385480016
"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. [It] was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and...
Hunger
AuthorKnut Hamsun
ISBN0486431681
One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary history with the publication in 1890 of this powerful, autobiographical novel recounting the abject poverty, hunger and despair of a young writer struggling to achieve self-discovery and its ultimate...
Black: The Birth of Evil
AuthorTed Dekker
ISBN1595540210
Enter an adrenaline-laced epic where dreams and reality collide.

Fleeing his assailants through deserted alleyways, Thomas Hunter narrowly escapes to the roof of a building. Then a silent bullet from the night clips his head...and his world goes black.

From the blackness comes...
Red: The Heroic Rescue
AuthorTed Dekker
ISBN1595540342
"We have stepped off the cliff and are falling into madness."

The mind-bending pace of Black accelerates in Red, Book Two of Ted Dekker's groundbreaking Circle trilogy.

Less than a month ago, Thomas Hunter was a failed writer selling coffee at the Java Hut in Denver. Now he finds himself...
White: The Great Pursuit
AuthorTed Dekker
ISBN1595540350
The Circle starts out as a flawed (due to Dekker's poor characterization) but enjoyable fantasy epic with a powerful allegorical message about God's love for His people, but as the trilogy progresses, Dekker's story increasingly falters, and by the end it unravels on itself, leading two very good...
Animal Liberation
AuthorPeter Singer
ISBN0060011572
The Book That Started A Revolution Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of concerned men and women to the shocking abuse of animals everywhere -- inspiring a worldwide movement to eliminate much of the cruel and unnecessary laboratory animal experimentation...
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
AuthorPeter C. Brown
ISBN0674729013
To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head....
God of the Oppressed (This Gift Edition, Printed In)
AuthorJames H. Cone
ISBN1570751587
God of the Oppressed remains a landmark in the development of Black Theology—the first effort to present a systematic theology drawing fully on the resources of African-American religion and culture. Responding to the criticism that his previous books drew too heavily on Euro-American definitions...
The Exodus
AuthorRichard Elliott Friedman
ISBN0062565265
The Exodus has become a core tradition of Western civilization.  Millions read it, retell it, and celebrate it.  But did it happen?

Biblical scholars, Egyptologists, archaeologists, historians, literary scholars, anthropologists, and filmmakers are drawn to it.  Unable to find...
Green: The Beginning and the End
AuthorTed Dekker
ISBN1595542884
AS FORETOLD BY ANCIENT PROPHETS, an apocalypse destroyed Earth during the twenty-first century. But two thousand years later Elyon set upon the earth a new Adam. This time, however, He gave humanity an advantage. What was once unseen became seen. It was good and it was called..."Green."

But...
An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
AuthorD.T. Suzuki
ISBN0802130550
One of the world’s leading authorities on Zen Buddhism, D. T. Suzuki was the author of more than a hundred works on the subject in both Japanese and English, and was most instrumental in bringing the teachings of Zen Buddhism to the attention of the Western world. Written in a lively, accessible, and...
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
AuthorRob Bell
Millions of Christians have struggled with how to reconcile God's love and God's judgment: Has God created billions of people over thousands of years only to select a few to go to heaven and everyone else to suffer forever in hell? Is this acceptable to God? How is this "good news"? Troubling questions--so...
Three Doors to Death
AuthorRex Stout
ISBN0553251279
The book consists of three novellas:

Man Alive. A brilliant fashion designer committed suicide in a very bizarre fashion. His niece came to Nero Wolfe asking for help. Initially Archie Goodwin thought it would be typical - for them - investigation where they would have to prove in was a murder...
Introducing the New Testament: A Historical, Literary, and Theological Survey
AuthorMark Allan Powell
This beautifully written and engaging survey offers an up-to-date New Testament introduction for undergraduate students and general readers. Powell presents disputed and controversial issues fairly, neither dictating conclusions nor privileging skepticism over faith-based perspectives....
The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ
AuthorFleming Rutledge
ISBN0802847323
 
Though the apostle Paul boldly proclaimed “Christ crucified” as the heart of the gospel, Fleming Rutledge notes that preaching about the cross of Christ is remarkably neglected in most churches today. In this book Rutledge addresses the issues and controversies that have caused pastors...
Enneagram Transformations
AuthorDon Richard Riso
ISBN0395657865
Ένα θα πω γι' αυτό το βιβλίο: έχω διαβάσει πολλά βιβλία για το Εννάγραμμα. Αυτό όμως είναι το μόνο το οποίο έχω κάνει δώρο ξανά και ξανά. Έχω δώσει σε φίλους...
J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
AuthorHumphrey Carpenter
ISBN0618057021
The authorized biography of the creator of Middle-earth. In the decades since his death in September 1973, millions have read THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION and become fascinated about the very private man behind the books. Born in South Africa in January 1892, John Ronald Reuel...
The Second Confession
AuthorRex Stout
ISBN0553245945

This first-class Nero Wolfe entertainment is the second of his three encounters with his own personal Professor Moriarty, Arnold Zeck.

Wolfe finds himself opposing Zeck once again when he is hired by business tycoon Sperling to investigate his prospective son-in-law Rony (a Zeck associate)...
In the Best Families
AuthorRex Stout
ISBN0553277766

In the Best Families (1950) tells of Nero Wolfe's battle to the death with Arnold Zeck (his Professor Moriarty) in which the great detective goes underground--leaving Archie in the dark and in the lurch--to prepare for their final confrontation.

This is the third and final volume of the...
Triple Jeopardy
AuthorRex Stout
ISBN0553763075
Don't tempt Nero Wolfe to find the culprit. When foul play's the game, he always wins--and in these three crime puzzles, the stakes are high.

HOME TO ROOST
THE COP-KILLER
THE SQUIRT AND THE MONKEY

First, there's little nourishment for the detective when someone drops a poison...
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