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9) Honey and me
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Language
English
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When eleven-year-old Milla's best friend Honey joins her school for sixth grade Milla finds herself in her friend's shadow, but as the year progresses through the Jewish holidays Milla trys to cope with the tensions and the dramas of school--including the death of a beloved teacher.
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Language
English
Description
To make the journey into The Power of Now we will need to leave our analytical mind and its false created self, the ego, behind. From the beginning of the first chapter we move rapidly into a significantly higher altitude where one breathes a lighter air, the air of the spiritual. Although the journey is challenging, Eckhart Tolle offers simple language and a question and answer format to guide us. The words themselves are the signposts. The book...
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Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2016, c2013
Language
English
Description
Looks at such major aspects of the author's life as family, Judaism, love and sex, writing, illness, and despair, and argues that, when reinserted in Kafka's letters and diaries, deleted segments lift the mask of "sainthood" frequently attached to him.
15) When "spiritual but not religious" is not enough: seeing God in surprising places, even the church
Author
Publisher
Jericho Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
A Senior Minister of a Chicago area church discusses the cliché of being spiritual without being religious and advocates for a church-based religious life that is backed by centuries of thought, meaningful debate and a supportive community.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Before Christianity, two major monotheistic religions existed in the ancient Mediterranean area. Explore the similarities and differences between Judaism, Zoroastrianism, and emerging Christianity, and how the empire initially accommodated their teachings and actions. You'll also learn about the grievances on all sides.
17) Kaddish.com
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The Pulitzer finalist delivers his best work yet--a brilliant, streamlined comic novel, reminiscent of early Philip Roth and of his own most masterful stories, about a son's failure to say Kaddish for his father"--
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Richard Rodriguez considers religious violence worldwide, growing public atheism in the West, and his own mortality. Rodriguez's new memoir -- the first book in a decade from the Pulitzer Prize finalist -- moves from Jerusalem to Silicon Valley, from Moses to Liberace, from Lance Armstrong to Mother Teresa. Rodriguez is a homosexual who writes with love of the religions of the desert that exclude him. He is a passionate, unorthodox Christian who is...
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