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  God's Double Agent - The True...

  Bob Fu, Nancy French

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  God's people are hiding in plain sight 
   
  Tens of millions of Christians live in China today, leading double lives to hide from a government that relentlessly persecutes them. 
   
  By day, Bob Fu was a teacher in a communist school; by night, he was a preacher in an underground house church network. This edge-of-your-seat book tells the true story of Fu's conversion to Christianity, his arrest and imprisonment for starting an illegal house church, his harrowing escape, and his subsequent rise to prominence in the United States as an advocate for his oppressed brethren. 
   
  God's Double Agent will inspire you to boldly proclaim and live out your faith in a world that is at times indifferent, and at other times murderously hostile, to those who spread the gospel.

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  The Anti-Romantic Child - A...

  Priscilla Gilman

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  “A beautifully sinuous and intensely literary celebration of the exceptional, unconventional child.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review 
   
  Priscilla Gilman, a teacher of romantic poetry who embraced Wordsworth’s vision of childhood’s spontaneous wonder, eagerly anticipated the birth of her first child, certain that he would come trailing clouds of glory. But as Benjamin grew, his remarkable precocity was associated with a developmental disorder that would dramatically alter the course of Priscilla’s dreams. 
   
  In The Anti-Romantic Child, a memoir full of lyricism and light, Gilman explores our hopes and expectations for our children, our families, and ourselves—and the ways in which experience may lead us to re-imagine them. Using literature as a touchstone, Gilman reveals her journey through crisis to joy, illuminating the flourishing of life that occurs when we embrace the unexpected. The Anti-Romantic Child is a profoundly moving and compellingly universal book about family, parenthood, and love. 
   
  “Haunting and lyrical.” —Marie Brenner, author of Apples and Oranges 
   
  “Rapturously beautiful and deeply moving, profound and marvelous” —Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon and Far From the Tree 
   
  “A lovely, thoughtful memoir.” —The Boston Globe 
   
  “A striking celebration of the bond between a mother and son.” —Kirkus Reviews 
   
  “Gilman is at once lyrical and deeply analytical as she explores the complexities of parenthood and the need to embrace the unforeseen.” —Booklist, starred review 
   
  “A book every parent should read.” —Kathryn Erskine, National Book award–winning author of Mockingbird  
   
  “A very moving personal story.” —Tina Brown, Newsweek 
   
  “Smart, soulful, and involving.” —Nick Hornby, The Believer

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  Jubilee City - A Memoir at Full...

  Joe Andoe

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  Joe Andoe is an internationally exhibited painter. His work, hailed by The New Yorker as "cowboy noir with a fashionista twist," is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Whitney Museum of Art in New York, and countless other locations. He is a father. He is a writer. He is sober. That's now.Once upon a time, though, way back in the '70s, Joe Andoe was a delinquent bad boy growing up wild in Tulsa, Oklahoma—drinking, drugging, and driving too fast down a dead-end road. He was one car crash, one overdose away from head-on disaster. His art saved him.A life story told in discrete, arresting snapshots of despair, resilience, creativity, and hope, Joe Andoe's raw, vivid, and utterly original memoir is as striking as his painting. With echoes of Jim Carroll poetic insight and Charles Bukowski grit, yet still uniquely the artist's own, Andoe's literary portrait of his time to date on earth is as powerful as a heavyweight's hook and as spellbinding as a major crack-up on the opposite side of the highway. It is an important work of curiosity and grandiosity; a testament to a young man's resilience and genius and luck that enabled him to survive a life lived wildly out of control; an unparalleled adventure, a rocket ride from the sordid depths of self-destruction to the glorious pinnacles of…Jubilee City

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  Screaming Queens! - Behind the...

  Robert Ross

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  Aside from appearing together as the leads in the movie ‘Carry On Screaming!’, comedy legend Kenneth Williams and iconic actress Fenella Fielding had a love/hate relationship lasting over several decades.‘Screaming Queens!’, a full-cast audio drama from acclaimed comedy historian Robert Ross, takes us from the duo’s hit West-End revue together Pieces of Eight (written by Peter Cook), to behind the scenes of the classic and best-loved Carry On film that spoofed Hammer Horror’s output, before finishing with a poignant meeting in the final year of Kenneth’s life where they debate their enduring legacy and what it means to them.‘Screaming Queens!’ is a what-if fantasy. A three-act, two-handed snapshot of a complex, bitchy, and completely unique friendship, seen through the prism of the stages of London’s West End and the movie sets of the classic Carry On film franchise.

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  Just a Little Girl - How a...

  Allison Bottke, Victoria Sarvadi

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  A teenager. A near-death experience. A spiritual journey that will last a lifetime. “Her testimony will ignite the flame of faith in many” (Susie Jennings, author of 31 Days of Mountaintop Miracles). 
   
  When eighteen-year-old Victoria dies in the ICU and encounters an angel that gives her a prophetic mandate from God, her insatiable quest for spiritual enlightenment begins. As compelling as any contemporary novel, this dramatic and inspiring true story is a roller-coaster ride through supernatural experience, denominational enlightenment, and a teenage marriage that not only survives the loss of a child but thrives through unbeatable odds. 
   
  Shining a fresh light on the theology of a Jewish Jesus, the author deftly weaves the history of the Christian faith from its genesis of the first century to the present-day Greco-Roman Christianity—all the while giving us an up close and personal glimpse of an extraordinary life. 
   
  A devoted wife, mother of six, and grandmother of nineteen, Victoria refuses to succumb to age and limitations. Far from Just a Little Girl, Victoria Sarvadi’s unconventional journey from teenage motherhood to Hebraic scholar and teacher will captivate and consume you from start to finish. 
   
  “Heartwarming, encouraging, inspirational and hard to put down. A very personal and uplifting book filled with life as it is. . . . A testament of God, His love, and faith in answered prayers.” —Dr. Chris and Sasha Holloway, ministers and recording artists 
   
  “Dr. Victoria Sarvadi is a storyteller unlike none other and her story is so unique and special that it moved me to tears, laughter and mostly to give thanksgiving to our G-D. This book is a must read!” —Rabbi Itzhak Shapira, author of The Return of the Kosher Pig

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  The Feeling of Greatness - The...

  Tim O'Connor

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  In The Feeling of Greatness, second edition, golf coach Tim O'Connor updates his previous biography of the late great, Canadian golfer Moe Norman, who was famous for introducing the single plane golf swing. This edition includes new anecdotes about Moe both on and off the course by golfers, journalists, friends and family, and offers a more in-depth portrait of the man and golfer, especially in the last years of his life. O'Connor shares with readers his personal and professional friendships with Moe along the way. Some twenty years later, from a distanced perspective, O'Connor sets the record straight about Norman, promotes his legacy as the legendary golfer he was, and reflects on life lessons learned from their association over the years.

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