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“john r powers”

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  • In Search of the Divine

    by John R. Powers ...
    We often experience a profound longing for a spiritual connection beyond ourselves. This is best expressed in Augustine's "our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee." We sense that there is a something missing in our lives but have a hard time putting our finger on exactly what it is. Herman Hesse's Siddhartha is a great illustration of the search for spiritual fulfillment without a ... Read more

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  • Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?

    by John R. Powers,Tom McGrath,Amy Welborn ...
    Hilarious, touching, beautiful . . ." Detroit News"A totally enjoyable novel with at least one laugh on every page." Fresno Bee". . . you'll never forget it." Publishers WeeklyGrowing up on Chicago's South Side in the 1960s, Eddie Ryan is learning a lot and not just from the Brothers at his all-boys Catholic high school. Eddie's world is populated by peculiar adults, oddball classmates, and ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • The Last Catholic In America

    by John R. Powers,Andrew Greeley,Amy Welborn ...
    It is fast-moving and often downright funny." New York Times "He has recaptured childish innocence and presented it with adult enlightenment plus a touch of cynicism yet never with irreverence." Book-of-the-Month Club News First confession and its terrors. Eighty-four first graders in a classroom ruled by just one nun. The agony and the ecstasy of Lent. The dubious honor of being declared the ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

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  • My Weird School #13: Mrs. Patty Is Batty!

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  • Chicken Soup for the Soul: Living Catholic Faith

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    by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, LeAnn Thieman ...
    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Living Catholic Faith is relevant to all Catholics, from the once-a-year attendee at Christmas Mass, to the devout church volunteer and daily worshipper. A great gift for Confirmation, RCIA, graduations, weddings, new parents, and holidays!With 101 poignant and spirit-filled stories, this book covers the gamut, from fun stories about growing up Catholic to serious ... Read more

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  • Selected Stories

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    Twenty-three unforgettable short stories from one of America's most celebrated literary masters.John Updike once said of his friend and fellow writer Andre Dubus: "[He] is a shrewd student of people who come to accept pain as a fair price for pleasure, and to view right and wrong as a matter of degree." Dubus's characters are depicted in all their imperfection, but with the author's requisite ... Read more

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  • The Clancys of Queens

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  • A Lucky Irish Lad

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    Kevin O'Hara recreates his boyhood with these wonderful stories of growing up in Massachusetts in the 1950s and 60s as one of eight children. His parents, born in Ireland, came to this country for their children's sake. His family struggled against grinding poverty but they never gave up and never lost their faith that God had a plan for them.Kevin learned the lessons of making do and making ... Read more

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    Buddy Sanders has been zapped fifty years back in time—to take over the body of Shadyside’s greatest baseball player ever. But Buddy has a problem: He knows everyone on his team dies in a horrible accident after the championship game.If Buddy can’t change the course of events, he and the rest of the team are going to be history. ... Read more

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