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  • The World Is Awake

    A Celebration of Everyday Blessings

    by Linsey Davis ...
    Illustrated by Lucy Fleming ...
    Inspire children to be thankful for all of God’s blessings with this joyful celebration of the simple pleasures all around us. Perfect for sharing at bedtime or story time, The World Is Awake gives children (and their parents) a sense of awe and wonder at the world around them.Linsey Davis, New York Times bestselling author and Emmy Award-winning ABC News anchor, invites us to celebrate the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Anxious Age

    The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America

    by Joseph Bottum ...
    We live in a profoundly spiritual age, but not in any good way. Huge swaths of American culture are driven by manic spiritual anxiety and relentless supernatural worry. Radicals and traditionalists, liberals and conservatives, together with politicians, artists, environmentalists, followers of food fads, and the chattering classes of television commentators: America is filled with people ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Frankincense, Gold, and Myrrh

    A Christmas Chrestomathy

    by Joseph Bottum ...
    For over thirty years, Joseph Bottum has been writing widely acclaimed Christmas essays, columns, short stories, and carols for American magazines and newspapers. Now, for the first time, St. Augustine’s Press has gathered a selection of these classic pieces—with a vast range across the Christmas spectrum.There’s the comic: “Tinsel. No one needs tinsel. Even the word is a tinselly kind of word.” ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Pius War

    Responses to the Critics of Pius XII

    In the brutal fight that has raged in recent years over the reputation of Pope Pius XII-leader of the Catholic Church during World War II, the Holocaust, and the early years of the Cold War-the task of defending the Pope has fallen primarily to reviewers. These reviewers formulated a brilliant response to the attack on Pius, but their work was scattered in various newspapers, magazines, and ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Spending the Winter

    A Poetry Collection

    by Joseph Bottum ...
    The poetry of Spending the Winter is musical and structured, whimsical and piercing, begging to be read aloud when one is not laughing or arrested by an image that hooks the heart. “Poems so severely beautiful that they become unforgettable after one reading,” writes one poet. “A throwback to a time when lovers of poetry…looked for poetry of depth, wit, and craft from the likes of Auden and Larkin ... Read more

    $10.09 USD

  • The Decline of the Novel

    by Joseph Bottum ...
    The novel has lost its purpose, Joseph Bottum argues in this fascinating new look at the history of fiction. We have not transcended our need for what novels provide, but we have grown to distrust the culture that allowed novels to flourish. “For almost three hundred years,” Bottum writes, “the novel was a major art form, perhaps the major art form, of the modern world—the device by which, more ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • The Christmas Plains

    by Joseph Bottum ...
    A well-respected writer and editor's memoir of childhood Christmases set in the sometimes harsh but always captivating landscape of South Dakota.Wreaths and holly, fruitcakes and mistletoe, ornaments and snowflakes, St. Nick and Scrooge's humbug, Joseph and Mary, a young child in a manger and magi from the East. These words automatically stir up the season of Christmas and invoke memories of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Christians in the Movies

    A Century of Saints and Sinners

    by Peter E. Dans ...
    Christians in the Movies traces the arc of the portrayal in film of Christians from 1905 to the present. For most of the first six decades, the portrayals were favorable and even reverential. By contrast, from 1970 on, Christians have often been treated with hostility and often outright ridicule. This book explores this shift through in-depth reviews and commentaries on 100 important films, as ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

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  • Wild Thing

    Series Book 1 - Winnie the Horse Gentler
    Twelve-year-old Winnie Willis has a way with horses. She can gentle the wildest mare, but other parts of her life don't always come as easily. Along with her dad and sister, Lizzy, Winnie is learning how to live without her mom, who was also a natural horse gentler. As Winnie teaches her horses about unconditional love and blind trust, God shows Winnie that he can be trusted too. Readers will be ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Christmas at Harrington's

    A Christmas Novella

    Christmas is approaching, and Lena Markham finds herself penniless, friendless, and nearly hopeless. She is trying to restart her life after false accusations landed her in prison, but job opportunities are practically nonexistent. When a secondhand red coat unexpectedly lands her a job as Mrs. Santa at a department store, Lena finally thinks her luck is changing. But can she keep her past a ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Overrated

    Are We More in Love with the Idea of Changing the World Than Actually Changing the World?

    by Eugene Cho ...
    "It can be fashionable to talk about the poor but not as fashionable to talk to the poor. It may be popular to talk about justice and still not know any victims of injustice. But we will never make poverty history until we make poverty personal. Eugene Cho shatters all our hipster coffee-shop talk of justice and dares you to dive into the trenches and do something real with your life."Shane ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eager Star

    Series Book 2 - Winnie the Horse Gentler
    Twelve-year-old Winnie Willis has a way with horses. She can gentle the wildest mare, but other parts of her life don't always come as easily. Along with her dad and sister, Lizzy, Winnie is learning how to live without her mom, who was also a natural horse gentler. As Winnie teaches her horses about unconditional love and blind trust, God shows Winnie that he can be trusted too. Readers will be ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus