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ID: 155785

Title: Immanuel: A Daily Guide to Reclaiming the True Meaning of Christmas

Author: Ann Spangler

Narrator: Connie Wetzell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:14:01

Language: English

Release date: 09-28-09

Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Prayer

Summary:

Ann Spangler believes its possible to transform the crazy, wonderful, stressful season we call Christmas into one of greater peace and deeper joy by recovering the gift of Advent.For hundreds of years, Christians have prepared for Christmas by carefully observing the four-week season leading up to it. Whats more, when Christmas did arrive, they celebrated not just for one day but for twelve! So four weeks for Advent and nearly two weeks for Christmas makes six weeks, which is why Ann Spangler has prepared this six-week Christmas devotional.Drawing from her bestselling books Praying the Names of God and Praying the Names of Jesus, Spangler selected six names or titlesincluding Immanuel, Yeshua, and Bright Morning Star. Each name offers a weeks worth of devotions focusing on God, the miraculous birth of his son, and the promise of his return. In Immanuel, youll discover a perfect balance of prayer, reflection, and study to help you open your heart fully to the birth of Jesus and all that it means.

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ID: 283946

Title: Case for God

Author: Karen Armstrong

Narrator: Karen Armstrong

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:50:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-22-09

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Non-Fiction, Religious Studies, Social Science, Philosophy

Summary:

Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spiritualities, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion in our own time, when a significant number of people either want nothing to do with God or question the efficacy of faith. Why has God become unbelievable? Why is it that atheists and theists alike now think and speak about God in a way that veers so profoundly from the thinking of our ancestors?

Answering these questions with the same depth of knowledge and profound insight that have marked all her acclaimed books, Armstrong makes clear how the changing face of the world has necessarily changed the importance of religion at both the societal and the individual level. And she makes a powerful, convincing argument for drawing on the insights of the past in order to build a faith that speaks to the needs of our dangerously polarized age. Yet she cautions us that religion was never supposed to provide answers that lie within the competence of human reason; that, she says, is the role of logos. The task of religion is “to help us live creatively, peacefully, and even joyously with realities for which there are no easy explanations.” She emphasizes, too, that religion will not work automatically. It is, she says, a practical discipline: its insights are derived not from abstract speculation but from “dedicated intellectual endeavor” and a “compassionate lifestyle that enables us to break out of the prism of selfhood.”

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ID: 155770

Title: Parent's Guide to Helping Teenagers in Crisis

Author: Jim Hancock, Rich Van Pelt

Narrator: Raymond Scully

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:32:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-22-09

Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Summary:

Youve seen it on the news too many times to count. School shootings, adolescent addictions, bullying, eating disorders, depression and suicide, cutting, pregnancy. There is no lack of bad news to be told about teenagers today. Maybe you believe that will never happen to my child. And maybe it wont. But crises arent always the stories that make the evening news. The spectrum of crises an adolescent may face can range from something as (seemingly harmless) as getting caught cheating on a test to dealing with the breakdown of the family, to acting out and getting in trouble with the law. And the reality is that someone they know will likely experience some kind of crisisand that can affect your teen significantly. Either way, when a crisis affects your teen, wouldnt you want to be prepared?Rich Van Pelt and Jim Hancock, both of whom have raised teenagers into adulthood and have spent decades in youth ministry and crisis management, bring together their expertise and insight to help you identify and understand what a crisis is and how you can help your teen live and grow through it. Inside, youll find practical responses for issues like: Suicidal thoughts or behavior Accidents Cheating Death (of a friend or loved one) Divorce Eating disorders Hazing Pregnancy Sexual abuse Sexual identity confusion Substance abuse or addiction And moreIn addition to learning appropriate responses to crises, youll learn how to prevent some of these issues, and how to get professionals involved when necessary.Whatever it is your teen is dealing with, your influence in their life is still the most important one. So be prepared to walk them through their crisis with wisdom, compassion, and the tools to help them heal.

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ID: 59701

Title: Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil

Author: Peter Maass

Narrator: Dominic Hoffman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:07:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-22-09

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Business & Economics, Politics, Science & Technology, Public Policy, Business Development, Technology & Engineering

Summary:

A stunning and revealing examination of oil's indelible impact on the countries that produce it and the people who possess it.

Every unhappy oil-producing nation is unhappy in its own way, but all are touched by the 'resource curse'—the power of oil to exacerbate existing problems and create new ones. In Crude World, Peter Maass presents a vivid portrait of the troubled world oil has created. He takes us to Saudi Arabia, where officials deflect inquiries about the amount of petroleum remaining in the country's largest reservoir; to Equatorial Guinea, where two tennis courts grace an oil-rich dictator's estate but bandages and aspirin are a hospital's only supplies; and to Venezuela, where Hugo Chávez's campaign to redistribute oil wealth creates new economic and political crises.

Maass, a New York Times Magazine writer, also introduces us to Iraqi oilmen trying to rebuild their industry after the invasion of 2003, an American lawyer leading Ecuadorians in an unprecedented lawsuit against Chevron, a Russian oil billionaire imprisoned for his defiance of Vladimir Putin's leadership, and Nigerian villagers whose livelihoods are destroyed by the discovery of oil. Rebels, royalty, middlemen, environmentalists, indigenous activists, CEOs—their stories, deftly and sensitively presented, tell the larger story of oil in our time.

Crude World is a startling and essential account of the consequences of our addiction to oil.

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ID: 155746

Title: How to Be Evangelical without Being Conservative

Author: Roger E. Olson

Narrator: Jeremy Johnson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:02:43

Language: English

Release date: 09-22-09

Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Summary:

Many people equate evangelical Christianity with conservatism in religion, politics, theology and social attitudes. Some are scandalized by any separation between them. As one evangelical pastor's wife declared to a church group 'We are a conservative people!'In fact, however, evangelicals have not always been conservative; radical stances on doctrines, worship, social norms, politics and church leadership have often marked evangelicalism in the past. The 2007 movie Amazing Grace about William Wilberforce's protracted battle against the slave trade featured a small group of British evangelicals committed to abolition. The same radicalism characterized much of American evangelicalism in the years before the Civil War.In recent years the American media have portrayed the evangelical movement as a conservative force in society sometimes equating it with fundamentalism and puritanism. The missing piece of the story is, however, that both fundamentalism and puritanism contained radical elements that opposed the status quo.This book sets forth evidence that the link between evangelicalism and conservatism has not always been as strong as it is today in the popular mind and it will provide suggestions for contemporary evangelicals who want to remain evangelical (and not become 'post-evangelical') without identifying with conservatism in every way.

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ID: 59704

Title: House at Pooh Corner

Author: A. A. Milne

Narrator: Finty Williams, Geoffrey Palmer, Jane Horrocks, Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Robert Daws, Sandi Toksvig, Stephen Fry, Steven Webb

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:23:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-22-09

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Health & Family, Classics

Summary:

TIGGER COMES TO THE FOREST and other stories

Story 1 In which a house is built at Pooh Corner for Eeyore

Story 2 In which Tigger comes to the forest and has breakfast

Story 3 In which Tigger is unbounced

Story 4 In which Eeyore finds the Wolery and Owl moves into it

Story 5 In which Christopher Robin and Pooh come to an enchanted place

POOH INVENTS A NEW GAME and other stories

Story 1 In which Rabbit has a busy day

Story 2 In which Pooh invents a new game

Story 3 In which it is shown that Tiggers don’t climb trees

Story 4 In which a search is organized

Story 5 In which Piglet does a very grand thing

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ID: 155893

Title: Character Makeover: 40 Days with a Life Coach to Create the Best You

Author: Katie Brazelton, Shelley Leith

Narrator: Christine Williams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:04:38

Language: English

Release date: 09-22-09

Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

Get the kind of makeover that will transform your life!

Bestselling author and life coach Katie Brazelton takes you on a deeply personal forty-day journey of developing your character. Discover how to close the gap between understanding God's purpose for your life and carrying it out as you put an end to well-worn patterns of defeat, woundedness, insecurity, unworthiness, and self-centeredness.

Teaming up with coauthor Shelley Leith, who is a highly sought-after speaker on strengthening marriages and family, Brazelton focuses on eight character traits essential to living a purpose-filled life:

- humility

- confidence

- courage

- self-control

- patience

- contentment

- generosity

- perseverance

Step-by-step you'll experience a complete character makeover--and become the best 'you' God intended you to be. Ideal for small groups, women's church ministry, and one-on-one study.

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ID: 59437

Title: Winnie-the-Pooh

Author: A. A. Milne

Narrator: Finty Williams, Geoffrey Palmer, Jane Horrocks, Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Robert Daws, Stephen Fry, Steven Webb

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:05:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-22-09

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Health & Family, Classics

Summary:

POOH GOES VISITING and other stories

Story 1 In which we are introduced

Story 2 In which Pooh goes visiting and gets into a tight place

Story 3 In which Pooh and Piglet go hunting and nearly catch a Woozle

Story 4 In which Eeyore loses a tail and Pooh finds one

Story 5 In which Piglet is entirely surrounded by water

Story 6 In which Christopher Robin gives a Pooh Party, and we say good-bye

PIGLET MEETS A HEFFALUMP and other stories

Story 1 In which Piglet meets a Heffalump

Story 2 In which Eeyore has a birthday and gets two presents

Story 3 In which Kanga and Baby Roo come to the forest, and Piglet has a bath

Story 4 In which Christopher Robin leads an exploration to the North Pole

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ID: 155828

Title: Mothers of the Bible: A Devotional

Author: Ann Spangler, Jean E. Syswerda

Narrator: Connie Wetzell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:52:42

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-09

Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Prayer, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

Children need the love, wisdom, and nurture that mothers are uniquely capable of giving. Mothers of the Biblecan help you fulfill your own calling as a mother by offering insights from Gods Word. Exploring the lives of women in the Bible can help strengthen your faith and your effectiveness as a mother. Like you, these mothers wanted the best for their children. And like you, they sometimes faced difficulties that challenged their faith. Looking to them can help deepen your understanding of Scripture, enabling you to experiencemore of Gods love so you can reflect that love to your children.Adapted from Women of the Bible, Mothers of the Bible furnishes a unique twelve-week devotional experience. Each week becomes a personal retreatfocused on the life of a particular biblical mother.Designed for personal prayer and study or for use in small groups, Mothers of the Biblewill help you groundyour relationship with your children on Gods Word.

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ID: 155889

Title: Wagered Heart

Author: Robin Lee Hatcher

Narrator: Kathy Garver

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:42:47

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-09

Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company

Genres: Romance, Religion & Spirituality, Religious & Inspirational, Religious Fiction

Summary:

When Bethany Silverton left the genteel life of Miss Hendersons School for Young Ladies back in Philadelphia for the raw frontier town of Sweetwater, Montana, she had no idea how much she would enjoy the freedom and danger of this wild country.A conservative preachers daughter, Bethany cant resist the challenge of charming the most attractive cowboy in town into attending her fathers new church. She never dreamed that the cowboy would charm the lady.But Hawk Chandler isnt the only man vying for Bethanys affections. Ruthlessly ambitious Vince Richards thinks Bethany is perfect for him: attractive, gracious, just the woman to help him become governor. And he is determined to get what he wants at any cost.Drawn to one man, an obsession of another, Bethanys quiet life is thrown into turmoil. She wagered her heart on love. Now she has gotten more than she bargained forand the stakes are about to become life and death.

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