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MAY 2024 SELECTION On a sweltering day in August 1960, in the segregated Deep South city of Jacksonville, Florida, a seventeen-year-old Black boy finished his dishwashing job at Morrison's Cafeteria,...

FIRST MONDAY BOOK CLUB JULY 2024 SELECTION "Pollan shines a light on our own nature as well as on our implication in the natural world." --The New York Times "A wry,...

SEPTEMBER 2024 BOOK CLUB SELECTION One of our nation's most prominent writers discovers the truth about how to live a long and happy life from the centenarian next door in...

St. John's Cathedral's parishioner, Dee Beggarly, is an incredibly talented artist and a published writer. Her book, What Can I Do For You? A Memoir of Love's Endurance, is about...

Perfect for book lovers and foodies alike--a splendid cookbook featuring recipes inspired by classic works of literature and modern favorites Wake up to a perfect breakfast with Mrs. Dalby's Buttermilk...

The story begins in 1997 when the author first visits the slums in Haiti. She knows that she is to do what she can to improve the lives of poor...

The first installment in the delightful, internationally acclaimed series featuring Chief of Police Bruno.  Meet Benoît Courrèges, aka Bruno, a policeman in a small village in the South of France....

We are a species between axial periods. Thus, our religious myths are struggling to find new connections in a global, ecological order. Delio proposes the new myth of relational holism;...

  "A knockout collection. ... Sharp-edged satire deceptively wrapped like a box of Neuhaus chocolates, Table for Two is a winner." --The New York TimesFrom the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman...

50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION - With meditations on youth and age, love and marriage, peace, solitude, and contentment, here is an inimitable classic that guides us to find a space for...

Jam Session: Recipes for Friendship, Jams and Remembrance (The Parents Circle - Families Forum)

NOVEMBER 2024 FIRST MONDAY BOOK CLUB SELECTION   GMA BOOK CLUB PICK - AN NPR BOOK OF THE YEAR - From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and Code Name Hélène comes...

A disappearance and a dead body put Cork O'Connor's family in the crosshairs of a killer in the twentieth book in the New York Times bestselling series from William Kent Krueger-, "a...

Marsha Linehan tells the story of her journey from suicidal teenager to world-renowned developer of the life-saving behavioral therapy DBT, using her own struggle to develop life skills for others....

Speechifying collects the most important speeches of Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole—noted Black feminist anthropologist, the first Black female president of Spelman College, former director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of...

Jane Packer Flowers is one of the world's most influential floristry companies, with a distinctively elegant yet refreshingly modern look. The highly successful Jane Packer flower schools make the company's...

Featuring 46 poems and 45 photos, it offers an intimate experience of Inis Mór, also called Árainn, the largest of the Aran Islands off Galway Bay in the West of...

In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter,...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: "Beautifully told."--CNN - "A remarkable story...worth retelling and celebrating."--USA Today - "Oh, it's a good one!"--Fox News A "beautiful story of a brotherhood between enemies" emerges from the horrors of World...

A New York Times Bestseller, chosen as Oprah's "Books That Help Me Through" for Oprah's Book Club "No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love, from Oliver's exuberant dog poems to...

Mary Cassatt: A Life One of the few women Impressionists, Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) had a life of paradoxes: American born, she lived and worked in France; a classically trained artist,...

Characterized by "a radical simplicity and seriousness of purpose, along with a fearless interest in autobiography and its tragedies and redemptions" (Matthew Zapruder, New York Times Magazine), Marie Howe's poetry transforms...

"May be the best novel of [the year]. . . . Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, this is the story of an irrepressible boy nobody wants, but readers will love." --Ron...

Michael Foley's fans have been devoutly drinking with the saints for years. Now it's time for dinner! The inimitable theologian and mixologist teams up with the priest and TV chef...

Raise Your Spirits and Toast the Saints!  It's the full-color edition of Drinking with the Saints! Recipe for a liturgically correct cocktail: mix Bartender's Guide and Lives of the Saints, shake well, garnish with...

 The inspiring and delicious memoir of an American woman who had the gall to open a cooking school in Paris--a true story of triumphing over French naysayers and falling in...

To eat--and cook--like a Niçoise involves snacks and sandwiches you can enjoy on the go (socca and pan bagnat), tender stuffed vegetables (petit farcis), slow-simmered meat stews (beef daube), and vivid fruit desserts....

We Rise Higher: Poems and Prayers for Graduates

In a traditional monastery the recitation of the Hours calls to mind the work of God in our lives, from the gift of creation to the sufferings we bear. According...

Bestselling culture writer David Sax lays out the case against a false digital utopia--and for a more human future In The Future Is Analog, David Sax points out that the onset...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER We still have time to change the world. From climate activist Greta Thunberg, comes the essential handbook for making it happen. You might think it's an impossible...

United Nations Champion of the Earth, climate scientist, and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe changes the debate on how we can save our future in this nationally bestselling "optimistic view on...

When Bridget Elworthy and Henrietta Courtauld established their firmThe Land Gardeners, which specializes in cut flowers, they revived the tradition of working with the land to produce abundant, seasonal flowers...

Church Flowers by Judith Blacklock is the essential guide to arranging flowers in Church. Printed in full color throughout, the book contains step-by-step instructions on creating perfect large-scale mechanics. The...

Increased awareness of the environment and an ever-present interest in curb appeal means that homeowners are eager for more sustainable, natural landscaping. And why shouldn't they be? In addition to...

Love Holds You is a collection of poetry and devotions from beloved author Christine Valters Paintner. Amid the daily grind, the pain and loss, the fears and doubts, you can lose...

This cycle of poems travels the path of the Gospel of Mark, rereading and retelling the story, flashing back and anticipating, reading from unusual vantage points, flowing with the author's...

Understand, I am always trying to figure outwhat the soul is,and where hidden,and what shape-   New and Selected Poems, Volume Two, an anthology of forty-two new poems-an entire volume in...

Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems is a collection of poetry that provides a refuge of quiet clarity very much needed in today's restless, chaotic world. Every reader will...

In All the Honey, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer holdsboth fine, honest sensuality and slow explorations ofsoul. What is shared here is a way forward in life, a fierceopenness that refuses nothing-that knows damageand...