After his older brother is killed in a car accident, sixteen-year-old Bobby tries to come to terms with some disturbing truths about his family and political corruption in their town as well as deal with his profound grief and the beginnings of first love.

My Brother Stealing Second

Teen & Young Adult

Naughton, Jim

Literature & Fiction

Harpercollins Childrens Books

HarperCollins, Publishers

A provocative account of the issues that confront every Catholic explores homosexuality, abortion, divorce, celibacy among the clergy, and others, all played out in a narrative struggle between an American church and the power of Rome. Reprint.

Catholics in Crisis: The Rift Between American Catholics and Their Church

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Penguin??Books

Polls illustrating the gulf between the Roman Catholic Church and its American flock appear with numbing frequency. But behind the statistics are millions of people struggling to reconcile their lives with their faith. Catholics in Crisis is a vivid portrayal of this struggle, told through the narrative frame of a single, albeit highly influential, parish.Holy Trinity in Washington, D.C., one of the most prominent and popular churches in the nation, has long enjoyed a reputation as a place where post-Vatican II Catholicism is at its most vital. It is also a community in which American dissent from Vatican teaching is clearly articulated. But when a lone parishioner stands up through a Sunday Mass to protest the exclusion of women from the priesthood, he ignites a fire-storm of controversy that exposes deep rifts and threatens to tear the community apart.The Standing, as it came to be called, is but one of the stories that Jim Naughton skillfully weaves together as he examines the issues that can divide parents and children, husbands and wives, priests and the laity, Rome and America. The rich cast of characters includes: the pastor of Holy Trinity—deeply spiritual, charismatic, and about to leave the church; the female director of liturgy, caught between liberal and conservative factions; a parishioner and parent, who is appalled at the CCD program that he feels substitutes liberal platitudes for Catholic truth; a young priest, who is struggling with his vow of celibacy; a powerful bishop, who believes that Holy Trinity goes out of its way to flout Church rubrics, and is determined to bring it to heel; and a handful of others who play out the realities of divorce, remarriage, abortion, and premarital sex against the background the church's teachings.

Catholics In Crisis: An American Parish Fights For Its Soul

History

World

Da Capo Press

Taking to the Air: The Rise of Michael Jordan

A look at the remarkable career of Michael Jordan discusses the star's childhood, his early training in basketball, his professional career, and his role as a corporate spokesman. Reprint.

Biographies & Memoirs

Grand Central Publishing

The inside story of Michael "Air" Jordan's career tells how the man became an icon after intense marketing strategies played on the hoopster's skill and congeniality to sell everything from breakfast cereal to automobiles. 35,000 first printing.

GRAND CENTRAL PUB.

Taking to the Air

Random House Value Publishing

Miracle on Ice

Eskenazi, Gerald

Weisman, Steven R.

Smith, Red

Staff of New York Times

Clendinin, Dudley

BANTAM BOOKS

Today Sunday morning worship competes with youth soccer, Starbucks, Facebook, and the allure of being “spiritual but not religious.” To share the gospel in a world like this, Christians need to reach beyond the boundaries of concrete and virtual communities to become evangelists. That takes faith. It also requires skill with public relations, social media, traditional print materials and other techniques to increase church visibility. The authors, both recognized experts and consultants, walk readers through the theology of church communications and introduce steps to help us deliver clutter-busting messages to reach our technologically sophisticated and faith-challenged world.

Speaking Faithfully: Communications as Evangelism in a Noisy World

Wilson, Rebecca

Morehouse Publishing

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