Every parent wonders, sometimes with worry, how their kids will "turn out." Fritz and Christine & Their Very Nervous Parents inspires children to reach and dream as much as it invites parents not to fret. As children, Fritz and Christine have been accompanied by their earnest parents' simple prayer that they grow to be kind and employ their gifts in service to all neighbors. This prayer, set to the lullaby-lilt of Thomas Tallis' canon (1555), stays with them into adulthood, and, to their parents' surprise, is passed down with healing affect. Fritz & Christine and Their Very Nervous Parents is a parable about vocation, serving others, and, living life more prayerfully.

Fritz & Christine and Their Very Nervous Parents

Children's Books

Matthews, Matt.

Literature & Fiction

Avenida Books

For four years, readers of The Herald-Sun newspaper (Durham, NC) enjoyed Phillip Barron's monthly columns on bicycling. The Outspokin' Cyclist gathers some of the best columns together in one volume. With insights into cold-weather bike commuting, urban design, the spiritual solitude of solo mountain biking, and the philosophical problems with drug use in competitive sports, Barron's columns offer glimpses into the life of a cyclist and a small city's biking community. The resulting book will appeal to residents of the Bull City as well as those unlucky enough not to know Durham, to cyclists as well as readers who simply enjoy a good story.

The Outspokin' Cyclist

Sports & Outdoors

Barron, Phillip

Individual Sports

Religious life in America is changing rapidly. What does this changing landscape mean for seminary? Keeping the Faith in Seminary is a compilation of essays that address issues of theological formation and vocation for people who love God, the world and the church. Seminary graduates, professors and family members reflect on their experiences with humor, fondness, criticism, and, ultimately, hope for what seminaries can and should be in our ever-changing world.

Keeping the Faith in Seminary

Religion & Spirituality

Questions such as "Why does my classmate smell funny?" indicate your child is noticing the socioeconomic differences between students. As a parent or grandparent, you may feel challenged to adequately and compassionately address your child's questions. A Coat Named Mr. Spot along with the Parents' Guide will assist you in developing and continuing a conversation for helping your child empathize with classmates who may live in poverty.

A Coat Named Mr. Spot

Templeton, Beth Lindsay

Keeping the Faith in Education tackles problems in education from the angles of faith, hope, belief, and redemption. In a time when teachers are under attack, they tell the world why all of us should continue to believe in their soulful, worthy work. It is a collection of essays and poems written by teachers and students that will inspire and restore anyone who works in education. Each page serves as a reminder of how and why teachers bare their souls to help their students shine.

Keeping the Faith in Education

Religious Studies

The year 1968 is burned into American history. For the players of Carbondale High School's football team, 1968 was their season of destiny. It was the last undefeated season in the school's history, and that team served as a launching pad for extraordinary careers and friendships. Destined for Greatness tracks this team through their remarkable season and beyond. More than a sports story, this is an American story about a team seeking greatness against great odds.

Destined for Greatness: The Story of the 1968 Carbondale Terrier Football Team

Fohr, Bruce

Football (American)

Prairie Grown bridges cookbook and memoir with four seasons' worth of recipes from a small South Dakota farm.

Prairie Grown

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Barr, Heidi

Cooking Methods

Breath is a collection of reflections for those who care for the dying. It contains weekly meditations for caregivers. “These beautiful, warm, and sensitively written reflections are a true gift for individuals caring for the dying.They offer comfort and solace as we journey with those at the edge of life.” Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, MDiv Professor The College of New Rochelle “In the vignettes that fill the pages of his book, Chaplain Matt Holmes attends to the mysterious interweaving of death and life by deeply reflecting on his ministry with the dying. With poetic observation, personal vulnerability, narrative skill, and at times poignant humor, Chaplain Holmes reminds us to pay attention: to pay attention to everything.” Kathleen (Kadi) Billman John H. Tietjen Professor of Pastoral Ministry Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago

Breath

Medical Books

Holmes, Matt

Administration & Medicine Economics

World War Two shaped Matt Matthews even though he was born twenty years after it ended. As a kid, he was afraid he’d have to do what his father did in the 106th Infantry Division in the Battle of the Bulge. As a young adult, he was afraid he wouldn’t. If his father’s silence about war and being a POW said it all, what did it say? That silence and Matthews’ efforts to fill in the blanks molded his evolving definition of manhood and efforts to influence and love his own three sons.
In the summer of 2011, Matthews, his wife, and three boys traced his late father’s WWII footsteps the thousand or so miles from where he was captured in Germany during the Battle of the Bulge to the Clyde River in Glasgow, near where he and 10,000 other seasick American GIs arrived on the RMS Aquitania. Sixty-seven years after his father’s journey, Matthews unwraps spiritual insights about loss, fatherhood, and overlooked graces of daily life.

One Thousand Miles: Following My Father's WWII Footsteps

History

Military

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