The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Title: The Da Vinci Code
Author: Dan Brown
Price: $3
Condition: NFB
Summary:
While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci — clues visible for all to see — yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.
Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion — an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others.
In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory’s ancient secret — and an explosive historical truth — will be lost forever.
THE DA VINCI CODE heralds the arrival of a new breed of lightning-paced, intelligent thriller…utterly unpredictable right up to its stunning conclusion.
Book ID: 0033
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Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Title: Memoirs of a Geisha
Author: Arthur Golden
Price: $7.50
Condition: NFB – book is wrapped
Summary:
Memoirs of A Geisha is an epic drama about the remote and shimmeringly exotic world of Sayuri, one of Japan’s most celebrated geishas. The novel has been a beloved bestseller all over the world and is now set to become the major movie event of the year. The film stars Asia’s most celebrated movie stars including Zhang Ziyi (House of Flying Daggers; Hero), Ken Watanabe (The Last Samurai), Gong Li (Raise The Red Lantern), and Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon).
In this literary tour de force, novelist Arthur Golden enters a remote and shimmeringly exotic world. For the protagonist of this peerlessly observant first novel is Sayuri, one of Japan’s most celebrated geisha, a woman who is both performer and courtesan, slave and goddess.
We follow Sayuri from her childhood in an impoverished fishing village, where in 1929, she is sold to a representative of a geisha house, who is drawn by the child’s unusual blue-grey eyes. From there she is taken to Gion, the pleasure district of Kyoto. She is nine years old. In the years that follow, as she works to pay back the price of her purchase, Sayuri will be schooled in music and dance, learn to apply the geisha’s elaborate makeup, wear elaborate kimono, and care for a coiffure so fragile that it requires a special pillow. She will also acquire a magnanimous tutor and a venomous rival. Surviving the intrigues of her trade and the upheavals of war, the resourceful Sayuri is a romantic heroine on the order of Jane Eyre and Scarlett O’Hara. And Memoirs of a Geisha is a triumphant work – suspenseful, and utterly persuasive.
Book ID: 0032
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The Strong Family by Charles R. Swindoll
Title: The Strong Family
Author: Charles R. Swindoll
Price: $8.50
Condition: Good
Summary:
Families are deteriorating in today’s society. From divorce and rampant immorality to child abuse and rebellion, it seems that the close-knit and loving family is becoming extinct. But strong families are not just found in Little House on the Prairie reruns. It is possible to enjoy a warm and wonderful family life, if you know how to go about it.
In this award-winning book, Chuck Swindoll offers timeless, biblical insight to help you build a deeper and richer family life. He encourages you to set biblical priorities that will enable your family to enjoy each other in the good times and stay together through the bad times.
Fourteen warm and lively chapters offer guidelines to help you fill your home with love, laughter, and mutual respect… and a treasure chest of memories.
No matter what ages your children are, or how difficult your circumstances, The Strong Family offers a rewarding and inspiring look at creating a family that sticks together and stays together.
Book ID: 0031
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101/102 Questions Children Ask About God
Title: 101/102 Questions Children Ask About God
Author:
Price: $7 for two
Condition: Good – some highlighted bits
Summary:
This book provides concise, thoughtful answers to questions such as How does God hear everyone’s prayers at once? and Why didn’t God just forgive everybody? Anyone who works with children will appreciate these easy-to-read, easy-to-explain responses to the most important questions kids will ever ask.
Book ID: 0029 and 0030
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Chicken Soup for the Christian Soul
Title: Chicken Soup for the Christian Soul
Author: Jack Canfield
Price: $7.50
Condition: Good – highlighted bits
Summary:
Since the original publication of Chicken Soup for the Soul in 1993, the authors have been collecting and editing stories for this volume. These stories will deepen readers’ Christian faith and expand their awareness of how to practice Christian values in their daily life: at home, at work and in the community. With stories from Corrie ten Boom, Charles Colson, Norman Vincent Peale, Dick Van Patten, Richard Lederer and Dick Van Dyke, this collection will open readers’ hearts to the experience and expression of more love in their lives. Included here are readers’ favorite themes along with Christian subject matter. These stories will show readers how to forgive others and themselves. They will encourage readers to stand up for what they believe in and to believe in what they stand for. And, perhaps most important, these stories will remind readers that they are never alone or without hope, no matter how challenging and painful their circumstances may be.
Book ID: 0028
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The Prayer of Jabez
Title: The Prayer of Jabez
Author: Bruce Wilkinson
Price: $6.50
Condition: Brand New
Summary:
Dr. Bruce Wilkinson, president of Walk Thru the Bible Ministries, takes readers to 1 Chronicles 4:10 to discover how they can release God’s miraculous power and experience the blessings God longs to give each of us. The life of Jabez, one of the Bible’s most overlooked heroes of the faith, bursts from unbroken pages of genealogies in an audacious, four-part prayer that brings him an extraordinary measure of divine favor, anointing, and protection. Readers who commit to offering the same prayer on a regular basis will find themselves extravagantly blessed by God, and agents of His miraculous power, in everyday life.
Book ID: 0027
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Authentic Beauty by Leslie Ludy
Title: Authentic Beauty
Author: Leslie Ludy
Price: $7.50
Condition: Good
Summary:
In a world that seeks to destroy all that is princesslike and feminine within her, that mocks her longing for tender romance and exalts the empty charms of a painted face or a perfect figure – can today’s young woman dare to long for more? For every young woman who has asked herself that question, this book offers a breathtaking vision of hope. Refreshingly candid and practical, Authentic Beauty explores the boundless opportunities God has for a young woman who is willing to let Him shape every aspect of her life.
Book ID: 0026
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Out of the Saltshaker and into the World by Rebecca Manley Pippert
Title: Out of the Saltshaker and into the World
Author: Rebecca Manley Pippert
Price: $7.50
Condition: Good – book is wrapped
Summary:
“Christians and non-Christians have something in common,” writes Rebecca Pippert. “We’re all uptight about evangelism.”
Book ID: 0025
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Secrets of the Vine by Bruce Wilkinson
Title: Secrets of the Vine
Author: Bruce Wilkinson
Price: $5
Condition: Good
Summary:
Book ID: 0024
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Redefining Life: My Purpose
Title: Redefining Life: My Purpose
Author: Margaret Feinberg
Price: $7
Condition: Brand New
Summary:
Do you know people who truly believe their life matters? If so, you probably notice that this belief affects everything they do. These individuals have a grasp, however faint or obvious it might be, of why they’re here. This raises a deep question for the rest of us: What makes the difference between merely being alive and really living?
In this discussion guide, you will be challenged to ask yourself some tough questions about your significance and where you find it.
Book ID: 0023
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