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  • God: A Biography

    Pulitzer Prize Winner

    by Jack Miles ...
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEWhat sort of "person" is God? What is his "life story"? Is it possible to approach him not as an object of religious reverence, but as the protagonist of the world's greatest book—as a character who possesses all the depths, contradictions, and abiguities of a Hamlet? This is the task that Jack Miles—a former Jesuit trained in religious studies and Near Eastern ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Christ

    A Crisis in the Life of God

    by Jack Miles ...
    With the same passionate scholarship and analytical audacity he brought to the character of God, Jack Miles now approaches the literary and theological enigma of Jesus. In so doing, he tells the story of a broken promise–God’s ancient covenant with Israel–and of its strange, unlooked-for fulfillment. For, having abandoned his chosen people to an impending holocaust at the hands of their Roman ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • One God and Two Religions

    Christians and Muslims as Neighbors

    by Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University, author of Oil and Water: Two Faiths, One God ...
    Islam is a religion of violence and behind every Muslim there lurks a potential terrorist. Islam is a threat to values of the Christian West. They are like oil and water. Clearly, they don't mix.One God and Two Religions confronts these popular perceptions head-on. With keen insight and gentle understanding, Amir Hussain explores the differences between Christianity and Islam, as well as the many ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Honest Faith for Our Time

    Truth-telling about the Bible, the Creed, and the Church

    by Jay Harold Ellens, John (Jack) R. Miles, James M. Robinson, F. Morgan Roberts ...
    This volume is a biblical theological critique of the Apostles' Creed and a development of the role of the Holy Spirit in the church, the world, and the personal experience of Christian faith. It addresses the creed as a historic document, an artifact of early Christian theological development, and a long-standing guide for the form and content of that faith tradition. This book is an appreciation ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Religion as We Know It

    An Origin Story

    by Jack Miles ...
    A brief, beautiful invitation to the study of religion from a Pulitzer Prize winner.How did our forebears begin to think about religion as a distinct domain, separate from other activities that were once inseparable from it? Starting at the birth of Christianity—a religion inextricably bound to Western thought—Jack Miles reveals how the West’s “common sense” understanding of religion emerged and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • God in the Qur'an

    by Jack Miles ...
    Series series God in Three Classic Scriptures
    Who is Allah? What does He ask of those who submit to His teachings? Pulitzer Prize-winner Jacke Miles gives us a deeply probing, revelatory portrait of the world’s second largest, fastest-growing and perhaps most tragically misunderstood religion. In doing so, Miles illuminates what is unique about Allah, His teachings, and His resolutely merciful temperament, and he thereby reveals that which is ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    God in the Qur'an

    by Jack Miles ...
    Narrated by Peter Altschuler ...
    Series series God in Three Classic Scriptures

    Unabridged

    9 hours 57 min

    Who is Allah? What does He ask of those who submit to His teachings? Pulitzer Prize-winner Jacke Miles gives us a deeply probing, revelatory portrait of the world’s second largest, fastest-growing and perhaps most tragically misunderstood religion. In doing so, Miles illuminates what is unique about Allah, His teachings, and His resolutely merciful temperament, and he thereby reveals that which is ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Jewish Gospels

    The Story of the Jewish Christ

    by Daniel Boyarin ...
    "[A] fascinating recasting of the story of Jesus." —Elliot Wolfson, New York UniversityIn July 2008, a front-page story in the New York Times reported on the discovery of an ancient Hebrew tablet, dating from before the birth of Jesus, which predicted a Messiah who would rise from the dead after three days. Commenting on this startling discovery at the time, noted Talmud scholar Daniel Boyarin ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Training the Biker's Puppy

    by Piper Davenport, Jack Davenport, Miles Davenport ...
    Series Book 2 - A Dogs of Fire Wolf Pup Story
    Maverick gets a surprise for his birthday... a new puppy! Join him as he learns responsibility and patience training her in this new adventure in this Wolf Pup story! ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Friendship in Twilight

    Lockdown Conversations on Death and Life

    by Jack Miles, Mark C. Taylor ...
    In a time of plague, fundamental questions become immediate and personal. The pandemic, droughts, floods, fire, political violence: the world has been grimly reminded of the proximity and inevitability of death. Jack Miles and Mark C. Taylor—acclaimed public intellectuals and scholars of religion, one a Christian and the other an atheist, close friends for fifty years—have spent their lives ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • A Friendship in Twilight

    Lockdown Conversations on Death and Life

    by Jack Miles, Mark C. Taylor ...
    In a time of plague, fundamental questions become immediate and personal. The pandemic, droughts, floods, fire, political violence: the world has been grimly reminded of the proximity and inevitability of death. Jack Miles and Mark C. Taylor—acclaimed public intellectuals and scholars of religion, one a Christian and the other an atheist, close friends for fifty years—have spent their lives ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • 99 Classic Science-Fiction Short Stories

    Works by Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, H.G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, Seabury Quinn, Jack London...and many more !

    by Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Abraham Merritt, Amelia Reynolds Long, Anthony Melvillle Rud, Arthur Train, Clark Ashton Smith, David H. Keller, Donald Allen Wollheim, E.M. Forster, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Fawcett, Ellis Parker Butler, Fletcher Pratt, Francis Flagg, Frank Owen, Frank R. Stockton, Fred M. White, George Allan England, Green Peyton Wertenbaker, H.G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, Jack G. Huekels, Jack London, Jack Williamson, Katherine MacLean, Leo Szilard, Miles John Breuer, Nelson Slade Bond, Peter B. Kyne, Ray Cummings, Raymond F. O'Kelley, Robert Barr, Robert Welles Ritchie, Roquia Sakhawat Hussain, Rudyard Kipling, Seabury Quinn, Tudor Jenks, W.L. Alden, Readym Anthologies ...
    Series Book 2 - 99 Readym Anthologies
    "99 Science Fiction Short Stories" brings together some of the finest sci fi short stories ever crafted. Featuring gems from masters of the genre, such as H.G Wells , Robert Barr , PKD, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Norton, and many, many more! ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus