“Will leave readers swooning.” —PopSugar“Utterly delicious.” —BuzzFeedTwo Vietnamese American teens fall in love amid their families’ age-old feud around their competing neighboring restaurants in this funny, smart “star-crossed-lovers rom-com” (Kirkus Reviews) perfect for fans of Lynn Painter and Ann Liang.Bao Nguyen sees himself as a rock—steady and strong but not particularly interesting...

A heartbreaking, life-affirming new novel by Ethan Joella—author of the Read with Jenna Bonus Pick A Little Hope—about a young woman searching for answers about her brother’s last days.June 1975. Maggie Bishop has just graduated high school, the future hers to embrace—but she’s still reeling from the death of her older brother, Chip. A devastating diagnosis the summer before prompted Chip to leave home for a few months, never revealing where he went. Maggi...

Discover the original novel set in the Halo universe, based on the New York Times bestselling video game series!Saskia, Dorian, Evie, and Victor aren’t exactly friends at their small high school on the middle-of-nowhere colony world of Meridian. Each has their own problems, from absent parents to supporting their family, getting into a good college to making the next hit holo-film. But those problems were nothing next to the threat now facing their world: ...

Discover the original novel set in the Halo universe, based on the New York Times bestselling video game series!It’s been three months since the colony world of Meridian was invaded by the alien theocratic alliance known as the Covenant. Under the close watch of the military, teenagers Evie, Dorian, Saskia, and Victor have been put into an accelerated training program with ONI, the Office of Naval Intelligence. And to the quartet’s surprise, ONI has a miss...

Jacquie Pham’s transportive debut, Those Opulent Days, delivers a classic historical murder mystery centered around the glamor, violence, wealth, and opium of 1920’s French-colonial Vietnam that meshes the structural brilliance of Lucy Foley’s The Guest List with the historical vitality of Vanessa Chan’s The Storm We Made, and the upstairs-downstairs drama of Downton Abbey.One will lose his mind. One will pay. One will agoniz...

Performed by Nancy Pearl, JeffSchwager and a multi-cast that includes book contributors Luis Alberto Urrea,Siri Hustvedt, Laurie Frankel, Vendela Vida, and Richard Ford. The Writer’sLibrary audiobook also features real conversations with Michael Chabon,Ayelet Waldman, and Laila Lalami.With a Foreword by Susan Orlean, t****wenty-three of today's living literary legends, including Donna Tartt, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Andrew Sea...

In 1990, David Lynch was on top of the world. Wild at Heart won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and Twin Peaks was the hottest show on TV. In 1992, he released Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. It sure is amazing how fast coffee can get cold. The film was not well received, to say the least, by critics or ticket buyers. It seemed like the verdict was in: Twin Peaks was dead and wrapped in plastic. Thirty years later, the film is thought by many to be Lynch's masterpiece. Author Sco...

Reflects on some traditional christological titles, using them as windows through which to gaze on the inexhaustible mystery of the crucified and risen Jesus. Each window provides some insight into a dimension of the person of Jesus and his life-giving action in our lives.

*‘The air is thick and wet and the sun burns your skin like it hates your guts … It’s 1942 and I’m fourteen, which means I face two obstacles on a daily basis. One: Entire countries that want to kill me. And two: The cricket boys on Mulvany Street.’Danny Fisher is coming of age at a time when Brisbane faces the threat of extinction.When his beloved brother Frank is killed in the bombing of Darwin, Danny’s family is ripped apart. Ignored by grieving parents, the awkward Dann...

Practical information and guidelines for interreligious prayer that includes biblical and theological perspectives; forms of interreligious prayer; symbols, rituals, and content; as well as resources from eight religions that might be used in varying kinds of interreligious services.

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Beginning with its anthropological foundations, Robin Ryan explores the development of Christian eschatology—the consideration of the “last things,” our anticipation of our “joyful hope” as the liturgy says. Working his way through Scripture, the Christian tradition, and modern theology, Ryan ends with a reflection on Julian of Norwich’s teaching about hope grounded in the love of God as exemplified by the passion of Christ and considering the mystery of suffering.