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Night Driving: Notes from a Prodigal Soul
by Mark Galli Chad BirdJourneys that begin in brokenness rarely follow a straight road to healing. There are twists and turns—and setbacks—on the path of repentance.Night Driving tells the story of a pastor and seminary professor whose moral failures destroyed his marriage and career, left his life in ruins, and sent him spiraling into a decade-long struggle against God. Forced to fight the demons of his past in the cab of the semi-truck he drove at night through the Texas oil fields, Chad Bird slowly began to limp toward grace and healing. Drawing on his expertise as an Old Testament scholar, Bird weaves together his own story, the biblical story, and the stories of fellow prodigals as he peels back the layers of denial, anger, addiction, and grief to help readers come face-to-face both with their own identities and with the God who alone can heal them.
Night Driving
by Addie ZiermanHow do you know God is real? In the emotionally-charged, fire-filled faith in which Addie Zierman grew up, the answer to this question was simple: Because you've FELT him. Now, at age 30, she feels nothing. Just the darkness pressing in. Just the winter cold. Just a buzzing silence where God's voice used to be. So she loads her two small children into the minivan one February afternoon and heads south in one last-ditch effort to find the Light. In her second memoir, Night Driving, Addie Zierman powerfully explores the gap between our sunny, faith fictions and a God who often seems hidden and silent. Against the backdrop of rushing Interstates, strangers' hospitality, gas station coffee, and screaming children, Addie stumbles toward a faith that makes room for doubt, disappointment, and darkness...and learns that sometimes you have to run away to find your way home.
Night Falls On The City: The Lost Masterpiece of Wartime Vienna
by Sarah GainhamVienna, 1938. Beautiful actress Julia Homburg and her politician husband Franz Wedeker embody all the enlightened brilliance of their native city. But Wedeker is Jewish, and just across the border the tanks of the Nazi Reich are primed for the Anschluss. When the SS invades and disappearances become routine, Franz must be concealed. With daring ingenuity, Julia conjures a hiding place. In the shadow of oppression, a clear conscience is a luxury few can afford, and Julia finds she must strike a series of hateful bargains with the new order if she and her husband are to survive.A highly acclaimed bestseller when first published in the 1960s, Night Falls on the City is a true lost classic, and an unforgettable portrait of wartime.
Night Falls On The City: The Lost Masterpiece of Wartime Vienna
by Sarah GainhamVienna, 1938. Beautiful actress Julia Homburg and her politician husband Franz Wedeker embody all the enlightened brilliance of their native city. But Wedeker is Jewish, and just across the border the tanks of the Nazi Reich are primed for the Anschluss. When the SS invades and disappearances become routine, Franz must be concealed. With daring ingenuity, Julia conjures a hiding place. In the shadow of oppression, a clear conscience is a luxury few can afford, and Julia finds she must strike a series of hateful bargains with the new order if she and her husband are to survive.A highly acclaimed bestseller when first published in the 1960s, Night Falls on the City is a true lost classic, and an unforgettable portrait of wartime.
The Night Fox
by Ashley WildaThis luminous, haunting debut, alternating between now and then, reality and magic, tells the story of a girl confronting heartbreak while at a mysterious recovery program in the wilderness.When seventeen-year-old Eli arrives at Raeth, a remote mountain retreat for teens with mental health issues, her mind is made up—she is not interested in participating, and she doesn&’t need to &“heal.&” Still reeling from a breakup that left both her heart and faith shattered, she is determined to fake being &“fine&” so that the program&’s warden will clear her to return home.But the retreat itself has other ideas. The valley&’s magical surroundings transform each time she ventures out, playing with her mind and dredging up her grief-laden memories. Despite the warning signs, Eli explores more of the area than she had ever planned, even venturing into the dangerous night realm.This spellbinding novel mixes prose and poetry into an exquisite and evocative portrait of love, grief, depression, and the slow path toward healing.
The Night in Gethsemane: On Solitude and Betrayal
by Massimo RecalcatiThe highly regarded Italian philosopher and psychoanalyst offers “a brilliant, stirring analysis” on suffering, doubt, and the potential for renewal (La Stampa, IT).For Massimo Recalcati, Jesus’s reckoning in the Garden of Gethsemane is at once an instance of human weakness and an encounter with the Divine. It is the story where the Divine and the Human meet most forcefully, first in company, then in solitude, and where agony and doubt mingle with potential rebirth and revitalization.As the Gospels recount, after the Last Supper, Jesus retreated to a small field just outside the city of Jerusalem: Gethsemane, the olive grove. His prayers are interrupted when Judas arrives with a group of armed men, and kisses him, betraying and abandoning him with a kiss. Jesus is forsaken by his friends and, it seems to him in this moment, by his father, his God. His sin, in Recalcati’s view, is like Prometheus to have drawn Divine closer to man.“Lively and sharp . . . an invitation to look positively at the loneliness of human experience.” —Lettera, IT
The Night Journey
by Kathryn LaskyThirteen-year-old Rachel dreads the afternoons she has to spend with her great- grandmother, Nana Sashie-until Sashie begins to reminisce about her childhood in Russia and Rachel finds herself caught up in a whirlwind of memories. As the events and characters of Sashie's past come to life, Rachel discovers a distant country and time, a time when Jews were forced to serve in the Czar's armies or were murdered in pogroms, a time when nine-year-old Sashie devised a wonderful plan to save her family from danger. . . .
Night Journeys
by Avi[From The Back Cover.] "Peter can help Robert and Elizabeth. Or he can help himself. It's his choice. The year is 1768. In eight years, the American Revolution will begin. Newly orphaned, Peter York has been adopted by a deeply religious Quaker farmer. Peter chafes under his new guardian's strict and unyielding views and vows to break away. He sees his chance when two runaway indentured servants are reported to be fleeing through his community. If he catches one, there will be a reward-and freedom. But capturing the runaways leads to consequences-and choices-Peter cannot foresee." In this historic thriller, as Peter copes with a raging river, pain, exhaustion and fear, his views of right and wrong and of his new family change. Read the rest of the story of Peter, Elizabeth and Robert in, the exciting sequel, Encounter At Easton, which is also available from Bookshare.
Night Lessons in Little Jerusalem
by Rick HeldThe hero of this book was not a saint, nor even a tzadik - the nearest Jewish equivalent - but he was a hero. Someone who risked his own life to make a difference to the life of another. Were his motives selfless? No. He was after all flesh and blood. A man. And a very young one. But life is not black and white. Heroes are not without their flaws. This is his story. Tholdi is a romantic. A musical prodigy whose brilliant future is extinguished when the horror unfolding across Europe arrives at his door. One day he's captivated by the beautiful, mysterious Lyuba who he meets on his sixteenth birthday; the next he wakes to the terrors of war as the Nazi-allied Romanians attack his town of Czernowitz. A ghetto is built to imprison the town's Jews before herding them onto trains bound for the concentration camps of Transnistria. With each passing day, Tholdi and his parents await their turn. And then Fate intervenes, giving them all a reprieve. At the weaving mill Tholdi secures work that spares him. He is elated. Until he discovers the two brothers who run the mill are Nazi collaborators hiding a terrible secret: the threat of transportation remains. When Tholdi sees one of the brothers with Lyuba, he glimpses a way to save himself and his family. But the stakes of his gamble are high. Will Lyuba be the key to their survival, or will Tholdi's infatuation with her become a dangerous obsession that guarantees their death?Night Lessons in Little Jerusalem is an unforgettable debut novel of war, family and love.
Night Light
by Terri BlackstockTechnology is a thing of the past as a power outage covers the globe. One family struggles to do what's right when so much is going wrong. In the face of a crisis that sweeps an entire high-tech planet back to the age before electricity, the Brannings face a choice. Will they hoard their possessions to survive - or trust God to provide as they offer their resources to others?
Night Light (A Restoration Novel #2)
by Terri BlackstockBook 2 in a masterful what-if series in which global catastrophe puts a family&’s very survival at risk—and both reveals the darkness in human hearts and lights the way to restoration. Survival has become a lifestyle, and technology is a thing of the past as the Branning family learns that the power outage is worldwide. Everyone is desperate.When two young thieves break into the Brannings&’ home and clean out the food in their pantry, Jeff Branning tracks them to a filthy apartment and discovers a family of children living alone, stealing to stay alive. Where is their mother? The search for answers uncovers a trail of desperation and murder . . . and for the Brannings, a powerful new purpose that can transform their entire community—and above all, themselves. But how will they do what&’s right when so much is going wrong?New York Times bestselling suspense author Terri Blackstock weaves a masterful what-if novel in which global catastrophe reveals the darkness in human hearts—and lights the way to restoration for a self-centered world.Full-length suspenseThe Restoration series:Book 1: Last LightBook 2: Night Light Book 3: True LightBook 4: Dawn&’s LightIncludes a note from the author and discussion questions for book clubs
Night Lights for Dads
by Roger Howerton Jim FletcherIf you seem to be stressed by day's end, here's a beautiful series designed especially to be a refreshing read at the end of each day. Reflections of the day past and thoughts of making the most of the coming day meet in these hand-selected stories, anecdotes, Scriptures, and quotations. Some of these will tug at the heartstrings and others will bring a chuckle. The series begins with three books: Nightlights for Moms, Nightlights for Dads, and Nightlights for Students. Handpicked contents to bring reflective moments Elegantly designed Put the finishing touches on your day with a heart full of inspiration
Night Lights for Moms
by Roger Howerton Jim FletcherIf you seem to be stressed by day's end, here's a beautiful series designed especially to be a refreshing read at the end of each day. Reflections of the day past and thoughts of making the most of the coming day meet in these hand-selected stories, anecdotes, Scriptures, and quotations. Some of these will tug at the heartstrings and others will bring a chuckle. The series begins with three books: Nightlights for Moms, Nightlights for Dads, and Nightlights for Students. Handpicked contents to bring reflective moments Elegantly designed Put the finishing touches on your day with a heart full of inspiration
Night Lights for Students
by Jim Fletcher Roger HowertonIf you seem to be stressed by day's end, here's a beautiful series designed especially to be a refreshing read at the end of each day. Reflections of the day past and thoughts of making the most of the coming day meet in these hand-selected stories, anecdotes, Scriptures, and quotations. Some of these will tug at the heartstrings and others will bring a chuckle. The series begins with three books: Nightlights for Moms, Nightlights for Dads, and Nightlights for Students. Handpicked contents to bring reflective moments Elegantly designed Put the finishing touches on your day with a heart full of inspiration
Night Manual (Made in Michigan Writers Series)
by David HornibrookNight Manual is a survival guide for life—all the messy, wonderful, grieving, and self-doubting parts of life. David Hornibrook’s debut poetry collection is a book of hours that keeps time through anguish and explores the ineffable borderland of existence. These are poems that seek to get at what cannot be described through a process of negation—to delineate the shape of an absence by writing the things around it. Night Manual is divided into four sections loosely inspired by the four seasons. Each section explores the theme of absence from a slightly different proximity; as a whole, the book progresses from grief to gratitude. A major task of Hornibrook’s is to communicate the gravity and perplexity of loss while at the same time charting out a kind of liturgy of joy and wonder at the cycle of life in an ever-changing world. With lines like "My eyes are pulled to the monitor / where a universe expands or contracts, I can’t tell which" (from "The Ultrasound") to "Facebook keeps showing Miley with her mouth open / & I keep finding little things wrong with everything" (from "Self Portrait w/ Wrecking Ball"), Hornibrook has created instructions for moving through a world suddenly disoriented by loss, a world with starlings, water birds and aliens, robots and deer, Miley Cyrus and God, black holes, and the quiet morning strangeness of a house when all the people you love are still asleep. Fans of contemporary poetry who want to believe in something again—who need a small dose of absurdity along with their suffering—this collection is for you.
Night Music: Poems
by L. E. SissmanSelected by Peter Davison with an introduction by Edward Hirsch. Sissman was a true phenomenon in American poetry. He published his first book, a collection of antic, autobiographical episodes in blank verse, in 1968. Eight years and three books later, he died of Hodgkin's disease at the age of forty-eight. Of Sissman's remarkable final poems John Updike wrote, "What other poet had ever given such wry and unblinking witness to his own dying? His poetry gave back to life more generously than he had received, and carried his beautiful wit into darkness undimmed." Now Sissman's longtime editor, Peter Davison, has selected from his lifework the essential poems--the essence of an American original. (A Mariner Original)
Night Night Bible Stories: 30 Stories for Bedtime (Night Night)
by Amy ParkerBefore you say good night, snuggle your kids cozy close and enjoy favorite Bible stories for bedtime. Amy Parker and Virginia Allyn, the author-illustrator pair you know and love from the bestselling books Night Night, Farm and Night Night, Train, have teamed up again for their first bedtime Bible storybook.Night Night Bible Stories includes 30 stories from the Old and New Testaments told in narration. Each Bible story features rhyming takeaways to remind little ones of God&’s love and care along with a sweet bedtime prayer. Stories include:When the World Was MadeThe World&’s Bravest QueenAn Angel Visits MaryJesus LivesGo Tell the World!Bedtime is the perfect time to share with your children timeless messages of faith from the Bible. For old and new fans of Amy Parker Night Night books, Night Night Bible Stories is sure help your little ones fall asleep feeling safe and loved.
Night Night Devotions: 90 Devotions for Bedtime (Night Night)
by Amy ParkerBedtime is the perfect opportunity to snuggle your little ones close and remind them of God's presence and love. In this book of 100 devotions for kids ages 3–7, bestselling author Amy Parker and illustrator Virginia Allyn invite you to begin a tradition of prayer and devotions with your children to carry them through the years to come.Each of the devotions in Night Night Devotions begins with a Bible verse and includes Night Night questions to encourage interaction with your children. If you want to use the book as a companion to Night Night Bible Stories, the devotions have corresponding titles that accompany each Bible story—with much more in between! Each devotion ends with a rhyming Night Night Prayer that emphasizes God&’s love and care, such as . . .Dear God, I love You more thanThere are fishes in the sea,But there's no way that I could love YouMore than You love me!Night night, God.With cheerful, colorful artwork and sweet Night Night rhymes, this devotional is sure to become your family's new bedtime favorite.
Night Night, Farm (Night Night)
by Amy ParkerParents and little ones will unwind as sweet farm animals in pj&’s say good night to their farm, their mommies and daddies, and God in this bedtime board book from the Night Night series by bestselling author Amy Parker and award-winning illustrator Virginia Allyn.This engaging read-aloud book for children 0 to 4 features:cute illustrations of barnyard animals: cows, horses, pigs, kittens, and morerhyming text that will delight and soothe your childfun animal sounds that kids will love to repeatWith its depiction of fun family nighttime routines and sweet moments, Night Night, Farm is a perfect choice for bedtime stories, naptime, and quiet time. It also makes a great gift for baby showers and dedications, adoptions, birthdays, and holidays. Your little ones will sleep until the rooster crows knowing that the God who made them loves them too.
Night Night, Sleepytown (Night Night)
by Amy ParkerJoin a Night Night adventure through Sleepytown, where community helpers work hard so everyone can rest. Say thank you and good night to farmers, doctors, teachers, firefighters, and God, who takes care of us all. Your little ones will sleep soundly, feeling safe and loved after cuddling up with this bedtime board book from the Night Night series by bestselling author Amy Parker and award-winning illustrator Virginia Allyn. Night night, helpers—Sleepytown too! Thank you all for what you do. This engaging read-aloud book for children 0 to 4 features:Fun illustrations of community helpers doing their jobs and serving othersRhyming text that will delight and soothe your childA thank-you refrain to grow gratitude in little heartsWith its focus on caring for others, Night Night, Sleepytown is a perfect choice to make children feel safe and cared for at bedtime, naptime, and quiet time. It also makes a great gift for baby showers and dedications, adoptions, birthdays, and holidays.
Night Night, Train (Night Night)
by Amy ParkerChug-a-chug, the night night train Is a&’rumblin&’ &’round the track!Choo! Choo! All aboard the train to Sleepytown! After a fun-filled day, it&’s time to snuggle in, and dream the night away.Join these adorable puppies in pajamas as they say night night to the train, to their mommy and daddy, and to God. Your little ones will rest their sleepy heads knowing that the God who made them loves them and keeps them safe all night long.Night night, train!Amy Parker&’s children&’s books have sold more than a million copies, including two Christian Retailing&’s Best award-winning books and the bestselling A Night Night Prayer. She lives outside Nashville with her husband and two children.
Night of Beginnings: A Passover Haggadah
by Marcia FalkNight of Beginnings is a groundbreaking new haggadah for the Passover seder from acclaimed poet, translator, and liturgist Marcia Falk, beautifully designed and illustrated with original watercolor drawings by the author. Unlike both traditional and new haggadahs, which do not contain a full recounting of the biblical story, Night of Beginnings presents the Exodus narrative in its entirety, providing a direct connection to the ancient origins of the holiday. This retelling highlights the actions of its female characters, including Miriam; Pharaoh&’s daughter, who adopts the baby Moshe; and the midwives Shifrah and Pu&’ah, who save the Hebrew male infants. Falk&’s revolutionary new blessings, in Hebrew and English, replace the traditional, patriarchal seder blessings, and her kavanot—meditative directions for prayer—introduce a genre new to the seder ritual. Poems, psalms, and songs are arranged to give structural coherence to the haggadah. A new commentary raises interpretive questions and invites us to bring personal reflections into the discussion. Like the author&’s widely acclaimed previous prayer books, The Book of Blessings and The Days Between, Falk&’s poetic blessings for the seder envision the divine as a Greater Whole of which we are an inseparable part. The inclusive language of Falk's blessings makes room for women to find and use their voices more full-throatedly than they were able to do with the male-centered prayers inherited from the early rabbis. Men, too, will encounter here a spiritually moving and thought-provoking experience.
The Night of Las Posadas
by Tomie dePaolaTomie dePaola's glorious paintings are as luminous as the farolitos that light up on the Plaza in Santa Fe for the procession of Las Posadas, the tradition in which Mary and Joseph go from door to door seeking shelter at the inn on Christmas Eve.This year Sister Angie, who is always in charge of the clebration, has to stay home with the flu, and Lupe and Roberto, who are to play Mary and Joseph, get caught in a snowstorm. But a man and a woman no one knows arrive in time to take their place in the procession and then mysteriously disappear at the end before they can be thanked.That night we witness a Christian miracle, for when Sister Angie goes to the cathedral and kneels before the statue of Mary and Jospeh, wet footprints from the snow lead up to the statue.
Night of the Confessor: Christian Faith in an Age of Uncertainty
by Tomas HalikTomáš Halík is a wise guide for the post-Christian era, and never more so than in his latest work, a thought-provoking and powerful reflection on the relationship between faith, paradox, change, and resurrection. As the challenges of cultural secularization and dwindling congregation size confront religious communities across North America and Europe, and the Catholic Church in particular, Tomáš Halík is a prophetic voice of hope. He has lived through the political oppression and intolerance of religion that defined Communist Czechoslovakia, and he draws from this experience to remind readers that not only does crisis lead to deeper understanding but also that any living religion is a changing religion. The central messages of Christianity have always seemed impossible, from peace and forgiveness in the face of a harsh world to love and self-sacrifice despite human selfishness to the victory of resurrection through the defeat of the cross. Acceptance of paradox therefore is the way forward, Halík explains. It is a difficult way that offers an unclear immediate future, but it is ultimately the only honest way.
Night of the Golden Butterfly: A Novel (The Islam Quintet #5)
by Tariq AliThe Islam Quintet concludes with a powerful portrait of life and loveTariq Ali&’s epic quintet, which began on the streets of medieval Granada, culminates in present day with Night of the Golden Butterfly. The story darts between the past and present of Dara, a Lahore-born writer who now lives in London. Dara is called back to his homeland by an old friend, the hot-tempered and mysterious Plato, who, at seventy-five, has finally fallen in love. Dara is to help Plato&’s newfound inamorata to write a book about his friend&’s life. Dara retraces not only Plato&’s steps but also his own, meeting old friends across the world as they retread the paths of their lives. Night of the Golden Butterfly is a gorgeous and lyrical capstone that finds heart and humor in the passage of time, the practice of reconciliation, and the irresistible draw of home.