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February list by Lorraine Jeffery and Kent Dean

Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You
by Joyce Meyer
Published 2011 by Faithwords

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780446538527

Jacket Notes:
"A comprehensive guide to the range of emotions that we feel every day and shows how to manage them--instead of letting them manage you"--Provided by the publisher. The average person has 70,000 thoughts every day, and many of those thoughts trigger a corresponding emotion.... More...

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Sanctuary of the Soul: Journey Into Meditative Prayer
by Richard J Foster
Published 2011 by IVP Books

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780830835553

Jacket Notes:
"At the very heart of God is the passionate disposition to be in loving fellowship with you. . . . From the human side of this equation it is meditative prayer that ushers us into this divine-human fellowship."Richard Foster, bestselling author and founder of Renovar?, writes these words as one who has experienced what they describe.... More...

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Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown
by Julia Scheeres
Published 2011 by Free Press

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9781416596394

Jacket Notes:
What started as a Utopian dream soon devolved into a terrifying work camp run by a madman, ending in the mass murder-suicide of 914 members in November 1978. "I love socialism, and I'm willing to die to bring it about, but if I did, I'd take a thousand with me.... More...

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Anointed: Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age
by Randall J Stephens
Published 2011 by Belknap Press

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780674048188

Jacket Notes:
Why do so many evangelicals follow leaders with dubious credentials when they have other options in their own faith? Exploring intellectual authority within evangelicalism, the authors reveal how the concept of anointing--being chosen by God to speak for him--established a conservative evangelical leadership isolated from secular arts and sciences.... More...

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