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New York Times bestseller. In his first major work since The Universal Christ, one of our most prominent spiritual voices offers a wholehearted and hope-filled model for the world today, grounded in the timeless wisdom of the Hebrew prophets. “Richard Rohr is one of the great Christian spiritual masters of our time. Of any time.” — James Martin, SJ, author of Come Forth. How do we live compassionately in a time of violence and despair? What can we do with our private disappointments and the anger we feel in such an unjust world?

The creators of the wildly popular Girls Gone Bible podcast walk alongside you in your hardest seasons, with daily encouragement to reconnect with God and his Word to bolster your faith. “Each page is a personal invitation to explore the promised land of God’s living, breathing Word.” — Lisa Bevere, New York Times bestselling author, speaker, co-founder of Messenger International. When you find yourself in a wilderness season, it can feel as if God has abandoned you.

New York Times bestseller. From the author of Nobody’s Cuter than You comes a poignant, deeply personal story about trusting God to heal generational wounds so you can be a strong, loving presence for your teenage daughter. In medieval times, uncharted waters were marked on maps as "Here Be Dragons" to signify that no one knew what dangers might lie ahead. Melanie Shankle quips that the years spent raising our teenage daughters could be labeled the same due to the uncertainties before us.

Read by the author. Audiobook-exclusive bonus content includes prayers from Craig at the end of each chapter. God can handle your most difficult questions and use them to deepen your relationship with him. Am I the only one who has these doubts? What if my friends, family, or others find out I'm doubting my faith in God? What is really true? Does it make me a bad Christian if I have doubts? In The Benefit of Doubt, bestselling author and pastor Craig Groeschel shows us how asking questions, seeking answers, and wrestling with doubt can actually draw us closer to God.

"This gripping audiobook is a strong choice alongside books about high-demand religion, overcoming odds, and finding inner strength in impossible situations." —Booklist (Starred Review). This program is read by the author. "Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn't a savior coming. Maybe it was up to me to save me." Recruited into the fundamentalist Quiverfull movement as a young wife, Tia Levings learned that being a good Christian meant following a list of additional life principles—a series of secret, special rules to obey.

In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing their beloved Iraq to the new state of Israel. Today the once flourishing Jewish community of Iraq, at one time numbering over 130,000 and tracing its history back 2,600 years, has all but vanished. Why so? One explanation speaks of the timeless clash between Arab and Jewish civilizations and a heroic Zionist mission to rescue Eastern Jews from backward nations and unceasing persecution. Avi Shlaim tears up this script. His parents had many Muslim friends in Baghdad and no interest in Zionism.

From the creator of Showtime's "Happyish." A New York Times Notable Book, and a “chaotic, laugh riot” (San Francisco Chronicle) of a memoir. Shalom Auslander was raised with a terrified respect for God. Even as he grew up and was estranged from his community, his religion, and its traditions, he could not find the path to a life where he didn’t struggle daily with the fear of God’s formidable wrath.

Hope triumphs over fear in this poignant and impactful true story of the Holocaust—a delicate introduction to World War Two history for older audiobook listeners. During World War Two, in the concentration camp Terezin, a group of Jewish children and their devoted teacher planted and nurtured a smuggled-in sapling. Over time, fewer and fewer children were left to care for the little tree, but those who remained kept lovingly sharing their water with it. When the war finally ended and the prisoners were freed, the sapling had grown into a strong five-foot-tall maple.

*New York Times* Bestseller • The author of *Get Out of Your Head* provides a revolutionary path to embracing a healthy relationship with your emotions, one that leads to life-giving connection with God and others as well as to a richer understanding of yourself. “This book is worth thousands of dollars of counseling.” —Jonathan Pokluda, bestselling author and host of the *Becoming Something* podcast. How often have you heard, “Don’t let your emotions get the best of you”?

A poignant exploration of what it means to be Jewish today, from a leading voice in modern Judaism, Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove of Park Avenue Synagogue. For Jews today, the attack on Israel on October 7th has drawn a clear and irreversible demarcation in time. On that day, the Jewish community woke up to an unrecognizable new reality, witnessing the stark rise in antisemitism, the world's oldest hatred, in its wake. But even in this dark hour, the Jewish community is experiencing something profound and beautiful: a deep, abiding connection to community, culture, and faith.