Thursday, August 17, 2017

Another bagful of books

I wrote about two bags full of books from the JCC used book sale in 2015 and about one very, very full bag of books from their sale in February.  I've done it again.  May I blame Marilyn?  She asked for a ride to the JCC because this is the last day, when we get a whole bagful of books for a flat $5.  We took Donna along with us and, honestly, didn't stay long.  And still I came home with these 15  books.
1.  To Life! : A Celebration of Jewish Being and Thinking ~ by Harold S. Kushner, 1993
2.  How Good Do We Have to Be? : A New Understanding of Guilt and Forgiveness ~ by Harold S. Kushner, 1996
3.  The Liturgical Year: The Spiraling Adventure of the Spiritual Life ~ by Joan Chittister, 2009
4.  Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner and Saint ~ by Nadia Bolz-Weber, 2013
5.  Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine ~ by Depak Chopra, 1989
6.  Finding Our Way Again: The Return of the Ancient Practices ~ by Brian McLaren, 2008
7.  Rambam's Ladder: A Meditation on Generosity and Why It Is Necessary to Give ~ by Julie Salamon, 2003
8.  God's To-Do List: 103 Ways to Be an Angel and Do God's Work on Earth ~ by Dr. Ron Wolfson, 2007
9.  Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously but Not Literally ~ by Marcus J. Borg, 2001
10.  Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between ~ by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, 2009
11.  Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion ~ by Sara Miles, 2007
12.  The Land and the Book: An Introduction to the World of the Bible ~ by Charles R. Page II and Carl A. Volz, 1993
13.  The Message//REMIX: Solo: An Uncommon Devotional ~ text by Eugene H. Peterson, devotional content by Jan Johnson, J. R. Briggs, and Kate Peckham, 2007
14.  Does God Have a Big Toe? : Stories About Stories In the Bible ~ by Marc Gellman, illustrated by Oscar de Mejo, 1989
15.  Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know ~ by E. D. Hirsch, Jr., 1987
I guess it's obvious I browsed only among the books in the section on philosophy, religion, theology, and psychology, right?  Among those books was one entitled Talking God by Tony Hillerman (1989).  Having worked in a library and owned a bookstore, I recognized it as fiction:
Talking God is the ninth crime fiction novel in the Joe Leaphorn / Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police series by Tony Hillerman published in 1989.
Tony Hillerman is a novelist, not a theologian.  I moved their book to the correct table.

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