Barbara Taylor
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
In this book, there are 21 cross sections of soe of the most amazing birds, bugs, and beasts in the animal kingdom. Take a look at what goes on in the bodies of your favorite creatures, and discover the answers to fascinating questions like: How big is a blue whale's heart? Why does a cow have four stomachs? What is a camel's hump made of?
Author
Language
English
Description
"Explore the world of birds with this magnificently illustrated atlas. Which bird migrates the farthest? How do birds find a mate? What can we do to help endangered birds? Fully updated for its 25th anniversary, The Bird Atlas answers all these questions and more. This lavishly illustrated atlas for children is not your average guide to birds. It takes children on a tour, continent by continent, to meet the birds of the world. Within each section,...
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Series
Publisher
Windmill Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Let's journey into the animal kingdom. It's a populated place! But this vibrant volume breaks it down into easy bite-size bits of knowledge for young zoologists. They'll learn about different categories of animals, such as vertebrates and invertebrates, interesting habitats, such as forests and oceans, incredible adaptations, such as armor and camouflage, and much, much more. Fun illustrations of favorite animals, activities for each topic, fascinating...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
New York Times Bestseller
From the New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World, Barbara Brown Taylor's Learning to Walk in the Dark provides a way to find spirituality in those times when we don't have all the answers.
Taylor has become increasingly uncomfortable with our tendency to associate all that is good with lightness and all that is evil and dangerous with darkness. Doesn't God work in the nighttime
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Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Barbara Brown Taylor continues her spiritual journey begun in Leaving Church of finding out what the world looks like after taking off her clergy collar. While teaching the world's religions to undergraduates in rural Georgia, she contemplates the myriad ways other people and traditions encounter the Transcendent, both by digging deeper into those traditions herself and by seeing them through her students' eyes as she sets off with them on field trips...
Author
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Language
English
Description
Barbara Brown Taylor, once hailed as one of America's most effective and beloved preachers, eloquently tells the moving and delightful story of her search to find an authentic way of being Christian-even when it meant giving up her pulpit.
The eBook includes a special excerpt from Barbara Brown Taylor's Learning to Walk in the Dark.
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Roll up, roll up! The Dinosaur Awards are about to begin - and you're invited! Who will win the Terrifying Toes Award? Who will be crowned the Lizard King? And who will take home the Loudest Trumpeter Award?Celebrate the prehistoric past with 50 dynamic dinosaurs. Readers can learn all about the dinosaurs' features, diet and habits as well as discover what makes each one so prize-worthy - and there are 10 comic strips to enjoy, too. With easy-to-understand,...
Author
Publisher
Flyaway Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"This enchanting Christmas story by beloved author and preacher Barbara Brown Taylor follows the three wise men on their world-changing journey to Bethlehem. In this beautiful retelling of their adventure, Taylor captures the power of one very special star and gives readers a new perspective on the three wise men and their encounters with King Herod, Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus. Home by Another Way: A Christmas Story features breathtaking artwork...
Author
Publisher
Cowley Publications
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
In these essays on the dialogue between science and Christian faith, Barbara Brown Taylor describes her journey as a preacher learning what the insights of quantum physics, the new biology, and chaos theory can teach a person of faith. She seeks to discover why scientists sound like poets and why physicists use the language of imagination, ambiguity, and mystery also found in scripture.
In explaining why the church should care about the new insights...
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Publisher
Westminster John Knox Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In this new collection of stories and sermons of faith, grace, and hope, Taylor finds that when you are the invited guest speaking of faith to people you don't know, you must seek common ground: exploring the central human experience"--
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Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
Experience World War II from the perspective of a married couple in this collection of letters exchanged between an American serviceman and his wife.
During World War II, the millions of letters American servicemen exchanged with their wives and sweethearts were a lifeline, a vital way of sustaining morale on both fronts. Intimate and poignant, Miss You offers a rich selection from the correspondence of one such couple, revealing their longings,...
16) Cobras
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree Steck-Vaughn
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Describes cobras, their habits, where they live, how they defend themselves, and how they exist in the world of people.
Author
Publisher
Weldon Owen Children's Books, an imprint of Weldon Owen International
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
From the tiny pygmy shark to the massive whale shark, The Magnificent Book of Sharks depicts some of the ocean's most incredible creatures in stunning and accurate, original illustrations. Intriguing facts accompany every illustration.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kaylie Jones Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Violet helps her sixteen-year-old sister, Lily, travel to an infant asylum in Philadelphia so Lily can have her child in secret. They do not know the asylum's physician is experimenting on the girls with eugenics. After five years, both women are back in Scranton finding their way in marriage and engagement and grapple with their worth and virtue.