Here are 5 essential July 2024 ebook deals that are worth checking out: Frederick Buechner, Marilynne Robinson, Bil McKibben, more…
Each week, we carefully curate a handful of books for church leaders that orient us toward the health and the flourishing of our congregations.
#1:
Telling Secrets: A Memoir
Frederick Buechner
*** $1.99 ***
“In the third volume of his autobiography ( The Sacred Journey ; Now and Then ) Buechner speaks in a sensitive and quietly humorous voice as he describes crises in his life: the suicide of his father when the author was 10; the anorexia of his teenaged daughter. Details of other demanding situations, less critical, provoke merriment as well as thought. As a lecturer at a Unitarian Universalist divinity school, Buechner encountered atheistic students preparing for the ministry, along with a feminist who opposed studying King Lear because the drama features women in subservient roles. In a book that stands out as uncommonly rewarding and inspirational, the author convinces us that secrets kept buried can cause harm.” — Publishers Weekly
#2:
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson
*** $3.99 ***
*** PLUS, Buy the Ebook, and
get the audiobook for $7.49!!!
“Fans of Robinson’s acclaimed debut Housekeeping (1981) will find that the long wait has been worth it. From the first page of her second novel, the voice of Rev. John Ames mesmerizes with his account of his life—and that of his father and grandfather. Ames is 77 years old in 1956, in failing health, with a much younger wife and six-year-old son; as a preacher in the small Iowa town where he spent his entire life, he has produced volumes and volumes of sermons and prayers, “[t]rying to say what was true.” But it is in this mesmerizing account—in the form of a letter to his young son, who he imagines reading it when he is grown—that his meditations on creation and existence are fully illumined… Robinson’s prose is beautiful, shimmering and precise; the revelations are subtle but never muted when they come, and the careful telling carries the breath of suspense… Many writers try to capture life’s universals of strength, struggle, joy and forgiveness—but Robinson truly succeeds in what is destined to become her second classic.” – Publishers Weekly
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#3:
The Bill McKibben Reader
Bill McKibben
*** 75c ***
For a generation, Bill McKibben has been among America’s most impassioned and beloved writers on our relationship to our world and our environment. His groundbreaking book on climate change, The End of Nature, is considered “as important as Rachel Carson’s classic Silent Spring” and Deep Economy, his “deeply thoughtful and mind-expanding” exploration of globalization, helped awaken and fuel a movement to restore local economies.
#4:
Commonwealth
Ann Patchett
*** $1.99 ***
“…[A] funny, sad, and ultimately heart-wrenching family portrait…Patchett elegantly manages a varied cast of characters…[Patchett is] at her peak in humor, humanity, and understanding people in challenging situations.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Patchett brings humanity, humor, and a disarming affection to lovable, struggling characters… Irresistible.” — Library Journal
#5:
Wearing God
Lauren Winner
*** $1.99 ***
“In Wearing God―a book both winsome and erudite―Winner convenes a salon of saints and biblical writers to reveal that God is much more than just Shepherd or King and far more interesting than we thought.” — Fred Bahnson, Wake Forest University School of Divinity, author of Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith
“Lauren’s curiosity about the life of faith is so compelling―and her intelligence so engaging―that there is nothing more satisfying than settling down with a new book from her. The only problem is that it is impossible to read her without being changed; so advance at your own risk.” — Barbara Brown Taylor, author of Learning to Walk in the Dark
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