A common happening: a father and son go fishing. But in A Different Pond this simple activity is so much more.
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Moonee is 6 years old and lives in a cheap hotel in the Orlando area. But this is no Eloise-in-the-Plaza-Hotel fantasy; Moonee’s young single mother, Halley, is doing her best to feed her daughter and make sure they have shelter.
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Author Jim Burns’ goal in writing Understanding Your Teen is to help parents raise kids “who love God and who will one day become responsible adults.”
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Based on a true story, this juvenile novel relates events in England in 1486.
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Paddington, the lovable bear from Peru, is back. Once again, he’s getting himself into a pickle.
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When author Joshua Jipp set out to examine what Scripture teaches about hospitality to strangers, a resounding theme emerged, namely, “God’s hospitality to us necessarily results in and creates hospitality to others.”
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The Northern Ireland band Rend Collective offers an antidote to all the negative news in the world with its sixth studio album, Good News.
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When Liza Jessie Peterson began teaching full days at Island Academy, the high school for inmates on Rikers Island, she encountered teenage boys who were ...
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Have you ever tried something new and failed? This is the situation Humpty Dumpty faces in After the Fall.
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How did urban sprawl get its start? What do walkable neighborhoods and mixed-use zoning have to do with loving our neighbor?
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Daniel Day-Lewis delivers an astonishing performance in this twisting, twisted cinematic creation.
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Reading Andy Crouch’s The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place could well be the best gift you ever give your family.
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All Set: En la mesa de Dios/At God’s Table is a bilingual picture book from the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship that explains communion;
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As the music industry amps up anticipation for the Grammy awards on Sunday night (CBS/City), you can check out some of our music reviews from the last year to see what Banner reviewers thought.
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A. A. Milne returned from the First World War traumatized by what he’d seen. He wanted to help people see the truth of war so that it would never happen again.
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“For me, for all of us, water is a matter of life.”
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Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the plethora of personality types and their corresponding measurements?
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It’s 1971 and all is not well at The Washington Post. Publisher Katherine Graham (Meryl Streep) wonders if she should allow the family-owned paper to go public.
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When a massive snowstorm shuts down Brooklyn for several days, the lives of three people intersect in life-altering ways.
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Author Maja Lunde weaves together the stories of three families who live in different places and historical periods, their narratives linked by an unlikely source: bees.
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Soul of a Woman, the final album from Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, reflects on the joys, pains, challenges, and triumphs of her life before she passed away from cancer...
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Christopher Meehan’s book Growing Pains: How Racial Struggles Changed a Church and School documents the impact of a group of African-American parents from Lawndale CRC...
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As the Nazis continued to conquer Europe in 1940, it became obvious that England was the next target.
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We asked our reviewers to offer the top five titles they enjoyed most in 2017 in a number of categories.