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Founded in 1950, the First
Presbyterian Church Library has around 5000 volumes of print
materials, 12 magazine subscriptions and numerous videotapes.
The videotape library consists
of several series of children's videos, as well as tapes used
for adult education classes.
The library subscribes to
denominational and religious magazines.
Checkout is on the honor
system, with the procedure and materials for check-out being
left on the librarian's desk.
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Library Reading |
Ordering Your Private World
by Gordon MacDonald
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MacDonald brings meaningful answers to questions with
which we all struggle. Is there genuine inner life, a
private, inner world that each of us possesses? |
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Born to Buy by
Juliet B. Schor
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about so many dangers to our children - drugs, perverts,
bullies - but seldom notice the biggest menace of all: the
multibillion-dollar marketing effort aimed at turning the
kids into oversexed, status-obsessed, attention-deficient
little consumers. Juliet Schor's Born to Buy is a
brilliant expose and call to action." Barbara Eherenreich,
author of Nickel and Dimed. |
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Traveling Light: Modern
Meditations on St. Paul's Letter of Freedom
by Eugene H Peterson
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are moments when a single truth cries out for
proclamation..." "For me one of these moments came in
the early 1980s...when I looked at the people I was living
with as a pastor. I realized how unfree they were. They
were overcome with anxieties in the face of rising
inflation. They were pessimistic about the prospects for
justice and peace in a world bristling with
sophisticated weapons systems and nuclear devices. I
became determined to seek ways in which I could awaken a
hunger and thirst for the free life among people who had
lost an appetite for it, and then, having awakened the
appetite, to find the food and drink that would satisfy
it. Freedom is not an abstraction, and it is not a think.
It is a gift and a skill." |
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Days of Grace by
Arthue Ashe and Arnold Rampersad
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remarkable and inspiring memoir by a remarkable and
inspiring human being. Arthur Ashe, embodiment of courage
and grace in every aspect of his life, from his triumphs
as a great tennis champion and his determined social
activism to his ordeal in the face of death, a casualty of
AIDS. |
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By My Hands by Alton
Gansky
| Alton Gansky brings an
eclectic background to his writing, having worked in such
fields as accounting, advertising, and architecture. Today
he is the senior pastor of High Desert Baptist Church in
Phelan, CA where he resides with his wife and three
children. |
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Benjamin Rush: Patriot and
Physician by Alyn Brodsky
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Benjamin Rush appears often and meaningfully in
biographies about John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and
Benjamin Franklin, this legendary man is presented as
little more than an historical footnote. Yet he was a
propelling force in what culminated in the Declaration of
Independence, or which he was a cosigner. Rush was an
early agitator for independence, a member of the First
Continental Congress, and one of the leading surgeons of
the American Revolution. He is considered the Father of
American Psychiatry, a foremost social reformer in such
areas as medical teaching, treatment of the mentally ill,
international prevention of yellow fever, establishment of
colleges and medical schools, implementation of improved
higher education for women, and much more. |
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Dark Nights of the Soul:
A Guide to Finding Your Way Through Life's Ordeals by Thomas
Moore
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journey is filled with emotional tunnels: the loss of a
loved one or end of a relationship, aging and illness,
career disappointments, or just an ongoing sense of
dissatisfaction with life. Society tends to view these
"dark nights" in clinical terms as obstacles to be
overcome as quickly as possible. But Thomas Moore's
extensive career as a psychologist and theologian has
taught him that honoring these periods of fragility as
periods of incubation and opportunities to delve into the
soul's deepest needs can provide healing and a new
understanding of life's meaning. |
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