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USING THE JOHN P. WEBSTER LIBRARY
AS A RESOURCE FOR BOOK DISCUSSION GROUPS
If you need multiple copies of a title not on this list, let us know. We would be happy to help you get them through interlibrary loan, or we might even order them for our own collection, if we think other churches and groups will be interested too.
We are always available to discuss the suitability of particular titles for your book discussion group. Length, theme, content, and theological orientation are some of the factors to consider when choosing a work of fiction or nonfiction.
One website that is useful when considering books and preparing discussion questions is ReadingGroupGuides.com, and there are many other similar sites on the Web.
FICTION BOOKS AVAILABLE FOR LOAN
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara RobinsonBig Cherry Holler by Adriana Trigiani
Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
The Black Madonna by Louisa Ermelino
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Dandelions in a Jelly Jar by Traci DePree
Even Now by Susan Kelly
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams
Friendship Cake by Lynne Hinton
The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Home to Harmony by Philip Gulley
How Close We Come by Susan Kelly
I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven
Just Shy of Harmony by Philip Gulley
The Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith
Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Lying Awake by Mark Salzman
Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind by Ann Ross
Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Peace like a River by Leif Enger
The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Sisters Mallone by Louisa Ermelino
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
There is a Wideness by Mark McAllister
Truelove & Homegrown Tomatoes by Julie Cannon
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Wedding by Dorothy West
NONFICTION BOOKS AVAILABLE FOR LOAN
The Black Swan: Memory, Midlife, and Migration by Anne BattersonThe Bookmaker's Daughter by Shirley Abbott
The Challenge of the Disciplined Life by Richard Foster
Common Prayers: Faith, Family, and a Christian’s Journey through the Jewish Year by Harvey Cox
Conflict Management by Richard Mayer
Congregation: the Journey Back to Church by Gary Dorsey
The Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede
Girl Meets God by Lauren Winner
A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel
The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart by Peter Gomes
The Grace and Truth Paradox: Responding with Christlike Balance by Randy Alcorn
The Heart of Christianity by Marcus Borg
How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization by Thomas Woods
If God is Love: Rediscovering Grace in an Ungracious World by Philip Gulley & James Mulholland
If Grace is True: Why God will Save Every Person by Philip Gulley & James Mulholland
Innocent Wisdom: Children as Spiritual Guides by Joanne Taylor
The Jesus I Never Knew by Philip Yancey
Mark for Everyone by N. T. Wright
Markings by Dag Hammarskjöld
The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions by Marcus Borg and N. T. Wright
No Holds Barred: Wrestling with God in Prayer by Mark Roberts
No Man is an Island by Thomas Merton
Paul: the Mind of the Apostle by A.N. Wilson
Radical Gratitude by Mary Jo Leddy
Radical Optimism: Rooting Ourselves in Reality by Beatrice Bruteau
Rabbi Jesus by Bruce Chilton
Resolving Church Conflicts by G. Douglass Lewis
The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway
Rumors of Another World by Philip Yancey
Selected Writings by Meister Eckhart
Sisters of the Spirit: the Black Women’s Autobiographies of the Nineteenth Century
Speaking of Sin: The Lost Language of Salvation by Barbara Brown Taylor
Spiritual Care by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
When Jesus Became God: the Struggle to Define Christianity during the Last Days of Rome by Richard Rubenstein
Whose Bible is It?: A History of the Scriptures through the Ages by Jaroslav Pelikan
Worship by Evelyn Underhill
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
You Belong: a Handbook for Church Members by Allen Marheine
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