New Resource Guide Available for UMW Reading Program

A new resource guide is now available on our Wiki: UMW Reading Program. Although UMW maintains its own collection of reading program books, several of these titles can also be found in the church library's collection. This guide provides basic information about the reading program as well as a list of reading program books currently available in the church library. Access it at the following address:
http://dhumclibrary.pbwiki.com/UMWReadingProgram

Library to be open this Wednesday 10/24

The Library will be opening around 6:15 this Wednesday, 10/24. It will remain open during the administrative council meeting and for approximately 10 minutes after. Hope you can drop by!

Watch our cataloging progress!

The bulletin board outside the library has been updated (finally!) for the first time in about a year. The most exciting new addition is a notice about our online card catalog. It features the number of titles currently in the catalog, a number which will be updated periodically so you can watch our progress. The current number is 288... watch it grow!

Coming soon: The Good Heart by H.H. The Dalai Lama

Discovery Class will be studying this book, and Dan Browning has been kind enough to provide the library with both a copy and synopsis of it.

The Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus.

This book is a collection of lectures given by the Dalai Lama on various familiar Gospel passages. Noted author and scholar of world religions Huston Smith described this as "arguably the best book on interreligious dialogue published to date". According to the Publishers Weekly review:

It is refreshing to read the Dalai Lama's meditations on the New Testament selections, many of which he had never read before this seminar but which are among the most familiar for Christians. As His Holiness thinks about famous passages like the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:1-10) and Jesus' resurrection appearance to Mary (John 20:10-18), we see them from the entirely new perspective of Tibetan Buddhist spiritual knowledge and understanding. Consequently, familiar passages are renewed and opened to unexpected insights.

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Announcing a new arrival in Adult Fiction: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson.

From the back cover, and quoting the Los Angeles Times Book Review: "Twenty-four years after her first novel, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with a story about fathers and sons and the spiritual battles that still rage in America's heart. In the luminous and unforgettable voice of Congregationalist minister John Ames, Gilead reveals the human condition and 'manages to convey the miracle of existence itself.'"
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Adult Fiction call number: Robinson Gilead
Library catalog record
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Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt by Anne Rice

Announcing a new arrival in Adult Fiction: Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt by Anne Rice.

From the book jacket: "Having completed the two cycles of legend to which she has devoted her career so far, Anne Rice gives us now her most ambitious, and courageous book, a novel about the early years of CHRIST THE LORD, based on the gospels and on the most respected New Testament scholarship. The book's power derives from the passion its author brings to the writing and the way in which she summons up the voice, the presence, the words of Jesus who tells the story."
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Adult Fiction call number: Rice Christ
Library catalog record
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House by Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker

Announcing a new arrival in Adult Fiction: House by Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker.

From the book jacket: "On a deserted back road in Alabama, Jack and Stephanie find themselves driving fast and running late. Their world suddenly changes when a strange accident leaves them stranded with no car, no cell phone coverage, and no help in sight. They have no choice except to continue on foot. As darkness approaches, they round a bend and see a small sign at the top of a long gravel driveway: THE WAYSIDE INN.

"The exhausted couple stands in front of an inviting house, complete with gated stone wall, ancient oak trees, and a note welcoming weary travelers. Inside they find another couple with an equally troubling story about a similar accident. It seems that backwoods pranksters have made their day miserable. Still they are safe... Or so they think.

"So begins a story that will keep you guessing and short of breath until the very last page. As the house slowly reveals its secrets, you'll come face-to-face with the sin that haunts us all and a game that can be won by very few. Think you can win? Go ahead, walk through the door, play the game."
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Adult Fiction call number: Peretti House
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