Peterson, Amy
Summary: "Where Goodness Still Grows dissects the moral code of American evangelicalism and puts it back together in a new way. Amy writes as someone intimately familiar with, fond of, and also deeply critical of the world of conservative evangelicalism. She writes as a woman and a mother, as someone invested in the future of humanity, and as someone who just needs to know how to teach her kids what it...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W Publishing Group, an Imprint of Thomas Nelson 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 241 PETBaldwin, James
Summary: "Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin's story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BALHankins, James
Summary: "Convulsed by a civilizational crisis, the great thinkers of the Renaissance set out to reconceive the nature of society. Everywhere they saw problems. Corrupt and reckless tyrants sowing discord and ruling through fear; elites who prized wealth and status over the common good; military leaders waging endless wars. Their solution was at once simple and radical. "Men, not walls, make a city," as...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.MacFarquhar, Larissa
Summary: "What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment and tells their deeply intimate stories; their stubborn integrity and their compromises; their bravery and their recklessness; their joys and defeats and wrenching dilemmas. A couple adopts two children in distress. But then they...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 MACPryor, Kimberley Jane.
Summary: "Discusses what values are and how doing your best can help you"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark 2011
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Tutu, Desmond.
Summary: "Archbishop Desmond Tutu has witnessed some of the world's darkest moments, for decades fighting the racist government policy of apartheid and since then being an ambassador of peace amidst political, diplomatic, and natural disasters. Yet people continue to find him one of the most joyful and hopeful people they have encountered. In Made for Goodness, Tutu shares his source of strength and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 TUTBradshaw, John
Summary: The best-selling author of Creating Love sets out to redefine what it means to live a moral life in today's world by helping readers reclaim and cultivate their inborn moral intelligence by developing one's instincts for goodness in childhood and nurturing them through one's adult life to promote good character and moral responsibility.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Book 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 BRABurns, Eric.
Summary: Profiles of the Founding Fathers of the United States evaluate their lives, careers, and specific contributions to the U.S. Constitution, in a historical assessment that illuminates their motivations while explaining how their shared vision remains relevant.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 BURSullivan, Meghan
Summary: "Notre Dame Philosophy professors Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko have gone deep with that work in their wildly popular and influential undergraduate course GOD AND THE GOOD LIFE, in which they wrestle with the big questions about how to live and what makes life meaningful. Now they invite us into the classroom to tackle such issues as what justifies your beliefs, whether you should practice...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 SULTutu, Desmond.
Summary: The Nobel Peace Prize-winner joins his daughter, an Anglican minister, to share a powerful vision on why each of us can find hope and joy even in troubled times--because we are all made for goodness.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 170 TUTSummary: No one will ever mistake Jeff Reigert for Moses, but like Moses, it is Jeff's job to introduce the world to the Ten Commandments. However, Jeff is not exactly the picture of virtue. In fact, Jeff is surrounded by gigantic replicas of the famous stone tablets. He is so busy juggling his wife Gretchen and his girlfriend, that he can barely get through a single commandment without breaking one...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TENSpencer, Gregory H. (Gregory Horton)
Summary: "Big, colorful virtues like courage and decisiveness in crisis easily get our attention. But sometimes it's those everyday values that shape us much more profoundly. Lost in our noisy, flashy, gaudy world are the quiet virtues that work behind the scenes--molding our character, guiding our actions, enriching our lives. Greg Spencer unfolds the beauty and nature of each, showing us how to take...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: IVP Books 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 241.4 SPEFischer, William S.
Contents: Patience is virtue -- Saigon -- Electrix -- Chains -- There's a light that shines -- Circle -- Green forever -- Capsule.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Water 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ FischMahy, Margaret.
Summary: Seven Chinese brothers elude execution by virtue of their extraordinary individual qualities.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 1990
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.21 MAHDaniells, Trenna.
Summary: Aaron and Wish the dog: With the help of Wish the dog, Aaron tackles a bunch of problems. Whether he finds himself over his head in lemons or up to his knees in turtles, the two take on everything.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC DANStrickland, Marcus.
Contents: Intro (vista) --; Open reel deck --; In- --; Pilgrimage --; Sneaky deaky --; -cep- --; Subway suite 2nd movement --; -tion --; Prospectus --; Virtue --; Volatility --; Outro (vista).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Marcus Strickland 1990
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ STRSummary: The Skin Game is based on a play by John Galsworthy. The story revolves around two rival families, the Hillcrests and the Hornblowers, and the disastrous results of the feud over land.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Macacy Entertainment 2010