Reading Now

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  The American Catholic Experience
  
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  Leaving Cold Sassy
  
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  On Being Catholic
  
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  Sister Wendy's Story of Painting
  
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  Les Miserables
  
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  Rules for Radicals
  
  How did Obama do it?
  Here's the blueprint.
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  World
  
  Our family has been subscribing to this news magazine for 12 years - News from an enlightened, intelligent Christian perspective - and getting better all the time. Great reading for teens too.
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  Surprised by Truth 2
  
  15 men and women - including some evangelicals who were deeply prejudiced against Catholicism - share their personal experience as well as the biblical and historical reasons why they became Catholic.

Reading to Kids

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  Story of the Orchestra
  
  With CD!
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  My Big Book of Catholic Bible Stories
  
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  The Little Red Hen
  
  Hooray for a good work ethic! The little red hen asks but receives no help in her efforts to put bread on the table. Yet all who wouldn't help would like to eat. In a refreshingly old-fashioned triumph of moral consequences, they don't get to!
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  Noisy Nora
  
  Poor Nora! The loveable mousette experiences all the pangs of the child-in-the- middle, caught between the demands of baby brother and bossiness of big sister. Catchy meter, playful illustrations make for a wonderfully satisfying mouse's tale. Baby-Preschool
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  A Chair for My Mother
  
  A remarkably beautiful story told by a young girl whose mother is a waitress. Since they lost all their furniture in a fire, they've been saving mother’s tips in a jar – so they can buy a big comfortable chair for their whole family to enjoy – daughter, mother and grandmother. Life has its ups and downs, but there’s always lots of love. Ages 4-7
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  Caps for Sale
  
  Be dramatic! Shake your fists! Stomp your feet! You and your toddler will have so much fun with this wonderful story, in which common sense prevails over temper tantrums! 3-7
  
  See more great kids' books under Barbara's Picks
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  Character Sketches From the Pages of Scripture, Illustrated in the World of Nature
  
  Institue in Basic Youth Conflicts

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