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Books published by publisher Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

  • Pilgrim's Progress: A Retelling

    Gary D. Schmidt

    language (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Dec. 11, 2009)
    Here is the retelling of Christian's spiritual journey from the City of Destruction to the Heavenly Palaces. Gary Schmidt has recaptured, in contemporary language, John Bunyan's story of Everyman's quest for life for a new generation of readers.
  • The Wild Girl

    Chris Wormell

    Hardcover (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., June 21, 2006)
    In the great wide wilderness, a little girl and her dog live alone in a cave high up on the mountainside. They are happy surviving on their own, until one day in the bitter cold of winter, they see bear tracks in the snow that lead right up to their cave . . . Charming illustrations bring life to this sweet story of courage and compassion, written and illustrated by award-winning author and illustrator Chris Wormell.
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  • William Bradford: Plymouth's Faithful Pilgrim

    Gary D. Schmidt

    eBook (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, Aug. 31, 1998)
    Tells the story of Bradford who established Plymouth colony and was re-elected as its governor more than thirty times
  • Going for the Record

    Julie A. Swanson

    eBook (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, March 1, 2004)
    Seventeen-year-old Leah's chance to make the national soccer team does not seem so important when she learns that her father has cancer and may only have months to live.
  • Something to Tell the Grandcows

    Eileen Spinelli, Bill Slavin

    Hardcover (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Jan. 27, 2004)
    When Emmadine the cow learned that Admiral Richard E. Byrd was looking for a few good cows to take to the South Pole, she volunteered — boldly going where no cow had gone before.Loosely based on a historical event, Eileen Spinelli's humorous tale of Emmadine's adventures will delight young readers, while Bill Slavin's bold acrylic illustrations bring this unique and heroic cow to life.
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  • The Goodbye Boat

    Mary Joslin, Claire St. Louis Little

    Hardcover (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Feb. 26, 1999)
    Saying goodbye to someone you love is always hard. Saying goodbye when someone you love dies is perhaps the hardest thing of all.Joslin's simple, thoughtful text and Little's evocative illustrations explore the pain and grief of saying goodbye and open the door to discussion for readers of any age. The Goodbye Boat provides a message of hope that sadness will ease and comforts with the reassurance that death is not the end.
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  • When Faith is Not Enough

    Mr. Kelly James Clark

    Paperback (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Oct. 1, 1997)
    Doubt and death, God and self, happiness or insignificance, guilt or grace? These fundamental human concerns are deeply intertwined and connect with our heart's deepest longings. They are difficult to understand, yet deeply felt. When Faith Is Not Enough is a creative, honest, and original discussion of faith and doubt and the search for human significance. Drawing upon personal experience, literature, psychology, philosophy, and Scripture, philosopher Kelly Clark tackles the difficult question of how we can live with doubt and how we can nurture a faith and develop a self of enduring value. In section one, "The Shadow of a Doubt", Clark takes doubt (and doubters) seriously and sets out to help the reader understand faith in a deeper way. He presents a powerful case for the existence of God, offers hope for understanding the problem of God and human suffering, suggests positive ways for dealing with doubt, and affirms the excitement of embracing the adventure of life. Section two, "Searching for My Self", is a reflection on the meaning of life. We want our lives to count, but we feel insignificant. We desire fame and honor, but we feel forgotten and ignored. Wishing for significant human relationships, we often feel alienated and unable to communicate. And wanting to live worthy lives, we feel shame. Clark probes into these conflicting emotions and addresses how God can unite the disparate elements of our lives into a meaningful and enduring self.
  • Masada: The Last Fortress

    Gloria D. Miklowitz

    eBook (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, Sept. 1, 1998)
    As the Roman army marches inexorably across the Judean desert toward the fortress of Masada, Simon and his family and friends prepare, along with the rest of the Jewish Zealots, to fight and never surrender. Jr Lib Guild.
  • Pilgrim's Progress

    Gary D. Schmidt

    eBook (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, Sept. 1, 1994)
    The pilgrim Christian undertakes the dangerous journey to the Celestial City, experiencing physical and spiritual obstacles along the way
  • The Golden Key and Other Stories

    George MacDonald

    eBook (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, Nov. 30, 1978)
    George MacDonald (1824-1905), the great nineteenth-century innovator of modern fantasy, influenced not only C. S. Lewis but also such literary masters as Charles Williams and J. R. R. Tolkien. Though his longer fairy tales Lilith and Phantastes are particularly famous, much of MacDonalds best fantasy writing is found in his shorter stories. In this volume editor Glenn Sadler has compiled some of MacDonalds finest short worksmarvelous fairy tales and stories certain to delight readers familiar with MacDonald and those about to meet him for the first time.
  • The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Origins of the Bible

    Eugene C. Ulrich

    eBook (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, June 15, 1999)
    The Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran provide the oldest, best, and most direct witness we have to the origins of the Hebrew Bible. Prior to the discovery of the Scrolls, scholars had textual evidence for only a single, late period in the history of the biblical text, leading them to believe that the text was uniform. The Scrolls, however, provide documentary evidence a thousand years older than all previously known Hebrew manuscripts and reveal a period of pluriformity in the biblical text prior to the stage of uniformity. In this important collection of studies, Eugene Ulrich, one of the world's foremost experts on the Dead Sea Scrolls, outlines a comprehensive theory that reconstructs the complex development of the ancient texts that eventually came to form the Old Testament. Several of the essays set forth his pioneering theory of "multiple literary editions," which is replacing older views of the origins of the biblical text.The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Origins of the Bible represents the leading edge of research in the exciting field of Scrolls studies.
  • Maria Mitchell: The Soul of an Astonomer: The Soul of an Astronomer

    Beatrice Gormley

    eBook (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, Aug. 1, 1995)
    A biography of the first female science professor at Vassar College and the first American woman astronomer.
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