Walter Wangerin, Jr., Author Harper San Francisco $19.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-052252-0
National Book Award–winning author Wangerin (The Book of Dun Cow) retells the story of St. Julian the Hospitaller, patron saint of carnival workers, ferrymen, wandering musicians and other peripatetic souls. The narrator is an elderly cleric...
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Walter Wangerin, Jr., Author Zondervan $19.99 (391p) ISBN 978-0-310-26673-0
Falling solidly within the genre of Wangerin's previous novels, this book often feels more like a Eugene Peterson–style paraphrase of the New Testament than an actual work of fiction. While Wangerin invents dialogue, events and characters...
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Walter Wangerin, Jr., Author Zondervan $16.99 (199p) ISBN 978-0-310-29281-4
The prospect of hanging concentrates the mind wonderfully, wrote essayist Samuel Johnson. In the case of prolific writer and teacher Wangerin (Saint Julian
), a diagnosis of lung cancer drove him not to despair but to writing, his usual mode of...
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Walter Wangerin, Jr., Author Thomas Nelson Publishers $10.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8407-6671-7
There is nothing as creamy as the prose of Oscar Wildespoofing both Brits and Yanks, ethereal and earthlyin one of the most famously funny ghost stories of all time. Is it for children? A resounding yes; doubters are challenged to read the...
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Walter Wangerin, Jr., Author HarperCollins Publishers $16 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-069267-4
This collection of 12 independent, autobiographical tales takes the shape of a spiritual quest, ``the experience of seeking meaning in everyday events.'' Wangerin, formerly a Lutheran pastor, and author of the award-winning The Book of the Dun Cow ,
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Walter Wangerin, Jr., Author Simon & Schuster $16 (279p) ISBN 978-0-671-79911-3
Wangerin's (Branta and the Golden Stone) epic account of a boy's sacrifice to save a Native American nation from the aftermath of a near-apocalyptic war works both as myth and as a story of the Lakota people. Moves Walking, a young orphan with...
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Walter Wangerin, Jr., Author Zondervan Publishing Company $27.99 (633p) ISBN 978-0-310-20005-5
""This is not the Bible,"" Wangerin (The Book of the Dun Cow; Miz Lil and the Chronicles of Grace; etc.) says of this newest work. But it is a novel featuring many of the Bible's most dramatic characters. He partitions the whole into eight parts:...
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Walter Wangerin, Jr., Author Aladdin Paperbacks $4.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-689-80650-6
In a starred review, PW said that Wangerin ""powerfully conveys the spiritual beliefs and traditions of the Lakota"" in this ""stirring"" adventure of a boy's sacrifice to save his people. Ages 12-up. (Mar.)
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Walter Wangerin, Jr., Author, Deborah Healey, Illustrator Simon & Schuster $16 (1p) ISBN 978-0-671-79693-8
In this resonant work from the pair who collaborated on Elisabeth and the Water-Troll , the depth and richness of Wangerin's text is deftly matched by Healy's dynamic oil paintings. Branta is a girl who lives alone in a cottage on a lake ``on the...
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Walter Wangerin, Jr., Author, Rick Beerhorst, Illustrator Zondervan Publishing Company $22.99 (509p) ISBN 978-0-310-21892-0
In his second Bible-based novel, Wangerin delivers an uneven but informative narrative portraying the Apostle Paul as a flawed, confrontational man who inspires either murderous hate or passionate love. Reminiscent of both Eugene Peterson's...
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Walter Wangerin, Jr., Author, Gerardo Suzan, Illustrator Augsburg Fortress Publishers $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8066-3711-2
Tackling complex theological issues, this illuminating book for the most part succeeds in introducing children to the concepts surrounding baptism. As Wangerin (Probity Jones and the Fear Not Angel) explains, his approach is structured on a passage...
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Walter Wangerin, Jr., Author, Tim Ladwig, Illustrator Augsburg Fortress Publishers $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8066-2992-6
Ill with a fever and forced to stay home and miss her Christmas pageant performance, young Probity witnesses a Christmas miracle of her very own. Folded within the silken robes of the Fear Not Angel, Probity soon hovers high above her Christmas...
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Walter Wangerin, Jr., Author, Tim Ladwig, Illustrator, Randy Courts, Composer , illus. by Tim Ladwig, music by Randy Courts. Augsburg $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8066-3712-9
Wangerin (previously paired with Ladwig for Probity Jones and the Fear-Not Angel) envisions a musical stage production of the Nativity, to be performed by families as well as church and school groups. The premise may offend many readers: because...
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Walter Wangerin, Jr., Author, Benrei Huang, Author, Benrei Huang, Illustrator Augsburg Fortress Publishers $16.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8066-3701-3
In a series of rhymes, Wangerin (Probity Jones and the Fear Not Angel) dispels a child's fear of the dark by teaching the lessons of God's love and presence. As the rhymes begin, a mother responds to her son's question: ""How much do I love you?/...
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Walter Wangerin, Jr., Author, Eugene H. Peterson, Foreword by Zondervan Publishing Company $12.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-310-20197-7
Wangerin, author of the bestselling The Book of God, seeks to understand why people need to pray. Using personal stories, poetry, hymns and scripture, he defines and explores four aspects of prayer: how we speak to God; how God listens to our...
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