en-US Sun, 12 Jan 2020 14:46:55 -0800 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 35068512 New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World�����Ի� Learning to Walk in the Dark recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world’s religions to undergraduates in rural Georgia, revealing how God delights in confounding our expectations.

Barbara Brown Taylor continues her spiritual journey begun in Leaving Church of finding out what the world looks like after taking off her clergy collar. In Holy Envy, she contemplates the myriad ways other people and traditions encounter the Transcendent, both by digging deeper into those traditions herself and by seeing them through her students�� eyes as she sets off with them on field trips to monasteries, temples, and mosques. 

Troubled and inspired by what she learns, Taylor returns to her own tradition for guidance, finding new meaning in old teachings that have too often been used to exclude religious strangers instead of embracing the divine challenges they present. Re-imagining some central stories from the religion she knows best, she takes heart in how often God chooses outsiders to teach insiders how out-of-bounds God really is.

�ճ���dzܲ���dzܳ���Holy Envy, Taylor weaves together stories from the classroom with reflections on how her own spiritual journey has been complicated and renewed by connecting with people of other traditions—even those whose truths are quite different from hers.  The one constant in her odyssey is the sense that God is the one calling her to disown her version of God—a change that ultimately enriches her faith in other human beings and in God.

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]]> 1798061 Aaron is hip-deep in the investigation when he’s assaulted by visiting Visigoths��-no, wait, that's just his wife Abby's brother and his family, come to visit for a week. But then a local mobster becomes aware of Aaron's poking around in the killing, and wants him to stop. It's going to be an especially interesting holiday season for New Jersey's funniest height-challenged amateur sleuth.

]]> 272 Jeffrey Cohen 1890862436 Jane 0 to-read 3.81 2005
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When an expert rider is thrown from a horse and lies in a coma, Aggie is convinced somebody caused the fall. Despite Sam’s warnings, Aggie is determined to expose the assailant. Her ingenious sleuthing methods strain their dicey relationship as she probes secrets.After she scatters a hornet’s nest of cowboys, she discovers more than one hombre in the bunch would like to slit her throat.

"There are bursts of humor in this novel which had me roaring with laughter. The plot is intricate, with a satisfying ending. Sam and Aggie grow closer, and he still does not know of Aggie’s secret grief. A great read." __Diana M. Hockley, Australian mystery and reviewer for NetGallery.

"I love this character, Aggie Mundeen. West does such a good job of making Aggie humorous, but with a brain."
__Jennifer Gott, Houston, Texas

"This mystery caper will delight readers who reveled in feisty Aggie’s health club fiascos in Fit to Be Dead. Spiced with up-and-down encounters between Sam and Aggie��-she thinks she loves him but is determined to solve the crime despite Sam’s warnings��-make Dang Near Dead a satisfying mystery with complex characters and a plot that builds to a satisfying crescendo. __Diane Donovan, Midwest Book Review.]]> 316 Nancy G. West 0974770590 Jane 0 to-read 3.93 2014
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]]> 17572295 Delightfully Southern, Surprisingly Edgy, and Deliciously Unpredictable.
"Reinhart's country-fried mystery is as much fun as a ride on the Tilt-a-Whirl at a state fair. Her sleuth wields a paintbrush and unravels clues with equal skill and flair. Readers who like a little small-town charm with their mysteries will enjoy Reinhart's series.�� �� Denise Swanson, New York Times Bestselling author of the Scumble River and Devereaux's Dime Store mysteries


Cherry Tucker’s in a stew. Art commissions dried up after her nemesis became president of the County Arts Council. Desperate and broke, Cherry and her friend, Eloise, spend a sultry summer weekend hawking their art at the Sidewinder Annual Brunswick Stew Cook-Off. When a bad case of food poisoning breaks out and Eloise dies, the police brush off her death as accidental. However, Cherry suspects someone spiked the stew and killed her friend.


Caught between helping Eloise’s family and an ongoing investigation, Cherry finds herself in hot water with her deputy boyfriend, who doesn’t appreciate her style of sleuthing. As Cherry calls on cook-off competitors, bitter rivals, and crooked judges, her love life steams. Meanwhile, the killer prepares to cook Cherry’s goose.

A Night Owl Reviews Top Pick and part of the Cherry Tucker Mystery series. Get Cherry Tucker's second caper today!


"The hilariously droll Larissa Reinhart cooks up a quirky and entertaining page-turner! This charming mystery is delightfully Southern, surprisingly edgy, and deliciously unpredictable.�� �� Hank Phillippi Ryan, Mary Higgins Clark, Agatha, Anthony and Macavity winning author


��Cherry Tucker finds trouble without even looking for it, and plenty of it finds her in Still Life in Brunswick Stew. From investigating the death of her close friend, digging up dirt on the locally transplanted Russian gangster, and trying to figure out what’s going on in her relationship with her hot boyfriend Luke—a sheriff’s deputy—this mystery keeps you laughing and guessing from the first page to the last. A whole-hearted five stars.�� �� Denise Grover Swank, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author


��Still Life in Brunswick Stew proves beyond doubt that Larissa Reinhart and her delightful amateur sleuth Cherry Tucker will be around to entertain us for many books to come.�� -- Lois Winston, author of the critically acclaimed Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery series


��Food poisoning has never been so fun! Still Life In Brunswick Stew is a cleverly plotted, suspenseful mystery featuring a very sassy southern sleuth. The author perfectly captures the quirks of the small town setting and the story is stocked with unique and amusing characters. I can’t wait to read the next one.�� -�� Patricia Mason, award-winning author of In Deep Shitake

Related subjects include: cozy mysteries, amateur sleuth, women sleuths, murder mystery series, whodunit mysteries (whodunnit), humorous murder mysteries, book club recommendations, amateur sleuth books, small-town humor, Southern humor, comic (humorous) crime and mystery, small town and rural.


Books in the Cherry Tucker Mystery Series:

QUICK SKETCH (novella in HEARTACHE MOTEL) 

PORTRAIT OF A DEAD GUY (#1)

STILL LIFE IN BRUNSWICK STEW (#2)

HIJACK IN ABSTRACT (#3) 
]]> 288 Larissa Reinhart 1938383400 Jane 0 to-read 4.13 2013
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As Katy McKenna struggles to rebuild the career she suspended to chase her cheating was-band's dreams, her life suddenly takes a dramatic turn when she stumbles upon a newspaper story about an impending parole hearing for the man who raped and murdered her high school friend sixteen years ago.

Sickened that he could soon be preying on other young girls, Katy throws caution to the wind and sets out to make sure this doesn't happen, not realizing she might not survive to blog about it.

Sometimes, doing the right thing can get you killed.]]> 266 Pamela Frost Dennis Jane 0 to-read 4.21 2014
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]]> 404874 182 Charlotte MacLeod 0743434730 Jane 0 to-read 3.93 1978
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The one side of the job that lives up to expectations is the money. Which is just as well for Izzy, since she needs an awful lot of it. Who knew when she made a lifelong commitment to a man that it would be one year living with him and the rest of her life paying for it?

But even her scoundrel ex-husband doesn’t look so bad compared to her new client. He’s competent, condescending, and annoyingly attractive, and Izzy doesn’t know whether to sleep with him or poison him herself. Throw in a loan-shark, a nosy neighbor, and a murder attempt, and Izzy will have her work cut out for her.]]> 344 Chelsea Field Jane 0 to-read 3.85 2016
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]]> 593344 352 Dana Cameron 0380819546 Jane 0 to-read 3.54 2002
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]]> 810473 288 Elaine Viets 0451208552 Jane 0 to-read 3.72 2003
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]]> 29073338 306 Sheila Lowe Jane 0 to-read 3.83 2007
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]]> 573300 246 Jill Churchill 0380764008 Jane 0 to-read 3.83 1989
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]]> 179106 383 Beverly Connor 0451411196 Jane 0 to-read 3.93 2004
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]]> 768214 304 Sarah Andrews 0451186060 Jane 0 to-read 3.60 1994
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]]> 104909 Quince secretos que te llevarán hacia el camino de la iluminación: una síntesis cristalina del pensamiento y la sabiduría de uno de los guías espirituales más importantes de nuestra era.

En este libro, Deepak Chopra te acerca a diversas respuestas, para que alcances el autodescubrimiento que siempre has anhelado.

Todos queremos saber quién es nuestra alma gemela, qué carrera es la más gratificante, cómo educar a nuestros hijos, cuál es el sentido de la vida... Buscamos una revelación que nos muestre el significado de las cosas y de nuestra existencia.

La vida es un libro de secretos, listo para ser abierto. El secreto del amor perfecto se encuentra allí, al igual que los secretos para sanar, para tener más esperanza, para aprender a ser compasivos... Somos un misterio para nosotros mismos, sin importar cuán cerca estén las respuestas que añoramos, pues aquello que más deseamos saber se encuentra oculto en las profundidades de nuestro ser.

Otros autores han opinado:

"El libro más profundo y sobresaliente de Deepak Chopra." -Ken Wilber, autor de Breve historia de todas las cosas-
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