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What if you could encounter the words of Jesus on their own, lifted up from the surrounding narratives and presented in their full power and mystery? That's the question Phyllis Tickle, one of America's most beloved writers on Christian spirituality-asked when she set out to write what she calls a "sayings gospel." In The Words of Jesus, Tickle has compiled and arranged all the sayings of Jesus from the first four books of the New Testament and the...
2) Chalk
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 31 cm
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English
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A wordless picture book about three children who go to a park on a rainy day, find some chalk, and draw pictures that come to life.
5) Free fall
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32 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
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English
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A young boy dreams of daring adventures in the company of imaginary creatures inspired by the things surrounding his bed.
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Library of America volume 211
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xxv, 693 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
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From the eve of the Great Depression to the onset of World War II, Lynd Ward, America's first great graphic novelist, bore witness to the roiling, dizzying national scene as both a master printmaker and a socially committed storyteller. His medium of expression, the wordless "novel in woodcuts," was his alone in the United States, and he quickly brought it from infancy to a still unrivaled richness of drama, characterization, imagery, and technique....
9) Mirror
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1 volume (unpaged) : all illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
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English
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In a book without words, a young girl finds joy in interacting with her mirror image, but discord between the two surfaces when they are no longer imitating one another.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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"A wordless picture book in which a fisherman finds a whale caught in fishing nets and sets it free. Includes author's note about the environmental impact of contemporary commercial fishing practices." -- (Source of summary not specified)
13) The giant seed
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 16 x 27 cm.
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English
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See how a community of pigs makes ingenious use of a giant dandelion seed, just as an erupting volcano threatens their island.
15) Flotsam
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39 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 x 30 cm
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English
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The story of what happens when a camera becomes a piece of flotsam.
16) Wave
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 19 x 32 cm
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English
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A wordless picture book that shows a little girl's first experiences at the beach, as she goes from being afraid of the roaring waves to playing on the shore while gulls soar overhead.
17) Migrants
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1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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The migrants must leave the forest. Borders are crossed, sacrifices made, loved ones are lost. It takes such courage to reach the end. At last the journey is over and the migrants arrive. This is the new place. With forceful simplicity, Migrants narrates the journey of a group of animals leaving a leafless forest.
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134 pages ; 19 cm
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Based on his talks at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral on Good Friday 2015, Rev. James Martin offers a portrait of Jesus, using his last words on the cross to reveal how deeply he understood our predicaments, what it means to be fully human, and why we can turn to Christ completely, in mind, heart, and soul.
20) Sidewalk flowers
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 23 cm
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English
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A little girl collects wildflowers while on a walk with her distracted father. Each flower becomes a gift, and whether the gift is noticed or ignored, both giver and recipient are transformed by their encounter. This wordless picture book, conceived by award-winning poet JonArno Lawson and beautifully brought to life by illustrator Sydney Smith, is an ode to the importance of small things, small people and small gestures.
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