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Why I Am an Atheist Who Believes in God: How to Give Love, Create Beauty and Find Peace

Product Description: Caught between the beauty of his grandchildren and grief over a friend's death, Frank Schaeffer finds himself simultaneously believing and not believing in God - an atheist who prays. Schaeffer wrestles with faith and disbelief, sharing his innermost thoughts with lyricism that only great writers of literary nonfiction achieve...read more

By Frank Schaeffer

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Paperback:

9781928653455 | Regina Orthodox Pr, December 1, 2014, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Caught between the beauty of his grandchildren and grief over a friend's death, Frank Schaeffer finds himself simultaneously believing and not believing in God - an atheist who prays.

9781928653998 | Regina Orthodox Pr, November 7, 2014, cover price $12.99

9781495955013 | Createspace Independent Pub, May 7, 2014, cover price $12.99

And God Said, Billy! - a Novel

By Frank Schaeffer

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Paperback:

9781478700012 | Gardners Books, September 4, 2013, cover price $28.65

Zermatt

Product Description: Calvin Becker's strict fundamentalist upbringing means he's never seen a film, watched television or danced. He even has to hide his five second-hand copies of Mad magazine in the attic. Now he and his family - his embarrassingly devout missionary parents and his sisters, the tyrannical 18 year-old Janet and the angelic Rachael - are on their modest annual skiing holiday in Switzerland...read more

By Frank Schaeffer

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Hardcover:

9780786712595 | Da Capo Pr, September 14, 2003, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Takes readers on a coming-of-age journey as Calvin, a fourteen-year-old boy from a fundamentalist family, confronts his first sexual feelings while on a ski trip to Zermatt, Switzerland.

Paperback:

9780552779296 | Transworld Pub, February 4, 2013, cover price $16.90 | About this edition: Calvin Becker's strict fundamentalist upbringing means he's never seen a film, watched television or danced.

9780786714605 | Reprint edition (Da Capo Pr, August 23, 2004), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A sequel to Portofino takes readers on a hilarious, poignant coming-of-age journey as Calvin, a fourteen-year-old boy from a fundamentalist family, confronts his first sexual feelings while on a ski trip to Switzerland, enjoying his first sexual encounters with a waitress.

Sex, Mom and God: How the Bible's Strange Take on Sex Led to Crazy Politics--and How I Learned to Love Women (And Jesus) Anyway

By Frank Schaeffer

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Hardcover:

9780306819285 | Da Capo Pr, May 31, 2011, cover price $26.00

Paperback:

9780306820731, titled "Sex, Mom, and God: How the Bible's Strange Take on Sex Led to Crazy Politics--and How I Learned to Love Women (And Jesus) Anyway" | Reprint edition (Da Capo Pr, June 5, 2012), cover price $16.00

Sex, Mom, and God

By Frank Schaeffer

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CD/Spoken Word:

9781596596337, titled "Sex, Mom, & God: A Religiously Obsessed Sexual Memoir (Or a Sexually Obsessed Religious Memoir)" | Unabridged edition (Gildan Audio, September 6, 2011), cover price $29.98

Genius of Place: How the Bible's Strange Take on Sex Led to Crazy Politics--and How I Learned to Love Women (And Jesus) Anyway

By Frank Schaeffer

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Miscellaneous:

9780306819858 | Ebrary, May 1, 2011, cover price $26.00

Patience With God: Faith for People Who Don't Like Religion (Or Atheism)

By Frank Schaeffer

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Hardcover:

9780306818547 | Da Capo Pr, October 27, 2009, cover price $25.00

Keeping Faith: A Father-Son Story About Love and the U.S. Marine Corps

A dual memoir follows how the youngest son of a privileged New England family joined the Marines, and how experiences reshaped his father's beliefs about the characters of people in the military service.

By Frank Schaeffer and John Schaeffer

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Paperback:

9780306817694 | 2 edition (Da Capo Pr, July 13, 2009), cover price $15.00

9780786713080 | Reprint edition (Da Capo Pr, December 14, 2003), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: A dual memoir follows how the youngest son of a privileged New England family joined the Marines, and how experiences reshaped his father's beliefs about the characters of people in the military service.

Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All or Almost All of It Back

The best-selling author of Voices from the Front presents a revealing memoir that recounts his childhood as the sons of evangelicals Francis and Edith Schaeffer, his role in promoting the anti-abortion movement, and the crisis of faith that resulted in his embrace of a secular lifestyle.

By Frank Schaeffer

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Hardcover:

9780786718917 | Da Capo Pr, November 1, 2007, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: The best-selling author of Voices from the Front presents a revealing memoir that recounts his childhood as the sons of evangelicals Francis and Edith Schaeffer, his role in promoting the anti-abortion movement, and the crisis of faith that resulted in his embrace of a secular lifestyle.

Paperback:

9780306817502, titled "Crazy for God: How I Grew Up As One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (Or Almost All) of It Back" | Da Capo Pr, September 29, 2008, cover price $16.00

How Free People Move Mountains: A Male Christian Conservative and a Female Jewish Liberal on a Quest for Common Purpose and Meaning

By Frank Schaeffer

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Hardcover:

9780061233524 | 1 edition (Collins, September 1, 2008), cover price $24.95

Saving Grandma

Product Description: This final entry in the Calvin Becker trilogy continues the story of an utterly unpredictable familyâfilled with the same wit, warmth, and flashing insight that earned widespread acclaim for Portofino and Zermatt. Calvin Becker's family have survived and persisted as Bible-thumping missionaries; it's their duty to spread the Word to everyone they meet...read more

By Frank Schaeffer

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9780786713912 | Reprint edition (Da Capo Pr, August 9, 2004), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: When Grandma comes to the Beckers' home to recover from an operation, the Beckers find it very difficult to do the Lord's work because Grandma, with her ill-temper and bad mouth, ruins the spiritual atmosphere of the home.

9780425157763 | Berkley Pub Group, August 1, 1997, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: When Grandma comes to the Beckers' home to recover from an operation, the Beckers find it very difficult to do the Lord's work because Grandma, with her ill-temper and bad mouth, ruins the spiritual atmosphere of the home

Prebinding:

9781435290730 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 29, 2008), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: This final entry in the Calvin Becker trilogy continues the story of an utterly unpredictable familyâfilled with the same wit, warmth, and flashing insight that earned widespread acclaim for Portofino and Zermatt.

Baby Jack: A Novel

Product Description: Todd Ogden, an acclaimed painter with work in museums around the world and a seemingly successful thirty-year marriage to the Brahmin Sarah, is living and painting in his two-hundred-year-old Massachusetts farmhouse when his youngest child, Jack, chooses the Marines over college...read more

By Frank Schaeffer

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9780786720217 | Reprint edition (Da Capo Pr, November 8, 2007), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Todd Ogden, an acclaimed painter with work in museums around the world and a seemingly successful thirty-year marriage to the Brahmin Sarah, is living and painting in his two-hundred-year-old Massachusetts farmhouse when his youngest child, Jack, chooses the Marines over college.

Awol: Th Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from Military- and How It Hurts Our Country

Examines the increasing problem resulting from the fact that the people who make, support, or protest military policy have no military experience, analyzing the disconnect between military service and the privileged elite and contending that the elite are lacking the benefits of military service, such as leadership, exposure to a cross-section of citizens, and other vital experience. Reprint.

By Kathy Roth-douquet and Frank Schaeffer

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9780060888602 | Reprint edition (Perennial, May 1, 2007), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Examines the increasing problem resulting from the fact that the people who make, support, or protest military policy have no military experience, analyzing the disconnect between military service and the privileged elite and contending that the elite are lacking the benefits of military service, such as leadership, exposure to a cross-section of citizens, and other vital experience.

Baby Jack

Having disowned his youngest son for the latter's decision to join the Marines and marry a girl from the city, successful Massachusetts painter Todd is devastated by his son's death in Iraq, after which he struggles to understand his son's life and anticipates a fatherless grandchild's birth.

By Frank Schaeffer

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Hardcover:

9780786717163 | Da Capo Pr, September 11, 2006, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Having disowned his youngest son for the latter's decision to join the Marines and marry a girl from the city, successful Massachusetts painter Todd is devastated by his son's death in Iraq, after which he struggles to understand his son's life and anticipates a fatherless grandchild's birth.

AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from Military - And How It Hurts Our Country

By Kathy Roth-douquet and Frank Schaeffer

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Hardcover:

9780060888596 | Harperreference, May 1, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Examines the increasing problem resulting from the fact that the people who make, support, or protest military policy have no military experience, analyzing the disconnect between military service and the privileged elite.

Voices from the Front: Letters Home from America's Military Family

Product Description: Frank Schaeffer draws on his relationships with America's military families to gather a timely and powerful collection of writing from the soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Like Keeping Faith and Faith of Our Sons, Voices from the Front bridges the divide between those who are in, or who have family members in the military, and the rest of us who can take that service for granted...read more

By Frank Schaeffer (editor)

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9780786716586 | Da Capo Pr, August 18, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Frank Schaeffer draws on his relationships with America's military families to gather a timely and powerful collection of writing from the soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Faith Of Our Sons: A Father's Wartime Diary

The sequel to Keeping Faith follows one American family on a stirring journey as their son, John, joins the Marines, plunging them into that roller coaster ride of emotions that many American service families experience in times of war. Reprint.

By Frank Schaeffer

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9780786715855 | Reprint edition (Da Capo Pr, April 20, 2005), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The sequel to Keeping Faith follows one American family on a stirring journey as their son, John, joins the Marines, plunging them into that roller coaster ride of emotions that many American service families experience in times of war.

Portofino

The son of missionaries finds the family vacation in Portofino an embarrassing bore when his parents' behavior ruins his summer, almost, driving the teenager to seek some less-than-holy pleasures. Reprint.

By Frank Schaeffer

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Paperback:

9780786713752 | Reprint edition (Da Capo Pr, August 9, 2004), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The son of missionaries finds the family vacation in Portofino an embarrassing bore when his parents' behavior ruins his summer, almost, driving the teenager to seek some less-than-holy pleasures.

9780425166949 | Reissue edition (Berkley Pub Group, January 1, 1999), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Looking forward to his summer vacations in Portofino, Calvin struggles with his father's violent moods, his mother's inappropriate behavior, and his sister's paranoia.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786104741 | Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 1997, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Calvin and his missionary family travel to Portofino for a break, but they can't really relax.

Faith of Our Sons: Voices from the American Homefront -- The Wartime Diary of a Marine's Father

By Frank Schaeffer

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Hardcover:

9780786713226 | Da Capo Pr, April 15, 2004, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The sequel to 'Keeping Faith' follows one American family on a stirring journey as their son, John, joins the Marines, plunging them into that roller-coaster ride of emotions that many American service families experience in times of war.

Zermatt: Library Edition

Product Description: In this sequel to his acclaimed novel Portofino, Frank Schaeffer's memorable young narrator, Calvin Becker, returns in a story that is a coming-of-age gem. It is 1966, and Calvin is fourteen, torn between his naturally volcanic sexual curiosity and a fundamentalist family so strict that he has never seen a movie, watched television, or danced--and has to hide his five copies of Mad magazine in the attic...read more

By Lloyd James (narrator) and Frank Schaeffer

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CD/Spoken Word:

9780786188963 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, February 1, 2004), cover price $56.00

9780786187584 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, February 1, 2004), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In this sequel to his acclaimed novel Portofino, Frank Schaeffer's memorable young narrator, Calvin Becker, returns in a story that is a coming-of-age gem.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786126170 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, February 1, 2004), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: In this sequel to his acclaimed novel Portofino, Frank Schaeffer's memorable young narrator, Calvin Becker, returns in a story that is a coming-of-age gem.

Dancing Alone: The Quest for Orthodox Faith in the Age of False Religion

Product Description: Book by Schaeffer, Frank (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Frank Schaeffer

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Paperback:

9781928653097 | Regina Orthodox Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Book by Schaeffer, Frank

9780917651366 | Holy Cross Pr, July 1, 1994, cover price $20.00

Keeping Faith: A Father-Son Story About Love and the United States Marine Corps

A dual memoir written in the alternating voices of both authors follows how the youngest son of a privileged New England family joined the Marines, and how experiences reshaped his father's beliefs about the characters of people in the military service.

By Frank Schaeffer

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Hardcover:

9780786710973 | Da Capo Pr, September 16, 2002, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A dual memoir follows how the youngest son of a privileged New England family joined the Marines, and how expreiences reshaped his father's beliefs about the characters of people in the military service.

Portofino: A Novel

Looking forward to a summer trip to Portofino, Italy, Calvin, the son of a dysfunctional missionary family, dreads his father's dark moods, his mother's efforts to convert others, and his sister's melodramatic ideas. Original.

By Frank Schaeffer

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Hardcover:

9780026070515 | Macmillan Pub Co, July 1, 1992, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: On the Riviera with his Fundamentalist missionary parents, ten-year-old Calvin escapes from his parents' constant bickering by befriending the locals and falling in love with Jennifer, a sensible Church-of-Englander

Paperback:

9780425149812 | Reprint edition (Berkley Pub Group, September 1, 1996), cover price $6.99 | also contains Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights? | About this edition: Looking forward to a summer trip to Portofino, Italy, Calvin, the son of a dysfunctional missionary family, dreads his father's dark moods, his mother's efforts to convert others, and his sister's melodramatic ideas.

The Thorny Rose of Texas: An Intimate Portrait of Governor Ann Richards

An in-depth look at the governor of Texas presents the life of a woman born to an impoverished farm community, a fierce intercollegiate debater, an advocate for abused women's rights, a divorced recovering alcoholic, and a striving candidate for governor. 25,000 first printing.

By Frank Schaeffer and Mike Shropshire

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Hardcover:

9781559722322 | Birch Lane Pr, September 1, 1994, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A look at the governor of Texas presents the life of a woman born to an impoverished farm community, a fierce intercollegiate debater, and an advocate for the rights of abused women

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