Walter Wangerin Jr.

• Oct-1979
• / Fantasy
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Walter Wangerin's profound fantasy concerns a time when the sun turned around the earth and the animals could speak, when Chauntecleer the Rooster ruled over a more or less peaceful kingdom. What the animals did not know was that they were the Keeper...

• Jan-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1984
• / Christian
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Updated with eleven new stories and meditations, this Gold Medallion–winning classic interweaves vivid stories, deep meditations, and provocative allegories that together explore the power and meaning of love within an often inhumane urban ...

• May-1985
• / Fantasy
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This sequel to the award-winning The Book of the Dun Cow stands on its own as a powerful work of literature. In this absorbing, highly original fantasy, Chauntecleer, Pertelote, and the other familiar characters of the Coop struggle to piece together...

• Oct-1988
• / Christian
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"Funny and moving stories . . . that are both clear-eyed and good-hearted" ( New York Times Book Review). Now in paperback, this praised collection contains 12 beautifully written stories that re-create the author's youth and years of service as a pa...

• May-1991
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1993
• / General Fiction
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• Mar-1996
• / Christian
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Experience the Bible as a singular, powerful story and prepare to be swept away by Scripture as never before! Wangerin's "Bible storybook for adults" features brilliant settings, dramatized scenes, and added dialogue -- all gleaned from extensive res...

• Mar-1996
• / General Fiction
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On a journey of self-discovery, Moves Walking, a Lakota orphan with unusual powers and an outcast of his tribe, finds his life intertwined with that of Fire Thunder, a fierce warrior who is leading his people down a dangerous and destructive path. Re...

• Jul-1996
• / Christian
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A remarkable weaving of faith, myth, and humanity from award-winning novelist Walter Wangerin Jr. Faith, writes Walter Wangerin, is 'a relationship with the living God enacted in this world.' It is ever-changing and inherently dramatic. The Orphan Pa...

• Apr-1997
• / Christian
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Now the story of Genesis is told as you've never heard it before--with exciting detail and passionate energy. Reading like a historical novel, it dramatizes the sweep of biblical events, making the men and women of this book come alive in vivid detai...

• Oct-1998
• / Christian
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On the night you were born the whole sky exploded with love, and the angels shouted, and more than a thousand hearts were in love with my baby Jesus on his birthday! Gather near and listen to the wondrous bedtime story, told long ago by a special mot...

• Feb-2000
• / General Fiction
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Jesus has forgiven me. Three times I hurt him, and he took the hurt, and he went down to death with it. When he rose from the dead, the hurt was gone. And when I was so sorry for what I did, he came and loved me three times back again -- and now I ha...

• Aug-2000
• / Christian
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An intimate portrait of a complex individual through whom God was at work, turning the world upside down. With vivid imagination and scholarly depth, award-winning author Walter Wangerin Jr. weaves together the history of the early church with the...

• Oct-2000
• / Christian
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"In the perfect center of all my circles and of all the spheres of all the world--is Jesus. Here! Come and see! Can you see the tiny baby born? Can you see the Infant King? Can you recognize in him Immanuel? Now you are seeing Christmas."

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• Aug-2001
• / Christian
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• Feb-2003
• / Christian
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Ragman and Other Cries of Faith, Little Lamb, Who Made Thee? and Miz Lil and the Chronicles of Grace are among Walter Wangerin Jr.'s earliest and best-loved books. Each is a multifaceted jewel containing stories, essays, parables, prayers, and medita...

• Mar-2004
• / General Fiction
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• Nov-2005
• / Romance
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Walter Wangerin Jr. is know for his powerful storytelling in such books as The Book of the Dun Cow, The Book of God, and Paul: A Novel. Now he offers the most important story of the Christian faith -- the life of Jesus presented in the author’s ini...

• Nov-2005
• / General Fiction
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It was Christmas Eve. Probity’s family was going to church for the Christmas pageant. Probity herself was to be the Fear Not Angel, the best part she ever had in her life. But Probity Jones was sick. Knock! Knock! Someone was knocking on their thir...

• Jan-2008
• / General Fiction
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While tending the farm, a granddaugher (Enkelin in German) reveals all of the lessons that her beloved Grandpa has taught her, including the most important one of all--that death in not an end, but a new beginning, in this heartwarming tale filled wi...

• Apr-2008
• / General Fiction
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“I loved it. The most beautiful thing Walt has done.” -- Maurice Sendak"Wangerin’s flight of fancy is full of love, and that is what the listener cannot help but hear.” -- Jan Karon“Any child who gets this read to them will feel safe and pr...

• Aug-2010
• / Christian
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Master storyteller Walter Wangerin Jr. pens the historically accurate biblical tale of Naomi and Ruth in this riveting novel. Contemporary echoes of love, deceit, war, and political instability will resonate with readers today, while rich description...

• Jun-2013
• / Literary
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From National Book Award-winning author Walter Wangerin, Jr. comes the thought-provoking sequel to The Book of the Dun Cow, with new and revised content."[A] profoundly imagined and beautifully stylized fable of the immemorial war between good and ev...

• Dec-2013
• / Epic Fantasy
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The long awaited conclusion to the National Book Award-winning THE BOOK OF THE DUN COW trilogy, from Walter Wangerin, Jr.Pertelote, widow of Chauntecleer the Golden Rooster, takes up his mantle as leader of the Animals as they seek safety from the gr...