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1) I am God
Author
Publisher
Restless Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
I am God. Have been forever, will be forever. Forever, mind you, with the razor-sharp glint of a diamond, and without any counterpart in the languages of men. So begins God's diary of the existential crisis that ensues when, inexplicably, he falls in love with a human. And not just any human, but a geneticist and fanatical atheist who's certain she can improve upon the magnificent creation she doesn't even give him the credit for. It's frustrating,...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
From the author of Mr. Eternity , a darkly comic road novel about a millennial couple facing the ultimate question: how to live and love in an age of catastrophe. Young Miami couple Murphy and Eva have almost decided to have a baby when Yahweh, the Old Testament God, appears to Eva and makes an unwelcome demand: He wants her to be his prophet.
Author
Publisher
The New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"My Stupid Intentions is the autobiography of a beech marten named Archy. Born into poverty, maimed by an accident, he is sold into servitude by his mother and taught to read and write by Solomon--a pawnbroking fox whose knowledge derives from a Bible that fell on his head while he was busy feeding on a hanged man. Even as Archy's life is transformed by his discovery of the written word and his grappling with the entity called God, he longs for an...
5) The turning
Author
Publisher
Moody Publishers
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"The message was unexpected but instantly recognizable. A voice resonated from a distance and somehow from within. Against all earthly logic, it carried a divine command. And five very different people knew they were summoned to obey"--
6) The god game
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
They call themselves the Vindicators. Targeted by bullies and pressured by parents, these geeks and gamers rule the computer lab at Turner High School. Wealthy bad boy Peter makes and breaks rules. Vanhi is a punk bassist at odds with her heritage. Kenny's creativity is stifled by a religious home life. Insecure and temperamental, Alex is an outcast among the outcasts. And Charlie, the leader they all depend on, is reeling from the death of his mother,...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"What would happen if the ancient prophecy of the End of Days came true? It is certainly the last thing Eric Katz--a secular archeologist from Los Angeles--expects to discover during what should be a routine dig in Jerusalem. But perhaps higher forces have something else in mind. For when a sign presaging the rising of the Third Temple is located in America and a dirty bomb is detonated in downtown Tel Aviv, events conspire to place a team of archaeologists...
8) Electric God
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Hayden Reese once believed he could have it all. He had a wife he loved completely, a daughter he adored, and a new child, a son, they were told on the way. And then little by little, his life came undone. But this destruction mirrored a much older tragedy. Hayden's life had begun to come apart years before, when his little brother died in an act of bravado caused by his insistence on playing the role of the cocky, confident son their father wanted...
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Seldom occupying more than a couple of pages, Williams' stories are headed by a number, one to 99, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist has a one-of-a-kind gift for capturing both the absurdity and the darkness of everyday life. In Ninety-nine stories of God, she takes on one of mankind's most confounding preoccupations: the Supreme Being. This series of short, fictional vignettes explores our day-to-day interactions with an ever-elusive...
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