99 double page spreads, illustrated with graphics and interactive boxes for checking your progress, offer a series of activities that will awaken your senses, broaden your spiritual horizons and deepen your amazement at the world and all its wonders. They don't cost a fortune and you can start wherever you are. Activities range from gazing at the night sky, planting a tree, feeling the earth beneath your feet, to appreciating the different ways that other traditions draw close to God.

Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, prevented from marrying by the petty tyrant Don Rodrigo, who desires Lucia for himself. Forced to flee, they are then cruelly separated, and must face many dangers including plague, famine and imprisonment, and confront a variety of strange characters: the mysterious Nun of Monza, the fiery Father Cristoforo and the sinister 'Unnamed' in their struggle to be reunited. A vigorous portrayal of enduring passion, The Betrothed's exploration of love, power and faith presents a whirling panorama of seventeenth-century Italian life and is one of the greatest European historical novels.

Who was Jesus? What did he say? What did he do? This book puts together the story of Jesus’ life and message told by the people who knew him best as recorded in the four Gospels of the Bible—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Although the words were written over 2000 years ago, his message of peace, hope, love, and forgiveness still resonates with people today. All About Jesus combines the four reports of Jesus’ life into a single story from beginning to end, using the easy-to-read text of the NIrV Bible. Take a new look at Jesus— his life, his miracles, and his teachings—and to come to your own conclusions about the carpenter from Nazareth. Produced in collaboration with the International Bible Society (now Biblica).