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The Bible, Disability, and the Church: A New Vision of the People of God
by Amos Yong
Eerdmans, November 2011
161 pp., $20.00

From an able-bodied reading of the Bible, it is easy to assume God wants to heal every person with a disability. In the New Testament, every person who encounters Jesus blind, deaf, or lame is restored to health. But theologian Amos Yong wants the church to read the Bible differently, seeing good news for people with disabilities as they are, and not as God might change them.

Bestselling authors, Valorie Burton (Successful Women Think Differently -- Nonfiction) and Vanessa Davis Griggs (Forever Soul Ties -- Fiction) lead the bestsellers list of Black Christian authors on the February 2012 edition of the Black Christian News/Black Christian Book Company National Bestsellers List. 
hcsp.jpgIn a compelling new historical novel, author Eliot Sefrin touches on volatile racial conflicts that ravaged much of World War II-era America, and ultimately, changed the face of the nation.
Dickens showIn London's Westminster Abbey on Feb. 7, a ceremony for Charles Dickens' 200th birthday will star a fellow showman: actor/director Ralph Fiennes.

Pictured: Matthew Rhys, left, Tamzin Merchant and Freddie Fox star in 'The Mystery Of Edwin Drood,' one of three new PBS productions of Charles Dickens classics.
Nigeria bookstoreThe chaos of Nigeria's largest city of Lagos gets boiled down to prose as a narrator notes "how unpretty" its sprawl looks, with "its unplanned houses sprouting like weeds." Another author describes the madness of the commute, how six roads meet and "there is no traffic light."

Pictured: In this Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011 photo, a man walk inside a book store in Lagos, Nigeria. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
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China's communist government may be constricting freedom of worship in some places, such as Beijing's Shouwang house church, but Chinese consumers are gaining access like never before to legally published books by best-selling American evangelical authors.
The HelpFiction -- led by Kathyrn Stockett's The Help as the year's No. 1 seller -- was 2011's go-to genre for the majority of book readers, analysis of data from USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list shows.

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