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1) The God Game
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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Five best friends in a high school computer club get sucked into an underground hacker's game run by a mysterious A.I. that thinks it's God; as the Game pits them against each other, it offers the ultimate promise--win and learn the meaning of life or die.
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Herman "Hank" Fins-Winston was a pro golfer destined for greatness. Now he lives in a condominium on the thirteenth fairway of one of heaven's glorious courses – a fact he finds surprising and amusing, since for one reason or another, a fair percentage of golfers never make it to paradise. Hank is having the time of his afterlife until he's summoned one idyllic morning to play a round with the Almighty. It seems that God is having some trouble with...
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After a deadly ship explosion, nine people, adrift in a raft, struggle to survive at sea and pull a strange man from the sea who claims to be the Lord. The story is narrated by a lonely passenger named Benji, who recounts the events in a notebook that is discovered--a year later--when an empty raft washes up on the island of Montserrat. It falls to the island's chief inspector, Jarty LeFleur, a man battling his own demons, to solve the mystery of...
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Sarabande Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Set amid wholly unique and fabulist worlds, the stories of The Book of Disbelieving present a cast of characters tangled in challenges of faith, whether in god, in nature, in memory, or even in reality. These are stories of villages built atop fish, of holidays designed to encourage literal leaps of faith, of widows left to make sense of memories both real and imagined.--Publisher.
7) I am God
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Restless Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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Diabolically funny and subversively philosophical, Italian novelist Giacomo Sartori's I Am God is the diary of the Almighty's existential crisis that erupts when 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 credit for. Which is frustrating, for a god.
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Villa Maga Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
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When modern science fails to save his wife Celeste, Michael turns to religion. When religion fails to cure her, he is left searching for answers. From his grief flows anger, determination, and finally the plan - a meticulous experiment to unravel the truth in one of civilization's most controversial topics... the concept of God. At the heart of this plan is Hamida Begum. A young woman of depth and intelligence, heiress to a lost lineage. Selected...
10) Valis
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Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2011
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When a beam of pink light begins giving a schizophrenic man named Horselover Fat (who just might also be known as Philip K. Dick) visions of an alternate Earth where the Roman Empire still reigns, he must decide whether he is crazy or whether a godlike entity is showing him the true nature of the world. --Cover
11) Old Turtle
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Pfeifer-Hamilton
Pub. Date
c1992
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At a time when all the living things of the world could communicate an argument broke out over who and what God is. Old Turtle, in his wisdom, settles the argument in this parable which promotes our relationship with the earth and all the beings that inhabit it.
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FaithWords
Pub. Date
c2013
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"Beginning with the creation of man and ending with the revelation of a new world, readers will revel in this epic saga of warriors, rebels, poets, and kings, all called upon by God to reveal His enduring love for mankind. Ultimately, God's plan is fulfilled in the story of Jesus the Messiah, whose life, death and resurrection brings salvation to one and all."--Dust jacket.
13) There is no dog
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
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When the beautiful Lucy prays to fall in love, God, an irresponsible youth named Bob, chooses to answer her prayer personally, to the dismay of this assistant, Mr. B who must try to clean up the resulting catastrophes.
14) How big is God?
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2008
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With help from his mother, a little boy tries to understand the immensity of God.
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A companion to the inspirational classic The Alchemist is filled with timeless stories of reflection and rediscovery.
A companion to the inspirational classic The Alchemist is filled with timeless stories of reflection and rediscovery. From one of the greatest writers of our age comes a collection of stories and parables unlocking the mysteries of the human condition. Gathered from Paulo Coelho's daily column of the same name, Maktub, meaning "it...
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Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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"For Indigo Phillips, life has always been about basking in the shadow of her identical twin, Violet--the perfectly dressed, gentle, popular sister. The only problem the girls had in their lives was the occasional chaos that came with being part of the Phillips family brood. But when Violet becomes terminally ill and plans to die on her own terms via medically assisted death, Indigo spirals into desperation in her efforts to cope. That's when she...