Roser Library, housed just off Fellowship Hall, contains books in many categories including Bibles, Bible commentary and study aids, religious history, studies of many different religions, worship and devotional aids, social issues and self-help information, geography, history, biography and fiction.
New books are added every year through gifts from members and purchases from a fund allocated in the annual budget. The newest books are shelved just inside the door above the card catalog and check out file.
Anyone is welcome to use the library. Simply sign the books out using the card in the front and place the card in the file provided on the shelf beside the catalog.
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Roser Library New Books
The Wall Chart of World History; from earliest times to the present (909Wal – Atlases) 6000 years of world history at a glance; King Solomon to the mid-1990’s. Allows quick examination of historical events at the same time. Includes a separate section devoted to U.S. political history.
Blue Windows, A Christian Science childhood, by Barbara Wilson. (B Wil). An insider’s examination of Christian Science, from the perspective of the adult daughter of a believer who was torn between following the dictates of her faith and the cancer that eventually killed her.
No quick fix; healing the fractured family, by Keith Phillips and forward by Pat Boone. (261 Phi). An examination of missionaries in urban America, and why there is “no quick fix.”
There’s a spiritual solution to every problem, by Wayne W. Dye. (248 Dye). Author of “Wisdom of the ages, Dye sets out to find a spiritual answer to our problems, from one who has “been there.”
Who needs God, by Harold Kushner. (296 Kus). Kushner is the author of When Bad things happen to good people. We all need God. One reviewer indicated that this title attempts to provide answers to the question: Why do we need God?
Buddhism, a very short introduction, by Damien Keown. (297 Keo) A readable introduction to “one of mankind’s most beautiful, profound, and compelling systems of wisdom.
A year by the sea , thoughts of an unfinished woman; An unfinished marriage; A walk on the beach, tales of wisdom from an unconventional woman. Joan Anderson (B And) Trilogy of the author who spent a year living alone in a Cape Cod cottage.
Loved, stories of forgiveness, edited by Rebecca St. James. (242 StJ) Forty-eight true stories of finding God.
Making friends, making disciples, growing your church through authentic relationships, by Lee B. Spitzer. (254 Spi) The initial volume in the “Living Church”, a series on the problems of the decline in organized religion. This volume provides guidance on developing relationships, both as individuals and within a church.
Sacred contracts, awakening your divine potential, by Caroline Myss. (158 Mys) “…brilliant synthesis of psychology, healing guidance, and spiritual insight.” [inside cover]
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 Discovering the Bible for Yourself, by Jeffrey Arnold. (220 Arn). A “how-to” book for studying the Bible.
What can I say; a guide to visiting friends and family who are ill, by Simon and Karen Fox. (248 Fox) Written by a cancer survivor, Fox provides answers to that all-important question.
Roget’s thesaurus of the Bible, by A. Colin Day. (220.2 Day) Usable with any Bible version; 43,751 references, subject and Bible indexes.
The New Testament era; the world of the Bible from 500 B.C. to A.D. 100, by Bo Reicke. (220 Rei) A concise but thorough history of the early Bible.
The Shack, where tragedy confronts eternity, by Wm. Paul Young. (F You). NYT bestseller list.
God & Empire; Jesus against Rome, then and now, by John Dominic Crossan. (261 Cro). Written by a leading Biblical scholar, this title relates Christianity to not only the original Roman empire but the “new” Roman Empire—America.
Christianity, the first three thousand years, by Diarmaid MacCulloch. (270 MacC). An exhaustive--1000+ pages—history of Christianity from the origins of the Hebrew Bible to the current day.
Will the circle be unbroken; reflections on death, rebirth and hunger for a faith, by Studs Terkel. (128 Ter) Turkel interviewed a wide range of individuals on these basic questions.
A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster. (F For) The famous novel, first published in 1924, that illuminated the historical divide between the English race and the inhabitants of the sub-continent.
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