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Welcome to the
Presbyterian Church of Barrington Library

We strive to provide our members theological offerings in numerous formats including books, cassettes, videos, DVDs, and periodicals. Our collection is new and growing with over 500 listings to appeal to children, youth, adults, and church officers alike. We are located in the west corner of the church parlor. Come in explore, learn, and let your faith grow.
Children Teens Adults

The QuiltMakers Gift
By
Jeff Brumbeau & Gail de Marcken

This charming fable for our times celebrates the joy of giving.

A generous quiltmaker, with magic in her fingers, sews the most beautiful quilts in the world, then gives them away.

A greedy king, his storehouse stuffed with treasures, yearns for something that will make him happy…

Will the quiltmaker sew a quilt for the king?

Will the king ever learn to share?

Can the quiltmaker teach the king to be happy?

What will the king do with all his splendid things?

LOOK for the clues to the story in the quilts!

A Wind in the Door
By
Madeleine L’Engle

“There are dragons in the twins’ vegetable garden. Or there were. They’ve moved to the north pasture now.”

Dragons? Not really, but an entity, a being far stranger than dragons. And its discovery by Charles Wallace, the youngest of the Murry children, is only the first step in an adventure which will lead him, along with his sister, Meg, and Calvin O’Keefe, out into galactic space, and then into the unimaginably small world of a mitochondrion.

A Wind in the Door is the second of Madeleine L’Engle’s books about the Murry family, which include the Newberry Medal Winner….

Check out this book and check into a new world of imagination.

Reading the Bible Again for the First Time
By
Marcus J. Borg

Many inside and outside organized religion are searching for the enlightened, contemporary way to be believers and to appreciate the profound richness of the Bible. In this groundbreaking work, leading biblical expert Marcus Borg offers a bold new understanding of scripture that respects both tradition and reality, blending the best biblical scholarship with a profound concern for authentic faith and how it can be lived today.

“Borg writes passionately about the enduring values of the Bible. The engaging historical details he includes make familiar stories read like new. Whether you read the Bible religiously or rarely, this book is thought provoking.”
-Christian Science Monitor

“An accessible book, almost entirely devoid of scholarly jargon but filled with scholarly insight.” -Christian Century

Library Procedures and Donations are posted for your reference in the library. Materials can be checked out for 30 days. Return items to the marked bin in the library. Church librarian will re-stack all materials. Tax receipts are available for those donating Christian theme items to be added to the library collection.