Joy: 100 Poems
By: Christian Wiman
4.36
Format: 173 pages, Hardcover
One hundred of the most evocative modern poems on joy, selected by an award-winning contemporary po…
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1. Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis
By: Michael Ward
4.33
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
For over half a century, scholars have laboured to show that C. S. Lewis's famed but apparently dis… read more
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2. Hannah Coulter
By: Wendell Berry
4.38
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry's seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman charac… read more
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"Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"Living right on called for nothing out of the ordinary. We made no changes. We only accepted the changes as they came."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
3. Four Quartets
By: T.S. Eliot
3.67
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942… read more
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4. Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
By: Madeleine L'Engle
4.23
Format: None pages,
In this classic book, Madeleine L'Engle addresses the questions, What makes art Christian? What doe… read more
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5. Till We Have Faces
By: C.S. Lewis
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In this timeless tale of two mortal princesses- one beautiful and one unattractive- C.S. Lewis rewo… read more
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6. Signs Preceding the End of the World
By: Yuri Herrera , Lisa Dillman
3.49
Format: 16 pages, Paperback
Yuri Herrera explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and language as the… read more
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8. Gilead (Gilead, #1)
By: Marilynne Robinson
3.85
Format: 247 pages, Paperback
Nearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three gener… read more
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"How I wish you could have known me in my strength."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
9. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel
4.50
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more
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10. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
By: David W. Blight
4.15
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In… read more
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11. Jayber Crow
By: Wendell Berry
3.95
Format: 253 pages,
From the simple setting of his own barber shop, Jayber Crow, orphan, seminarian, and native of Port… read more
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12. Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
By: C.S. Lewis
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
"We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now a… read more
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13. The Tradition
By: Jericho Brown
4.24
Format: 77 pages, Paperback
Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more
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"The opposite of rape is understanding."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
14. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
15. The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind
By: Jason M. Baxter
4.51
Format: None pages, Audio CD
C. S. Lewis had one of the great minds of the twentieth century. Many readers know Lewis as an auth… read more
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16. How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now
By: James K.A. Smith
4.29
Format: 189 pages, Hardcover
Many Christians are disconnected from the past or imagine they are "above" history, immune to it, a… read more
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17. Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Hurting the Church
By: Katelyn Beaty
4.22
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning writer shows how and why celebrity is woven into the fabric of the evangelical mov… read more
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"Celebrity, in the final analysis, is a worldly form of power and evaluation of human worth. It is not a spiritually neutral tool that can be picked up and put down, even for godly projects. The momen…"-Katelyn Beaty, Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Hurting the Church
18. I Cheerfully Refuse
By: Leif Enger
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more
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"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
19. One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder
By: Brian Doyle
4.62
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
From a "born storyteller" ( Seattle Times ), this playful and moving bestselling book of essays inv… read more
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"Every creature on earth has approximately two billion heartbeats to spend in a lifetime. You can spend them slowly, like a tortoise and live to be two hundred years old, or you can spend them fast, l…"-Brian Doyle, One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder
"So much held in a heart in a lifetime. So much held in a heart in a day, an hour, a moment. We are utterly open with no one, in the end -- not mother and father, not wife or husband, not lover, not c…"-Brian Doyle, One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder
20. Art and Faith: A Theology of Making
By: Makoto Fujimura
4.29
Format: 167 pages, Hardcover
From a world-renowned painter, an exploration of creativity’s quintessential—and often overlooked—r… read more
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21. Aggressively Happy: A Realist's Guide to Believing in the Goodness of Life
By: Joy Marie Clarkson
4.43
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
This old world can be exhausting, despairing, and cynical. But you don't have to be. Instead, yo… read more
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22. Above Ground
By: Clint Smith
4.56
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more
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23. The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
By: Karen Swallow Prior
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Contemporary American evangelicalism is suffering from an identity crisis--and a lot of bad press. … read more
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"For Hardy and other critics of the evangelical movement, too often the desire for purity encouraged hypocrisy, earnest ideals became mere performance, and the valuation of hard work turned into pursu…"-Karen Swallow Prior, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
"The novel [ Pamela ] is also a very powerful early expression of the modern self, one who sees her soul as equal in human worth and dignity to anyone, regardless of social class or power--and this, t…"-Karen Swallow Prior, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
24. On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living
By: Alan Noble
4.33
Format: 108 pages, Hardcover
We aren't always honest about how difficult normal human life is. For the majority of people, sorro… read more
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25. Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion
By: Rebecca McLaughlin
4.32
Format: 239 pages, Hardcover
Although many people suggest that Christianity is declining, research indicates that it continues t… read more
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"Suffering is not an embarrassment to the Christian faith. It is the thread with which Christ's name is stitched into our lives."-Rebecca McLaughlin, Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion
26. Joy: 100 Poems
By: Christian Wiman
4.36
Format: 173 pages, Hardcover
One hundred of the most evocative modern poems on joy, selected by an award-winning contemporary po… read more
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27. Embracing Rhythms of Work and Rest: From Sabbath to Sabbatical and Back Again (Transforming Resources)
By: Ruth Haley Barton
4.36
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
In our frenzied culture, the possibility of living in balanced rhythms of work and rest often feels… read more
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28. The Lord Is My Courage: Stepping Through the Shadows of Fear Toward the Voice of Love
By: K.J. Ramsey
4.58
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Walking through Psalm 23 phrase by phrase, therapist and author K.J. Ramsey explores the landscape … read more
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29. This Beautiful Truth: How God's Goodness Breaks into Our Darkness
By: Sarah Clarkson
4.53
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
We live in a broken world. Amid the daily realities of sickness and isolation, disappointment and p… read more
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"The real risk to faith is not to wrestle..."-Sarah Clarkson, This Beautiful Truth: How God's Goodness Breaks into Our Darkness
30. A Quiet Mind to Suffer With: Mental Illness, Trauma, and the Death of Christ
By: John Andrew Bryant
4.54
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Publishers Weekly starred review “This is a stunning book, so rare and so beautiful. I cannot recom… read more
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31. Redeeming Vision: A Christian Guide to Looking at and Learning from Art
By: Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
We are formed by the images we view. From classical art to advertisements and from news photos to s… read more
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