The Scarlet Letter: A Guide to Reading and Reflecting (Read and Reflect with the Classics)
By: Karen Swallow Prior
4.16
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
Jane Eyre. Frankenstein. The Scarlet Letter. You’re familiar with these pillars of classic literatu…
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1. Pygmalion
By: George Bernard Shaw
3.89
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion was a rousing success on the London and Ne… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"What you are to do without me I cannot imagine."-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
"Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby"-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
"La vida no consiste en buscarse a sí mismo, sino en crearse a sí mismo"-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
"I'm willing to tell you. I'm wanting to tell you. I'm waiting to tell you."-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
2. The Moving Toyshop (Gervase Fen, #3)
By: Edmund Crispin
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Richard Cadogan's Oxford holiday turns into a mystery solving adventure full of dangerous twists an… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"What are you going to do with your self now?'... 'I? said Fen. 'I shall pursue my orderly and dignified progress towards the grave."-Edmund Crispin, The Moving Toyshop (Gervase Fen, #3)
3. Death of Jezebel (Inspector Cockrill #4)
By: Christianna Brand
3.55
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
At a medieval pageant, Inspector Cockrill investigates a dramatic death Ever since she drove her… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"But now the streets were not like the streets she knew. They were so silent: and so empty. On the doorsteps, little groups of milk bottles huddled with their dirty white collars, waiting for the roun…"-Christianna Brand, Death of Jezebel (Inspector Cockrill #4)
4. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
By: Elizabeth Taylor , Paul Bailey
4.00
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Librarian Note: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here On a rainy Sunday in Januar… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Abrió el libro, pero ninguna página parecía ser lo bastante potente para borrar la soledad que sentía."-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"La catastrofe de la vejez residía en no atreverse a ir a cualquier parte, en resignarse a perder la libertad"-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"If you don't praise people just sometimes a little early on they die of despair, or turn into Hitlers, you know?"-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"...pensaba en el amor y en sus espantosas desigualdades. Siempre hay alguien que ofrece la mejilla y otro que la besa."-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
5. The Wife (Kristin Lavransdatter, #2)
By: Tiina Nunnally , Sigrid Undset , Sherrill Harbison
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Original 3 Volumes: Kransen ('20), Husfrue ('21) & Korset ('22). In Kristin Lavransdatter(1920-22),… read more
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- classics
- fiction
6. The Cross (Kristin Lavransdatter, #3)
By: Tiina Nunnally , Sigrid Undset , Sherrill Harbison
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Kristin Lavransdatterinterweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of… read more
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- classics
- fiction
7. That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, #3)
By: C.S. Lewis
3.81
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C. S. Lewis's Spa… read more
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- classics
- fiction
8. The Summer Book
By: Tove Jansson , Esther Freud , Thomas Teal , Sophia Jansson
2.50
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away a summer together on a tiny island … read more
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- classics
- fiction
9. The Optimist's Daughter
By: Eudora Welty
3.98
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Optimist's Daughter is the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South a… read more
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- classics
- fiction
10. The Wreath (Kristin Lavransdatter, #1)
By: Tiina Nunnally , Sigrid Undset
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
Originally published in Norwegian in 1920 and set in fourteenth-century Norway, The Wreath chronicl… read more
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- classics
- fiction
11. A Canticle for Leibowitz
By: Walter M. Miller Jr.
3.39
Format: 414 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, po… read more
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- classics
- fiction
12. Surprised by Oxford
By: Carolyn Weber
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
A "girl-meets-God" style memoir of an agnostic who, through her surprising opportunity to study at … read more
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13. Strong Poison (Lord Peter Wimsey, #6)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
3.40
Format: 96 pages,
Mystery novelist Harriet Vane knew all about poisons, and when her fiance died in the manner prescr… read more
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14. The Diary of a Country Priest
By: Georges Bernanos , Remy Rougeau
3.67
Format: 499 pages, Paperback
In this classic Catholic novel, Bernanos movingly recounts the life of a young French country pries… read more
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15. Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
By: C.S. Lewis
3.93
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"The love of knowledge is a kind of madness."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
"There I drank life because death was in the pool. That was the best of drinks save one."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
"And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
16. The Franchise Affair (Inspector Alan Grant, #3)
By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
Robert Blair was about to knock off from a slow day at his law firm when the phone rang. It was Mar… read more
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17. My Name Is Asher Lev
By: Chaim Potok
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and believes in the Ribbono … read more
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18. Laurus
By: None , Lisa Hayden
4.17
Format: 510 pages, Hardcover
It is the late fifteenth century and a village healer in Russia is powerless to help his beloved as… read more
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19. Summer Lightning
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.06
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
The Honourable Galahad Threepwood has decided to write his memoir--a tell-all that could destroy po… read more
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20. The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
By: Anthony Trollope , David Skilton
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Warden centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in p… read more
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- classic literature
- classics
- fiction
"It is much less difficult for the sufferer to be generous than for the oppressor."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"... In what I do I may appear to be interfering with you, and I hope you will forgive me for doing so."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"He never quarreled with his wife, but he never talked to her;--he never had time to talk, he was so taken up with speaking."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"They say that faint heart never won fair lady. It is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts!"-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
21. Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
By: C.S. Lewis
4.00
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Pla… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Say a child’s prayer if you can’t say a man’s."-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
"It is not for nothing that you are named Ransom,"-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
"The joy came from finding at last what hatred was made for."-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
"About this time tomorrow, you will have done the impossible."-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
22. Everything Sad Is Untrue
By: Daniel Nayeri
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Da… read more
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- fiction
"Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
"I won't tell you about her yet, because sometimes love has to be kept secret. If other people find out, they will attack it."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
"Sometimes you just want somebody to look at a thing with you and say, "Yes. That is a thing you're looking at. You haven't lied to yourself."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
"Maybe there isn’t just one person designated for everybody. Maybe there’s a lot more to it---maybe you choose and you practice, and that’s what makes the love true."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
23. Post After Post-Mortem
By: E.C.R. Lorac
4.00
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
The Surrays and their five children form a prolific writing machine, with scores of treatises, revi… read more
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- fiction
24. The God of the Garden: Thoughts on Creation, Culture, and the Kingdom
By: Andrew Peterson
4.49
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
There’s a strong biblical connection between people and trees. They both come from dirt. They’re bo… read more
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25. Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making
By: Andrew Peterson
4.51
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Making something beautiful in a broken world can be harrowing work, and it can’t be done alone. O… read more
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"When we manage to make something pretty, it's only because we are ourselves a flourish on a greater canvas."-Andrew Peterson, Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making
"[T]he steady resonance of your work might move someone closer to the Kingdom—and compared to a human heart, planets are small potatoes."-Andrew Peterson, Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making
"There's no doubt in my mind that what's shaped me and my work more than any particular talent on my part has been living out a calling in the midst of a Christ-centered community."-Andrew Peterson, Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making
"Christian art, then, might be defined as a work that is, like Christ himself, full of grace and truth. Where we go wrong is when we tilt the scales away from grace, or beauty, or excellence, as if tr…"-Andrew Peterson, Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making
26. Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
By: Russ Ramsey
4.53
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
How do art and faith intersect? How does art help us see our own lives more clearly? What can we un… read more
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"The pattern in Scripture is that of God working through unlikely servants for the glory of his name and the spread of the gospel."-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
"The more we engage with beauty, the more we train our hearts to anticipate finding beauty, until eventually, everywhere we go, we're looking for it."-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
"Many artists took their easels and paints outside and captured what they saw. Vincent wanted to capture what he felt as he tried to remember what he saw."-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
"Vincent didn't see the world as a collection of plain, unaffected objects. He saw the unfolding drama of the human story, which to him was a heartbreaking tale."-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
27. The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams
By: Daniel Nayeri
3.96
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A new all-ages adventure tale from Printz Medal Winner, Daniel Nayeri This is the tale of an exciti… read more
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- fiction
"He had betrayed God and wanted to hide from him, the way children hide, sitting in the open and covering their eyes."-Daniel Nayeri, The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams
"To everyone we love we give a knife. The knife is shaped to pass through the bones of our chests like a key in a lock. Nothing else can cut our hearts so deeply."-Daniel Nayeri, The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams
"Wouldn't it be nice if love was always around us like life and death? Wouldn't it be nice if love was inevitable like the other two? That you could be sure you'd find someone to love and love you in …"-Daniel Nayeri, The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams
28. Ghosted: An American Story
By: Nancy French
4.45
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A riveting look inside a life of poverty, success, and the inner circles of political influence--fr… read more
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29. The Scarlet Letter: A Guide to Reading and Reflecting (Read and Reflect with the Classics)
By: Karen Swallow Prior
4.16
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
Jane Eyre. Frankenstein. The Scarlet Letter. You’re familiar with these pillars of classic literatu… read more
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- classics
- fiction
30. Jane Eyre: A Guide to Reading and Reflecting
By: Charlotte Brontë
4.77
Format: 760 pages, Hardcover
Jane Eyre. Frankenstein. The Scarlet Letter. You’re familiar with these pillars of classic literatu… read more
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- classics
- fiction
31. Frankenstein: A Guide to Reading and Reflecting
By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
4.40
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Jane Eyre. Frankenstein. The Scarlet Letter. You’re familiar with these pillars of classic literatu… read more
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