Borders and Belonging: The Book of Ruth: A story for our times
By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
4.47
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A leading poet and a theologian reflect on the Old Testament story of Ruth, a tale that resonates d…
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1. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
By: Ross Gay
4.25
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the se… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- spirituality
"...the mistake I say is a gift don’t be afraid see what it teaches you..."-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"I swore when I got into this poem I would convert this sorrow into some kind of honey with the little musics I can sometimes make with these scribbled artifacts of our desolation."-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"Of course she’s dead: Tina was her name, of leukemia: so I heard— why else would I try sadly to make music of her unremarkable kindness? I am trying, I think, to forgive myself for something I don’t …"-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"Don peered at me again with those sad eyes, or through me, or into me, the way my dead do sometimes, looking straight into their homes, which hopefully have flowers in a vase on a big wooden table, a…"-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
2. Code to Zero
By: Ken Follett
3.84
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A man wakes up to find himself lying on the ground in a railway station, his mind stripped bare of … read more
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"the war taught me that nothing counts as much as loyalty" "Bullshit. you still haven't learned that when humans are under pressure, we're all willing to lie" "even to the people we care?" "we lie mor…"-Ken Follett, Code to Zero
3. The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
By: Joe Barrett , Peter Enns
3.63
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
The controversial Bible scholar and author of The Evolution of Adamrecounts his transformative spir… read more
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- theology
- faith
- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
4. The Secret Chord
By: Geraldine Brooks
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Peeling away the myth to bring the Old Testament's King David to life in Second Iron Age Israel, Br… read more
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- religion
5. The Line Becomes A River
By: Francisco Cantú
3.87
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Every day, a ceaseless flow of men, women and children push their way north, in scorched summer hea… read more
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- nonfiction
6. The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
By: Helen Russell
4.10
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Denmark is officially the happiest nation on Earth. When Helen Russell is forced to move to rural J… read more
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- nonfiction
7. Letters from Father Christmas
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Baillie Tolkien
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R. Tolkien's ch… read more
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8. The Paying Guests
By: Sarah Waters
3.45
Format: 564 pages, Hardcover
It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned; the out-of-work and the hungry ar… read more
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"Marriages are like pianos. They go in and out of tune."-Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests
"As far as Frances was concerned, gardening was simply open-air housework."-Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests
"I'm sorry you aren't as brave as you thought you were. But don't punish me because of it."-Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests
"...why must people of that class always reveal so much of themselves? A few more minutes and she would have shown us her varicose veins."-Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests
9. Lies of Silence
By: Brian Moore
4.05
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
When Michael Dillon is ordered by the IRA to park his car in the carpark of a Belfast hotel, he is … read more
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10. The Dovekeepers
By: Alice Hoffman
4.11
Format: 40 pages,
Over five years in the writing, The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman's most ambitious and mesmerizing n… read more
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11. What Now?
By: Ann Patchett
4.67
Format: 107 pages, Hardcover
Based on her lauded commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College, this stirring essay by bestsell… read more
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12. Foster
By: Claire Keegan
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when s… read more
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13. House of Light
By: Mary Oliver
4.23
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
Winner of a 1991 Christopher Award Winner of the 1991 Boston GlobeLawrence L. Winship Book Award Th… read more
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14. The Art of Biblical Narrative
By: Robert Alter
3.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
In what is both a radical approach to the Bible, and a fundamental return to its narrative prose, R… read more
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15. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
By: David Brooks
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more
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- nonfiction
"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
16. Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
By: Rachel Held Evans
4.39
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
One Woman’s Journey Back to Loving the Bible If the Bible isn’t a science book or an instructio… read more
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- theology
- faith
- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
"How could I love God with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength while disengaging those very faculties every time I read the Bible?"-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
"The point is, if you pay attention to the women, a more complex history of Israel's conquests emerges. Their stories invite the reader to consider the human cost of violence and patriarchy, and in th…"-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
"In other words, the prophets are weirdos. More than anyone else in Scripture, they remind us that those odd ducks shouting from the margins of society may see things more clearly than the political a…"-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
"What I love about the Bible is that the story isn't over. There are still prophets in our midst. There are still dragons and beasts. It might not look like it, but the Resistance is winning. The ligh…"-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
17. Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
By: Susan Cain
3.98
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
In her new masterpiece, the author of the bestselling phenomenon Quiet reveals the power of a bitte… read more
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- nonfiction
- spirituality
"Everything that you love, you will eventually lose. But in the end, love will return in a different form."-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
"The place you suffer is the place you care. You hurt because you care. Therefore, the best response to pain is to dive deeper into your caring."-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
"The third answer is the most difficult one to grasp, but it's also the one that can save you. The love you lost, or the love you wished for and never had: That love exists eternally. It shifts its sh…"-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
18. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4.30
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more
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- faith
- religion
- nonfiction
- theology
19. The Great Divide
By: Cristina Henríquez
3.70
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived… read more
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"Ada had always believed that her mother, in rebuilding the house only three miles from where it had once been, had kept her world piteously small, but maybe what mattered, Ada thought as she gazed at…"-Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide
20. The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights
By: Bridget Collins
3.58
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Winter, with its unsettling blend of the cosy and the sinister, has long been a popular time for ga… read more
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21. 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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- faith
- religion
- nonfiction
- theology
"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
22. I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
By: Anne Bogel
4.02
Format: 156 pages, Hardcover
For so many people, reading isn't just a hobby or a way to pass the time--it's a lifestyle. Our boo… read more
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- nonfiction
"Just as I’m all the ages I have been, I’m all the readers I have been."-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
"For everyone who’s ever finished a book under the covers with a flashlight when they were supposed to be sleeping."-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
"A good book, when we return to it, will always have something new to say. It's not the same book, and we're not the same reader"-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
"With apologies to Kathleen Kelly, what I've come to learn is this: if my real life reminds me of something I read in a book , I'm reading well -- and I'm probably living well, too."-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
23. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
By: Fintan O'Toole
4.34
Format: 616 pages, Hardcover
A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more
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"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
24. Solito
By: Javier Zamora
4.48
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A young poet tells the story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at th… read more
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- nonfiction
"We nod, and I notice stars beginning to pop behind his head."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"Puedo sentir El Viaje en las plantas de mis pies. Lo veo en mis sueños."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"My chest like hummingbirds fighting for the hibiscus in Abuelita's garden."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"Mom to my left, Dad to my right, a mosquito net like a crown covering all of us."-Javier Zamora, Solito
25. This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
By: Cole Arthur Riley
4.63
Format: 203 pages, Hardcover
In her stunning debut, the creator of Black Liturgies weaves stories from three generations of her … read more
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- nonfiction
- spirituality
"Anxiety is not a passive predator."-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
"Rest is an act of defiance, and it cannot be predicated on apology."-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
"Those who believe love is a scarcity are less likely to give it away freely."-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
"In community, we can push back on the expectation that we exhaust ourselves."-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
26. Faith after Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do about It
By: Brian D. McLaren
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the author of A New Kind of Christianity comes a bold proposal: only doubt can save the world … read more
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- nonfiction
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27. Good Enough: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection
By: Kate Bowler
4.46
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A compassionate, intelligent, and wry series of Christian daily reflectio… read more
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- faith
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- nonfiction
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28. I, Julian
By: Claire Gilbert
4.27
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
'So I will write in English, pressing new words from this beautiful plain language spoken by all. N… read more
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29. Borders and Belonging: The Book of Ruth: A story for our times
By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
4.47
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A leading poet and a theologian reflect on the Old Testament story of Ruth, a tale that resonates d… read more
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- theology
- faith
- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
30. The Genius of Jesus: The Man Who Changed Everything
By: Erwin Raphael McManus
4.36
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking manifesto decoding the phenomenon of genius through the life of Jesus of Nazareth,… read more
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- faith
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- nonfiction
- spirituality
31. Quickly, While They Still Have Horses: Stories
By: Jan Carson
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Humorous and horrifying, tender and absurd, the stories in Quickly, While They Still Have Horses of… read more
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