The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had
By: Susan Wise Bauer
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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1. St. Francis of Assisi
By: G.K. Chesterton , Joseph F. Girzone
3.94
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Francis of Assisi is, after Mary of Nazareth, perhaps the greatest saint in the Christian calendar,… read more
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- nonfiction
"The moment sex ceases to be a servant it becomes a tyrant."-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi
"The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god."-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi
"The modern mind is hard to please; and it generally calls the way of Godfrey ferocious and the way of Francis fanatical. That is, it calls any moral method unpractical, when it has just called any pr…"-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi
"I beseech you, little brothers, that you be as wise as brother Daisy and brother dandelion; for never do they lie awake thinking of tomorrow, yet they have gold crowns like kings and emperors or like…"-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi
2. Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
By: John Taylor Gatto
4.15
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
A highly praised bestseller for over a decade, Dumbing Us Down is a radical treatise on public educ… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"… nothing important can ever really be boring."-John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
"As redes operacionais tornam as pessoas solitárias."-John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
"I assign a type of extended schooling called “homework,"-John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
"Networks like schools are not communities, just as school training is not education."-John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
3. 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
"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)
4. 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
"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)
5. The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had
By: Susan Wise Bauer
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Have you lost the art of reading for pleasure? Are there books you know you should read but haven't… read more
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- classics
- literature
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- reference
- books about books
- self help
6. The Lost Tools of Learning
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
3.62
Format: 128 pages, ebook
In 1947, Dorothy Sayers first delivered this speech at Oxford University. It has since been republi… read more
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- philosophy
- classics
- nonfiction
7. Standing on the Promises
By: Douglas Wilson
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
As parents, our greatest calling is the raising of our children in the nurture and admonition of th… read more
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- nonfiction
8. Parnassus on Wheels
By: Christopher Morley
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
"I warn you," said the funny-looking little man with the red beard, "I'm here to sell this caravan … read more
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- classics
- books about books
9. When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II
By: Molly Guptill Manning
3.42
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When America entered World War II in 1941, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned over 100 mi… read more
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- books about books
10. Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace
By: Sarah Mackenzie
3.81
Format: 225 pages, ebook
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- nonfiction
- self help
11. The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
By: Harold Bloom
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Literary critic Harold Bloom's The Western Canonis more than a required reading list-it is a vision… read more
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12. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
By: Mortimer J. Adler , Charles van Doren
3.98
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. I… read more
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- self help
"In short, we can only learn from our "betters"."-Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
"A good rule always describes the ideal performance."-Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
"The mind can atrophy, like the muscles, if it is not used."-Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."-Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
13. Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World
By: David Denby
3.17
Format: 120 pages,
As September rolls around, do you find yourself longing to go back to school despite the fact that … read more
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14. Bright Line Eating: The Science of Living Happy, Thin & Free
By: Susan Peirce Thompson
3.97
Format: 480 pages,
Bright Line Eating has helped thousands of people from over 75 countries lose all their excess weig… read more
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15. Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age
By: Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
4.54
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling Author Rosaria Butterfield Confronts 5 Cultural Lies She Once Believed Modern culture i… read more
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- nonfiction
16. M Is for Mama: A Rebellion Against Mediocre Motherhood
By: Abbie Halberstadt
4.53
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY BESTSELLER Mama of ten Abbie Halberstadt helps women humbly and gracefully ri… read more
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- self help
17. Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
By: Sarah Bakewell
4.03
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years o… read more
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- nonfiction
18. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
By: Abigail Shrier
4.06
Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition
In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous g… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
"Children’s and adolescents’ sense of self is still developing. They cannot correct the interpretations or recommendations of a therapist."-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
"When I agreed with my therapist, I told her so. When I didn’t, we talked about that. And when I felt I needed to move on, I did. Which is to say: I was an adult in therapy. I had swum life’s choppy w…"-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
19. The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life
By: Julie Bogart
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A joyful and accessible approach to homeschooling that harnesses children's natural curiosity and m… read more
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- self help
"A lifestyle of learning begins at home - with parents who create a context that is welcoming of children as they are and that offers them happy experiences, accessible tools, and parental involvement."-Julie Bogart, The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life
"If you send a child to therapy before you've been for yourself, the child rightly discerns that you consider the child the problem. If, however, you've used therapy in your life before asking your ch…"-Julie Bogart, The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life
"On some intuitive level, I knew that learning had to be more than the mastery of facts. I've experienced it as an adult. I become consumed with a subject like quilting or preparing yogurt cultures, a…"-Julie Bogart, The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life
20. The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
By: Meghan Cox Gurdon
4.30
Format: 304 pages, ebook
A Wall Street Journal writer’s conversation-changing look at how reading aloud makes adults and chi… read more
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- books about books
- self help
"Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but the eye itself can be coaxed, informed, and persuaded."-Meghan Cox Gurdon, The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
"There are times when dreams sustain us more than facts. To read a book and surrender to a story is to keep our very humanity alive."-Meghan Cox Gurdon, The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
"By setting aside time every day, we can leave the pixelated wilds and rest at least for a little while in a place of unplugged, authentic human connection."-Meghan Cox Gurdon, The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
"Wherever young people are growing up, they deserve to know what went into the making of their world. They have a right to be free to enjoy the richness that history and culture have bequeathed them."-Meghan Cox Gurdon, The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
21. Light Changes Everything
By: Nancy E. Turner
4.11
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
“I adored stepping back into to the world of the Prines through tough-as-rawhide Mary Pearl. Light … read more
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