This War Is the Passion
By: Caryll Houselander
4.43
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1941, this book by the renowned British mystic and spiritual writer Caryll …
Want to Read"Christ asks for a home in your soul, where he can be at rest with you, where he can talk easily to you, where you and he, alone together, can laugh and be silent and be delighted with one another."-Caryll Houselander, This War Is the Passion
"Christ asks for a home in your soul, where he can be at rest with you, where he can talk easily to you, where you and he, alone together, can laugh and be silent and be delighted with one another."-Caryll Houselander, This War Is the Passion
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1. A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph
By: C.S. Lewis , Sheldon Vanauken
4.27
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A heart-rending love story described by its author as “the spiritual autobiography of a love rather… read more
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"Death is no respecter of love."-C.S. Lewis, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph
"Corruption is never compulsory."-C.S. Lewis, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph
"Honesty is better than any easy comfort."-C.S. Lewis, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph
"A longing for eternity is built-in to us all"-C.S. Lewis, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph
2. What's Wrong with the World
By: G.K. Chesterton
4.04
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In the aptly titled treatise What's Wrong With the World , one of the twentieth century's most memo… read more
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"A head can be beaten small enough until it fits the hat."-G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
"Our political vagueness divides men, it does not fuse them."-G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
"This cult of the future is not only a weakness but a cowardice of the age."-G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
"Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste."-G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
3. Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart
By: Jacques Philippe
4.74
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
This classic work is a short treatise on peace of heart in a world where restlessness and anxiety t… read more
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"Evil is a mystery, a scandal and it will always be so."-Jacques Philippe, Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart
"The sign of spiritual progress is not so much never falling as it is being able to lift oneself up quickly after one falls."-Jacques Philippe, Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart
"In order to resist fear and discouragement, it is necessary that through prayer - through a personal experience of God re-encountered, recognized and loved in prayer - we taste and see how good the L…"-Jacques Philippe, Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart
"The Lord can leave us wanting relative to certain things (sometimes judged indispensable in the eyes of the world), but He never leaves us deprived of what is essential: His presence, His peace and a…"-Jacques Philippe, Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart
4. Letters to a Young Poet
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell
4.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more
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"Everything is gestation and then birthing."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
5. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
By: Muriel Spark
3.70
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorit… read more
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"It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
6. 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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7. Upstream: Selected Essays
By: Mary Oliver
2.43
Format: None pages,
Comprising a selection of essays, Upstreamfinds beloved poet Mary Oliver reflecting on her astonish… read more
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8. The Divine Comedy
By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum
4.29
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more
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9. The Great Divorce
By: C.S. Lewis
4.31
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0-00-746123-3 C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is a classic Christi… read more
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"Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?"-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
"Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good."-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
"There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him."-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
"I cannot love a lie," said the Lady. "I cannot love the thing which is not. I am in Love, and out of it I will not go."-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
10. 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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11. The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)
By: Mary Doria Russell
3.77
Format: None pages,
In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico… read more
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12. The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection (Cistercian studies 59)
By: Benedicta Ward , Anthony of Sourozh
4.05
Format: None pages, Paperback
`Give me a word, Father', visitors to early desert monks asked. The responses of these pioneer asce… read more
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13. The Pastor: A Memoir
By: Eugene H. Peterson
4.23
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
In The Pastor, author Eugene Peterson, translator of the multimillion-selling The Message, tells th… read more
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14. 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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"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)
15. 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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16. Saint Thomas Aquinas
By: G.K. Chesterton , Anton C. Pegis
4.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
G.K. Chesterton's brilliant sketch of the life and thought of Thomas Aquinas is as relevant today a… read more
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17. The Portrait of a Lady
By: Henry James , Patricia Crick
3.79
Format: 797 pages, Paperback
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more
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"She has only one fault; too many ideas."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
18. Middlemarch
By: Michel Faber , George Eliot
4.02
Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more
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"After all, the true seeing is within."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I protest against any absolute conclusion."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
19. Far from the Madding Crowd
By: Thomas Hardy , Rosemarie Morgan , Shannon Russell
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Independent and spirited Bathsh… read more
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20. 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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"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)
21. A Grief Observed
By: C.S. Lewis
4.22
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Written with love, humility, and faith, this brief but poignant volume was first published in 1961 … read more
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"Time itself is one more name for death."-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
"The death of a beloved is an amputation."-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
"I need Christ, not something that resembles Him."-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
22. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more
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"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
23. Tolkien's Faith: A Spiritual Biography
By: Holly Ordway
4.67
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
Tolkien described The Lord of the Rings as “a fundamentally religious and Catholic work” and declar… read more
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24. The Exiles
By: Christina Baker Kline
4.15
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Orphan Train returns with an ambitious, emotionally … read more
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"A trick to play in your mind when your troubled. You think of yourself as a tree, with all the rings inside. And every ring is someone you care about, or a place you’ve been. You carry them with you …"-Christina Baker Kline, The Exiles
"This is why we can’t leave the making of laws to men. They result in travesties of injustice that unfairly burden the poor. And women. Those high and mighty aristocrats, in their black robes and powd…"-Christina Baker Kline, The Exiles
25. Washington's Gay General: The Legends and Loves of Baron von Steuben
By: Josh Trujillo
4.03
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A graphic novel biography of Baron von Steuben, the soldier, immigrant, and flamboyant homosexual w… read more
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26. Reading Genesis
By: Marilynne Robinson
4.10
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book… read more
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27. Luminaries: Twenty Lives That Illuminate the Christian Way
By: Rowan Williams
4.24
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Starting in the first century with Saint Paul and ending in the twentieth with St Oscar Romero, Row… read more
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28. Big Queer Nun: A Memoir
By: Shane Phelan
4.50
Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition
How many lives can one person live? Shane Phelan has stopped counting. Big Queer Nun is a powerful … read more
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29. This War Is the Passion
By: Caryll Houselander
4.43
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1941, this book by the renowned British mystic and spiritual writer Caryll … read more
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"Christ asks for a home in your soul, where he can be at rest with you, where he can talk easily to you, where you and he, alone together, can laugh and be silent and be delighted with one another."-Caryll Houselander, This War Is the Passion
30. John Cassian: The Institutes
By: John Cassian
4.28
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The first written work of John Cassian in which he shares the wisdom of Egyptian monasticism, espec… read more
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31. Pioneers of Modern Spirituality: The Neglected Anglican Innovators of a 'Spiritual but Not Religious' Age
By: Jane Shaw
4.17
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Many people today think of themselves as 'spiritual but not religious'. What riches and resources d… read more
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