Monastery Mornings: My Unusual Boyhood Among the Saints and Monks
By: Michael Patrick O'Brien
4.09
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A love letter to a community of Trappist monks who provided family when it was needed the most. T…
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1. Hunting Hour (Timber Creek K-9 Mystery, #3)
By: Margaret Mizushima
4.25
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
Deputy Mattie Cobb is working through issues from her past and has withdrawn from Cole Walker and h… read more
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2. Life and Holiness
By: Thomas Merton
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In this succinct and readily accessible work, Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk, offers compelling tho… read more
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3. Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
By: Kate Bowler
3.80
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
A divinity professor and young mother with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis explores the pain and joy of… read more
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"I was immediately worn out by the tyranny of prescriptive joy."-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
"I failed to love what was present and decided to love what was possible instead."-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
"They would find something simple and that would be the end of it. I'd just have to schedule my life around a surgery, nothing major."-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
"A lot of Christians like to remind me that heaven is my true home, which makes me want to ask them if they would like to go home first."-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
4. Death Comes for the Archbishop
By: Willa Cather
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
There is something epic--and almost mythic--about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, al… read more
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5. How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life
By: Massimo Pigliucci
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of How to Liveand How Proust Can Change Your Life, a philosopher asks how ancient … read more
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6. In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox
By: Carol Burnett
3.00
Format: 24 pages,
Comedy legend Carol Burnett tells the hilarious behind-the-scenes story of her iconic weekly variet… read more
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7. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
By: Margaret Renkl
4.37
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more
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8. Heart of the Matter: What 100 Years of Living Have Taught Me
By: Russell M. Nelson
4.87
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“The laws or truths I will share in this book are not merely ideas I have studied and examined; the… read more
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"Jesus Christ frequently expressed gratitude. Before raising Lazarus from the dead, before miraculously multiplying loaves and fishes, and before passing the cup to His disciples at the Last Supper, t…"-Russell M. Nelson, Heart of the Matter: What 100 Years of Living Have Taught Me
9. This is My Body: A Call to Eucharistic Revival
By: Robert Barron
4.35
Format: 100 pages, Kindle Edition
A recent Pew Forum survey revealed the startling statistic that 69% of Catholics do not believe in … read more
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10. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.71
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more
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11. Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did
By: John Mark Comer
4.63
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The author of the international bestseller The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry calls us to rediscover… read more
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12. A Cold Highland Wind (Lady Emily, #17)
By: Tasha Alexander
3.81
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this new installment of Tasha Alexander’s acclaimed Lady Emily series set in the wild Scottish h… read more
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13. When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
By: Ariana Neumann
4.33
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czecho… read more
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"If you want to be truly just in this life, when you see people who are weak, you must stand with them. Because you are strong, and it is the weak who need you more, not the strong."-Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
"Memories, like misfiled documents, are not always where you expect to find them...I learned that detailed questions often did little to trigger specific memories. People returned to distant facts in …"-Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
"Perhaps all remembrance is a process of compilation and creation. Every day we absorb what is around us and assemble observations of a specific time: sounds, smells, textures, words, images, and feel…"-Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
"…it was during a period he had so much time on his hands that he felt that time had stopped. How could time have stopped? ‘Because,’ he said, ‘and you will understand this when you are older, sometim…"-Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
14. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
By: Sarah McCammon
4.21
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more
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15. The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis
By: George Stephanopoulos
4.45
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor… read more
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16. Wild and Distant Seas
By: Tara Karr Roberts
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A gorgeous debut, laced through with magic, following four generations of women as they seek to cha… read more
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17. Tree. Table. Book.
By: Lois Lowry
4.39
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Everyone knows the two Sophies are best friends. One is in elementary school, and one is . . . well… read more
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18. The Stolen Book of Evelyn Aubrey
By: Serena Burdick
3.75
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
What if you could write a new ending for yourself? England, 1898. When Evelyn first married the fa… read more
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19. 100 Places to See After You Die: A Travel Guide to the Afterlife
By: Ken Jennings
3.30
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author and legendary Jeopardy! host and champion Ken Jennings comes… read more
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20. Band of Sisters
By: Lauren Willig
4.07
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A group of young women from Smith College risk their lives in France at the height of World War I i… read more
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21. Striking Range (Timber Creek K-9 Mystery, #7)
By: Margaret Mizushima
4.36
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
A deadly secret is buried in the Colorado high country--and murder is only the beginning in the sev… read more
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22. Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.
By: Sy Montgomery
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and New York Times bestseller Sy Montgome… read more
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"Never give up on a turtle. Because turtles never give up."-Sy Montgomery, Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.
23. Standing Dead (Timber Creek K-9 Mystery, #8)
By: Margaret Mizushima
4.26
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Deputy Mattie Cobb and her sister, Julia, travel to Mexico to visit their mother, but when they arr… read more
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24. Jesus I Trust in You: A 30-Day Personal Retreat with the Litany of Trust
By: Faustina Maria Pia
4.83
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
We were made for love, and love requires trust. In Jesus I Trust in A 30-Day Personal Retreat Base… read more
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25. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
By: Kevin Fedarko
4.36
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more
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"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
26. Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus: Beginnings (The Lily Singer Adventures, #1)
By: Lydia Sherrer
3.69
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
Alternate cover edition for B01DB5ITIK Saving the world is such a bother when it makes you late … read more
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27. Tracking Game (Timber Creek K-9 Mystery, #5)
By: Margaret Mizushima
4.18
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
Two brutal murders, a menacing band of poachers, and a fearsome creature on the loose in the mounta… read more
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28. Hanging Falls (Timber Creek K-9 Mystery, #6)
By: Margaret Mizushima
4.27
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
WILLA Literary Award for Fiction, Contemporary Fiction Silver IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards, Myst… read more
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29. Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
By: Rose George
3.83
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening exploration of blood, the lifegiving substance with the power of taboo, the value of… read more
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"There is nothing like it. It is stardust and the sea. The iron in our blood comes from the death of supernovas, like all iron on our planet.5 This bright red liquid—brighter in the arteries, when it …"-Rose George, Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
"She squints into the distance, this young woman who looks strong but who statistics say is still too vulnerable to violence and abuse and infection. I want her to triumph because she deserves to. I k…"-Rose George, Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
30. In Praise of the Useless Life: A Monk’s Memoir
By: Paul Quenon
4.04
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Winner of two 2019 Catholic Press Association Awards: Memoir (First Place) and Cover Design (Second… read more
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31. Monastery Mornings: My Unusual Boyhood Among the Saints and Monks
By: Michael Patrick O'Brien
4.09
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A love letter to a community of Trappist monks who provided family when it was needed the most. T… read more
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