Defending Boyhood: How Building Forts, Reading Stories, Playing Ball, and Praying to God Can Change the World
By: Anthony Esolen
4.21
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
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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. When We Were Very Young (Winnie-the-Pooh, #3)
By: Ernest H. Shepard , A.A. Milne
4.24
Format: 100 pages, Hardcover
“They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace – Christopher Robin went down with Alice.” Curl up wit… read more
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"She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: "Winter is dead."-Ernest H. Shepard, When We Were Very Young (Winnie-the-Pooh, #3)
"If you were a cloud, and sailed up there, You'd sail on the water as blue as air. And you'd see me here in the fields and say: "Doesn't the sky look green today?"-Ernest H. Shepard, When We Were Very Young (Winnie-the-Pooh, #3)
"If you were a bird, and lived on high, You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, You'd say to the wind when it took you away: "That's where I wanted to go today!"-Ernest H. Shepard, When We Were Very Young (Winnie-the-Pooh, #3)
"Daffodowndilly She wore her yellow sun-bonnet, She wore her greenest gown; She turned to the south wind And curtsied up and down. She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered t…"-Ernest H. Shepard, When We Were Very Young (Winnie-the-Pooh, #3)
3. The Monster in the Hollows (The Wingfeather Saga, #3)
By: Andrew Peterson , Justin Gerard
4.69
Format: 348 pages, Paperback
Book Three of The Wingfeather Saga Janner Wingfeather's father was the High King of Anniera. But h… read more
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"Sorry, lass. Ye have to seize the teachable moments, you know. Carry on."-Andrew Peterson, The Monster in the Hollows (The Wingfeather Saga, #3)
"Gnag bends things for breaking, and the Maker makes a flourish! Evil digs a pit, and the Maker makes a well! That is his way."-Andrew Peterson, The Monster in the Hollows (The Wingfeather Saga, #3)
"He means to make his subjects merciful and wise; sorrow and struggle bringeth both. We will, he tells me, grow by grieving, live by dying, love by losing. The heart itself is the field of battle and …"-Andrew Peterson, The Monster in the Hollows (The Wingfeather Saga, #3)
"I'll put her in charge of the puppies. I've twelve this week that need tending. How does that suit you?" Leeli's mouth hung open. She tried to say something but instead crumpled to the floor. She had…"-Andrew Peterson, The Monster in the Hollows (The Wingfeather Saga, #3)
4. Now We Are Six (Winnie-the-Pooh, #4)
By: Ernest H. Shepard , A.A. Milne
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When We Were Very Youngand Now We Are Sixcomplete the four-volume set of deluxe editions of the Mil… read more
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5. Eve in Exile and the Restoration of Femininity
By: Rebekah Merkle
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
The swooning Victorian ladies and the 1950s housewives genuinely needed to be liberated. That much … read more
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- theology
6. 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
7. God Rest Ye Merry: Why Christmas Is the Foundation for Everything
By: Douglas Wilson
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The repetition of Christmas traditions can appear to dull the powerful nature of the holiday. God R… read more
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8. On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (The Wingfeather Saga, #1)
By: Andrew Peterson
4.33
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Once, in a cottage above the cliffs on the Dark Sea of Darkness, there lived three children and the… read more
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"Even if hope is just a low ember at night, in the morning you can still start a fire."-Andrew Peterson, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (The Wingfeather Saga, #1)
"Esben Igiby was seeping into Janner’s thoughts, and there was no way to seal the leak."-Andrew Peterson, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (The Wingfeather Saga, #1)
"But other than the cruel fangs and the constant threat of death and torture, there wasn't much to fear in Skree."-Andrew Peterson, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (The Wingfeather Saga, #1)
"There's just something about the way he sings. It makes me think of when it snows outside, and the fire is warm, and Podo is telling us a story while you're cooking, and there's no place I'd rather b…"-Andrew Peterson, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (The Wingfeather Saga, #1)
9. The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness
By: Harlow Giles Unger
3.81
Format: 336 pages,
Founding Father James Monroe (1751-1831) long outlived the birth of the country and became so rever… read more
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10. Mother Angelica: The Remarkable Story of a Nun, Her Nerve, and a Network of Miracles
By: Raymond Arroyo
3.67
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
In 1981, a simple nun, using merely her entrepreneurial instincts and $200, launched what would bec… read more
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11. On the Incarnation
By: C.S. Lewis , Athanasius of Alexandria , None
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
A universally acknowledged masterpiece of fourth-century patristic theology. As C. S. Lewis observe… read more
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12. Detectives in Togas
By: Richard Winston , Clara Winston , Henry Winterfeld , Charlotte Kleinert
3.33
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
In these two delightful history-mysteries, seven boys in Ancient Rome solve strange crimes . . . th… read more
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13. 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)
14. For the Children's Sake
By: Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
4.44
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Every parent and teacher wants to give their children the best education possible. Everyone would l… read more
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- family
- education
"Pupils whose foundations have been deeply laid on books and things, using narration to lock their knowledge in place, and who learn not for marks and prizes but because learning is its own reward... …"-Susan Schaeffer Macaulay, For the Children's Sake
"No parent/home/child/teacher/school has an all-round 100 percent wholeness. We all have limitations and problems. But I must never think it is all or nothing. Perhaps I'd like to live in the country,…"-Susan Schaeffer Macaulay, For the Children's Sake
15. 100 Cupboards (100 Cupboards, #1)
By: N.D. Wilson
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
Twelve-year-old Henry York is going to sleep one night when he hears a bump on the attic wall above… read more
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16. The Abolition of Man
By: C.S. Lewis
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0060652944 The Abolition of Man, Lewis uses his graceful prose, del… read more
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17. Jayber Crow
By: Wendell Berry
3.95
Format: 253 pages,
From the simple setting of his own barber shop, Jayber Crow, orphan, seminarian, and native of Port… read more
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18. The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution
By: Carl R. Trueman
4.57
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Modern culture is obsessed with identity. Since the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court … read more
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"[I]n the work of the New Left one finds philosophical justification for what are now intuitive commonplaces of our culture: to be free is to be sexually liberated; to be happy is to be affirmed in th…"-Carl R. Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution
"The expressive individual is now the sexually expressive individual. And education and socialization are to be marked not by the cultivation of traditional sexual interdicts and taboos but rather by …"-Carl R. Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution
19. The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind
By: Jason M. Baxter
4.51
Format: None pages, Audio CD
C. S. Lewis had one of the great minds of the twentieth century. Many readers know Lewis as an auth… read more
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- religion
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20. Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents
By: Rod Dreher
4.36
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Benedict Option draws on the wisdom of Christian survi… read more
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21. Leadership and Emotional Sabotage: Resisting the Anxiety That Will Wreck Your Family, Destroy Your Church, and Ruin the World
By: Joe Rigney
4.54
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
Who are you when the teeth come out? For every true act of leadership, there is an equal and mo… read more
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"The Scriptures regularly use the metaphor of a body to speak about human social life. The church is the body of Christ, with many members (1 Cor. 12). Marriage is a “one flesh"-Joe Rigney, Leadership and Emotional Sabotage: Resisting the Anxiety That Will Wreck Your Family, Destroy Your Church, and Ruin the World
22. The Boniface Option: A Strategy For Christian Counteroffensive in a Post-Christian Nation
By: Andrew Isker
4.43
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
The nationally bestselling team from the widely popular book Christian Nationalism: A Biblical Guid… read more
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23. The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties
By: Christopher Caldwell
4.03
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A major American intellectual makes the historical case that the reforms of the 1960s, reforms inte… read more
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24. Covenants Made Simple: Understanding God's Unfolding Promises to His People
By: Jonty Rhodes
4.41
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
What do the various covenants given throughout the Bible mean to us? Are they relevant to our lives… read more
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25. The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It
By: Warren Farrell
3.91
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
What is the boy crisis?It's a crisis of education. For the first time in American history, our sons… read more
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26. The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class
By: Joel Kotkin
3.61
Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition
Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably ret… read more
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27. Defending Boyhood: How Building Forts, Reading Stories, Playing Ball, and Praying to God Can Change the World
By: Anthony Esolen
4.21
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
Western civilization has no more eloquent defender than Anthony Esolen, a man who has counted the c… read more
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- catholic
- education
28. The People's Justice: Clarence Thomas and the Constitutional Stories that Define Him
By: Amul Thapar
4.17
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"Amul Thapar has done what even gifted law professors and professional 'Court watchers' often fail … read more
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29. Shakespeare the Puritan
By: Douglas Wilson
4.15
Format: None pages, Audiobook
What do a Puritan tract writer and the world's greatest playwright have in common? Douglas Wilson t… read more
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30. The Heart of Culture: A Brief History of Western Education
By: Habiger Institute for Catholic Leadership
4.61
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
The Heart of Culture is a succinctly substantive history of Western education and a profound witnes… read more
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31. Christmas Spirit: The Joyous Stories, Carols, Feasts, and Traditions of the Season
By: Gregory Wilbur
4.39
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
From the origins of jingle bells and mistletoe to recipes for delicious Christmas treats, this is a… read more
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