Our Lives in His Hands: An Ordinary Couple's Path to Holiness
By: Olga Emily Marlin
4.57
Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition
One of the young men who accompanied St. Josemaría Escrivá on his escape to freedom during the Span…
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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. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
By: Annie Dillard
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons—a personal narrative highlighting one year's e… read more
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"Innocence is a better world."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
"The creatures I seek do not want to be seen."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
"I never saw a tree that was no tree in particular."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
"I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
3. On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)
By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams
4.22
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on the pra… read more
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"Mary was too scared to move. Laura was too scared to stand to still."-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)
"Snow as fine and grainy as sugar covered the windows in and sifted off to the floor and did not melt."-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)
"When gloomy clouds across the sky Cast shadows o'er the land, Bright rays of hope illumine my path, For Jesus holds my hand."-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)
"All day the storm lasted. The windows were white and the wind never stopped howling and screaming. It was pleasant in the warm house. Laura and Mary did their lessons, then Pa played the fiddle while…"-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)
4. Our Lady of Kibeho: Mary Speaks to the World from the Heart of Africa
By: Immaculée Ilibagiza
4.54
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
Thirteen years before the bloody 1994 genocide that swept across Rwanda and left more than a millio… read more
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"Never refuse any who ask you for help; if your pockets are empty, give them hope. Your every action must be born of kindness, your every word spoken with love. Live as God would have you live, and ot…"-Immaculée Ilibagiza, Our Lady of Kibeho: Mary Speaks to the World from the Heart of Africa
5. 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
6. The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer
By: Harvey Karp
3.72
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
In perhaps the most important parenting book of the decade, Dr. Harvey Karp reveals an extraordinar… read more
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7. I Believe in Love: A Personal Retreat Based on the Teaching of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
By: None , Jean du Coeur de Jésus d'Elbée
4.65
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
A personal retreat based on St. Therese of Lisieux. A wondrous distillation of the teachings of St.… read more
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"How can we not ask at every turn, 'What is going to happen? How will this turn out?' The main thing is not to consent consciously to anxiety or a troubled mind. The moment you realize you are worryin…"-None, I Believe in Love: A Personal Retreat Based on the Teaching of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
"I assure you, we are bathed in love and mercy. We each have a Father, a Brother, a Friend, a Spouse of our soul, Center and King of our hearts, Redeemer and Savior; bent down over us, over our weakne…"-None, I Believe in Love: A Personal Retreat Based on the Teaching of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
"Then keep your confidence in the infinite mercy of the Savior. Say, like one mother I know who was distressed by the conduct of her children, 'Jesus, You love them too much not to save them.' Thank H…"-None, I Believe in Love: A Personal Retreat Based on the Teaching of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
"I have often thought, during these conferences, about the comment that Maurice Maignan, one of the first companions of Ozanam, made after a retreat: "One thought strikes me. All the means of sanctifi…"-None, I Believe in Love: A Personal Retreat Based on the Teaching of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
8. Sweet Sleep: Nighttime and Naptime Strategies for the Breastfeeding Family
By: Diana West , La Leche League International , Diane Wiessinger , Linda J. Smith , Teresa Pitman
4.00
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
Sweet Sleepis the first and most complete book on nights and naps for breastfeeding families. It's … read more
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9. Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
By: Abby Craden , Pamela Druckerman
4.02
Format: 10 pages, Audiobook
The secret behind France's astonishingly well-behaved children. When American journalist Pamela Dr… read more
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"You don’t say, “I’m sorry,"-Abby Craden, Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
"Letting children “live their lives"-Abby Craden, Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
"...the main point of parental authority is to authorize children to do things, not to block them."-Abby Craden, Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
"One day I have a revelation. ‘I think we’re actually quite compatible,’ I tell him. ‘You’re irritable, and I’m irritating."-Abby Craden, Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
10. True Grit
By: Charles Portis
3.20
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more
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11. Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism
By: Kimberly Hahn , Scott Hahn , Peter Kreeft
4.40
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
The well-known and very popular Catholic couple, Scott and Kimberly Hahn, have been constantly trav… read more
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- catholic
12. Happy Are You Poor: The Simple Life and Spiritual Freedom
By: Thomas Dubay
4.21
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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13. By the Shores of Silver Lake (Little House, #5)
By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams
3.61
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
Laura and her family are head to the Dakota Territory for a chance to own their own land--and stop … read more
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14. The Long Winter (Little House, #6)
By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams
4.17
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
On the empty winter prairie, gray clouds to the northwest meant only one thing: a blizzard was seco… read more
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"Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em."-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)
"These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em."-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)
"Beyond them the darkness was like a mist thickening over a flat, white world. Stars twinkled far away around part of its rim. Before him, the black storm climbed rapidly up the sky and in silence des…"-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)
"Laura said faintly, 'I thought God takes care of us.' 'He does,' Pa said, 'so far as we do what's right. And He gives us a conscience and brains to know what's right. But He leaves it to us to do as …"-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)
15. Peace Like a River
By: Leif Enger
4.09
Format: 315 pages,
Once in a great while, we encounter a novel in our voluminous reading that begs to be read aloud. L… read more
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16. A Spirituality of Fundraising
By: Henri J.M. Nouwen , John S. Mogabgab
4.27
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
A succinct and powerful witness that fundraising is a form of ministry and can be a deeply spiritua… read more
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17. He Leadeth Me
By: Walter J. Ciszek , Daniel L. Flaherty , Walter Ciszek
4.63
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
He Leadeth Me is the deeply moving personal story of one man's spiritual odyssey and the unflagging… read more
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- catholic
"Solo puedo describir la experiencia de conversión como una sensación de «dejarse llevar», de renunciar a todo esfuerzo o incluso a mi deseo de tomar las riendas de mi propia vida. Aunque suene demasi…"-Walter J. Ciszek, He Leadeth Me
"La humildad significa eso: aprender a aceptar el desánimo e incluso la derrota como enviados por Dios; aprender a perseverar y seguir adelante con el corazón en paz y confiando en Dios, seguros de qu…"-Walter J. Ciszek, He Leadeth Me
"Durante esos largos de años de soledad y sufrimiento, Dios me condujo a una comprensión de la vida y de su amor que solo quienes la han experimentado son capaces de entender. Me despojó de muchos de …"-Walter J. Ciszek, He Leadeth Me
"Quizá Dios tenga que recordarnos con tremenda claridad que eso es exactamente lo que quería decirnos con esas palabras aparentemente tan simples del Sermón de la Montaña: «No estéis preocupados por v…"-Walter J. Ciszek, He Leadeth Me
18. Hinds' Feet on High Places
By: Hannah Hurnard
3.67
Format: 220 pages,
Hinds' Feet on High Placesis one of Hannah Hurnard's best known and best loved books. This book is … read more
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19. The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding
By: La Leche League International , None
3.17
Format: None pages,
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20. The Ghost Keeper
By: Natalie Morrill
3.74
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Winner of the HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction, this powerful, sweeping novel set in Vi… read more
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21. Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary: Unveiling the Mother of the Messiah
By: Brant Pitre
4.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"Brant Pitre is one of the most compelling theological writers on the scene today." - Bishop Robert… read more
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22. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.00
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more
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"Here my last love had died."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"No one is ever holy without suffering."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"I had been there before; I knew all about it."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
23. The Gospel Comes with a House Key
By: Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
4.31
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
What did God use to draw a radical, committed unbeliever to himself? Did God take her to an evangel… read more
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24. The Four Loves
By: C.S. Lewis
4.17
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A repackaged edition of the revered author's classic work that examines the four types of human lov… read more
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"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date."-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"To know that one is dreaming is to be no longer perfectly asleep."-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"El amor empieza a ser un demonio desde el momento en que comienza a ser un dios."-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often."-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
25. Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans
By: Michaeleen Doucleff
4.15
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
When Dr. Michaeleen Doucleff becomes a mother, she examines the studies behind modern parenting gui… read more
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26. Summa Domestica: Order and Wonder in Family Life Vol. 2 - Education(Summa Domestica, #2)
By: Leila Lawler
4.59
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
Most wives possess a deep, existential intuition that they bear primary responsibility for creating… read more
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27. Summa Domestica: Order and Wonder in Family Life Vol. 1 - Home Culture (Summa Domestica, #1)
By: Leila Lawler
4.65
Format: 521 pages, Hardcover
Most wives possess a deep, existential intuition that they bear primary responsibility for creating… read more
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28. Summa Domestica: Order and Wonder in Family Live Vol. 3 - Housekeeping (Summa Domestica, #3)
By: Leila Lawler
4.61
Format: 418 pages, Hardcover
Most wives possess a deep, existential intuition that they bear primary responsibility for creating… read more
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29. Our Lives in His Hands: An Ordinary Couple's Path to Holiness
By: Olga Emily Marlin
4.57
Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition
One of the young men who accompanied St. Josemaría Escrivá on his escape to freedom during the Span… read more
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30. When You Pray: Trust, Surrender, and the Transformation of Your Soul
By: Edward Sri
4.70
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
You know prayer is important, but you still find it challenging. Perhaps it’s hard to find time to … read more
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31. Living the Good Life: A Beginner's Thomistic Ethics
By: Steven J. Jensen
4.17
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Living the Good Life presents a brief introduction to virtue and vice, self-control and weakness, m… read more
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