5 must-read biography books like To Raise the Fallen by William Joseph Gabriel Doyle

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To Raise the Fallen

By: William Joseph Gabriel Doyle

4.77

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

‘Father Doyle was one of the best priests I have ever met, and one of the bravest men who ever foug…

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1. Robinson Crusoe

By: Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three dec… read more

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"For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first. "

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

"On a horse? I was married on a horse? Gillian looked like she could kill the groom"

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

"All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them."

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

"for me to think of such a voyage was the most preposterous thing that ever man in such circumstances could be guilty of."

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

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2. The Scarlet and the Black: The True Story of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, Hero of the Vatican Underground

By: J.P. Gallagher

4.06

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

It has all the hallmarks of a best-selling fictional thriller: espionage, conspiracy, a struggle ag… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • catholic
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3. Introduction to the Devout Life

By: Francis de Sales

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Written for Christians in every walk of life and for every age, St. Francis De Sales' classic work … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • catholic
  • theology
"Be who you are and be that well."

-Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life

"We are crucified to the world, and the world must be as crucified to us. It esteems us as fools, let us esteem it as mad."

-Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life

"The desire and pursuit of virtue tends to make us virtuous, but the desire and pursuit of honors tends to make us odious and despicable."

-Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life

"If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show."

-Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life

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4. The Grey King (The Dark Is Rising, #4)

By: Susan Cooper

4.14

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

"Fire on the Mountain Shall Find the Harp of Gold Played to Wake the Sleepers, Oldest of the Old...… read more

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5. Greenwitch (The Dark Is Rising, #3)

By: Susan Cooper

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

Simon, Jane, and Barney, enlisted by their mysterious great-uncle, arrive in a small coastal town t… read more

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6. 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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7. Confessions

By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • theology
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8. Son of Hamas

By: Mosab Hassan Yousef , Ron Brackin , مصعب حسن يوسف

4.11

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Since he was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had an inside view of the deadly terrorist group … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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9. Windswept House

By: Malachi Martin

3.78

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The Cold War has ended. With a scope and daring not possible until now, an unlikely international a… read more

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  • catholic
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10. Where the Red Fern Grows

By: Wilson Rawls

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Billy, Old Dan, and Little Ann—a boy and his two dogs... A loving threesome, they ranged the dar… read more

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"I looked at his grave and, with tears in my eyes, I voiced these words: "You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over."

-Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows

"I know it is still there, hiding its secret beneath those long, red leaves, but it wouldn't be hidden from me for part of my life is buried there, too."

-Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows

"I know it is still there, hiding its secret beneath those long, red leaves, but it woukdn't be hidden from me for part of my life is buried there, too"."

-Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows

"What I saw was more than I could stand. The noise I heard had been made by Little Ann. All her life she had slept by Old Dan's side. And although he was dead, she had left the doghouse, had come back…"

-Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows

11. The Murder Room (Adam Dalgliesh #12)

By: None

4.57

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

Commander Adam Dalgliesh returns to find himself enmeshed in a terrifying story of passion and myst… read more

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12. Silver on the Tree (The Dark is Rising, #5)

By: Susan Cooper

4.26

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

The Dark is rising in its last and greatest bid to control the world. And Will Stanton -- last-born… read more

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13. Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark Is Rising, #1)

By: Susan Cooper

4.26

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

On holiday in Cornwall, the three Drew children discover an ancient map in the attic of the house t… read more

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14. The Children of Men

By: None

4.00

Format: None pages,

In the year 2021, the world is a bleak place where all human males have become sterile, and no chil… read more

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15. Lord of the World

By: Robert Hugh Benson

4.60

Format: 431 pages, Paperback

Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914) was the youngest son of Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbur… read more

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16. The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise

By: None , Nicolas Diat

3.95

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

In a time when there is more and more noise, and technology and materialism continue to exert their… read more

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17. The Life of St. Gemma Galgani

By: None , None

4.12

Format: 652 pages, Paperback

St. Gemma Galgani (1878-1903) was a mystic, stigmatist, visionary, ecstatic, victim soul, discerner… read more

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18. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

By: Candice Millard

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject po… read more

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19. The Dark Is Rising (The Dark is Rising, #2)

By: Susan Cooper

4.00

Format: 98 pages,

"When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn it back, three from the circle, three from the track; w… read more

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20. The Pilgrim's Regress

By: C.S. Lewis , Michael Hague

4.40

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

The first book written by C. S. Lewis after his conversion, The Pilgrim's Regressis, in a sense, th… read more

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21. The Complete Father Brown

By: G.K. Chesterton

4.34

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

Forty-nine quietly sensational cases investigated by the high-priest of detective fiction FATHER BR… read more

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22. Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7)

By: Michael Connelly

4.56

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning ar… read more

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23. Red Winter (Jack Ryan #22)

By: Marc Cameron

4.30

Format: 430 pages, Kindle Edition

"In this previously untold adventure, a young Jack Ryan goes behind the Iron Curtain to seek the tr… read more

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24. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

By: Meg Kissinger

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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25. Outback (DS Walker, #1)

By: Patricia Wolf

4.18

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

Two missing backpackers. One vast outback. DS Lucas Walker is on leave in his hometown, Caloodie… read more

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26. The Passion of Christ Through the Eyes of Mary

By: Anselm of Canterbury

4.52

Format: 138 pages, Kindle Edition

“As I stood at the foot of the cross, this pure white garment became saturated with the streams of … read more

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27. The St. Gallen Mafia: Exposing the Secret Reformist Group Within the Church

By: Julia Meloni

4.19

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

In the mid-1990s, a clandestine group of high-ranking churchmen began gathering in St. Gallen, Swit… read more

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  • history
  • catholic
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28. On Marriage and Family Life (Popular Patristics) (English and Ancient Greek Edition)

By: John Chrysostom

4.43

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

Christian tradition often seems to give only grudging approval to the married life, particularly it… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • catholic
  • theology
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29. To Raise the Fallen

By: William Joseph Gabriel Doyle

4.77

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

‘Father Doyle was one of the best priests I have ever met, and one of the bravest men who ever foug… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • theology
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • catholic
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30. Fatima in Twilight

By: Mark Fellows

4.64

Format: 345 pages, Paperback

Jesus was born one cold night in Bethlehem, an even attended by Mary and Joseph, and ignored by the… read more

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  • catholic
"Less mysterious was the obituary of Cardinal Siri, delivered shortly after John's death: "It will take forty years to repair the damage this Pope inflicted in four years." Siri was one of those "prop…"

-Mark Fellows, Fatima in Twilight

"When the Blessed Virgin spoke to Lucy of Russia's conversion, She was not referring to a political conversion from Communism to democracy and capitalism. To save souls, "God wishes to establish in th…"

-Mark Fellows, Fatima in Twilight

"Also noteworthy are the number of enemies of Heaven, as they are revealed by their blasphemies against the Immaculate. In addition to the millions of atheists, agnostics, unchurched, and assorted inf…"

-Mark Fellows, Fatima in Twilight

"As for Paul's famous remark about "the smoke of Satan", no less a journalist than Vittorio Missori has suggested that Paul lifted these words from the Third Secret of Fatima. Whether this is true or …"

-Mark Fellows, Fatima in Twilight

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4.37

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Confessions

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3.41

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4.23

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3.99

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