The Seeds of Heaven: Sermons on the Gospel of Matthew
By: Barbara Brown Taylor
4.39
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
This wonderful collection of sermons by renowned preacher, author, and speaker Barbara Brown Taylor…
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1. When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
By: Pema Chödrön
4.28
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
The beautiful practicality of her teaching has made Pema Chödrön one of the most beloved of contemp… read more
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"Pointing directly at your own heart, you find Buddha."-Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
"Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are."-Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
"Rather than letting our negativity get the better of us, we could acknowledge that right now we feel like a piece of shit and not be squeamish about taking a good look."-Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
"Birth is painful and delightful. Death is painful and delightful. Everything that ends is also the beginning of something else. Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward."-Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
2. The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)
By: Wendell Berry
4.34
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
Old Jack, born just after the American Civil War and dying in contemporary times, spends one beauti… read more
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"She mourns for the future, as the past has taught her. And yet there is a rejoicing in her, persistent and unbidden as the beating of her heart."-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)
"The modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature. It is in the arrogance that will believe nothing that cannot be proved, and respect nothing it cannot understan…"-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)
"Now when he walked in his fields and pastures and woodlands he was tramping into his mind the shape of the land, his thought becoming indistinguishable from it, so that when he came to die his intell…"-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)
"Sitting there, eyes shut, head tilted back, hands at rest upon his cane's crook, he seems to sink immeasurably, to float down into a well of light as warm and red as blood. He has met the sun at its …"-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)
3. Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6)
By: Louise Penny
4.36
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
It is Winter Carnival in Quebec City, bitterly cold and surpassingly beautiful. Chief Inspector Arm… read more
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"The night is a strawberry."-Louise Penny, Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6)
"If less was more, she had a great deal."-Louise Penny, Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6)
"Things are strongest where they're broken."-Louise Penny, Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6)
"I sometimes think we’re a rowboat society."-Louise Penny, Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6)
4. Living Buddha, Living Christ
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
4.37
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
When you are a truly happy Christian, you are also a Buddhist. And vice versa." -- Thich Nhat Hanh … read more
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5. The Magician's Elephant
By: Kate DiCamillo , Yoko Tanaka
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Hardcover
In a highly awaited new novel, Kate DiCamillo conjures a haunting fable about trusting the unexpect… read more
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6. Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
By: Ben Montgomery
4.42
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2014 National Outdoor Book Awards for History/Biography Emma Gatewood told her family… read more
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7. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
By: Marshall B. Rosenberg , Arun Gandhi
4.34
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Do you hunger for skills to improve the quality of your relationships, to deepen your sense of pers… read more
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"At the root of every tantrum and power struggle are unmet needs."-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
"All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished."-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
"Anger is a result of life-alienating thinking that is disconnected from needs. It indicates that we have moved up to our head to analyze and judge somebody rather than focus on what we are needing an…"-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
"All criticism, attack, insults, and judgments vanish when we focus attention on hearing the feelings and needs behind a message. The more we practice in this way, the more we realize a simple truth: …"-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
8. 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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9. Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
By: Rachel Held Evans
3.44
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
New York Timesbestselling author Rachel Held Evans embarks on a quest to find out what it really me… read more
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10. Mercy Falls (Cork O'Connor, #5)
By: William Kent Krueger
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Back in the saddle as sheriff of Tamarack County, Cork O'Connor is lured to the nearby Ojibwe reser… read more
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11. 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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12. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4.30
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more
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- religion
13. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By: James McBride
4.00
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more
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14. Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
By: Bono
4.20
Format: 564 pages, Hardcover
Bono--artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2--has written a memoir: honest and… read more
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"Fame is a currency. I want to spend mine on the right stuff."-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
"Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience"-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
"I remain more suspicious of religion than most people who'd never darken the door of a church."-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
"the only true way to be victorious is to surrender. To each other. To love. To the higher power."-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
15. Fox Creek (Cork O’Connor, #19)
By: William Kent Krueger
4.21
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
Cork races against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from bloodthi… read more
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16. Finding Margaret Fuller
By: Allison Pataki
4.11
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An epic reimagining of the life of Margaret Fuller—America’s forgotten leading lady and the central… read more
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17. Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain
By: Andrew McCarthy
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, funny, and poignant travel memoir following New York Times bestselling author and ac… read more
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18. Absolution
By: Alice McDermott
3.81
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more
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19. Call Us What We Carry
By: Amanda Gorman
4.28
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, Amanda Gorman’s remarkable new collection reveal… read more
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"Loss is the cost of loving"-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry
"We write Because you might listen."-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry
"And the norms and notions of what “just is"-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry
"We've learned that quiet isn't always peace."-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry
20. Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage
By: Anne Lamott
3.98
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
"Anne Lamott is my Oprah." -Chicago Tribune From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow co… read more
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"Look around and see whom you can serve."-Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage
"Look around and see whom you can serve. This will fill you."-Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage
"…[I] know that the movement of grace in our lives so often begins with desperation and blurt."-Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage
"Love is gentle if sometimes amused warmth for annoying and deeply disappointing people, especially ourselves."-Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage
21. Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life
By: Delia Ephron
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling, beloved writer of romantic comedies like You've Got Mail tells her own late-in-lif… read more
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22. The Mitford Affair
By: Marie Benedict
3.70
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict—she'll have to choose: her country or her sis… read more
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23. Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
By: Olivia Ford
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A huge-hearted, redemptive coming-of-old-age tale, a love story, and an ode to good food Nothing… read more
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"To want something, she realized, was to make yourself vulnerable to losing it."-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
"It's sometimes easy to feel left behind at my age, as if the world has a future and you have no place in it...but I hope to discover that there is meaning and adventure still to be found."-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
"...the strongest couples I know have grown together, supporting their partner's changes rather than harnessing or fearing them. It's a bit like growing roses - you don't get to choose exactly which w…"-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
24. Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith
By: Sarah Bessey
4.49
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A nurturing and hopeful collection of practices to help an emerging generation of Christians reconn… read more
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"And yet religion in our modern era seems mostly concerned with systematizing theology, charting time lines, answering questions, and making God small and knowable. We have created a God we can regula…"-Sarah Bessey, Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith
25. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
By: Elizabeth Strout
4.46
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more
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"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
26. Do I Stay Christian?: A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned
By: Brian D. McLaren
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Dubbed "a heroic gate-crasher" by New York Times bestselling author Glennon Doyle, Brian D. McLaren… read more
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27. Life After Doom: Wisdom and Courage for a World Falling Apart
By: Brian D. McLaren
4.17
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
A highly readable, deeply insightful exploration of how to live with wisdom, resilience and love in… read more
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28. Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #20)
By: William Kent Krueger
4.34
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A disappearance and a dead body put Cork O’Connor’s family in the crosshairs of a killer in the twe… read more
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29. God Speaks Through Wombs: Poems on God's Unexpected Coming
By: Drew Jackson
4.56
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Christian Book Award Finalist But God speaks through wombs, birthing prophetic utterances. . . . En… read more
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30. Sermon on the Mount: A Beginner's Guide to the Kingdom of Heaven
By: Amy-Jill Levine
4.25
Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition
The Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5-7, contains some of Jesus most profound and most memorable teach… read more
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31. The Seeds of Heaven: Sermons on the Gospel of Matthew
By: Barbara Brown Taylor
4.39
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
This wonderful collection of sermons by renowned preacher, author, and speaker Barbara Brown Taylor… read more
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