8 Best classics books like This Way to Christmas by Ruth Sawyer

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This Way to Christmas

By: Ruth Sawyer

3.89

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Ruth Sawyer's This Way To Christmas tells the story of David, who is sent away from his family beca…

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1. Hannah Coulter

By: Wendell Berry

4.38

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry's seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman charac… read more

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  • classics
"Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"Living right on called for nothing out of the ordinary. We made no changes. We only accepted the changes as they came."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

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2. To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel, #2)

By: Connie Willis

3.50

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Connie Willis' Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Doomsday Book uses time travel for a serious look at h… read more

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3. Curtain (Hercule Poirot, #39)

By: Agatha Christie

4.16

Format: 84 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings; there was his own daughte… read more

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  • classics

4. The Consolation of Philosophy

By: Boethius , None

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek … read more

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  • classics
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5. 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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  • classics
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6. Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.17

Format: 356 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When ad man Victor Dean falls down the stairs in the offices of Pym's Publicity, a respectable Lond… read more

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  • classics
"How do you do?"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

"Bredon shuddered. “I think this is an awfully immoral job of ours. I do, really. Think how we spoil the digestions of the public."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

"It's a curious thing, but people cannot resist anonymous letters. It's like free sample offers. They appeal to all one's lower instincts."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

"The interview with the cat had been particularly full of appeal. The animal was, it seemed, an illustrious rat-catcher, with many famous deeds to her credit. Not only that, but she had been the first…"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

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7. Sticks Across the Chimney: A Story of Denmark

By: Nora Burglon

3.67

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

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  • childrens

8. A Child's Christmas in Wales

By: Trina Schart Hyman , Dylan Thomas

3.80

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Originally emerging from a piece written for radio, the poem was recorded by Thomas in 1952. The st… read more

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9. Das fliegende Klassenzimmer

By: Erich Kästner , Walter Trier

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Seit Jahren sind die Schuler des Internats Kirchberg und der benachbarten Realschule verfeindet. Be… read more

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10. Understood Betsy

By: Dorothy Canfield Fisher

4.22

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

For all of her nine years, fragile Elizabeth Ann has heard her Aunt Frances refer in whispers to he… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
"What's the matter?" asked the teacher, seeing her bewildered face. "Why—why," said Elizabeth Ann, "I don't know what I am at all. If I'm second-grade arithmetic and seventh-grade reading and third-gr…"

-Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Understood Betsy

11. The Bird's Christmas Carol

By: Kate Douglas Wiggin

3.76

Format: None pages,

This classic Christmas story by the author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm features a memorable and c… read more

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12. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

By: Barbara Robinson

4.22

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Laughs abound in this bestselling Christmas classic by Barbara Robinson! The Best Christmas Pageant… read more

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  • christmas
  • classics
  • childrens
"I've got the baby here," Imogene barked at the Wise Men. "Don touch him! I named him Jesus."

-Barbara Robinson, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

"When they got to the part about swaddling clothes and the manger, Imogene asked, “You mean they tied him up and put him in a feedbox? Where was the Child Welfare?"

-Barbara Robinson, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

13. Winter Cottage

By: Carol Ryrie Brink

4.54

Format: 608 pages, Paperback

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14. The Rule of Saint Benedict

By: Benedict of Nursia , None

3.22

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

Composed nearly fifteen hundred years ago by the father of Western monasticism, The Rule of St. Ben… read more

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15. Tales from the Perilous Realm

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Tom Shippey , Alan Lee

3.00

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

Never before published in a single volume, Tolkien's four novellas ("Farmer Giles of Ham, Leaf by N… read more

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16. A Place to Hang the Moon

By: Kate Albus

4.57

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

Set against the backdrop of World War II, Anna, Edmund, and William are evacuated from London to li… read more

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  • childrens
"The librarian chuckled. “I suppose there are rather a lot of orphan stories out there."

-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon

"Besides which, I really ought to send her a book instead. Though she’s not much of a reader."

-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon

"Fibs, you must know, are entirely acceptable when they serve the purpose of getting one to the library."

-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon

"It is often the case that, at times of great anxiety, when the diversion of a good story should seem most welcome, one is least equipped to focus one’s mind on reading."

-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon

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17. Seasons of Sorrow: The Pain of Loss and the Comfort of God

By: Tim Challies

4.80

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An honest look at grief and fears, faith and hope. Combining personal narrative, sound theology, an… read more

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"...one of the hardest parts of my loss is that all my feelings of love remain, but there's no way to express them."

-Tim Challies, Seasons of Sorrow: The Pain of Loss and the Comfort of God

"The father instinct that was so strong within me went from abundant to empty. And so while I miss Nick so very deeply, I also miss the part of my life and identity that was wrapped up in being his da…"

-Tim Challies, Seasons of Sorrow: The Pain of Loss and the Comfort of God

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18. Six Voices, One Story: The Heart of AmblesideOnline

By: AmblesideOnline Education Foundation

4.72

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

The AmblesideOnline Advisory began as a band of mothers who followed God and the vitalizing ideas o… read more

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19. Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too

By: Cindy Rollins

4.75

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Being a mom can sometimes feel like an overwhelming job with endless tasks and lofty, unattainable … read more

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  • childrens
"The truth is that all humans are always seeing something, paying attention to something, learning something. Perhaps, we are learning every sort of sexual innuendo known to man by watching endless re…"

-Cindy Rollins, Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too

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20. In Vital Harmony: Charlotte Mason and the Natural Laws of Education

By: Karen Glass

4.69

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

Charlotte Mason looked at the world and saw that it was governed by universal laws, such as the law… read more

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"One popular trend in education is to emphasize “STEM"

-Karen Glass, In Vital Harmony: Charlotte Mason and the Natural Laws of Education

"Faith Is Required to Act upon an Idea. Miss Mason rejected the receptacle view of the mind and embraced the analogy that the mind is a living, spiritual entity that is hungry and must be fed in order…"

-Karen Glass, In Vital Harmony: Charlotte Mason and the Natural Laws of Education

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21. This Way to Christmas

By: Ruth Sawyer

3.89

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Ruth Sawyer's This Way To Christmas tells the story of David, who is sent away from his family beca… read more

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  • christmas
  • classics
  • childrens

6 Best childrens books like This Way to Christmas by Ruth Sawyer

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Sticks Across the Chimney: A Story of Denmark

Nora Burglon

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Understood Betsy

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

Barbara Robinson

4.22

Transform Your Habits

A Place to Hang the Moon

Kate Albus

4.57

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18 Top nonfiction books like Six Voices, One Story: The Heart of AmblesideOnline by AmblesideOnline Education Foundation

Transform Your Habits

The Mind of the Maker

Dorothy L. Sayers

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution

Natalie S. Bober

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition

Karen Glass

4.36

Transform Your Habits

The Living Page: Keeping Notebooks With Charlotte Mason

Laurie Bestvater

3.94

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