America's Book: The Rise and Decline of a Bible Civilization, 1794-1911
By: Mark A. Noll
4.34
Format: 864 pages, Hardcover
America's Book shows how the Bible decisively shaped American national history even as that history…
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1. When You Reach Me
By: Rebecca Stead
4.08
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
Miranda is an ordinary sixth grader, until she starts receiving mysterious messages from somebody w… read more
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"What's the burn scale?"-Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me
"We have lunch at ten-forty-five,"-Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me
"It's crazy the things a person can pretend not to notice."-Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me
"She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school."-Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me
2. The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
By: Wendell Berry
4.34
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Since its publication by Sierra Club Books in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized a… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character."-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
"If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too."-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
"If we removed the status and compensation from the destructive exploits we classify as “manly,"-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
"The specialists are profiting too well from the symptoms, evidently, to be concerned about cures—just as the myth of imminent cure (by some “breakthrough"-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
3. The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
By: Joseph J. Ellis
3.18
Format: 183 pages, Hardcover
The prizewinning author of Founding Brothersand American Sphinx now gives us the unexpected story--… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
4. Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate
By: Jerry Bridges
3.86
Format: 568 pages, Hardcover
Have Christians become so preoccupied with "major" sins that we have lost sight of our need to deal… read more
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- christianity
- nonfiction
5. April 1865: The Month That Saved America
By: Jay Winik
3.78
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
One month in 1865 witnessed the frenzied fall of Richmond, a daring last-ditch Southern plan for gu… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
6. Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
4.27
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
After his martyrdom at the hands of the Gestapo in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer continued his witness … read more
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"God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth."-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
"We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts."-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
"It is only when he is a burden that another person is really a brother and not merely an object to be manipulated"-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
"The Church does not need brilliant personalities but faithful servants of Jesus and the brethren. Not in the former but in the latter is the lack."-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
7. The Canterbury Tales
By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Nevill Coghill
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval… read more
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8. Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
By: S.C. Gwynne
3.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the author of the prizewinning New York Times bestseller Empire of the Summer Mooncomes a thri… read more
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9. After Virtue
By: Alasdair MacIntyre
4.18
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially contro… read more
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- nonfiction
- religion
- history
"All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
"At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
"The introduction of the word ‘intuition’ by a moral philosopher is always a signal that something has gone badly wrong with an argument."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
"To treat someone else as an end [as opposed to a mean] is to offer them what I take to be good reasons for acting in one way rather than another, but to leave it to them to evaluate those reasons."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
10. 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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11. Knowing God
By: J.I. Packer
2.00
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
For over 40 years, J. I. Packer's classic has been an important tool to help Christians around the … read more
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12. All the King's Men
By: Robert Penn Warren
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
More than just a classic political novel, Warren's tale of power and corruption in the Depression-e… read more
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13. If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
By: Brenda Ueland
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In her 93 remarkable years, Brenda Ueland published six million words. She said she had two rules s… read more
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14. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
By: David Brooks
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more
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- nonfiction
"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
15. Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did
By: John Mark Comer
4.63
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The author of the international bestseller The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry calls us to rediscover… read more
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- christianity
- religion
- nonfiction
16. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
By: Tom Holland
4.26
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more
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- christianity
- nonfiction
- history
- church history
"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
17. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments
By: Joe Posnanski
4.56
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
A masterful ode to the a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to m… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
18. Habits of the Household: Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms
By: Justin Whitmel Earley
4.61
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Discover simple habits and easy-to-implement daily rhythms that will help you find meaning beyond t… read more
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- nonfiction
19. Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Hurting the Church
By: Katelyn Beaty
4.22
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning writer shows how and why celebrity is woven into the fabric of the evangelical mov… read more
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- christianity
- religion
- nonfiction
"Celebrity, in the final analysis, is a worldly form of power and evaluation of human worth. It is not a spiritually neutral tool that can be picked up and put down, even for godly projects. The momen…"-Katelyn Beaty, Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Hurting the Church
20. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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- history
- christianity
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21. Can We Trust the Gospels?
By: Peter J. Williams
4.46
Format: 153 pages, Paperback
Is there evidence to believe the Gospels? The Gospels--Matthew, Mark, Luke, John--are four accou… read more
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- church history
- christianity
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22. From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life
By: Arthur C. Brooks
3.94
Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition
The roadmap for finding purpose, meaning, and success as we age, from bestselling author, Harvard p… read more
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- nonfiction
23. The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
By: Karen Swallow Prior
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Contemporary American evangelicalism is suffering from an identity crisis--and a lot of bad press. … read more
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- nonfiction
- religion
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"For Hardy and other critics of the evangelical movement, too often the desire for purity encouraged hypocrisy, earnest ideals became mere performance, and the valuation of hard work turned into pursu…"-Karen Swallow Prior, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
"The novel [ Pamela ] is also a very powerful early expression of the modern self, one who sees her soul as equal in human worth and dignity to anyone, regardless of social class or power--and this, t…"-Karen Swallow Prior, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
24. Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church
By: Nijay K. Gupta
4.35
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Women were there. For centuries, discussions of early Christianity have focused on male leaders in … read more
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- church history
- christianity
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- nonfiction
25. Misreading Scripture with Individualist Eyes: Patronage, Honor, and Shame in the Biblical World
By: E. Randolph Richards
4.42
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The Bible was written within collectivist cultures. When Westerners, immersed in individualism, rea… read more
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26. Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
By: Zena Hitz
3.65
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life … read more
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- nonfiction
"The idea that real and serous learning is something practiced only by a small elite is stubborn and hard to displace."-Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
"For those of us without the strength or the insight to choose for ourselves such quiet, withdrawn places, failure is perhaps the best-trod route to inwardness."-Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
27. The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism: How the Evangelical Battle over the End Times Shaped a Nation
By: Daniel G. Hummel
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating history of dispensationalism and its influence on popular culture, politics, and reli… read more
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- church history
- christianity
- religion
- nonfiction
28. Hunting Magic Eels: Recovering an Enchanted Faith in a Skeptical Age
By: Richard Beck
4.27
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
We live in a secular age, a world dominated by science and technology. Increasing numbers of us don… read more
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- christianity
- religion
- nonfiction
"Grace is the only thing in the world that is stronger than shame."-Richard Beck, Hunting Magic Eels: Recovering an Enchanted Faith in a Skeptical Age
29. America's Book: The Rise and Decline of a Bible Civilization, 1794-1911
By: Mark A. Noll
4.34
Format: 864 pages, Hardcover
America's Book shows how the Bible decisively shaped American national history even as that history… read more
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- christianity
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- nonfiction
30. Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda
By: Megan Basham
4.37
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
“This may just be the single most important book on modern Evangelicalism in recent years. It is bo… read more
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31. The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: and the Path to a Shared American Future
By: Robert P. Jones
4.55
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Taking the story of white supremacy in America back to 1493, and examining contemporary communities… read more
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