The Sabbatical: A Novel
By: Michael D. O'Brien
4.21
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
Dr. Owen Whitfield is the elderly Oxford professor of history who first appeared in Michael O''Brie…
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1. The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation
By: Rod Dreher
3.80
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
In a radical new vision for the future of Christianity, NYT bestselling author and conservative col… read more
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"To rediscover Christian asceticism is urgent for believers who want to train their hearts, and the hearts of their children, to resist the hedonism and consumerism at the core of contemporary culture…"-Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation
"Once, during my Catholic days, I was complaining with a Catholic friend about how terrible the teaching was in parish life. A priest listening to us said that everything we griped about was true, but…"-Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation
"We live liturgically, telling our sacred Story in worship and song. We fast and we feast. We marry and give our children in marriage, and though in exile, we work for the peace of the city. We welcom…"-Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation
2. Thirsting For God in a Land of Shallow Wells
By: Matthew Gallatin
4.09
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Beginning in the street ministry days of the Jesus Movement, Matthew Gallatin devoted more than 20 … read more
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3. 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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"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
4. With God in Russia
By: Walter J. Ciszek , Daniel L. Flaherty
3.60
Format: 316 pages,
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5. The Everlasting Man
By: G.K. Chesterton
4.16
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
What, if anything, is it that makes the human uniquely human? This, in part, is the question that G… read more
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"Men are moved most by their religion; especially when it is irreligion."-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
"Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song."-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
"The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past; and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is also a reactionary."-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
6. That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, #3)
By: C.S. Lewis
3.81
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C. S. Lewis's Spa… read more
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7. Race with the Devil
By: Joseph Pearce
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Joseph Pearce is foremost Catholic biographer of our time, but it wasn't always so. Imagine discove… read more
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8. Harvest of Gold (Harvest of Rubies, #2)
By: Tessa Afshar
3.24
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
Sarah married Darius,and at times she feels as if she has married the Persian aristocracy, too. The… read more
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9. Catherine of Siena
By: Sigrid Undset
3.50
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Sigrid Undset's Catherine of Siena is critically acclaimed as one of the best biographies of this w… read more
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10. Land of Silence
By: Tessa Afshar
3.33
Format: 161 pages, Hardcover
Before Christ called her daughter . . . Before she stole healing by touching the hem of his garment… read more
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11. The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth
By: Scott Hahn , Benedict J. Groeschel
4.43
Format: 174 pages, Hardcover
As seen on EWTN, bestselling author Scott Hahn unveils the mysteries of the Mass, offering readers … read more
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"To deny the force of divine judgment, then, is to make God less than God, and to make us less than His children. For every father must discipline His children, and paternal discipline is itself a mer…"-Scott Hahn, The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth
"Judgment, then, is not an impersonal, legalistic process. It is a matter of love, and it is something we choose for ourselves. Nor is punishment a vindictive act. God's "curses" are not expressions o…"-Scott Hahn, The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth
12. Pearl in the Sand
By: Tessa Afshar
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Can a Canaanite harlot who has made her livelihood by looking desirable to men make a fitting wife … read more
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13. The Knowledge of the Holy
By: A.W. Tozer
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The Knowledge of the Holyby popular evangelical author and Christian mystic A.W. Tozer illuminates … read more
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14. Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
By: C.S. Lewis
3.93
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic… read more
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"The love of knowledge is a kind of madness."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
"There I drank life because death was in the pool. That was the best of drinks save one."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
"And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
15. Death Comes for the Archbishop
By: Willa Cather
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
There is something epic--and almost mythic--about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, al… read more
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16. In the Field of Grace
By: Tessa Afshar
4.00
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
Without wealth or family, the widow Ruth left her people and followed Naomi, her beloved Hebrew mot… read more
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17. The Building Of Jalna (Whiteoaks of Jalna, #1)
By: Mazo de la Roche
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
First published in 1944, The Building of Jalnais one of sixteen books in the Jalna series written b… read more
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18. Against the Tide
By: Elizabeth Camden
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
As a child, Lydia Pallas became all too familiar with uncertainty when it came to the future. Now, … read more
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19. Bread of Angels
By: Tessa Afshar
3.81
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
Purple. The foundation of an influential trade in a Roman world dominated by men. One woman rises u… read more
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20. The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
By: John Buchan
3.60
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Adventurer Richard Hannay, just returned from South Africa, is thoroughly bored with London life—un… read more
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"By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle."-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"If you’re going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing"-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place."-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"All this was very loose guessing, and I don't pretend it was ingenious or scientific. I wasn't any kind of Sherlock Holmes. But I have always fancied I had a kind of instinct about questions like thi…"-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
21. Harvest of Rubies (Harvest of Rubies, #1)
By: Tessa Afshar
3.33
Format: 75 pages, Paperback
The prophet Nehemiah has a cousin who can speak several languages, keep complex accounts, write on … read more
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22. My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
By: Joseph O'Connor
4.05
Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition
From the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era “great escape” novel set in the Vatican… read more
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"Life schools you the way no catechism will."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"There are times when we must permit one another to lie."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"I was singing in Belfast the night the Luftwaffe firebombed the theatre. That's what you call a mixed review."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"A religiously minded kid will often be good at lying awake all night because you need an imagination if you're going to believe."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
23. Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents
By: Rod Dreher
4.36
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Benedict Option draws on the wisdom of Christian survi… read more
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24. The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
By: Ellis Peters
4.17
Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition
The winter of 1139 will disrupt Brother Cadfael’s tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disturb… read more
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"Love shared is no sin."-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
"There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful."-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
25. Daughter of Rome
By: Tessa Afshar
4.42
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A woman with a devastating secret. A man bent on proving his worth. A chance encounter that catapul… read more
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26. The Spice King (Hope and Glory, #1)
By: Elizabeth Camden
4.12
Format: 348 pages, Paperback
Gray Delacroix has dedicated his life to building an acclaimed global spice empire, but it has come… read more
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"He leaned down and kissed her, and nothing had ever felt so right."-Elizabeth Camden, The Spice King (Hope and Glory, #1)
"You'd do that for us?' He'd bring her pearls from the bottom of the ocean if she wanted them."-Elizabeth Camden, The Spice King (Hope and Glory, #1)
"You're still alive because God has plans for you, even if we don't understand what they are yet."-Elizabeth Camden, The Spice King (Hope and Glory, #1)
"She embodied laughter and optimism and steadfast determination. Being with her felt like wind in his sails."-Elizabeth Camden, The Spice King (Hope and Glory, #1)
27. The Glass Château
By: Stephen P. Kiernan
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed author of Universe of Two and The Baker’s Secret, a novel of hope, he… read more
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28. Saint Catherine of Siena: Mystic of Fire, Preacher of Freedom
By: Paul Murray
4.31
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Catherine of Siena is one of the most intriguing and explosive saints in Church history. A young la… read more
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29. Olav Audunssøn: I. Vows (Volume 1)
By: Sigrid Undset
4.27
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The initial volume in the Nobel Prize–winning author’s tumultuous, epic story of medieval Norway—th… read more
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"God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that who so is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed."-Sigrid Undset, Olav Audunssøn: I. Vows (Volume 1)
"And she felt joy bubbling up in her heart—that the world was so full of sunshine and beauty and gladness. And she had put herself outside it, banished herself to her corner. For all that, it was a go…"-Sigrid Undset, Olav Audunssøn: I. Vows (Volume 1)
30. The Sabbatical: A Novel
By: Michael D. O'Brien
4.21
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
Dr. Owen Whitfield is the elderly Oxford professor of history who first appeared in Michael O''Brie… read more
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31. Mysterion: The Revelatory Power of the Sacramental Worldview
By: Harrison Ayre
4.38
Format: 179 pages, Hardcover
Mysterion unveils the underlying vision at the heart of Christianity and invites us to enter into a… read more
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