11 must-read childrens books like Portrait of the Son: A Tale of Love (The Theological Virtues Trilogy) by Josephine Nobisso BA

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Portrait of the Son: A Tale of Love (The Theological Virtues Trilogy)

By: Josephine Nobisso BA

4.69

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Here is a Christian allegorical story that treats of superlatives. The richest man in the world, wi…

If you liked the childrens plot in Portrait of the Son: A Tale of Love (The Theological Virtues Trilogy) by Josephine Nobisso BA , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph

By: C.S. Lewis , Sheldon Vanauken

4.27

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A heart-rending love story described by its author as “the spiritual autobiography of a love rather… read more

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  • religion
"Death is no respecter of love."

-C.S. Lewis, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph

"Corruption is never compulsory."

-C.S. Lewis, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph

"Honesty is better than any easy comfort."

-C.S. Lewis, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph

"A longing for eternity is built-in to us all"

-C.S. Lewis, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph

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2. 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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3. Four Quartets

By: T.S. Eliot

3.67

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942… read more

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4. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

By: Grace Lin

4.18

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the valley of Fruitless Mountain, a young girl named Minli spends her days working hard in the f… read more

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  • childrens
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5. Kristin Lavransdatter (Kristin Lavransdatter, #1-3)

By: Tiina Nunnally , Brad Leithauser , Sigrid Undset

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

In her great historical epic Kristin Lavransdatter, set in fourteenth-century Norway, Nobel laureat… read more

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6. The Silent Governess

By: Julie Klassen

3.33

Format: None pages,

Believing herself guilty of a crime, Olivia Keene flees her home, eventually stumbling upon a grand… read more

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7. Gift from the Sea

By: Anne Morrow Lindbergh

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In this inimitable, beloved classic--graceful, lucid and lyrical--Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares her … read more

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8. Little Men (Little Women, #2)

By: Louisa May Alcott , James Spanfeller

3.50

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

With two sons of her own, and twelve rescued orphan boys filling the informal school at Plumfield, … read more

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  • childrens
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9. The Moffats (The Moffats, #1)

By: Eleanor Estes , Louis Slobodkin

4.01

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Four Moffat children and a hard-working widowed mother live on New Dollar Street in Cranbury villag… read more

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  • childrens
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10. The Gardener

By: David Small , Sarah Stewart

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

By the author-and-illustrator team of the bestselling The Library Lydia Grace Finch brings a suitca… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
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11. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

By: Ernest J. Gaines

2.00

Format: 88 pages,

"This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110… read more

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12. The Weight of a Mass: A Tale of Faith

By: Josephine Nobisso , None , Katalin Szegedi

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When a poor devout widow begs for a scrap of bread from a rich faithless baker, she promises to par… read more

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  • religion
  • picture books
  • childrens
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13. Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

By: Thérèse of Lisieux , John Clarke

4.42

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

This book, first published in 1898 in a highly edited version, quickly became a modern spiritual cl… read more

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  • religion
"Love lives only by sacrifice"

-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

"I have at last found my vocation; it is love!"

-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

"Love will consume us only in the measure of our self-surrender."

-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

"It is for us to console our Lord, and not for Him to console us."

-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

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14. True Grit

By: Charles Portis

3.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more

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15. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

By: Betty Smith

4.25

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty S… read more

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16. 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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17. A Noble Masquerade (Hawthorne House, #1)

By: Kristi Ann Hunter

3.75

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Lady Miranda Hawthorne acts every inch the lady, but inside she longs to be bold and carefree. Ente… read more

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18. Lentil

By: Robert McCloskey

3.86

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

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19. The Winged Watchman

By: Hilda van Stockum

4.26

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

This acclaimed story of World War II is rich in suspense, characterization, plot and spiritual trut… read more

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  • childrens
"But remember that truth itself becomes a lie in the twisted minds of our conquerors."

-Hilda van Stockum, The Winged Watchman

"Knowledge is a matter of knowing facts. Wisdom is a matter of understanding and applying principles. A certain amount of knowledge is necessary for wisdom, and without wisdom, knowledge is not only u…"

-Hilda van Stockum, The Winged Watchman

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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)

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21. The Ghost Keeper

By: Natalie Morrill

3.74

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Winner of the HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction, this powerful, sweeping novel set in Vi… read more

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22. The Printed Letter Bookshop (Winsome #1)

By: Katherine Reay

3.98

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

Love, friendship, and family find a home at the Printed Letter Bookshop One of Madeline Cullen’s… read more

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"Blood might be thicker than water, but both were thinner than money"

-Katherine Reay, The Printed Letter Bookshop (Winsome #1)

"That's what books do, Maddie used to say; they are a conversation, and introduce us to ourselves and others."

-Katherine Reay, The Printed Letter Bookshop (Winsome #1)

"But it's not the same - I know. Family means more. You can miss your family so much you have to look down to see your chest rise and fall, to confirm that it hasn't been cut open and you're not bleed…"

-Katherine Reay, The Printed Letter Bookshop (Winsome #1)

"I have no way to tell him of the cacophonous emotions jangling within me - to feel wired for others yet irrelevant; to need community but equally to be unable to find one; that cleaning, cooking, and…"

-Katherine Reay, The Printed Letter Bookshop (Winsome #1)

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23. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

By: Evelyn Waugh

4.00

Format: 452 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more

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"Here my last love had died."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"No one is ever holy without suffering."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"I had been there before; I knew all about it."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

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24. The Puppets of Spelhorst

By: Kate DiCamillo

4.19

Format: 149 pages, Hardcover

From master storyteller Kate DiCamillo comes an original fairy tale—with enchanting illustrations b… read more

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  • childrens
"The moon has no master," said the owl. "The moon is its own king." "Or queen," said the girl. The moon rose higher."

-Kate DiCamillo, The Puppets of Spelhorst

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25. Ferris

By: Kate DiCamillo

4.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The beloved author of Because of Winn-Dixie has outdone herself with a hilarious and achingly real … read more

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  • childrens
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26. Escape from Falaise (Ranger's Apprentice: The Royal Ranger, #5)

By: John Flanagan

4.18

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

The stakes have never been higher for the Rangers of Araluen in the New York Times bestselling seri… read more

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  • childrens
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27. The Sign of the Beaver

By: Elizabeth George Speare

3.87

Format: 148 pages, Kindle Edition

Twelve-year-old Matt is left on his own in the Maine wilderness while his father leaves to bring th… read more

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  • childrens
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28. An Easy Death (Gunnie Rose, #1)

By: Charlaine Harris

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In the southwestern country now known as Texoma, this is a world where magic is acknowledged but mi… read more

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29. Beasts and Beauty

By: Soman Chainani

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

You think you know these stories, don’t you? You are wrong. You don’t know them at all. Tw… read more

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"Goodness is no weapon against the possessed."

-Soman Chainani, Beasts and Beauty

"Get too used to glorious sunsets and it is easy to blame the sun for stealing the clouds' glory--but withhold the sun and there is nothing to see."

-Soman Chainani, Beasts and Beauty

"No one looked like her, which she'd thought didn't matter, since skin shouldn't matter. Who cares if others judged her for it? Those who saw her only for her skin were themselves blind."

-Soman Chainani, Beasts and Beauty

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30. The Irish Boarding House (The Irish Boarding House #1)

By: Sandy Taylor

4.15

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

24 Merrion Square. The house stands empty, the old stone steps overgrown with thorny rose bushes. B… read more

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31. Portrait of the Son: A Tale of Love (The Theological Virtues Trilogy)

By: Josephine Nobisso BA

4.69

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Here is a Christian allegorical story that treats of superlatives. The richest man in the world, wi… read more

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  • religion
  • picture books
  • childrens

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