The Second Vatican Council: An Unwritten Story
By: Roberto de Mattei
4.56
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
No event of the 20th century produced a greater effect upon the Catholic Church than Vatican II, th…
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1. St. Francis of Assisi
By: G.K. Chesterton , Joseph F. Girzone
3.94
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Francis of Assisi is, after Mary of Nazareth, perhaps the greatest saint in the Christian calendar,… read more
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"The moment sex ceases to be a servant it becomes a tyrant."-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi
"The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god."-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi
"The modern mind is hard to please; and it generally calls the way of Godfrey ferocious and the way of Francis fanatical. That is, it calls any moral method unpractical, when it has just called any pr…"-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi
"I beseech you, little brothers, that you be as wise as brother Daisy and brother dandelion; for never do they lie awake thinking of tomorrow, yet they have gold crowns like kings and emperors or like…"-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi
2. Introduction to the Devout Life
By: Francis de Sales
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Written for Christians in every walk of life and for every age, St. Francis De Sales' classic work … read more
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"Be who you are and be that well."-Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life
"We are crucified to the world, and the world must be as crucified to us. It esteems us as fools, let us esteem it as mad."-Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life
"The desire and pursuit of virtue tends to make us virtuous, but the desire and pursuit of honors tends to make us odious and despicable."-Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life
"If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show."-Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life
3. Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony
By: Richard Bauckham
4.35
Format: 552 pages, Hardcover
This fresh book argues that the four Gospels are closely based on eyewitness testimony of those who… read more
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"Young scholars, learning their historical method from Gospel scholars, often treat it as self-evident that the more skeptical they are toward their sources, the more rigorous will be their historical…"-Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony
"However it—or the kind of extreme individualistic epistemology it embraces—can lead historians to an overly skeptical approach particularly to those sources that were intended to recount and inform e…"-Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony
"However it—or the kind of extreme individualistic epistemology it embraces—can lead historians to an overly skeptical approach particularly to those sources that were intended to recount and inform e…"-Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony
4. The Imitation of Christ
By: Thomas à Kempis , William Benham , Richard Challoner, D.D.
4.32
Format: 632 pages, Paperback
Only the Bible has been more influential as a source of Christian devotional reading than The Imita… read more
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5. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
By: Christopher Clark
3.79
Format: None pages,
On the morning of 6/28/1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sa… read more
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6. The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
By: Shelby Foote
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Shelby Foote begins a tremendous, sweeping narrative of the most fascinating conflict in our histor… read more
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8. 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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9. Windswept House
By: Malachi Martin
3.78
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The Cold War has ended. With a scope and daring not possible until now, an unlikely international a… read more
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10. Benedict XVI: An Intimate Portrait
By: Peter Seewald
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
In the person of Benedict XVI, the Church has a Pope who is one of the most significant of Europe's… read more
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11. My Brother the Pope
By: Michael Hesemann , None
4.22
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
It wasn't always the case that Msgr. Georg Ratzinger lived in the shadow of his younger brother, Jo… read more
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12. Lord of the World
By: Robert Hugh Benson
4.60
Format: 431 pages, Paperback
Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914) was the youngest son of Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbur… read more
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13. How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
By: Thomas E. Woods Jr.
3.27
Format: None pages,
Ask a college student today what he knows about the Catholic Church and his answer might come down … read more
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14. Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
By: Svante Pääbo
3.71
Format: 436 pages, Hardcover
What can we learn from the genomes of our closest evolutionary relatives? Neanderthal Man tells the… read more
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15. The Road to Serfdom
By: Friedrich A. Hayek
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road … read more
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16. The Civil War, Vol. 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian
By: Shelby Foote
3.55
Format: None pages, Paperback
A narrative history of the American Civil War, which covers not only the battles and the troop move… read more
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17. Milestones: Memoirs 1927-1977
By: Pope Benedict XVI
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Rich in humor and culture, as well as passion and love for the cause of God and of man, Milestonesi… read more
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18. The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
By: C.S. Lewis , Pauline Baynes
3.96
Format: 243 pages, Paperback
Jill and Eustace must rescue the Prince from the evil Witch. NARNIA...where owls are wise, where… read more
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"Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie."-C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
"It's expression was solemn, its complexion muddy."-C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
"You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion."-C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
"Though under earth, and throneless now I be Yet while I lived all earth was under me."-C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
19. The Final Pagan Generation
By: Edward J. Watts
3.93
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Final Pagan Generationrecounts the fascinating story of the lives and fortunes of the last Roma… read more
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20. Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration
By: Pope Benedict XVI , Adrian Walker
3.22
Format: 111 pages,
"Ho voluto fare il tentativo di presentare il Gesu dei Vangeli come il Gesu reale, come il "Gesu st… read more
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21. The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
By: Humphrey Carpenter , J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
'...If you wanted to go on from the end of The Hobbit I think the ring would be your inevitable cho… read more
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22. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
By: Adam Hochschild
4.18
Format: 442 pages, Kindle Edition
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for … read more
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"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europe…"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
"Today we are less likely to speak of humanitarianism, with its overtones of paternalistic generosity, and more likely to speak of human rights. The basic freedoms in life are not seen as gifts to be …"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and, above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europ…"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
23. The Day is Now Far Spent
By: Robert Sarah
4.56
Format: 349 pages, Paperback
Robert Cardinal Sarah calls The Day Is Now Far Spent his most important book. He analyzes the spiri… read more
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"True freedom lies in the battle to agree with the Father’s will and to correspond to it."-Robert Sarah, The Day is Now Far Spent
"After the recent canonization of Pope Saint Paul VI, would it not be appropriate to meditate upon the example of that prophetic pope? In publishing the encyclical Humanæ Vitæ, on the one hand, and Cr…"-Robert Sarah, The Day is Now Far Spent
"Without a strong reaffirmation of Christ's teaching as it has always been handed down by the Magisterium of the Church, there is no ecumenism. Who remembers the words of Pope Paul VI at his General A…"-Robert Sarah, The Day is Now Far Spent
24. Murder in the 33rd Degree: The Gagnon Investigation into Vatican Freemasonry
By: Charles Theodore Murr
4.59
Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition
Was Pope John Paul I murdered? If so, by whom, and to what end? Was the Catholic liturgy sabotaged … read more
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25. The Restoration of Christian Culture
By: John Senior
4.37
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A sequel to The Death of Christian Culture , this spiritual treatise covers social, cultural, and p… read more
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"People who care for nothing but themselves inevitably lose to those who, capable of sacrifice, will fight for something more than themselves,"-John Senior, The Restoration of Christian Culture
26. Que no te la cuenten 1: La falsificación de la historia (Spanish Edition)
By: Javier Pablo Olivera Ravasi
4.52
Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition
Por varias generaciones hemos sido educados en falsedades históricas, ya que siempre fue verdad aqu… read more
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27. The Second Vatican Council: An Unwritten Story
By: Roberto de Mattei
4.56
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
No event of the 20th century produced a greater effect upon the Catholic Church than Vatican II, th… read more
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