The Other Side of Beauty: Embracing God's Vision for Love and True Worth
By: Leah Darrow
4.21
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
“Leah Darrow uses her experience in the beauty industry to help the women of our culture see what t…
Want to Read $ 5.99"To be a woman is to be more than our parts. It is to be more than the length of our lashes or the plumpness and color of our lips."-Leah Darrow, The Other Side of Beauty: Embracing God's Vision for Love and True Worth
"As a little girl I was scared of monsters. My parents told me they didn't exist. How I wish they would have told me the whole truth. Monsters do exist; they're just not hiding in closets."-Leah Darrow, The Other Side of Beauty: Embracing God's Vision for Love and True Worth
"The opposite of love is not hate; it is use. Use is the abuse of love; in fact, it betrays love. When we use another person, we place their needs below our own, but worse yet, we place their value and dignity below ours."-Leah Darrow, The Other Side of Beauty: Embracing God's Vision for Love and True Worth
"My parents are really good people. . .and mostly normal. . . Their rules made practical sense--eat your vegetables, don't ride your bike through cow manure, and don't let your little brother eat his boogers--all of which were good but weren't exactly rules with life-changing consequences if they weren't followed."-Leah Darrow, The Other Side of Beauty: Embracing God's Vision for Love and True Worth
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1. The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears
By: Mark Batterson
4.21
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Sharing inspiring stories from his own experiences as a prayer circle maker, Batterson will help re… read more
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"His willingness to look foolish resulted in epic miracles."-Mark Batterson, The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears
"Imagination is the road less taken, but it is the pathway of prayer."-Mark Batterson, The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears
"There is nothing God loves more that keeping promises, answering prayers, performing miracles, and fulfilling dreams."-Mark Batterson, The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears
"Goal setting is good stewardship. Instead of letting things happen, goals help us make things happen. Instead of living by default, goals help us live by design. Instead of living out of memory, goal…"-Mark Batterson, The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears
2. Gods at War: Defeating the Idols that Battle for Your Heart
By: Kyle Idleman
4.26
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In gods at war , Kyle Idleman, bestselling author of not a fan , helps every believer recognize the… read more
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"God cannot and will not give us a sense of lasting pleasure apart from him, because it violates his purpose and our design. Psalm 34:8 reads, “Taste and see that the LORD is good."-Kyle Idleman, Gods at War: Defeating the Idols that Battle for Your Heart
3. Hail, Holy Queen: The Mother of God in the Word of God
By: Scott Hahn , Kilian J. Healy
4.36
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A fresh and enlightening new perspective on Mary, Mother of God, and her central importance in the … read more
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"A covenant differs from a contract almost as much as marriage differs from prostitution."-Scott Hahn, Hail, Holy Queen: The Mother of God in the Word of God
"Down through the centuries, the Church has carefully preserved, protected, and defended its Marian teachings, because to give them up would be to give up the gospel."-Scott Hahn, Hail, Holy Queen: The Mother of God in the Word of God
4. Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey across the Life Line
By: Cindy Lambert , Abby Johnson
4.31
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Retailers Choice Award winner, 2012Abby Johnson quit her job in October 2009. That simple act becam… read more
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5. Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart
By: Jacques Philippe
4.74
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
This classic work is a short treatise on peace of heart in a world where restlessness and anxiety t… read more
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"Evil is a mystery, a scandal and it will always be so."-Jacques Philippe, Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart
"The sign of spiritual progress is not so much never falling as it is being able to lift oneself up quickly after one falls."-Jacques Philippe, Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart
"In order to resist fear and discouragement, it is necessary that through prayer - through a personal experience of God re-encountered, recognized and loved in prayer - we taste and see how good the L…"-Jacques Philippe, Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart
"The Lord can leave us wanting relative to certain things (sometimes judged indispensable in the eyes of the world), but He never leaves us deprived of what is essential: His presence, His peace and a…"-Jacques Philippe, Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart
6. Saint John Paul the Great: His Five Loves
By: Jason Evert
4.71
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
A brand new biography, featuring never-before published stories. A French novelist once wrote, "… read more
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"...the person who is working is always more important than the work the person is doing."-Jason Evert, Saint John Paul the Great: His Five Loves
"It is necessary to understand the soul of the woman. All these things, which are meant to liberate the woman: premarital sex, contraception and abortion, have they liberated her or have they enslaved…"-Jason Evert, Saint John Paul the Great: His Five Loves
"The body itself is pure. It is very good, but often a person's intentions are not. Therefore, the problem with immodesty is not that it reveals too much, but that it obscures the value of the person.…"-Jason Evert, Saint John Paul the Great: His Five Loves
7. In the School of the Holy Spirit
By: Jacques Philippe , None
4.64
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A renowned spiritual director unveils the Master of the interior life. In the prayer lives of many … read more
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8. Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism
By: Kimberly Hahn , Scott Hahn , Peter Kreeft
4.40
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
The well-known and very popular Catholic couple, Scott and Kimberly Hahn, have been constantly trav… read more
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9. Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #2)
By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Meet Laura Ingalls . . . . . . the little girl who would grow up to write the Little House books. P… read more
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10. How to Find Your Soulmate Without Losing Your Soul
By: Jason Evert , Crystalina Evert
4.10
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
ARE YOU A DATE ... OR A SOULMATE? ARE YOU THE FOR-NOW GIRL ... OR THE FOREVER GIRL? IN YOUR QUEST F… read more
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11. Crossing the Threshold of Hope
By: Vittorio Messori , Pope John Paul II
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
Fifteen years into his Papacy, and on the eve of the third millennium, Pope John Paul II goes to th… read more
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12. The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith
By: Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Rosaria, by the standards of many, was living a very good life. She had a tenured position at a lar… read more
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13. Why I Am Catholic
By: Brandon Vogt
2.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
With atheism on the rise and millions tossing off religion, why would anyone consider the Catholic … read more
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14. Men, Women and the Mystery of Love: Practical Insights from John Paul II's Love and Responsibility
By: Edward Sri
4.40
Format: 165 pages, Paperback
"Love and Responsibility brilliantly sheds light on the mysterious dynamics between men and women a… read more
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15. Rediscover Jesus: An Invitation
By: Matthew Kelly
4.06
Format: 340 pages,
At a time when so many people are spiritually disillusioned and searching for ways to live, love, w… read more
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16. Chiara Corbella Petrillo
By: Simone Troisi
4.68
Format: 161 pages, Paperback
Chiara Petrillo was seated in a wheel chair looking lovingly toward Jesus in the tabernacle. Her hu… read more
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"The heart is a land we do not know well; neither its boundaries and frontiers, nor its miseries and grandeurs."-Simone Troisi, Chiara Corbella Petrillo
"Love completely possessed her, in the only way that one could be completely possessed by something, in the Lord."-Simone Troisi, Chiara Corbella Petrillo
"In love one cannot be mediocre, nor can one sustain love without work. The choices in the past were not enough, and it was necessary to choose again."-Simone Troisi, Chiara Corbella Petrillo
"Whoever thinks from a distance about his situation lives it with suffering; whoever is close to it lives it with consolation, the fruit of a true wisdom."-Simone Troisi, Chiara Corbella Petrillo
17. Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
By: Jackie Hill Perry
4.36
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
"I used to be a lesbian." In Gay Girl, Good God, author Jackie Hill Perry shares her own story, … read more
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"Do you know why we have a hard time believing that a gay girl can become a completely different creature? Because, we have a hard time believing in God. ..."-Jackie Hill Perry, Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
"From the outside looking in, it could be assumed that Preston's and my relationship was God's proof of turning a "gay girl good." But really, He'd already done that the moment He'd set me free from s…"-Jackie Hill Perry, Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
"Trying to contain the small giggle welling up in her chest from the sincerity of my question, Santoria, full of confidence, responded while looking toward my direction, "Yes, Jackie.The gospel didn't…"-Jackie Hill Perry, Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
"LGBT culture has done an excellent job of renewing or should I say, destroying, the mind of many, mainly by consistently using words as their greatest tool in their efforts to draw people into findin…"-Jackie Hill Perry, Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
18. The Wings of Poppy Pendleton
By: Melanie Dobson
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
In this compelling new time-slip mystery, a little girl goes missing from her family's castle in th… read more
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19. All My Secrets
By: Lynn Austin
4.45
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author Lynn Austin returns with a luminous work of historical fiction set amid the opul… read more
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20. The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids
By: Sarah Mackenzie
4.47
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Connecting deeply with our kids can be difficult in our busy, technology-driven lives. Reading alou… read more
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"What better education can we offer our children than the shaping of their hearts to love others as we have been loved by God ourselves?"-Sarah Mackenzie, The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids
"It is tempting to idolize certain aspects of education. We value good grades, high test scores, elite college degrees, and lucrative careers. But out obsession keeps us from remembering what educatio…"-Sarah Mackenzie, The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids
"Truth rises above literal facts... stories, especially fictional ones have the power to speak to the hearts of readers in a profound and lasting way. "Story has been the vehicle for truth for as long…"-Sarah Mackenzie, The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids
21. Suffering is Never for Nothing
By: Elisabeth Elliot
4.68
Format: 108 pages, Hardcover
Hard times come for all in life, with no real explanation. When we walk through suffering, it has t… read more
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"Faith is not a feeling. Faith is willed obedience in action."-Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing
"The love of God is not a sentiment. It is a willed and inexorable love that will command nothing less than the very best for us. The love of God wills our joy. I think of the love of God as being syn…"-Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing
"It’s He who was the Word before the foundation of the world, suffering as a lamb slain. And He has a lot up His sleeve that you and I haven’t the slightest idea about now. He’s told us enough so that…"-Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing
"We are not adrift in chaos. To me that is the most fortifying, the most stabilizing, the most peace-giving thing that I know about anything in the universe. Every time that things have seemingly fall…"-Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing
22. Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere
By: Savannah Guthrie
4.36
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
Mostly what God does is love you. If we could believe this, really believe this, how different w… read more
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"He doesn't even need words from us. Just a sigh, a tear, or a whimper. What an amazing resource we have in a God who already understands our whole history, our intricate emotional fabric, our every i…"-Savannah Guthrie, Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere
23. The Berlin Letters
By: Katherine Reay
4.21
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Near the end of the Cold War, a CIA code breaker discovers a symbol she recognizes from her childho… read more
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24. Words on Fire
By: Jennifer A. Nielsen
4.27
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Danger is never far from Audra's family farm in Lithuania. She always avoids the occupying Russian … read more
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"The words wouldn't lead to our independence - words, themselves, their very existence, were our independence"-Jennifer A. Nielsen, Words on Fire
25. If the Boot Fits (Texas Ever After, #2)
By: Karen Witemeyer
4.40
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
Determined to prove that cattle king Eli Dearing has no justification for evicting his stepmother a… read more
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26. That Sounds Fun: The Joys of Being an Amateur, the Power of Falling in Love, and Why You Need a Hobby
By: Annie F. Downs
3.92
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Bestseller! We know there are certain things we must have to survive--food, shelt… read more
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27. The Mindful Catholic: Finding God One Moment at a Time
By: Gregory Bottaro
4.25
Format: None pages, ebook
Whether we are carrying out routine life behaviors, trying to pray, or conversing with others, the … read more
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28. The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity
By: Carrie Gress
4.37
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
The Demonic Influence on Women Today In the late ’60s, a small group of elite American women convin… read more
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"Parents are the bridge between a child and God; they are the first icon of his unconditional love."-Carrie Gress, The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity
"We live under ghe impression that we are freethinkers; the irony is that thinkers are generally not free when they think just like everyone else."-Carrie Gress, The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity
"Anglican convert Blessed John Henry Cardinal Neumann described Mary as our "happier world". By leading her children to her Son, the Blessed Mother helps "them to regain that which has been lost throu…"-Carrie Gress, The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity
29. Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change in a Wounded World
By: Lila Grace Rose
4.60
Format: 240 pages, ebook
With raw and intimate stories from both her personal life and public activism, Lila Rose, the found… read more
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30. Go Bravely: Becoming the Woman You Were Created to Be
By: Emily Wilson Hussem
4.25
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
As a young Christian woman, do you struggle with insecurities and feel bogged down by the pressures… read more
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31. The Other Side of Beauty: Embracing God's Vision for Love and True Worth
By: Leah Darrow
4.21
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
“Leah Darrow uses her experience in the beauty industry to help the women of our culture see what t… read more
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"To be a woman is to be more than our parts. It is to be more than the length of our lashes or the plumpness and color of our lips."-Leah Darrow, The Other Side of Beauty: Embracing God's Vision for Love and True Worth
"As a little girl I was scared of monsters. My parents told me they didn't exist. How I wish they would have told me the whole truth. Monsters do exist; they're just not hiding in closets."-Leah Darrow, The Other Side of Beauty: Embracing God's Vision for Love and True Worth
"The opposite of love is not hate; it is use. Use is the abuse of love; in fact, it betrays love. When we use another person, we place their needs below our own, but worse yet, we place their value an…"-Leah Darrow, The Other Side of Beauty: Embracing God's Vision for Love and True Worth
"My parents are really good people. . .and mostly normal. . . Their rules made practical sense--eat your vegetables, don't ride your bike through cow manure, and don't let your little brother eat his …"-Leah Darrow, The Other Side of Beauty: Embracing God's Vision for Love and True Worth
