Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton
By: Joseph Pearce
4.48
Format: 522 pages, Paperback
Through years of meticulous research and access to the literary estate of G.K. Chesterton, Joseph P…
Want to Read $ 16.49"but in later life Chesterton made no secret of the fact that he didn’t care for institutionalised learning, describing education as ‘being instructed by somebody I did not know about something I did not want to know’."-Joseph Pearce, Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton
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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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- christianity
- faith
- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
"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. The Woman in White
By: Wilkie Collins , Matthew Sweet
4.01
Format: 672 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: Alternate covers can be found here and here. 'In one moment, every drop of blood… read more
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- literature
"I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!"-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"... our endurance must end, and our resistance begin, to-day."-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"You don’t have to speak at all— I know what you’d say… - Laura"-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody."-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
3. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
By: Dee Brown
4.25
Format: 509 pages, Paperback
Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling his… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"It is too often the case,"-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
"We rarely know the full power of words, in print or spoken."-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
"One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.' - Tashunka Witko (Crazy Horse)"-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
"To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself."-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
4. 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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- biography
- history
- christianity
- faith
- nonfiction
- catholic
"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
5. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
By: Jonathan Lethem , G.K. Chesterton
2.67
Format: 166 pages,
G.K. Chesterton's 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a det… read more
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- literature
- philosophy
6. From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians should read the pagan classics
By: Louis A. Markos
3.87
Format: 237 pages, Paperback
"The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact." --C. S. Lewis InFrom Achilles to Christ… read more
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- christianity
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- nonfiction
- history
7. The Moonstone
By: Wilkie Collins , Carolyn G. Heilbrun
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The Moonstone is a page-turner," writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazi… read more
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8. The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King #1-4)
By: T.H. White
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Once upon a time, a young boy called "Wart" was tutored by a magician named Merlyn in preparation f… read more
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9. 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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- nonfiction
- catholic
"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
10. Orphan Train
By: Christina Baker Kline
2.55
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
The author of Bird in Handand The Way Life Should Bedelivers her most ambitious and powerful novel … read more
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11. Orthodoxy
By: G.K. Chesterton
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
Chesterton (The Man Who Knew Too Much) capped his brilliant literary career with this exploration o… read more
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- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
12. Manalive
By: G.K. Chesterton
3.95
Format: 161 pages, Paperback
Perhaps the most light-hearted of all Chesterton's "serious" works, Manalivepits a group of disillu… read more
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- literature
- philosophy
- christianity
13. The Silmarillion
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien , Ted Nasmith
4.01
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien’s world. It is the an… read more
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"Nightingales sang about her wherever she went."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
"The dawn is brief and the day full often belies its promise."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
"All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
"No ames demasiado la obra de tus manos ni las invenciones de tu corazón."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
14. The Complete Thinker: The Marvelous Mind of G.K. Chesterton
By: Dale Ahlquist
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
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15. The Turn of the Screw
By: Henry James
3.39
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format… read more
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"When I'm bad I am bad !"-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"He fairly glittered in the gloom."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"I was ready to know the very worst that was to be known."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"There was something between them." "There was everything."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
16. Joan of Arc
By: Mark Twain
3.81
Format: 263 pages,
"I like Joan of Arcbest of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides,… read more
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17. A Confederacy of Dunces
By: John Kennedy Toole , Walker Percy
3.89
Format: 394 pages, Paperback
Here is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thom… read more
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- literature
"Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!"-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
"Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
"The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
"Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
18. 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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19. Maldita Roma: La conquista del poder de Julio César (Julio César, #2)
By: Santiago Posteguillo
4.70
Format: 896 pages, Hardcover
Maldita Roma es una obra monumental que desvela la épica conquista del poder de Julio César. Un rel… read more
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"Pues ¿qué es la vida sino un largo texto, un largo discurso que vamos construyendo, día a día, sobre nosotros mismos?"-Santiago Posteguillo, Maldita Roma: La conquista del poder de Julio César (Julio César, #2)
20. From Plato to Christ: How Platonic Thought Shaped the Christian Faith
By: Louis A. Markos
3.93
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
What does Plato have to do with the Christian faith? Quite a bit, it turns out. In ways that might … read more
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21. Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton
By: Joseph Pearce
4.48
Format: 522 pages, Paperback
Through years of meticulous research and access to the literary estate of G.K. Chesterton, Joseph P… read more
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- biography memoir
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"but in later life Chesterton made no secret of the fact that he didn’t care for institutionalised learning, describing education as ‘being instructed by somebody I did not know about something I did …"-Joseph Pearce, Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton
