The Good Life: Ethics and the Pursuit of Happiness
By: Herbert McCabe
4.18
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The Dalai Lama once wrote that the object of human existence was to be happy. This sounds extremely…
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1. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
By: Flannery O'Connor
4.17
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
This now classic book revealed Flannery O'Connor as one of the most original and provocative writer… read more
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"The trouble with the world was that nobody stopped or took any care."-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
"He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly."-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
"The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don't hold nothing back."-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
"We're all damned," she said, “but some of us have taken off our blindfolds and see that there’s nothing to see. It’s a kind of salvation."-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
2. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
By: Joshua Foer
3.88
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our con… read more
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"learning texts is worth doing not because it's easy but because it's hard."-Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
"A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense."-Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
"If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember."-Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
"What better way to try to begin to understand the nature and meaning of human memory than to investigate its absence?"-Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
3. Apologia Pro Vita Sua
By: John Henry Newman
3.41
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
A highly influential figure in the Church of England, John Henry Newman stunned the Anglican commun… read more
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4. Natural Goodness
By: Philippa Foot
4.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Philippa Foot has for many years been one of the most distinctive and influential thinkers in moral… read more
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- philosophy
5. 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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6. The Brothers Karamazov
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.37
Format: 796 pages, Paperback
The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more
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"How good life is when one does something good and just!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
7. The Power and the Glory
By: John Updike , Graham Greene
3.13
Format: 192 pages,
How does goodspoil, and how can badbe redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, G… read more
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8. The End of the Affair
By: Graham Greene , Monica Ali
3.90
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look… read more
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"As long as one suffers one lives."-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
"I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist."-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
"Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?"-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
"I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend."-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
9. Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
By: C.S. Lewis
4.19
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Lifeis a partial autobiography describing Lewis' conversion… read more
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10. The Abolition of Man
By: C.S. Lewis
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0060652944 The Abolition of Man, Lewis uses his graceful prose, del… read more
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11. Leisure: The Basis Of Culture
By: Josef Pieper
4.32
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
One of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Josef Pieper's Leis… read more
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12. Social Acceleration - A New Theory of Modernity
By: Hartmut Rosa
3.95
Format: 473 pages,
Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of criti… read more
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13. Faithful: A Theology of Sex
By: Beth Felker Jones , Gene L. Green
4.00
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
Many believers accept traditional Christian sexual morality but have very little idea why it matter… read more
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14. Reading the Old Testament with the Ancient Church: Exploring the Formation of Early Christian Thought
By: None
4.02
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
The contemporary church dismisses Christianity's foundational Scriptures at its own peril. However,… read more
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15. Macbeth
By: William Shakespeare
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
What he hears will change everything. Egged on by his wife, he decides to kill in order to gain the… read more
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"What, you egg?"-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"What's done, is done"-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"What's done cannot be undone."-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"What, you egg? / [He stabs him.]"-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
16. The Four Loves
By: C.S. Lewis
4.17
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A repackaged edition of the revered author's classic work that examines the four types of human lov… read more
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"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date."-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"To know that one is dreaming is to be no longer perfectly asleep."-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"El amor empieza a ser un demonio desde el momento en que comienza a ser un dios."-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often."-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
17. Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
By: Zena Hitz
3.65
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life … read more
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"The idea that real and serous learning is something practiced only by a small elite is stubborn and hard to displace."-Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
"For those of us without the strength or the insight to choose for ourselves such quiet, withdrawn places, failure is perhaps the best-trod route to inwardness."-Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
18. Tradition and Apocalypse: An Essay on the Future of Christian Belief
By: David Bentley Hart
4.11
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In the two thousand years that have elapsed since the time of Christ, Christians have been as much … read more
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19. An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital
By: Michael Heinrich
4.20
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The global economic crisis and recession that began in 2008 had at least one unexpected outcome: a … read more
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20. The Dream of Gerontius
By: John Henry Newman
4.24
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
The Dream of Gerontius, first published in 1865, is Cardinal Newman's epic poem describing the desc… read more
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21. The Doctrine of Scripture
By: Brad East
4.61
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
When Holy Scripture is read aloud in the liturgy, the church confesses with joy and thanksgiving th… read more
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22. The Good Life: Ethics and the Pursuit of Happiness
By: Herbert McCabe
4.18
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The Dalai Lama once wrote that the object of human existence was to be happy. This sounds extremely… read more
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