Wild Woman: A Footnote, the Desert, and My Quest for an Elusive Saint
By: Amy Frykholm
4.11
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
Runaway. Castaway. Prostitute. Hermit. Desert dweller. Saint. Boundary breaker. Archetypal wild wom…
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1. 20th Century Ghosts
By: Christopher Golden , Joe Hill
3.65
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A collection of short stories. Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and kno… read more
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2. The Egyptian Book of the Dead
By: Anonymous , E.A. Wallis Budge
3.86
Format: 445 pages, Hardcover
s/t: The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum; the Egyptian Text with Interlinear Transliteration &… read more
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- spirituality
3. The Last Week: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Final Days in Jerusalem
By: John Dominic Crossan , Marcus J. Borg
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
Top Jesus scholars Marcus J. Borg & John Dominic Crossan reveal a radical & little-known Jesus. As … read more
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4. The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery
By: Ian Morgan Cron , Suzanne Stabile
4.21
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
Ignorance is bliss except in self-awareness... What you don't know about yourself can hurt you a… read more
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"The Enneagram is a tool that awakens our compassion for people just as they are, not the people we wish they would become so our lives would become easier."-Ian Morgan Cron, The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery
5. The Way of the Heart: The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers
By: Henri J.M. Nouwen
3.94
Format: 489 pages, Paperback
Henry J.M. Nouwen, one of the greatest of all spiritual writers, invites us to search deeply for th… read more
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6. Interior Castle
By: Teresa de Ávila
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A cornerstone book on mystical theology, Interior Castledescribes the seven stages of union with Go… read more
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7. Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
By: Rachel Held Evans
4.39
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
One Woman’s Journey Back to Loving the Bible If the Bible isn’t a science book or an instructio… read more
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"How could I love God with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength while disengaging those very faculties every time I read the Bible?"-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
"The point is, if you pay attention to the women, a more complex history of Israel's conquests emerges. Their stories invite the reader to consider the human cost of violence and patriarchy, and in th…"-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
"In other words, the prophets are weirdos. More than anyone else in Scripture, they remind us that those odd ducks shouting from the margins of society may see things more clearly than the political a…"-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
"What I love about the Bible is that the story isn't over. There are still prophets in our midst. There are still dragons and beasts. It might not look like it, but the Resistance is winning. The ligh…"-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
8. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4.30
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more
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9. All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
By: Beth Moore
4.47
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Wall Street Journal bestseller! An incredibly thoughtful,… read more
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"Once you've broken to pieces, the luxury of imagining yourself unbreakable evaporates."-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
"You want to know how to love me? Love my children. You want to be good to me? Be good to my children."-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
"A teenager doesn't know she's still a child. A teenager feels like an adult, I suppose primarily because her outside, her flesh and her face, her body, her size, her width and height, look like - and…"-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
10. The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
By: Beth Allison Barr
4.40
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
Biblical womanhood--the belief that God designed women to be submissive wives, virtuous mothers, an… read more
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"Glorifying the past because we like the story better isn't history; it's propaganda."-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
"When we differentiate women because of their sex, we objectify them and deny them their humanity."-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
"Like racism, patriarchy is a shapeshifter—conforming to each new era, looking as if it has always belonged."-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
"Historically, one of the greatest problems for women is that we do not remember our past and we do not work together to change our future. We do not stand together. But what if we did?"-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
11. The Hidden One (Kate Burkholder, #14)
By: Linda Castillo
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The discovery of an Amish bishop's remains leads chief of police Kate Burkholder to unearth a chill… read more
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12. Wild Mercy
By: Mirabai Starr
4.25
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
We live in a world that has suffered the abuses of an unbalanced masculine rule for thousands of ye… read more
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"Our capacity to forgive is our superpower."-Mirabai Starr, Wild Mercy
"When we show up to make art, we need to get still enough to hear what wants to be expressed though us, and then we need to step out of the way and let it. We must be willing to abide in a space of no…"-Mirabai Starr, Wild Mercy
"The more you turn inward, the more available the sacred becomes. when you sit in. silence and turn your gaze toward the holy mystery you once called God, the mystery follows you back out into the wor…"-Mirabai Starr, Wild Mercy
"Mystics seem to have no shame about contradicting themselves left and right. They blithely proclaim that the cure for pain is in the pain itself and that the cry of longing is the sigh of merging. Th…"-Mirabai Starr, Wild Mercy
13. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
By: Katherine May
3.62
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more
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"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
14. A Guide to True Peace: or A Method of Attaining to Inward and Spiritual Prayer
By: François Fénelon
4.48
Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition
Originally published 200 years ago, this devotional classic teaches that Christians experience true… read more
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15. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
By: Camille T. Dungy
4.19
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Boo… read more
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16. Shady Hollow (Shady Hollow, #1)
By: Juneau Black
3.80
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
The first book in the Shady Hollow series, in which we are introduced to the village of Shady Hollo… read more
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17. Freeing Jesus: Rediscovering Jesus as Friend, Teacher, Savior, Lord, Way, and Presence
By: Diana Butler Bass
4.27
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of Grateful goes beyond the culture wars to offer a refreshing take on t… read more
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18. Ms. Demeanor
By: Elinor Lipman
3.46
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From one of America's most beloved contemporary novelists, a delicious and witty story about love u… read more
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19. Braving the Thin Places: Celtic Wisdom to Create a Space for Grace
By: Julianne Stanz
4.29
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
2023 Illumination Book Awards Gold Medalist, Spirituality 2023 Independent Press Awards Winner, Spi… read more
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20. The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh
By: Claudia Gray
4.10
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
The third book in the Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney Mystery series, which finds the amateur sleuths facin… read more
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21. Wild Woman: A Footnote, the Desert, and My Quest for an Elusive Saint
By: Amy Frykholm
4.11
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
Runaway. Castaway. Prostitute. Hermit. Desert dweller. Saint. Boundary breaker. Archetypal wild wom… read more
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