Unexpected Abundance: The Fruitful Lives of Women without Children
By: Elizabeth Felicetti
4.50
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Meet 25 women who generated life without giving birth. In many Christian communities today, wome…
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1. The Diary of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #1)
By: Shaun Bythell
3.72
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100… read more
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- nonfiction
"the immersive capacity of a good novel to transport you into a different world is unique to the written word."-Shaun Bythell, The Diary of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #1)
"...people still cling to the notion that first editions are somehow imbued with a magical and financial value."-Shaun Bythell, The Diary of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #1)
"I am putting a mental jigsaw together of what a hobbit looks like, based on a composite of every customer I have ever sold a copy to."-Shaun Bythell, The Diary of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #1)
"A less than friendly email this morning... [from a booksop customer] After lunch I went to my parents' house to get my shotgun and shoot a kindle (broken screen, bought on eBay for £10)"-Shaun Bythell, The Diary of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #1)
2. Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith
By: Barbara Brown Taylor
3.95
Format: 768 pages, Paperback
By now I expected to be a seasoned parish minister, wearing black clergy shirts grown gray from fre… read more
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- faith
- nonfiction
3. The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Make Your Loved Ones’ Lives Easier and Your Own Life More Pleasant
By: Margareta Magnusson
3.59
Format: 251 pages, Hardcover
Funny, wise, and deeply practical, Swedish artist Margareta Magnusson offers advice on how to declu… read more
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- nonfiction
4. The Beach Club
By: Elin Hilderbrand
4.57
Format: 102 pages, Hardcover
In this juicy first novel by a talented newcomer, a series of personal dramas are played out during… read more
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5. Once Upon a Wardrobe
By: Patti Callahan Henry
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
College student Megs Devonshire sets out to fulfill her younger brother George’s last wish by uncov… read more
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"The way stories change us can't be explained,' Padraig says. 'It can only be felt. Like love."-Patti Callahan Henry, Once Upon a Wardrobe
"Because even with the dark and the light parts and the good parts and the bad parts, dinner must still be served."-Patti Callahan Henry, Once Upon a Wardrobe
"The fantastic and the imaginative aren't escapism . . . Good stories introduce the marvelous. The whole story, paradoxically, strengthens our relish for real life. This excursion sends us back with r…"-Patti Callahan Henry, Once Upon a Wardrobe
6. The First Ladies
By: Marie Benedict
4.04
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights a… read more
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7. How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
By: Harrison Scott Key
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, How to Stay Married tells … read more
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"He was "as deep as bro country and possessed all the charm of an unsalted potato."-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
"I play the drums, an instrument that has caused more divorces than any other musical instrument in history, after the banjo."-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
"The memories do not dissolve. They cohere into captivating art films that play endlessly in the International Infidelity Film Festival of my mind."-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
"Coco will be gone in less than two years and Pippi and Ginsburg not long after, and then it'll just be the two of us again and this weird-ass marriage."-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
8. Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction
By: Jarrett J. Krosoczka
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy.… read more
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"I AM WHO I AM IN SPITE OF MY MOTHER, BUT I ALSO AM WHO I AM BECAUSE OF HER."-Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction
"I NOW KNOW WHAT JOE MEANT WHEN HE ALWAYS SAID THAT HIS PARENTS WOULD'VE LOVED ME."-Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction
"I AM NOW LIVING OUT MY CHILDHOOD DREAMS OF MAKING A LIVING AS AN AUTHOR AND AN ARTIST, BUT IT IS A GREATER TRIUMPH FOR ME TO HAVE CREATED A STABLE, LOVING HOME WITH MY WIFE."-Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction
"When you're a kid and a teen, you're not in control of your circumstances. But the beautiful thing about growing up is that you get to create your own reality and your own family. That family might b…"-Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction
9. Murder on the Christmas Express
By: Alexandra Benedict
3.16
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Eighteen passengers. Seven stops. One killer.In the early hours of Christmas Eve, the sleeper train… read more
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10. Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain
By: Andrew McCarthy
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, funny, and poignant travel memoir following New York Times bestselling author and ac… read more
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- nonfiction
11. Good Different
By: Meg Eden Kuyatt
4.52
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A extraordinary novel-in-verse about a neurodivergent girl who comes to understand and celebrate he… read more
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"Fight for words, even if it's hard."-Meg Eden Kuyatt, Good Different
"You may have different needs than some folks in your class, but that doesn't make you the «wrong» version and other people the «normal» version. You are Selah. And you are not the only one feeling t…"-Meg Eden Kuyatt, Good Different
12. 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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- womens
- nonfiction
- faith
"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
13. Find Your People: Building Deep Community in a Lonely World
By: Jennie Allen
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The New York Times bestselling author of Get Out of Your Head offers practical solutions for creati… read more
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- faith
- nonfiction
14. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
By: Sarah McCammon
4.21
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more
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- nonfiction
15. No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
By: Kate Bowler
4.13
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I've Loved) asks, how do … read more
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- faith
- nonfiction
"We live and we are loved and we are gone."-Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
"Nothing will exempt me from the pain of being human."-Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
"People say carpe diem. I mean, yes, unless you need a nap."-Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
"I feel a spark of horror each time I remember it: we come undone."-Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
16. The Labors of Hercules Beal
By: Gary D. Schmidt
4.53
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt, a warm and witty novel in the tradition of The Wednesday… read more
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"And when Achilles went inside the Vampire said to me, "You all right?" I nodded. "I'm okay." "Okay is good enough for now," she said."-Gary D. Schmidt, The Labors of Hercules Beal
"Most people don't think we even look like brothers," I said. "You do when you're asleep," she said. "Your face relaxes, and you stop worrying, and all that grit you two carry around falls away, and y…"-Gary D. Schmidt, The Labors of Hercules Beal
17. This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
By: Cole Arthur Riley
4.63
Format: 203 pages, Hardcover
In her stunning debut, the creator of Black Liturgies weaves stories from three generations of her … read more
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- faith
- nonfiction
"Anxiety is not a passive predator."-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
"Rest is an act of defiance, and it cannot be predicated on apology."-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
"In community, we can push back on the expectation that we exhaust ourselves."-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
"Those who believe love is a scarcity are less likely to give it away freely."-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
18. Tell Me Everything
By: Minka Kelly
4.31
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“A timely, urgent portrait of working-class American women.”—Gabrielle UnionMinka Kelly takes reade… read more
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- nonfiction
19. The Water Dancer
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.06
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here and here. Young Hiram Walker was bo… read more
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"...it was never the costume that made the Quality, but how the lady wore it."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
"It's like summer wear the world out, and by October everyone is just ready for a nap"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
"The tree of our family was parted - branches here, roots there - parted for their lumber."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
"And by then, I well knew what would be done upon that land, how the sin of theft would be multiplied by the sin of bondage."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
20. The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
By: Sarah Ogilvie
3.88
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, … read more
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- nonfiction
"Murray took Dictionary work with him to the hospital when Ada was giving birth. If you look at page 2, column 1 of the first volume of the printed Dictionary, twenty-third line from the bottom, you w…"-Sarah Ogilvie, The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
21. How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
By: Esau McCaulley
4.62
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black… read more
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- faith
- nonfiction
"There is no Black faith that doesn't wrestle with the problem of evil. My reply to these questions is: We who have suffered must have some say in how that suffering is interpreted. We won the right, …"-Esau McCaulley, How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
22. Unwinding Anxiety
By: Judson Brewer
3.91
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
A step-by-step plan clinically proven to break the cycle of worry and fear that drives anxiety and … read more
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- nonfiction
23. The Witch Elm
By: Tana French
3.57
Format: 528 pages, ebook
Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who's dodged a scrape at work and is celebrating with friends when… read more
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"Once the fear took hold, I was fucked. I'd never known anything like it could exist: all-consuming, ravenous, a whirling black vortex that sucked me under so completely and mercilessly that it truly …"-Tana French, The Witch Elm
"The wych elm's whole crown was gone, only the trunk left, thick stubs of branches poking out obscenely. It should have looked pathetic, but instead it had a new, condensed force: some great malformed…"-Tana French, The Witch Elm
"Then all the sharp intricate peaks on the monitor smoothed out to clean straight lines and my father made a terrible growling sound, but even without any of that I would have known, because the air a…"-Tana French, The Witch Elm
"Once the fear took hold, I was fucked. I'd never known anything like it could exist: all-consuming, ravenous, a whirling black vortex that sucked me under so completely and mercilessly that it truly …"-Tana French, The Witch Elm
24. We Are the Light
By: Matthew Quick
3.79
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
LIFE IS FULL OF GUARDIAN ANGELS. Lucas Goodgame lives in Majestic, Pennsylvania, a quaint suburb… read more
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"The best part of my soul loves the best part of your soul."-Matthew Quick, We Are the Light
25. Enemies in the Orchard
By: Dana VanderLugt
4.49
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Set against the backdrop of WWII, this achingly beautiful middle grade novel in verse based on Amer… read more
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"I may be blemished but I am not rotten to the core."-Dana VanderLugt, Enemies in the Orchard
"If I didn’t think too hard or ask too many questions, it was easy. p. 63"-Dana VanderLugt, Enemies in the Orchard
"Like the day I was captured, I want to raise my arms, show this woman and this girl my empty hands. p. 49"-Dana VanderLugt, Enemies in the Orchard
"Avoiding the truth, avoiding the responsibility that comes with admitting the truth, can seem a lot easier than being brave."-Dana VanderLugt, Enemies in the Orchard
26. My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church
By: Amy Kenny
4.20
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Much of the church has forgotten that we worship a disabled God whose wounds survived resurrection,… read more
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- faith
- nonfiction
27. The Love That Is God: An Invitation to Christian Faith
By: Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt
4.44
Format: 147 pages, Paperback
“God is love is the radical claim of Christianity,” writes Frederick Bauerschmidt at the beginni… read more
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- faith
- nonfiction
28. Good Enough: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection
By: Kate Bowler
4.46
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A compassionate, intelligent, and wry series of Christian daily reflectio… read more
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- faith
- nonfiction
29. Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul: Celtic Wisdom for Reawakening to What Our Souls Know and Healing the World
By: John Philip Newell
4.35
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A leading spiritual teacher reveals how Celtic spirituality—listening to the sacred around us and i… read more
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- nonfiction
30. Unexpected Abundance: The Fruitful Lives of Women without Children
By: Elizabeth Felicetti
4.50
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Meet 25 women who generated life without giving birth. In many Christian communities today, wome… read more
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- womens
- nonfiction
- faith
31. End of the Christian Life
By: J. Todd Billings
4.45
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
We're all going to die. Yet in our medically advanced, technological age, many of us see death as a… read more
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- faith
- nonfiction
"Unlike politicians, the Lord is not pivoting his plans on the basis of poll numbers."-J. Todd Billings, End of the Christian Life
"Unless we frankly recognize that Christ's birth and resurrection come forth from places of hopelessness and helplessness, we've not understood their meaning."-J. Todd Billings, End of the Christian Life
