Women of the Catholic Imagination: Twelve Inspired Novelists You Should Know
By: Haley Stewart
4.36
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
There is no lack of talented women in the Catholic literary tradition. Yet these brilliant writers …
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1. The Ninth Hour
By: Alice McDermott
3.59
Format: 247 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent new novel from one of America’s finest writers—a powerfully affecting story spanning … read more
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2. Hannah Coulter
By: Wendell Berry
4.38
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry's seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman charac… read more
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"Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"Living right on called for nothing out of the ordinary. We made no changes. We only accepted the changes as they came."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
3. The Wife (Kristin Lavransdatter, #2)
By: Tiina Nunnally , Sigrid Undset , Sherrill Harbison
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Original 3 Volumes: Kransen ('20), Husfrue ('21) & Korset ('22). In Kristin Lavransdatter(1920-22),… read more
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4. Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
3.84
Format: 212 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The stark naked body was lying in the tub. Not unusual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for … read more
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"But if you were investigating a crime,"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)
"Well, it’s no good jumping at conclusions."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)
"Oh damn!' said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)
"I trust you told her I had succumbed to lethargic encephalitis suddenly, no flowers by request."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)
5. After This
By: Alice McDermott
3.86
Format: 302 pages,
A vivid portrait of an American family in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Alice McDerm… read more
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6. The Blue Castle
By: L.M. Montgomery
3.94
Format: 255 pages,
Valancy lives a drab life with her overbearing mother and prying aunt. Then a shocking diagnosis fr… read more
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7. The Spirit of the Liturgy
By: Pope Benedict XVI , Jon Saward , Joseph Ratzinger
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Considered by Ratzinger devotees as his greatest work on the Liturgy, this profound and beautifully… read more
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- nonfiction
- catholic
8. The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
By: Susan Wise Bauer
3.42
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting his… read more
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9. A Canticle for Leibowitz
By: Walter M. Miller Jr.
3.39
Format: 414 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, po… read more
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10. Bad Girls of the Bible: And What We Can Learn from Them
By: Liz Curtis Higgs
3.70
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
Women everywhere marvel at those good girls in Scripture--Sarah, Mary, Esther--but on most days, th… read more
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- nonfiction
11. Strong Poison (Lord Peter Wimsey, #6)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
3.40
Format: 96 pages,
Mystery novelist Harriet Vane knew all about poisons, and when her fiance died in the manner prescr… read more
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12. The Snake Pit (The Master of Hestviken, #2)
By: Sigrid Undset
4.31
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Set in medieval Norway, the books follow Olav and Ingunn, who, though raised as brother and sister,… read more
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13. Babette's Feast
By: Isak Dinesen , Karen Blixen
3.48
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
With the mysterious arrival of Babette, a refugee from France's civil war, life for two pious siste… read more
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14. The Summer House: A Trilogy
By: Alice Thomas Ellis
3.43
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
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15. Slightly Bad Girls of the Bible: Flawed Women Loved by a Flawless God
By: Liz Curtis Higgs
4.50
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Good Women Behaving Badly A spiteful boss, a defiant employee, a manipulative mother, a desperate h… read more
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16. Peace Like a River
By: Leif Enger
4.09
Format: 315 pages,
Once in a great while, we encounter a novel in our voluminous reading that begs to be read aloud. L… read more
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17. 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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18. Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
By: L.M. Montgomery
4.17
Format: 227 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780553213188 Anne's own true love, Gilbert Blythe, … read more
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"…but youth yearned to youth."-L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
"We belong to the race that knows Joseph"-L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
"Death grows friendlier as we grow older."-L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
"It takes all kinds of people to make a world."-L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
19. The Confession of Brother Haluin (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #15)
By: Ellis Peters
4.33
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Brother Cadfael is witness to a shocking near-death confession and accompanies a fellow Benedictine… read more
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20. The Ghost Keeper
By: Natalie Morrill
3.74
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Winner of the HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction, this powerful, sweeping novel set in Vi… read more
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21. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.00
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more
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"Here my last love had died."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"No one is ever holy without suffering."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"I had been there before; I knew all about it."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
22. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
By: Abigail Shrier
4.06
Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition
In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous g… read more
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"Children’s and adolescents’ sense of self is still developing. They cannot correct the interpretations or recommendations of a therapist."-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
"When I agreed with my therapist, I told her so. When I didn’t, we talked about that. And when I felt I needed to move on, I did. Which is to say: I was an adult in therapy. I had swum life’s choppy w…"-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
23. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
24. O Caledonia
By: Elspeth Barker
3.98
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
In the tradition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern … read more
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25. The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
By: Ellis Peters
4.17
Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition
The winter of 1139 will disrupt Brother Cadfael’s tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disturb… read more
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"Love shared is no sin."-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
"There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful."-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
26. With All Her Mind: A Call to the Intellectual Life
By: Rachel Bulman
4.40
Format: 154 pages, Kindle Edition
“The feminine genius,” a term coined by Pope St. John Paul II, has become something of a buzzword i… read more
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- catholic
27. 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
28. Women of the Catholic Imagination: Twelve Inspired Novelists You Should Know
By: Haley Stewart
4.36
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
There is no lack of talented women in the Catholic literary tradition. Yet these brilliant writers … read more
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29. The Aeneid
By: Virgil
3.87
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately ve… read more
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"Death's brother, sleep."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"No help or hope of help existed."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco."-Virgil, The Aeneid
30. You're Worth It!
By: Danielle Bean
4.22
Format: 116 pages, Kindle Edition
CHANGE THE WAY YOU FEEL ABOUT YOURSELF BY DISCOVERING HOW JESUS FEELS ABOUT YOU I don't know why th… read more
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31. Poems Every Child Should Know
By: Joseph Pearce
5.00
Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition
Poetry is meant for everyone. For you. For your child. But where to start? Poems Every Child Shou… read more
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