Word into Silence
By: John Main
4.10
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
This book is written to encourage people to "turn aside, " not to avoid or escape life, but to disc…
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1. The Moth Presents All These Wonders: True Stories About Facing the Unknown
By: Neil Gaiman , Catherine Burns , Catherine Burns
4.42
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
From storytelling phenomenon The Moth, 45 unforgettable true stories about risk, courage, and facin… read more
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"No matter how horrible your day is, and no matter how scary your night is, everything can turn on a dime. When there's a knock on the door. And music, and joy, arrive. - Taylor Negron, California Got…"-Neil Gaiman, The Moth Presents All These Wonders: True Stories About Facing the Unknown
2. Introduction to the Devout Life
By: Francis de Sales
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Written for Christians in every walk of life and for every age, St. Francis De Sales' classic work … read more
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"Be who you are and be that well."-Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life
"We are crucified to the world, and the world must be as crucified to us. It esteems us as fools, let us esteem it as mad."-Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life
"The desire and pursuit of virtue tends to make us virtuous, but the desire and pursuit of honors tends to make us odious and despicable."-Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life
"If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show."-Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life
3. Culture
By: Terry Eagleton
3.75
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
One of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamat… read more
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"An opinion is not to be respected simply because somebody holds it. More or less any obnoxious viewpoint one can think up is probably held by somebody somewhere. There are right-wing Afrikaners who b…"-Terry Eagleton, Culture
"Goodness in the form of innocence can render you a pray to others. In a predatory world , it is not always easy to distinguish virtue from guillibility. This is one reason why there is something quai…"-Terry Eagleton, Culture
"Since the language they were writing in was not exactly their own, they tended to approach it with a finer self-consciousness than those lodged securily inside it, a self-consciousness that could the…"-Terry Eagleton, Culture
4. Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart
By: Jacques Philippe
4.74
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
This classic work is a short treatise on peace of heart in a world where restlessness and anxiety t… read more
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"Evil is a mystery, a scandal and it will always be so."-Jacques Philippe, Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart
"The sign of spiritual progress is not so much never falling as it is being able to lift oneself up quickly after one falls."-Jacques Philippe, Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart
"In order to resist fear and discouragement, it is necessary that through prayer - through a personal experience of God re-encountered, recognized and loved in prayer - we taste and see how good the L…"-Jacques Philippe, Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart
"The Lord can leave us wanting relative to certain things (sometimes judged indispensable in the eyes of the world), but He never leaves us deprived of what is essential: His presence, His peace and a…"-Jacques Philippe, Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart
5. Letters to a Young Poet
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell
4.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more
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"Everything is gestation and then birthing."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
6. Living Buddha, Living Christ
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
4.37
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
When you are a truly happy Christian, you are also a Buddhist. And vice versa." -- Thich Nhat Hanh … read more
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7. A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle for the Mastery of the Middle East
By: James Barr
3.33
Format: 170 pages, Hardcover
Through a stellar cast of politicians, diplomats, spies and soldiers - including T.E. Lawrence, Win… read more
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8. Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker's Guide, #3)
By: Douglas Adams
3.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads-so… read more
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9. 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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10. Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
3.16
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The Zen master and one of the world's most beloved teachers returns with a concise, practical guide… read more
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11. The Garden of Forking Paths
By: George Guidall , Jorge Luis Borges
3.31
Format: None pages, Audiobook
"The Garden of Forking Paths" (original Spanish title: "El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan") is … read more
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12. Practical Mysticism
By: Evelyn Underhill
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Practical Mysticism is a work by one of the foremost 20th century Christian mystics, Evelyn Underhi… read more
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13. The Practice of the Presence of God
By: Brother Lawrence
4.32
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover edition of ISBN 0883681056 can be found here Brother Lawrence was a man of hum… read more
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"We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed."-Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God
"We must know before we can love. In order to know God, we must often think of Him; and when we come to love Him, we shall then also think of Him often, for our heart will be with our treasure."-Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God
" Prayer is so simple. It is like quietly opening a door and slipping into the very presence of God. There, in the stillness, to listen to His voice, perhaps in petition or only to listen. It matters …"-Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God
"That with him the set times of prayer were not different from other times: that he retired to pray, according to the directions of his Superior, but that he did not want such retirement. nor ask for …"-Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God
14. The Gift of the Magi
By: O. Henry , Lisbeth Zwerger
4.11
Format: 26 pages, Hardcover
O. Henry's classic tale of the wisest gifts of Christmas is itself a gift to share and treasure. … read more
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"Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating."-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi
"There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl."-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi
"There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with snif…"-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi
"Единственное, что тут можно было сделать, это хлопнуться на старенькую кушетку и зареветь. Именно так Делла и поступила. Откуда напрашивается философский вывод, что жизнь состоит из слез, вздохов и у…"-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi
15. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
By: Susanna Clarke
1.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sophisticated, witty, and ingeniously convincing, Susanna Clarke's magisterial novel weaves magic i… read more
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16. Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
By: Tiago Forte
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
>For the first time in history, we have instantaneous access to the world’s knowledge. There has ne… read more
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17. The Problem of Pain
By: C.S. Lewis
4.13
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
For centuries people have been tormented by one question above all: If God is good and all-powerful… read more
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"Man is to be understood only in his relation to God."-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
"Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God."-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
"Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them."-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
"Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him."-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
18. Roland in Moonlight
By: David Bentley Hart
4.48
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
As everyone knows, the bond between homo sapiens sapiens and canis lupus familiaris has travers… read more
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19. Word into Silence
By: John Main
4.10
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
This book is written to encourage people to "turn aside, " not to avoid or escape life, but to disc… read more
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