When Poets Pray
By: Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
4.32
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Two dozen select prayer poems to learn from and live with Poetry and prayer are closely related. We…
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By: Wendell Berry
4.38
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
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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
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2. Sing, Unburied, Sing
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.81
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2017 A searing and profound Southern odyssey. In Jesm… read more
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3. Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry
By: Billy Collins , None
3.70
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
A dazzling new anthology of 180 contemporary poems, selected and introduced by America's Poet Laure… read more
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4. 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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5. The Name of the Rose
By: Umberto Eco , Seán Barrett , William Weaver
4.14
Format: 552 pages, Paperback
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother Willi… read more
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"الكتب ليست مجعولة كي نؤمن بما تقوله ولكن لكي نتحرّى فيها."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
"The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
"How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
6. Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Joanna Macy , Anita Barrows
4.12
Format: 29 pages, Paperback
At the beginning of this century, a young German poet returned from a journey to Russia, where he h… read more
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7. Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
By: Donald Miller
3.43
Format: 331 pages,
"I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. I used to not like God because God di… read more
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8. Dog Songs
By: None , Mary Oliver
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Mary Oliver's Dog Songsis a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood th… read more
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9. Blue Lightning (Shetland Island, #4)
By: Ann Cleeves
4.34
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair … read more
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10. 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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11. 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
12. Notes on Grief
By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4.22
Format: 86 pages, Hardcover
Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Ch… read more
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"Je vais parfaitement bien. Et c'était vrai. Jusqu'à ce que cela cesse de l'être."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief
13. Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer
By: Tyler Staton
4.60
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Prayer is the source of Jesus's most astonishing miracles and the subject of Jesus's most audacious… read more
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14. The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe
By: Richard Rohr
4.45
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - With a new afterword - From one of the world's most influential spiritu… read more
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15. Memphis
By: Tara M. Stringfellow
4.10
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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16. Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul: How to Change the World in Quiet Ways
By: Dorcas Cheng-Tozun
4.09
Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition
A timely, delightfully readable, and much-needed book. --Booklist, starred review Social justice w… read more
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17. Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
By: Mick Herron
4.11
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed… read more
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18. Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
By: Mick Herron
4.00
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of MI5 agent… read more
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"This is how River Cartwright slipped off the fast track and joined the slow horses."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"Why am I telling you this?' 'So you'll have an excuse to kill me?' 'That's probably it."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"God,’ said Jackson Lamb. ‘Is it me, or did all the fun go out of everything round about 1979?"-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
19. When Poets Pray
By: Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
4.32
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Two dozen select prayer poems to learn from and live with Poetry and prayer are closely related. We… read more
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- prayer
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