The Book of Exodus: A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books)
By: Joel S. Baden
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An essential biography of one of the Bible's most powerful and inspiring books Exodus is the sec…
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1. The Left Hand of Darkness
By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Lech Jęczmyk
4.10
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human… read more
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"The king was pregnant."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"Truth is a matter of the imagination."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"The light is the left hand of darkness"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
2. Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today
By: N.T. Wright
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today, Widely respected Bible and Jesu… read more
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"Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going."-N.T. Wright, Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today
"The "word" did not "offer itself" in a take-it-or-leave-it fashion, any more than Caesar's heralds would have said, "If you'd like a new kind of imperial experience, you might like to try giving alle…"-N.T. Wright, Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today
"Many in the church have turned their back on serious study, and have embraced an anti-intellectualism which refuses to learn anything from scholarship at all lest it corrupt their pure faith. It is t…"-N.T. Wright, Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today
"The gospel by which individuals come to personal faith, and so to that radical transformation of life spoken of so often in the new Testament, is the personalizing of the larger challenge just mentio…"-N.T. Wright, Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today
3. Stories of Your Life and Others
By: Ted Chiang
4.26
Format: 281 pages, ebook
What if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven-and broke through to Heaven's other side? What if we… read more
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"Pragmatism avails a savior far more than aestheticism."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
"Living with you will be like aiming for a moving target; you'll always be further along than I expect."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
"I remember when you'll be a month old, and I'll stumble out of bed to give you your 2:00 a.m. feeding."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
"Maturity means seeing the differences, but realizing they don’t matter. There’s no technological shortcut."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
4. Faithful and Virtuous Night
By: Louise Glück
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry A luminous, seductive new collection from the "fe… read more
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5. The Great Divorce
By: C.S. Lewis
4.31
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0-00-746123-3 C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is a classic Christi… read more
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"Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?"-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
"Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good."-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
"There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him."-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
"I cannot love a lie," said the Lady. "I cannot love the thing which is not. I am in Love, and out of it I will not go."-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
6. The Mystery of the Yellow Room
By: Gaston Leroux
3.64
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
The young lady had just retired to her room when sounds of a struggle ensue, and cries of "Murder!"… read more
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7. Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
4.27
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
After his martyrdom at the hands of the Gestapo in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer continued his witness … read more
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- religion
- theology
"God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth."-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
"We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts."-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
"It is only when he is a burden that another person is really a brother and not merely an object to be manipulated"-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
"The Church does not need brilliant personalities but faithful servants of Jesus and the brethren. Not in the former but in the latter is the lack."-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
8. 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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9. Outline
By: Rachel Cusk
4.20
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own cir… read more
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10. The Turn of the Screw
By: Henry James
3.39
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format… read more
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"When I'm bad I am bad !"-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"He fairly glittered in the gloom."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"I was ready to know the very worst that was to be known."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"There was something between them." "There was everything."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
11. The Book of Job: A Biography
By: None
3.88
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Book of Job raises stark questions about the nature and meaning of innocent suffering and the r… read more
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12. O Pioneers!
By: Willa Cather
3.90
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
O Pioneers! (1913) was Willa Cather's first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged ma… read more
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"Things away from home often look better than they are."-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
"There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before."-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
"Neither Oscar nor Lou has changed much; they have simply, as Alexandra said of them long ago, grown to be more and more like themselves."-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
"We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it -- for a little while."-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
13. The Pursuit of God
By: A.W. Tozer
3.80
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
During a train trip from Chicago to Texas in the late 1940s, A.W. Tozer began to write The Pursuit … read more
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14. Dark Star (Night Soldiers, #2)
By: Alan Furst
4.34
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
Paris, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague, 1937. In the back alleys of nighttime Europe, war is already und… read more
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15. Autumn
By: Karl Ove Knausgård , Ingvild Burkey , Vanessa Baird
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the author of the monumental My Struggleseries, Karl Ove Knausgaard, one of the masters of con… read more
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16. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.00
Format: 592 pages,
All the Pretty Horsestells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Acr… read more
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17. The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)
By: Becky Chambers
4.41
Format: 336 pages, ebook
With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has g… read more
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"The gendered expectations of parenting were dissolving, but even though women could be found working in creches now, there was still an enormous difference between the person who produced an egg and …"-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)
"In traditional Aeluon culture, a mother was not a parent. Parents were men and shon. Parents went to school for it. Parents were the people who actually raised children, not those who had done the ea…"-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)
"Then, what is your reason?' 'I don't know!' Pei rubbed her face in frustration. 'There is no reason why I don't want to do this! I'm healthy! I'm clearly capable! Everybody I know who's ever gone to …"-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)
"Just because there’s no one living on a planet does not mean it’s yours for the taking. Do you not see how dangerous that mindset is? Do you not think that treating the galaxy as if it is something t…"-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)
18. The Anomaly
By: Hervé Le Tellier
3.81
Format: 391 pages, Paperback
A virtuoso novel where logic confronts magic and that explores the part of ourselves that eludes us… read more
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"Le vrai pessimiste sait qu'il est déjà trop tard pour l'être."-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly
"Aimer évite au moins de chercher sans cesse un sens à sa vie."-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly
"Es gibt ein Leben nach dem Tod, besonders nach dem der anderen."-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly
"Une traduction est une œuvre, les traducteurs sont des auteurs."-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly
19. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.87
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more
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"I would like to belong but I dont."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
20. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
21. The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)
By: Anthony Horowitz
4.09
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fourth literary whodunit followin… read more
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"It's an interesting paradox. The more humane the critics, the more hurtful their opinions."-Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)
"Harriet distorted everything. It was a sort of ownership. She made the entire world her own..."-Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)
22. Light from Uncommon Stars
By: Ryka Aoki
4.06
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian … read more
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"Lindsey Stirling?"-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars
"I shall make you feel all the joy, the terror in loving who you are."-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars
"A sandwich that is more than a sandwich. Coffee that is more than coffee."-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars
"When you rush, all you are doing is practicing your mistakes at a faster pace."-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars
23. A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
By: Arkady Martine
4.12
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to disco… read more
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"made in blood, acclaimed in sunlight."-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
"Released, I am a spear in the hands of the sun."-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
"An end to empires. An immovable object to crash an impossible force upon, and break it."-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
"The problem with sending messages was that people responded to them, which meant one had to write more messages in reply."-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
24. The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
By: Benjamin Lorr
3.95
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
This book is an investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store. What… read more
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25. Live No Lies: Recognize and Resist the Three Enemies That Sabotage Your Peace
By: John Mark Comer
4.49
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
We are at war. Not with a foreign government or domestic terrorists or a creepy new artificial inte… read more
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- religion
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"Anxious to avoid a repeat of history, Edmund Burke laid out the logic behind the American architecture in a letter from 1791: "Men are qualified for civil liberty, in exact proportion to their dispos…"-John Mark Comer, Live No Lies: Recognize and Resist the Three Enemies That Sabotage Your Peace
26. 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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27. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
By: Jon Meacham
4.46
Format: 676 pages, Hardcover
The life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln, exploring why and how Lincoln confronted secession… read more
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28. Scandalous Witness: A Little Political Manifesto for Christians
By: Lee C. Camp
4.32
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Christian identity is in moral and political crisis, scandalized by the many ways in which it has b… read more
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29. The Book of Exodus: A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books)
By: Joel S. Baden
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An essential biography of one of the Bible's most powerful and inspiring books Exodus is the sec… read more
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- history
- religion
- theology
