The Virgin Mary: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: Mary Joan Winn Leith
3.74
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Virgin Mary - a Jewish mother - is central to Christianity, a revered woman in Islam, and a per…
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1. Is God a Moral Monster? Making Sense of the Old Testament God
By: Paul Copan
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A recent string of popular-level books written by the New Atheists have leveled the accusation that… read more
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"You've probably heard the complaint, “Jesus never said anything about the wrongness of slavery." Not so! Jesus explicitly opposed every form of oppression. Citing Isaiah 61:1, Jesus clearly described…"-Paul Copan, Is God a Moral Monster? Making Sense of the Old Testament God
2. The Castle of Otranto
By: Horace Walpole
3.18
Format: 125 pages, Paperback
First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more
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"My soul abhors a falsehood"-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"This life is but a pilgrimage."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
3. The Didache
By: Anonymous
3.00
Format: 76 pages, Kindle Edition
The Teaching of the Twelve- an early Christian compilation. Traditionally ascribed to the Twelve Ap… read more
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4. The Consolation of Philosophy
By: Boethius , None
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek … read more
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5. The English Assassin (Gabriel Allon, #2)
By: Daniel Silva
3.89
Format: 432 pages,
The Unlikely Spy, Daniel Silva's extraordinary debut novel, was applauded by critics as it rocketed… read more
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6. The Trouble with Being Born
By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran
4.53
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
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7. Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
By: Nadia Bolz-Weber
3.76
Format: 6 pages, ebook
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER What if that person you've been trying to avoid is your best shot at grac… read more
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8. Ethan Frome
By: Edith Wharton
2.00
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his dif… read more
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9. The Confession of Saint Patrick
By: John O'Donohue , Patrick of Ireland , John Skinner
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The autobiography of one of the most popular saints in history, now available in a new translation.… read more
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10. The Prose Edda
By: Snorri Sturluson , Jesse L. Byock
3.56
Format: None pages, Paperback
'What was the beginning, or how did things start? What was there before?' The Prose Eddais the most… read more
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11. Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
By: Thérèse of Lisieux , John Clarke
4.42
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
This book, first published in 1898 in a highly edited version, quickly became a modern spiritual cl… read more
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"Love lives only by sacrifice"-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
"I have at last found my vocation; it is love!"-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
"Love will consume us only in the measure of our self-surrender."-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
"and I realized that real nobility is in the soul, not in a name."-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
12. The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Samuel Roukin
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The greatest fantasies of the 20th century are J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Ringsand Ursula K. Le G… read more
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13. The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
By: R.K. Narayan , Pankaj Mishra , John Lee
4.21
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
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14. The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs
By: Peter Enns
3.91
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
The controversial evangelical Bible scholar and author of The Bible Tells Me Soexplains how Christi… read more
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15. The Confessor (Gabriel Allon, #3)
By: Daniel Silva
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Dark secrets are revealed in Vatican City in this Gabriel Allon thriller from #1 New York Times bes… read more
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16. Narrative of Sojourner Truth
By: Sojourner Truth , None
4.35
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
One of the most famous and admired African-American women in U.S. history, Sojourner Truth sang, pr… read more
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17. Everyman's Talmud: The Major Teachings of the Rabbinic Sages
By: Jacob Neusner , None
3.83
Format: 432 pages,
The Talmud is among the great books of wisdom--like the Bible, the Quran & the Bhagavad Gita--whose… read more
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18. The Rule of Saint Benedict
By: Benedict of Nursia , None
3.22
Format: 111 pages, Paperback
Composed nearly fifteen hundred years ago by the father of Western monasticism, The Rule of St. Ben… read more
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19. Persian Letters
By: Montesquieu , None
3.92
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
This richly evocative novel-in-letters tells the story of two Persian noblemen who have left their … read more
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20. Lost Birds (A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito #27)
By: Anne Hillerman
4.29
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
“Anne Hillerman is a star.”—J. A. Jance, New York Times bestselling author From New York Times bes… read more
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21. 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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22. The Proof of the Pudding (Her Royal Spyness #17)
By: Rhys Bowen
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Lady Georgiana Rannoch is looking forward to her first ever turn as hostess for her very own house … read more
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23. Squire
By: Nadia Shammas
4.06
Format: 305 pages, Paperback
Aiza has always dreamt of becoming a Knight. It's the highest military honor in the once-great Bayt… read more
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24. Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End
By: Bart D. Ehrman
4.25
Format: 8 pages, Audiobook
A “humane, thoughtful, and intelligent” (The New York Times Book Review) bestselling Biblical schol… read more
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25. The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Stony the Road and one of our most important voices o… read more
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"...the great blues musician W.C. Handy said, "I think these spirituals did more for our emancipation than all the guns of the Civil War."-Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
"Estimates of the percentage of enslaved Africans who were Muslim arriving in North America vary widely...between 8 and 20 percent is a reasonable estimate..."-Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
"...enslaved people "were conjuring out of nothing that manhood that has been stripped away from them for four hundred years, they used the spirituals as a catalyst."-Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
"..we find some of the deepest traces of Islam and other traditional African religions in places like Sapelo Island, home of the Gullah Geechee people. Islam's strong roots persisted here in ways that…"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
26. Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
By: Audre Lorde
4.63
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
From The Guardian. Oct. 4, 2017. R.O. Kwon "Lorde seems prophetic, perhaps alive right now, wri… read more
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"whatever was hidden out of fear could always be used either against the children or ourselves — one imperfect but useful argument for honesty. The knowledge of fear can help make us free."-Audre Lorde, Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
"In a society where the good is defined in terms of profit rather than in terms of human need, there must always be some group of people who, through systematised oppression, can be made to feel surpl…"-Audre Lorde, Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
"In order to be whole, we must recognise the despair oppression plants within each of us — that thin persistent voice that says our efforts are useless, it will never change, so why bother, accept it.…"-Audre Lorde, Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
"As women, we have come to distrust that power which rises from our deepest and nonrational knowledge. We have been warned against it all our lives by the male world, which values this depth of feelin…"-Audre Lorde, Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
27. Unruly Saint: Dorothy Day's Radical Vision and its Challenge for Our Times
By: D.L. Mayfield
4.33
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In 1933, in the shadow of the Great Depression, Dorothy Day started the most prominent Catholic rad… read more
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28. The Virgin Mary: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: Mary Joan Winn Leith
3.74
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Virgin Mary - a Jewish mother - is central to Christianity, a revered woman in Islam, and a per… read more
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29. Before the Gregorian Reform: The Latin Church at the Turn of the First Millennium
By: John Howe
4.10
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
Historians typically single out the hundred-year period from about 1050 to 1150 as the pivotal mome… read more
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30. Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition: Retracing the Origins of Conflict (Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century)
By: James C. Ungureanu
4.00
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
The story of the “conflict thesis” between science and religion—the notion of perennial conflict or… read more
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31. Christian Life: An Adventure in Love
By: Ilia Delio
4.38
Format: None pages, Audiobook
As we enter into a period marked by the science of evolution, global consciousness, technological c… read more
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