The Way of Simplicity: The Cistercian Tradition (Traditions of Christian Spirituality)
By: Esther de Waal
3.93
Format: 173 pages, Paperback
In The Way of Simplicity Esther de Waal reveals the riches of the Cistercian (Trappist) tradition a…
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1. Illuminations
By: Mary Sharratt
3.98
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
One of the most extraordinary women of the Middle Ages, Hildegard von Bingen—Benedictine abbess, he… read more
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2. St. Benedict's Toolbox: The Nuts and Bolts of Everyday Benedictine Living
By: Jane Tomaine
4.20
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
When St. Benedict formed his first small community of monks at Monte Cassino on the hilltop, Italy-… read more
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- christian
- nonfiction
- spirituality
3. The Wind in the Willows
By: Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery
4.02
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he… read more
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"...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight..."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
4. Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and a Writer (The Journals of Thomas Merton)
By: Thomas Merton , Jonathan Montaldo
4.41
Format: 526 pages, Paperback
The second volume of Thomas Merton's "gusty, passionate journals" (Thomas Moore) chronicles Merton'… read more
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- spirituality
"Jesus, I put myself in Your hands. I rest in Your wisdom that has arranged all things for me. I promise to stop jumping out of Your arms to try and walk on my own feet, forgetting that I am no longer…"-Thomas Merton, Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and a Writer (The Journals of Thomas Merton)
5. The Imitation of Christ
By: Thomas à Kempis , William Benham , Richard Challoner, D.D.
4.32
Format: 632 pages, Paperback
Only the Bible has been more influential as a source of Christian devotional reading than The Imita… read more
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6. 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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7. The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Birth
By: John Dominic Crossan , Marcus J. Borg
4.05
Format: 336 pages,
The perfect follow-up to The Last Week, Borg and Crossan's The First Christmasis an account of the … read more
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- christian
- nonfiction
8. The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
By: Henri J.M. Nouwen
4.09
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
A chance encounter with a reproduction of Rembrandt's painting, The Return of the Prodigal Son, cat… read more
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- nonfiction
- spirituality
9. The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery
By: Henri J.M. Nouwen
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
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- spirituality
10. David Copperfield
By: Charles Dickens , Jeremy Tambling
4.03
Format: 882 pages, Paperback
David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impov… read more
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"Trifles make the sum of life. "-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"the sight of me is good for sore eyes"-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him."-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do to-day"-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
11. Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of Her Age
By: Fiona Maddocks
3.91
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
Among Catholic saints, the 12th-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen perhaps best fits the des… read more
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- nonfiction
12. 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
"It is for us to console our Lord, and not for Him to console us."-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
13. Rubbernecker
By: Belinda Bauer
4.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Life is strange for Patrick Fort; being a medical student with Asperger's Syndrome doesn't come wit… read more
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14. Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
By: Margaret Atwood
2.35
Format: 62 pages, Hardcover
A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy. Vinta… read more
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15. Knowing God
By: J.I. Packer
2.00
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
For over 40 years, J. I. Packer's classic has been an important tool to help Christians around the … read more
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16. Method in Theology
By: Bernard J.F. Lonergan
5.00
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
Method in Theology stands, with Insight, as Bernard Lonergan's most important work. It is Lonergan'… read more
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17. Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
By: Martin Laird
3.55
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Sitting in stillness, the practice of meditation, and the cultivation of awareness are commonly tho… read more
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18. 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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19. 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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20. If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
By: Brenda Ueland
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In her 93 remarkable years, Brenda Ueland published six million words. She said she had two rules s… read more
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21. To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care
By: Cris Beam
2.83
Format: 288 pages, ebook
"Beam presents both a sharp critique of foster-care policies and a searching exploration of the mea… read more
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22. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
By: Erik Larson
3.84
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthrall… read more
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23. The Heron's Cry (Two Rivers, #2)
By: Ann Cleeves
4.05
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. Detective Matthe… read more
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24. 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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- nonfiction
25. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
By: John McWhorter
3.94
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
People of good will on both the left and the right are secretly asking themselves the same question… read more
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"To tar America as insufficiently aware of slavery is more about smugness and noble victimhood than forging something new and needed."-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
"Antiracism should focus strongly on ending the war on drugs, and there is no need for legions of whites to be instructed in how privileged they are for this to happen."-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
"[P]rofound social change can happen without the entire populace being junior scholars about racist injustice. Such change has been happening world-wide for several centuries."-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
"They are unreachable for the simple reason that they are arguing from religion rather than reason, trying to foist their dogma into the public square out of a misguided sense that they are the world'…"-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
26. The Second Sleep
By: Robert Harris
3.49
Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition
All civilisations think they are invulnerable. History warns us none is. 1468. A young priest, C… read more
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27. Hell of a Book
By: Jason Mott
4.04
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
In Hell of a Book, an African-American author sets out on a cross-country book tour to promote his … read more
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"Because God needs the little people more than he needs anyone"-Jason Mott, Hell of a Book
"The modern author is only as important as their search results."-Jason Mott, Hell of a Book
"From his perspective, Daddy Henry was a nice enough collection of wrinkles."-Jason Mott, Hell of a Book
"I know all the smells: humidity, pine trees, thinly veiled racism. It’s what home feels like for me."-Jason Mott, Hell of a Book
28. Deacon King Kong
By: James McBride
4.17
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The funny, sharp, and surprising story of the shooting of a Brooklyn drug dealer and the people who… read more
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"Friendship was trouble in business."-James McBride, Deacon King Kong
"You’ve got to be strong to get old."-James McBride, Deacon King Kong
"A man ain’t got to stand in church every Sunday to do God’s work."-James McBride, Deacon King Kong
"Is your cheese this good? This wasn’t plain old housing projects “cheese food"-James McBride, Deacon King Kong
29. On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World
By: Danya Ruttenberg
4.46
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
A crucial new lens on repentance, atonement, forgiveness, and repair from harm--from personal trans… read more
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"Before we even understand what repentance is, we’re instructed to name, out loud, the harm that we have caused."-Danya Ruttenberg, On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World
"[W]e all know that sometimes people mean well but cause harm nonetheless—out of ignorance, out of carelessness, out of deeply ingrained ways of thinking they haven't examined, out of an emotional rea…"-Danya Ruttenberg, On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World
30. The Way of Simplicity: The Cistercian Tradition (Traditions of Christian Spirituality)
By: Esther de Waal
3.93
Format: 173 pages, Paperback
In The Way of Simplicity Esther de Waal reveals the riches of the Cistercian (Trappist) tradition a… read more
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31. Mysterion: The Revelatory Power of the Sacramental Worldview
By: Harrison Ayre
4.38
Format: 179 pages, Hardcover
Mysterion unveils the underlying vision at the heart of Christianity and invites us to enter into a… read more
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