Be Brave in the Scared: How I Learned to Trust God during the Most Difficult Days of My Life
By: Mary E. Lenaburg
4.50
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
As a parent, do you struggle with trusting God’s will for your life and for those you love? Are you…
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1. A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph
By: C.S. Lewis , Sheldon Vanauken
4.27
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A heart-rending love story described by its author as “the spiritual autobiography of a love rather… read more
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"Death is no respecter of love."-C.S. Lewis, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph
"Corruption is never compulsory."-C.S. Lewis, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph
"Honesty is better than any easy comfort."-C.S. Lewis, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph
"A longing for eternity is built-in to us all"-C.S. Lewis, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph
2. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
By: Annie Dillard
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons—a personal narrative highlighting one year's e… read more
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"Innocence is a better world."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
"The creatures I seek do not want to be seen."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
"I never saw a tree that was no tree in particular."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
"I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
3. The Reed of God
By: Caryll Houselander
4.59
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
First published in 1944 and now a spiritual classic for Catholics across the globe, The Reed of God… read more
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"The sense of the joy in anything is the sense of Christ."-Caryll Houselander, The Reed of God
"Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down."-Caryll Houselander, The Reed of God
"Most people know the sheer wonder that goes with falling in love, how not only does everything in heaven and earth become new, but the lover himself becomes new. It is literally like the sap rising i…"-Caryll Houselander, The Reed of God
"... those who seek the lost Lord will find traces of His being and beauty in all that men have made, from music and poetry and sculpture to the gingerbread men in the pâtisseries, from the final calc…"-Caryll Houselander, The Reed of God
4. Hannah Coulter
By: Wendell Berry
4.38
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry's seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman charac… read more
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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
"And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"Living right on called for nothing out of the ordinary. We made no changes. We only accepted the changes as they came."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
5. Four Quartets
By: T.S. Eliot
3.67
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942… read more
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6. 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
7. The Five Love Languages of Children
By: Gary Chapman , D. Ross Campbell
4.50
Format: 532 pages,
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8. Jesus the Bridegroom: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told
By: Brant Pitre
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Jesus the Bridegroom, Brant Pitre once again taps into the wells of Jewish Scripture and traditi… read more
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9. True Grit
By: Charles Portis
3.20
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more
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10. Saint Mary Magdalene: Prophetess of Eucharistic Love
By: None , Sean Davidson
4.02
Format: None pages, Paperback
Adoration is love, and eucharistic adoration is love of Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament. In… read more
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11. The End of the Affair
By: Graham Greene , Monica Ali
3.90
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look… read more
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"As long as one suffers one lives."-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
"I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist."-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
"Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?"-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
"I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend."-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
12. 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
13. Revolution of Mercy: How Kindness Changes Everything
By: None
4.25
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
Pope Saint John Paul II calls us! "Family, become what you are!" We desire an ideal, but so often i… read more
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14. Peace Like a River
By: Leif Enger
4.09
Format: 315 pages,
Once in a great while, we encounter a novel in our voluminous reading that begs to be read aloud. L… read more
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15. Interior Freedom
By: Jacques Philippe , None
4.71
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
Interior Freedom leads one to discover that even in the most difficult circumstances we possess wit… read more
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"Ultimately, we can really forgive people only because Christ rose from the dead; his Resurrection is the guarantee that God can cure every wrong and every hurt."-Jacques Philippe, Interior Freedom
"Te doy gracias, Dios mío, por todo mi pasado; creo firmemente que, de cuanto he vivido, Tú podrás sacar un bien; no quiero tener ningún pesar y desde hoy me decido a recomenzar desde cero con exactam…"-Jacques Philippe, Interior Freedom
"No esperamos que Dios nos haga vivir en plenitud y creamos identidad artificial: el orgullo. O, entre personas de buena voluntad, nos gustaría amar, ser generosos y entregarnos, pero nos vemos atenaz…"-Jacques Philippe, Interior Freedom
"Para que nuestra voluntad sea fuerte y dispuesta, necesita verse alimentada por el deseo. Y ese deseo no puede ser poderoso si lo que se desea no se percibe como posible y accesible; porque, si nos r…"-Jacques Philippe, Interior Freedom
16. He Leadeth Me
By: Walter J. Ciszek , Daniel L. Flaherty , Walter Ciszek
4.63
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
He Leadeth Me is the deeply moving personal story of one man's spiritual odyssey and the unflagging… read more
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"Solo puedo describir la experiencia de conversión como una sensación de «dejarse llevar», de renunciar a todo esfuerzo o incluso a mi deseo de tomar las riendas de mi propia vida. Aunque suene demasi…"-Walter J. Ciszek, He Leadeth Me
"La humildad significa eso: aprender a aceptar el desánimo e incluso la derrota como enviados por Dios; aprender a perseverar y seguir adelante con el corazón en paz y confiando en Dios, seguros de qu…"-Walter J. Ciszek, He Leadeth Me
"Durante esos largos de años de soledad y sufrimiento, Dios me condujo a una comprensión de la vida y de su amor que solo quienes la han experimentado son capaces de entender. Me despojó de muchos de …"-Walter J. Ciszek, He Leadeth Me
"Quizá Dios tenga que recordarnos con tremenda claridad que eso es exactamente lo que quería decirnos con esas palabras aparentemente tan simples del Sermón de la Montaña: «No estéis preocupados por v…"-Walter J. Ciszek, He Leadeth Me
17. Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
By: Steve Erwin , Immaculée Ilibagiza
4.24
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 19… read more
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18. The Temperament God Gave Your Kids: Motivate, Discipline, and Love Your Children
By: Art Bennett , Laraine Bennett
4.34
Format: 413 pages, Paperback
Do you have a child who is into everything? Your energetic, bubbly child is often the center of att… read more
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19. The Ghost Keeper
By: Natalie Morrill
3.74
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Winner of the HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction, this powerful, sweeping novel set in Vi… read more
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20. Charis in the World of Wonders
By: Marly Youmans
3.99
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
"When I swung over that windowsill, everything changed for me. We are meant to go in and out of doo… read more
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21. Once Upon a Wardrobe
By: Patti Callahan Henry
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
College student Megs Devonshire sets out to fulfill her younger brother George’s last wish by uncov… read more
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"The way stories change us can't be explained,' Padraig says. 'It can only be felt. Like love."-Patti Callahan Henry, Once Upon a Wardrobe
"Because even with the dark and the light parts and the good parts and the bad parts, dinner must still be served."-Patti Callahan Henry, Once Upon a Wardrobe
"The fantastic and the imaginative aren't escapism . . . Good stories introduce the marvelous. The whole story, paradoxically, strengthens our relish for real life. This excursion sends us back with r…"-Patti Callahan Henry, Once Upon a Wardrobe
22. The Other Bennet Sister
By: Janice Hadlow
4.16
Format: 463 pages, Hardcover
Mary, the bookish ugly duckling of Pride and Prejudice’s five Bennet sisters, emerges from the shad… read more
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"Watching what happens isn’t the same as being part of it."-Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister
"And anyway, in our house, no-one is obliged to sparkle. Which, I find, makes it far more likely that they might."-Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister
"If I don’t have the genius to create a thing of beauty myself, at least I have the judgement to appreciate the art of others."-Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister
"...in truth, there is no state that better demonstrates real firmness of affection than the ability to remain quietly comfortable together without conversation."-Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister
23. The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County
By: Claire Swinarski
3.74
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Armed with a Crock-Pot and a pile of recipes, a grandmother, her granddaughter, and a mysterious yo… read more
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"All these kids today thought you needed so much time. Time, time, time! As if another year would show you the kind of father a person could be, or how the nightmares about battlefields in Vietnam wou…"-Claire Swinarski, The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County
24. The Four Loves
By: C.S. Lewis
4.17
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A repackaged edition of the revered author's classic work that examines the four types of human lov… read more
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"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date."-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"To know that one is dreaming is to be no longer perfectly asleep."-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"El amor empieza a ser un demonio desde el momento en que comienza a ser un dios."-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often."-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
25. The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity
By: Carrie Gress
4.37
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
The Demonic Influence on Women Today In the late ’60s, a small group of elite American women convin… read more
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"Parents are the bridge between a child and God; they are the first icon of his unconditional love."-Carrie Gress, The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity
"We live under ghe impression that we are freethinkers; the irony is that thinkers are generally not free when they think just like everyone else."-Carrie Gress, The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity
"Anglican convert Blessed John Henry Cardinal Neumann described Mary as our "happier world". By leading her children to her Son, the Blessed Mother helps "them to regain that which has been lost throu…"-Carrie Gress, The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity
26. Theology of Home: Finding the Eternal in the Everyday
By: Carrie Gress
4.17
Format: 235 pages, Hardcover
Home. It is an elegant word, at once both simple and far-reaching. Home is a place to live in and f… read more
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27. The Context of Holiness: Psychological and Spiritual Reflections on the Life of St. Therese of Lisieux
By: Marc Foley
4.52
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
This book explores both the psychological and spiritual dimensions of the life of St. Therese of Li… read more
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28. Your Blue Flame: Drop the Guilt and Do What Makes You Come Alive
By: Jennifer Fulwiler
4.29
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Break out of that rut and fall in love with your life again by joining stand-up comic, SiriusXM hos… read more
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"I love people. I like being around them as astronauts like going to the moon: it's the kind of thrilling, beautiful, intense experience that makes life worth living but requires an extreme level of p…"-Jennifer Fulwiler, Your Blue Flame: Drop the Guilt and Do What Makes You Come Alive
29. Live Big, Love Bigger: Getting Real with BBQ, Sweet Tea, and a Whole Lotta Jesus
By: Kathryn Whitaker
4.36
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Winner of a 2020 Catholic Press Association book award (third place, first-time author). Popular … read more
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30. Girl, Arise!: A Catholic Feminist's Invitation to Live Boldly, Love Your Faith, and Change the World
By: Claire Swinarski
4.25
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Winner of a 2020 Catholic Press Association book award (second place, gender issues-inclusion in th… read more
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31. Be Brave in the Scared: How I Learned to Trust God during the Most Difficult Days of My Life
By: Mary E. Lenaburg
4.50
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
As a parent, do you struggle with trusting God’s will for your life and for those you love? Are you… read more
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