One Great Love: An Advent and Christmas Treasury of Readings, Poems, and Prayers
By: Paraclete Press
4.36
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Anticipate, wonder, and rejoice during the sacred days of Advent and Christmas with this elegant ke…
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1. 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
2. My Father's Dragon (My Father's Dragon, #1)
By: Ruth Stiles Gannett
3.70
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Elmer Elevator (narrator's father as a boy) runs away with an old alley cat to rescue a flying baby… read more
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3. The Trojan Women
By: Euripides , Gilbert Murray
4.16
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
"This is a new translation of the classic play. It combines a poet's translation with a scholar's i… read more
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4. Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
By: Tish Harrison Warren
4.08
Format: 31 pages, Paperback
Many of us go through the day feeling like we don't have time for God. But God can become present t… read more
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5. Red and Lulu
By: Matt Tavares
4.24
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Separation and miles cannot keep a determined cardinal from his loved one in an ode to serendipity … read more
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6. Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace
By: Sarah Mackenzie
3.81
Format: 225 pages, ebook
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7. The Man Born to Be King: A Play-Cycle on the Life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
4.14
Format: None pages,
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8. 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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9. The Mitford Snowmen: A Christmas Story
By: Jan Karon
4.36
Format: 39 pages,
Cutest little snowman book with a Christmas story! Perfect for the snowman collector or for the per… read more
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10. A Christmas Carol
By: Charles Dickens
4.08
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
'If I had my way, every idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips, would be boiled wit… read more
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"Hallo, my fine fellow!"-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
"God bless us, every one!"-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
"And how did little Tim behave?"-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
"Marley was dead: to begin with."-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
11. Jayber Crow
By: Wendell Berry
3.95
Format: 253 pages,
From the simple setting of his own barber shop, Jayber Crow, orphan, seminarian, and native of Port… read more
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12. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)
By: Barbara Robinson
4.22
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Laughs abound in this bestselling Christmas classic by Barbara Robinson! The Best Christmas Pageant… read more
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"I've got the baby here," Imogene barked at the Wise Men. "Don touch him! I named him Jesus."-Barbara Robinson, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)
"When they got to the part about swaddling clothes and the manger, Imogene asked, “You mean they tied him up and put him in a feedbox? Where was the Child Welfare?"-Barbara Robinson, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)
13. The Mouse and the Motorcycle (Ralph S. Mouse, #1)
By: Tracy Dockray , Beverly Cleary , Louis Darling
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Pb-pb-b-b-b. Pb-pb-b-b-b." With these magic vocables, Ralph the mouse revs up a dream come true--h… read more
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14. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
By: J.D. Vance
3.32
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a former Marine and Yale Law School Graduate, a poignant account of growing up in a poor Appal… read more
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15. River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
By: Candice Millard
3.84
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of RIVER OF DOUBT and DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, the stirr… read more
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"..the charm of the scenery was perhaps enhanced by the reflection that my eyes might never look upon it again....Masses of brown-purple clouds covered the quarter of the heavens where the sun was abo…"-Candice Millard, River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
16. The Green Ember (The Green Ember, #1)
By: S.D. Smith
4.28
Format: 400 pages, Perfect Paperback
Heather and Picket are extraordinary rabbits with ordinary lives until calamitous events overtake t… read more
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"Was Father getting sadder, or was she just getting old enough to see it?"-S.D. Smith, The Green Ember (The Green Ember, #1)
"You can choose what you believe, Shuffler, but you can't change what's true."-S.D. Smith, The Green Ember (The Green Ember, #1)
17. Everything Sad Is Untrue
By: Daniel Nayeri
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Da… read more
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"Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
"I won't tell you about her yet, because sometimes love has to be kept secret. If other people find out, they will attack it."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
"Sometimes you just want somebody to look at a thing with you and say, "Yes. That is a thing you're looking at. You haven't lied to yourself."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
"Maybe there isn’t just one person designated for everybody. Maybe there’s a lot more to it---maybe you choose and you practice, and that’s what makes the love true."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
18. Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did
By: John Mark Comer
4.63
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The author of the international bestseller The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry calls us to rediscover… read more
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19. Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking (Overcome Toxic Thought Patterns and Take Control of Your Mindset)
By: Jon Acuff
4.30
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Overthinking isn't a personality trait. It's the sneakiest form of fear. It steals time, creativit… read more
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"Your brain is waiting for you each day. It's waiting to be told what to think. It's waiting to see what kind of soundtracks you'll choose. It's waiting to see if you really want to build a different …"-Jon Acuff, Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking (Overcome Toxic Thought Patterns and Take Control of Your Mindset)
"This time though, I didn't listen to that. There was a new soundtrack in town that told me, "Everything's always working out for me? I didn't know how that was going to become true, but I decided to …"-Jon Acuff, Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking (Overcome Toxic Thought Patterns and Take Control of Your Mindset)
".........Frederickson discovered a more reasonable goal. "Aim for a positivity ratio of at least 3 to 1. This means that for every heart-wrenching negative emotional experience you endure, you experi…"-Jon Acuff, Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking (Overcome Toxic Thought Patterns and Take Control of Your Mindset)
20. I Cheerfully Refuse
By: Leif Enger
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more
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"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
21. Modern Miss Mason
By: Leah Boden
4.30
Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition
For every mother who desires to cultivate a lasting foundation of curiosity and wonder for her chil… read more
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22. Ember Rising (The Green Ember, #3)
By: S.D. Smith
4.58
Format: 480 pages, Perfect Paperback
A harrowing adventure inside enemy territory. Heather and Picket are plunged into the darkness of M… read more
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23. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
By: Mary Oliver
4.58
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this defi… read more
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"All I know is that "thank you" should appear somewhere. So just in case I can't find the perfect place- "Thank you, thank you."-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your nones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it …"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"I know someone who kisses the way a flower opens, but more rapidly. Flowers are sweet. They have short, beatific lives. They offer much pleasure. There is nothing in this world that can be said again…"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"A blue preacher flew toward the swamp, in slow motion. On the leafy banks, an old Chinese poet, hunched in the white gown of his wings, was waiting. The water was the kind of dark silk that has silve…"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
24. The Lonely Hearts Book Club
By: Lucy Gilmore
3.89
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Sloane Parker lives a small, contained life as a librarian in her small, contained town. She never … read more
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"Everywhere I looked was honesty and love. Love most of all."-Lucy Gilmore, The Lonely Hearts Book Club
"They became a love letter of words and sentiment--and one that was addressed entirely to me."-Lucy Gilmore, The Lonely Hearts Book Club
"We could only choose which path to take to our destination. What happened along the way was entirely up to chance."-Lucy Gilmore, The Lonely Hearts Book Club
"More than anything, kuds need to know they have a soft spot to land. Your Bella? She knows. She'll know it until the day she dies."-Lucy Gilmore, The Lonely Hearts Book Club
25. Songs of Suffering: 25 Hymns and Devotions for Weary Souls
By: Joni Eareckson Tada
4.79
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Joni Eareckson Tada Offers 25 Hymns for Worship for Difficult Times As an author, speaker, and advo… read more
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26. Shelterwood
By: Lisa Wingate
3.88
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping novel inspired by the untold history of women pioneers who fought to protect children ca… read more
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"What lucky people we readers are that we live not just one life, but many, and diving into yet another is as easy as opening a book."-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
"That was a perilous area. . .Graves could be anywhere and undoubtedly are. We walk over history, unaware, every day in all places. We sleep atop it. When we rest our heads at night, we've no way of k…"-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
"The light between them outshines the November day. My heartstrings tug, and I want to call my mother and my grandmother, the women who built me - who implanted the idea that whatever path I chose for…"-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
"I take a deep breath, lose myself in the healing power of feeling the world breathe, water over stones, wind against trees, last year's dry leaves tumbling along expanses of rock, in the play of clou…"-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
27. The Little Blue Book Advent and Christmas Seasons 2022-2023: Six-minute Reflections on the First Readings for Daily Mass During the Advent/Christmas Season
By: Ken Untener
4.78
Format: 115 pages, Kindle Edition
Each 24-hour day has 1,440 minutes. You’re asked to give six of those 1,440 minutes to prayer for t… read more
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28. The Carols of Christmas: Daily Advent Devotions on Classic Christmas Carols (28-Day Devotional for Christmas and Advent) (The Devotional Hymn Series)
By: Alan Vermilye
4.35
Format: 110 pages, Kindle Edition
The most beloved Christmas carols arranged in 28 daily devotions for the Advent season. The Carols… read more
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29. Fount of Heaven: Prayers of the Early Church (Prayers of the Church)
By: Robert Elmer
4.49
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
You are the fountain of life, light, and all grace and truth The hearts of the first Christians … read more
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30. One Great Love: An Advent and Christmas Treasury of Readings, Poems, and Prayers
By: Paraclete Press
4.36
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Anticipate, wonder, and rejoice during the sacred days of Advent and Christmas with this elegant ke… read more
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