A Daily Calendar of Saints: A Synaxarion for Today’s North American Church
By: Lawrence R. Farley
4.49
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
Popular biblical commentator and church historian Fr. Lawrence Farley turns his hand to hagiography…
Want to Read $ 9.99If you liked the religion plot in A Daily Calendar of Saints: A Synaxarion for Today’s North American Church by Lawrence R. Farley , here is a list of 8 books like this:
1. The Orthodox Church
By: Kallistos Ware , Timothy Ware
4.27
Format: 359 pages, Paperback
Since its first publication thirty years ago, Timothy Ware's book has become established throughout… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Kallistos Ware's The Orthodox Church book and Lawrence R. Farley's A Daily Calendar of Saints: A Synaxarion for Today’s North American Church
- religion
"All Protestants are Crypto-Papists,’ wrote the Russian theologian Alexis Khomiakov to an English friend in the year 1846. ‘ . . . To use the concise language of algebra, all the West knows but one da…"-Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Church
2. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
By: None , H.T. Willetts , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
3.98
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn First published in the Soviet… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in None's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich book and Lawrence R. Farley's A Daily Calendar of Saints: A Synaxarion for Today’s North American Church
"A couple of ounces ruled your life."-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
"It's all so arty there's no art left in it."-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
"Two roubles. Worn notes that didn't rustle."-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
"Гении не подгоняют трактовку под вкус тиранов!"-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
3. The Divine Comedy
By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum
4.29
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy book and Lawrence R. Farley's A Daily Calendar of Saints: A Synaxarion for Today’s North American Church
- religion
4. King Lear
By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe
3.91
Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more
Want to Read $ 3.99Similar categories in William Shakespeare's King Lear book and Lawrence R. Farley's A Daily Calendar of Saints: A Synaxarion for Today’s North American Church
"Fortune love you."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"She is herself a dowry."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"All dark and comfortless."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"Nothing can come of nothing."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
5. Bartleby the Scrivener
By: Herman Melville
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more
Want to Read $ 1.99Similar categories in Herman Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener book and Lawrence R. Farley's A Daily Calendar of Saints: A Synaxarion for Today’s North American Church
"I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
6. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
By: Christopher R. Browning
4.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the … read more
Want to Read $ 15.49Similar categories in Christopher R. Browning's Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland book and Lawrence R. Farley's A Daily Calendar of Saints: A Synaxarion for Today’s North American Church
"The behavior of any human being is, of course, a very complex phenomenon, and the historian who attempts to "explain" it is indulging in a certain arrogance."-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
"This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve policemen faced choices, and most of them committed terrible deeds. But those who killed cannot be absolved by the notion that anyo…"-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
"What, then, is one to conclude? Most of all, one comes away from the story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 with great unease. This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve polic…"-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
"At the same time, however, the collective behavior of Reserve Police Battalion 101 has deeply disturbing implications. There are many societies afflicted by traditions of racism and caught in the sie…"-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
7. Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth
By: Tito Colliander , None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Written for lay persons living in the world, this is an excellent resource for daily meditation, sp… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Tito Colliander's Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth book and Lawrence R. Farley's A Daily Calendar of Saints: A Synaxarion for Today’s North American Church
- religion
8. The Triads (Classics of Western Spirituality Series)
By: Gregory Palamas , None
3.79
Format: 704 pages, Paperback
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Gregory Palamas's The Triads (Classics of Western Spirituality Series) book and Lawrence R. Farley's A Daily Calendar of Saints: A Synaxarion for Today’s North American Church
9. Everyday Saints and Other Stories
By: None
3.50
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
More than a million copies and several million electronic versions of this book have sold in less t… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in None's Everyday Saints and Other Stories book and Lawrence R. Farley's A Daily Calendar of Saints: A Synaxarion for Today’s North American Church
10. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
By: Mark Twain , E.W. Kemble , John Seelye , Guy Cardwell
3.83
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down t… read more
Want to Read $ 2.99Similar categories in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn book and Lawrence R. Farley's A Daily Calendar of Saints: A Synaxarion for Today’s North American Church
"งั้นก็เอาละ เราจะลงนรก..."-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
"Confound it, it's foolish, Tom"-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
"He had a dream and it shot him."-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
"Tom Sawyer said I was a numskull."-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
11. 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
Want to ReadSimilar categories in J.I. Packer's Knowing God book and Lawrence R. Farley's A Daily Calendar of Saints: A Synaxarion for Today’s North American Church
12. Laurus
By: None , Lisa Hayden
4.17
Format: 510 pages, Hardcover
It is the late fifteenth century and a village healer in Russia is powerless to help his beloved as… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in None's Laurus book and Lawrence R. Farley's A Daily Calendar of Saints: A Synaxarion for Today’s North American Church
13. Grant
By: Ron Chernow
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefel… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Ron Chernow's Grant book and Lawrence R. Farley's A Daily Calendar of Saints: A Synaxarion for Today’s North American Church
14. Personal Memoirs
By: Ulysses S. Grant , Geoffrey Perrett
3.67
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant's are lucid, compelling, and brutally honest, a chronicle of triump… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Ulysses S. Grant's Personal Memoirs book and Lawrence R. Farley's A Daily Calendar of Saints: A Synaxarion for Today’s North American Church
15. The Iliad
By: Homer
3.91
Format: 848 pages, Hardcover
One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more
Want to Read $ 9.20Similar categories in Homer's The Iliad book and Lawrence R. Farley's A Daily Calendar of Saints: A Synaxarion for Today’s North American Church
"I say no wealth is worth my life."-Homer, The Iliad
"These were the colloquies in heaven."-Homer, The Iliad
"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."-Homer, The Iliad
"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"-Homer, The Iliad
16. Parenting Toward the Kingdom: Orthodox Principles of Child-Rearing
By: Philip Mamalakis
4.60
Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition
The Orthodox Christian tradition is filled with wisdom and guidance about the biblical path of salv… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Philip Mamalakis's Parenting Toward the Kingdom: Orthodox Principles of Child-Rearing book and Lawrence R. Farley's A Daily Calendar of Saints: A Synaxarion for Today’s North American Church
- religion
17. God Is a Man of War: The Problem of Violence in the Old Testament
By: Stephen De Young
4.41
Format: 175 pages, Kindle Edition
Infanticide. Holy war. Divine wrath. Violence in the Old Testament has long been a stumbling block … read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Stephen De Young's God Is a Man of War: The Problem of Violence in the Old Testament book and Lawrence R. Farley's A Daily Calendar of Saints: A Synaxarion for Today’s North American Church
- religion
18. Behold a Great Light: A Daily Devotional for the Nativity Fast through Theophany
By: Basil Ross Aden
4.60
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The forty days of fasting before Christmas are meant to prepare us for the Feast of the Nativity, b… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Basil Ross Aden's Behold a Great Light: A Daily Devotional for the Nativity Fast through Theophany book and Lawrence R. Farley's A Daily Calendar of Saints: A Synaxarion for Today’s North American Church
- religion
19. Raising Them Right: A Saint's Advice on Raising Children
By: Theophan the Recluse
4.39
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Saint Theophan, while from a different era and country, has an uncanny ability to communicate with … read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Theophan the Recluse's Raising Them Right: A Saint's Advice on Raising Children book and Lawrence R. Farley's A Daily Calendar of Saints: A Synaxarion for Today’s North American Church
20. The Saint of the Prisons: Notes on the life of Valeriu Gafencu, collected and annotated by the monk Moise
By: Monk Moise
4.83
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
This book is about a man who transformed his time incarcerated in the terrible Communist prisons in… read more
Want to Read $ 3.31Similar categories in Monk Moise's The Saint of the Prisons: Notes on the life of Valeriu Gafencu, collected and annotated by the monk Moise book and Lawrence R. Farley's A Daily Calendar of Saints: A Synaxarion for Today’s North American Church
- religion
21. A Daily Calendar of Saints: A Synaxarion for Today’s North American Church
By: Lawrence R. Farley
4.49
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
Popular biblical commentator and church historian Fr. Lawrence Farley turns his hand to hagiography… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Lawrence R. Farley's A Daily Calendar of Saints: A Synaxarion for Today’s North American Church book and Lawrence R. Farley's A Daily Calendar of Saints: A Synaxarion for Today’s North American Church
- religion
