Manalive
By: G.K. Chesterton
3.95
Format: 161 pages, Paperback
Perhaps the most light-hearted of all Chesterton's "serious" works, Manalivepits a group of disillu…
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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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- christianity
- christian
"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. Leaf by Niggle
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
4.26
Format: 22 pages, ebook
Leaf by Niggle is a short story about a painter who is working on a picture leaf by leaf. Niggle, t… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- classics
- christian
"Feeria è meglio della sensazione che non ci sia niente al di là dell'usato mondo di tutti i giorni"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Leaf by Niggle
"He was going to learn about sheep, and the high pasturages, and look at a wider sky, and walk ever further and further towards the Mountains, always uphill. Beyond that I cannot guess what became of …"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Leaf by Niggle
3. Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
By: Flannery O'Connor , Robert Fitzgerald
4.23
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
Flannery O'Connor was working on Everything That Rises Must Converge at the time of her death. This… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
"Remember what you won't get if you don't mind," her grandfather remarked."-Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
"Yet she could see by their shocked and altered faces that even their virtues were being burned away."-Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
"Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom."-Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
"She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true."-Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
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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- literature
- classics
- fiction
"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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- literature
- philosophy
- classics
- fiction
6. The Golden Key
By: George MacDonald , Maurice Sendak
4.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
The adventurous wanderings of a boy and girl to find the keyhole which fits the rainbow's golden ke… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- christian
7. That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, #3)
By: C.S. Lewis
3.81
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C. S. Lewis's Spa… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- christian
8. Till We Have Faces
By: C.S. Lewis
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In this timeless tale of two mortal princesses- one beautiful and one unattractive- C.S. Lewis rewo… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- christian
9. Phantastes
By: George MacDonald
3.48
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
"I was dead, and right content," the narrator says in the penultimate chapter of Phantastes. C.S. L… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- classics
- christian
10. Manalive
By: G.K. Chesterton
3.95
Format: 161 pages, Paperback
Perhaps the most light-hearted of all Chesterton's "serious" works, Manalivepits a group of disillu… read more
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- classics
- christian
- literature
- christianity
- philosophy
- fiction
- mystery
11. The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their Friends
By: Humphrey Carpenter
4.08
Format: 581 pages, Hardcover
During the 1930s at Oxford, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams met regularly to discu… read more
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- literature
- christian
12. The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth
By: Scott Hahn , Benedict J. Groeschel
4.43
Format: 174 pages, Hardcover
As seen on EWTN, bestselling author Scott Hahn unveils the mysteries of the Mass, offering readers … read more
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- christianity
- christian
"To deny the force of divine judgment, then, is to make God less than God, and to make us less than His children. For every father must discipline His children, and paternal discipline is itself a mer…"-Scott Hahn, The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth
"Judgment, then, is not an impersonal, legalistic process. It is a matter of love, and it is something we choose for ourselves. Nor is punishment a vindictive act. God's "curses" are not expressions o…"-Scott Hahn, The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth
13. The Complete Stories
By: Flannery O'Connor
5.00
Format: 144 pages,
The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental cont… read more
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14. Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
By: C.S. Lewis
3.93
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- christian
"The love of knowledge is a kind of madness."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
"There I drank life because death was in the pool. That was the best of drinks save one."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
"And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
15. The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1)
By: George MacDonald , Arthur Hughes
4.02
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
A little princess is protected by her friend Curdie from the goblin miners who live beneath the cas… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- christian
"That's all nonsense," said Curdie. "I don't know what you mean." "Then if you don't know what I mean, what right have you to call it nonsense?"-George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1)
"But in the meantime, you must be content, I say, to be misunderstood for a while. We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary."…"-George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1)
16. The Princess and Curdie
By: George MacDonald , Helen Stratton
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Princess Irene's great-grandmother has a testing task for Curdie. He will not go alone though, as s… read more
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17. The Abolition of Man
By: C.S. Lewis
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0060652944 The Abolition of Man, Lewis uses his graceful prose, del… read more
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18. At the Back of the North Wind
By: George MacDonald , Arthur Hughes
4.00
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
Historias Maravillosas #50 Diamante vive en el Londres victoriano junto a su familia en condicio… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- classics
- christian
"How kind you are, North Wind!' 'I am only just. All kindness is but justice. We owe it."-George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind
"White hands of whiteness Wash the stars' faces, Till glitter, glitter, glit, goes their brightness Down to poor places."-George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind
"The church grew very lonely about him, and he began to feel like a child whose mother has forsaken it. Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken."-George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind
"...though I cannot promise to take you home," said North Wind, as she sank nearer and nearer to the tops of the houses, "I can promise you it will be all right in the end. You will get home somehow."-George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind
19. Gilbert Keith Chesterton
By: Maisie Ward
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Maisie Ward's biography of Gilbert Keith Chesterton has long been a cornerstone in Chesterton studi… read more
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20. The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society
By: Henri J.M. Nouwen
4.00
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
The Wounded Healeris a hope-filled and simple book that speaks directly to those men and women who … read more
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21. Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
By: C.S. Lewis
4.00
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Pla… read more
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- christianity
- fiction
- classics
- christian
"Say a child’s prayer if you can’t say a man’s."-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
"It is not for nothing that you are named Ransom,"-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
"The joy came from finding at last what hatred was made for."-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
"About this time tomorrow, you will have done the impossible."-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
