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…
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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. Therese: A Life of Therese of Lisieux
By: Dorothy Day
3.99
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
...the fruit of much research and study on Dorothy's part, captures the heart of the message of Sai… read more
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"The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!"-Dorothy Day, Therese: A Life of Therese of Lisieux
4. 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
5. 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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- book club
- fiction
- historical 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
6. 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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- fiction
7. 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
8. Gift from the Sea
By: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In this inimitable, beloved classic--graceful, lucid and lyrical--Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares her … read more
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9. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
By: Ernest J. Gaines
2.00
Format: 88 pages,
"This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
10. 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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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
11. Two Old Men
By: Leo Tolstoy
4.01
Format: 204 pages,
THIS 44 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Master and Man and Other Parables and Tales, by L… read more
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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. The Hawk and the Dove (The Hawk and the Dove #1)
By: Penelope Wilcock
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
14th-century Yorkshire, the time of Chaucer Father Peregrine is appointed Abbot of St. Alcuin's Ben… read more
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14. Death Comes for the Archbishop
By: Willa Cather
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
There is something epic--and almost mythic--about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, al… read more
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15. Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy
By: Rumer Godden , Joan D. Chittister
4.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy is about growth, choice, struggle, and the freedom of the soul that t… read more
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16. 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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- canada
- historical
- war
- world war ii
- fiction
- historical fiction
- book club
- holocaust
17. 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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- historical
- book club
- fiction
- historical fiction
18. Once a Queen (Carrick Hall, #1)
By: Sarah Arthur
3.73
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
An American teenager discovers that her estranged English grandmother was once a queen in another w… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
19. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.00
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Here my last love had died."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"No one is ever holy without suffering."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"I had been there before; I knew all about it."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
20. 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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- fiction
"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
21. Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth
By: Catherine Pakaluk
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A portrait of America's most interesting yet overlooked women. In the midst of a historic "birth d… read more
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