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The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsParallel German text and English translation.The influence and popularity of Rilke’s poetry in America have never been greater than they are today, more than fifty years after his death. Rilke is unquestionably the most significant and compelling poet of romantic transformation, of spiritual quest, that the twentieth century has known...Categorized as:
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Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters, two of C. S. Lewis's most important and enduring works, are now available in this stunning, collectible hardcover edition. The most popular of C. S. Lewis's works of non-fiction, Mere Christianity, has sold several million copies worldwide... -
The Man Born to Be King: A Play-Cycle on the Life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Dorothy L. Sayers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this popular play-cycle, Sayers makes the Gospels come alive. "Her Jesus can bring tears to your eyes. You will be deeply moved--a powerful experience".--Sheldon Vanauken, A Severe Mercy... -
The Spear by Louis de Wohl
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLouis de Wohl This panoramic novel of the last days of Christ ranges from the palaces of imperial Rome to the strife-torn hills of Judea-where the conflict of love and betrayal, revenge and redemption, reaches a mighty climax in the drama of the Crucifixion...Categorized as:
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Cowboy Bodyguard by Linda Ford
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom a fan favorite author with more than one million books sold, a heartwarming inspirational romance set in beautiful Wild Rose Country: Clay Fisher had a reputation as a fast gun, and it cost him his wife and unborn child. Now he only wants to forget the past. If only the past would forget him. Spinster Birdie Howe spent her courting years caring for her ailing mother... -
The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas by Dylan Thomas
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas contains poems that Thomas personally decided best represented his work. A year before its publication Thomas died from swelling of the brain triggered by excessive drinking. Since its initial publication in 1953, this book has become the definitive edition of the poet’s work... -
Selected Poems: 1931 - 2004 by Czesław Miłosz
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSelected Poems: 1931 - 2004 celebrates Czeslaw Milosz's lifetime of poetry. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of our time, Milosz is a master of expression and probing inquiry. Life opened for Czeslaw Milosz at a crossroads of civilizations in northeastern Europe...Categorized as:
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The Last of the Just by André Schwarz-Bart
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOn March 11, 1185, in the old Anglican city of York, the Jews of the city were brutally massacred by their townsmen. As legend has it, God blessed the only survivor of this medieval pogrom, Rabbi Yom Tov Levy, as one of the Lamed-Vov, the thirty-six Just Men of Jewish tradition, a blessing which extended to one Levy of each succeeding generation... -
In My Father's Court by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLike Isaac Bashevis Singer's fiction, this poignant memoir of his childhood in the household and rabbinical court of his father is full of spirits and demons, washerwomen and rabbis, beggars and rich men...Categorized as:
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Collected Poems 1945-1990 by R.S. Thomas, Andrew Motion
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPublished to mark the poet's 80th birthday, this is a collection of poems by R.S. Thomas, written between 1945 and 1990. Thomas won numerous awards for his work, including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1964... -
An Angel's Story by Max Lucado
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSpiritual beings populate the stories of Scripture. Angels singing. Demons infecting. Heavenly hosts fighting . . . Ignore the armies of God and Satan and you ignore the heart of Scripture. Ever since the snake tempted Eve in Eden, we've known: there is more to this world than meets the eye...Categorized as:
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The Singer: A Classic Retelling of Cosmic Conflict by Calvin Miller
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Singer quickly became a favorite of evangelists, pastors, artists, students, teachers and readers of all sorts when it was originally published in 1975... -
Scandalous Risks by Susan Howatch
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn 1963, when traditional values are coming under attack, a young woman in her twenties, Venetia Flaxton, becomes disastrously involved with her best friend's father, the powerful, dynamic but ultimately mysterious Dean of Starbridge Cathedral. Yet, as a married man and a senior Churchman, Aysgarth has nothing to offer her but an admiration which spirals out of control into an obsessive love... -
Pregnant Mail Order Bride And Her Troubled Rancher (A Western Historical Romance Book) (Evergreen Frontier) by Florence Linnington
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA mail order bride who refuses to give in to despair heads further down the pit of despair.Annabelle Buckley suddenly finds herself widowed after the passing of her villainous, abusive husband.She’s free from abuse. But she’s unwanted.When a weaker woman might have given up, Annabelle decides to do the unimaginable. Be a mail order bride.But what decent man would want her? A man who needs help... -
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Hester on the Run by Linda Byler
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe setting is the beginning of an Amish settlement in colonial America in the forests of eastern Pennsylvania. There, a young Amish couple, Hans and Kate Zug, are in their ninth year of marriage, still waiting to have a child. Then, one April morning, Kate finds a Native infant, wrapped in deerskin and placed next to the spring where she went to fill her water bucket... -
A Touch of Scarlet by Renee Ryan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNever was there a more charmed debutante than the impeccable Elizabeth St. James. Her sterling reputation makes her a favored guest in the most exclusive homes in New York City. But behind the gilded curtain of turn-of-the-century society, Elizabeth despises being her mother’s perfect “specimen” and refuses to forgive the woman for her treacherous family betrayal... -
Miranda by Grace Livingston Hill
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNo one ever would have guessed that one of the richest men in town wanted to marry Miranda—or why she had turned him down. But Miranda was faithful to another...Categorized as:
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A Spider Thread by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLet us suppose the Buddha Sakyamuni was taking a morning stroll in paradise one day and happened by a lotus pond whence the flowers shone brilliant white as jewels, their golden centers effusing an ineffable perfume everywhere thereabouts... -
One Night With a Rock Star by Chana Keefer
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGood, Country-bred girl meets the Rock Star of her dreams and worlds collide.For Esther Collins, struggling journalism student and mediocre print model, international singing star Sky has been the ultimate male since she sported frizzy hair, braces and too-skinny legs. She has dreamed of meeting this icon countless times. But life has a way of happening when you least expect it.. -
The Book of Questions by Pablo Neruda
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA best-selling volume of Pablo Neruda's poetry in an English-Spanish edition.Pablo Neruda is one of the world's most popular and famous poets, and in The Book of Questions, Neruda refuses to be corralled by the rational mind. Composed of 316 unanswerable questions, these poems integrate the wonder of a child with the experiences of an adult... -
The Metaphysical Poets by Helen Gardner
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this important and influential anthology Dame Helen Gardner has collected together those seventeenth-century poets who, although never self-consciously a school, did possess in common certain features of argument and powerful persuasion which have come to be described as 'metaphysical'...Categorized as:
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The Song by Calvin Miller
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Singer quickly became a favorite of evangelists, pastors, artists, students, teachers and readers of all sorts when it was originally published in 1975... -
The City of Fire by Grace Livingston Hill
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format... -
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Love by the Book by Cara Lynn James
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA sweeping love story set in a lavish seaside mansion in 1901 Rhode Island. Melinda Hollister is a society lady, intent on finding a rich husband before her peers discover her quickly diminishing wealth. Nick Bryson is all business, focused on making a name for himself in his father's teamship line... -
All Through the Night by Grace Livingston Hill
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDale Huntley's life changed dramatically when her precious grandmother died. All alone, Dale had to face the bitterness and greed of her relatives who were trying to claim her home. But Dale's greatest sorrow was that her beloved was at war--and he might never return... -
A Song Begins by Mary Burchell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn unknown benefactor had sufficient faith in Anthea Benton's singing voice to pay for her training under the celebrated operatic conductor, Oscar Warrender. She was ecstatic, but her joy was short-lived when she came face to face with the great man. Cold and forbidding, he proved to be a hard taskmaster. She felt her dreams can be coming true.. -
المجنون by Kahlil Gibran
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsالترجمة الوحيدة التي أقرها جبرانThis thought-provoking collection of strange, subtle, but meaningful parables casts an ironic light on the beliefs, hopes, and vanities of humankind...Categorized as:
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A Tear and a Smile by Kahlil Gibran
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsContains 56 parables, stories, and poems in Gibran's wholly inimitable manner. Illustrated with 4 of his own paintings and drawings, it is the most important edition to the canon of this great writer... -
The Heretic: A Novel of the Inquisition by Miguel Delibes
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn what may well be the last great novel of one of contemporary world literature's most accomplished authors, Miguel Delibes takes us into the heart of sixteenth-century Spain... -
The Samurai by Shūsaku Endō
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOne of the late Shusaku Endo’s finest works, The Samurai tells of the journey of some of the first Japanese to set foot on European soil and the resulting clash of cultures and politics...Categorized as:
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The Second Coming by Walker Percy
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWill Barrett (also the hero of Percy's The Last Gentleman) is a lonely widower suffering from a depression so severe that he decides he doesn't want to continue living. But then he meets Allison, a mental hospital escapee making a new life for herself in a greenhouse... -
The Holy Sinner by Thomas Mann
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTHE BOOK: An epic arch sinfulness, The Holy Sinner is one of Thomas Mann's great works. From the incestuous union of the two beautiful children of the Duke Grimald of Flanders a boy is born. Left to die at sea, the child is eventually rescued & brought up in holiness on the channel islands... -
Morte D'Urban by J.F. Powers
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWinner of The 1963 National Book Award for Fiction.The hero of J.F. Powers's comic masterpiece is Father Urban, a man of the cloth who is also a man of the world. Charming, with an expansive vision of the spiritual life and a high tolerance for moral ambiguity, Urban enjoys a national reputation as a speaker on the religious circuit and has big plans for the future... -
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The Call of the Pines by Lucy Walker
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Cherry Landin spots a handsome stranger on the beach it is the beginning of a journey that takes her to a cattle station in North West Australia, and beyond. From the bestselling author of Australian outback romance. Over 12 million books sold worldwide. Cherry accepts a job offer from Stephen Denton to act as governess to his brother's children... -
The Counterlife by Philip Roth
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies. Wherever they may find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted unceasingly by the prospect of an alternative existence that can reverse their fate... -
Catholics by Brian Moore
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“The story is told with . . . superb grace and wit.”—The New Yorker“If reading it upsets you, do not be surprised. . . . Moore has eliminated our standard escapes from God—a secularized Kingdom or a romanticized past.”—America“A neat and striking story... -
Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals by Robert M. Pirsig
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsIn this best-selling new book, his first in seventeen years, Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, takes us on a poignant and passionate journey as mysterious and compelling as his first life-changing work. Instead of a motorcycle, a sailboat carries his philosopher-narrator Phaedrus down the Hudson River as winter closes in... -
The Rise of David Levinsky by Abraham Cahan, Jules Chametzky
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA young Hasidic Jew struggling to master the Talmud seeks his fortune amid the teeming streets of New York's Lower East Side. The energy formerly focused on his religious studies now turns in the direction of rising to the top of the business world, where he discovers the high price of assimilation...Categorized as:
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Sotto il sole di Satana by Georges Bernanos
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis new translation marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of Georges Bernanos's first novel, Under Satan's Sun, a powerful account of intense spiritual struggle that reflects the author's deeply-felt religion. The work develops a theme that persistently inspired Bernanos: the existence of evil as a spiritual force and its dramatic role in human destiny... -
That Same Flower: Floria Aemilia's Letter to St. Augustine by Jostein Gaarder
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn 1995, Jostein Gaarder was browsing in an antiquarian bookshop in Buenos Aires, and there, he claims, he came upon a copy of a letter to St. Augustine from his mistress, Floria Aemilia. A true historical figure, Floria was the mother of Augustine's only son... -
Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Rolfe
Rated: 3.53 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsOne day George Arthur Rose, hack writer and minor priest, discovers that he has been picked to be Pope. He is hardly surprised and not in the least daunted. "The previous English pontiff was Hadrian the Fourth," he declares. "The present English pontiff is Hadrian the Seventh. It pleases Us; and so, by Our own impulse, We command."Hadrian is conceived in the image of his creator, Fr... -
The Gospel According to the Son by Norman Mailer
Rated: 3.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNorman Mailer fused fact and fiction to create indelible portraits of such figures as Marilyn Monroe, Gary Gilmore, and Lee Harvey Oswald. In The Gospel According to the Son, Mailer reimagines, as no other modern author has, the key character of Western history... -
Milarepa by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Rated: 3.22 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsSimon fait chaque nuit le même rêve dont une femme énigmatique lui livre la clef : il est la réincarnation de l'oncle de Milarepa, le célèbre ermite tibétain du XIe siècle, qui vouait à son neveu une haine inexpiable.Pour sortir du cycle des renaissances, Simon doit raconter l'histoire des deux hommes, s'identifiant à eux au point de mêler leur identité et la sienne...Categorized as:
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