A Pelican in the Wilderness: Hermits, Solitaries, and Recluses
10 best books like A Pelican in the Wilderness: Hermits, Solitaries, and Recluses (Isabel Colegate): The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, This Is How You Lose the Time War, The Magician's Assistant, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine, The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data, The Seventh Bride, Francis: A Life in Songs, Invitation to Retreat: The Gift and Necessity of Time Away with God, On Augustine, When You Find My Body: The Disappearance of Geraldine Largay on the Appalachian Trail
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
| Author | Jonathan Haidt |
| ISBN | 0465028020 |
When pitching Jonathan Haidt's "Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom" to friends, I often find myself explaining away the title -- no, it's not another self-help book and yes, it's about more than just plastering a silly smile on your face. With that said, the title is appropriate;...
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading.
And thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield...
| Author | Ann Patchett |
| ISBN | 1857028155 |
Sabine-- twenty years a magician's assistant to her handsome, charming husband-- is suddenly a widow. In the wake of his death, she finds he has left a final trick; a false identity and a family allegedly lost in a tragic accident but now revealed as very much alive and well. Named as heirs in his will, they...
| Author | Iris Murdoch |
| ISBN | 0140041117 |
Swinging between his wife and his mistress in the sacred and profane love machine and between the charms of morality and the excitements of sin, the psychotherapist, Blaise Gavender, sometimes wishes he could divide himself in two. Instead, he lets loose misery and confusion and—for the spectators...
The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
| Author | Kevin D. Mitnick |
| ISBN | 0316380504 |
Kevin Mitnick, the world's most famous hacker, teaches you easy cloaking and counter-measures for citizens and consumers in the age of Big Brother and Big Data.
Like it or not, your every move is being watched and analyzed. Consumer's identities are being stolen, and a person's every step...
Young Rhea is a miller’s daughter of low birth, so she is understandably surprised when a mysterious nobleman, Lord Crevan, shows up on her doorstep and proposes marriage. Since commoners don’t turn down lords—no matter how sinister they may seem—Rhea is forced to agree to the engagement.Lord...
| Author | Ann Wroe |
| ISBN | 1787331482 |
**LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019**
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE CATHOLIC HERALD BOOK AWARDS 2019**
A life of St Francis in verse
Throughout her career Ann Wroe has constantly confounded expectations, following her own unique path. Now, in Francis, she turns to...
Invitation to Retreat: The Gift and Necessity of Time Away with God
| Author | Ruth Haley Barton |
| ISBN | 0830846468 |
"Come away and rest awhile."
Jesus invites us to be with him, offering our full and undivided attention to him. When we choose retreat, we make a generous investment in our friendship with Christ. We are not always generous with ourselves where God is concerned. Many of us have tried to incorporate...
| Author | Rowan Williams |
| ISBN | 1472925270 |
Since his retirement as Archbishop of Canterbury and his return to academic life (Master of Magdalene College Cambridge) Rowan Williams has demonstrated a massive new surge of intellectual energy. In this new book he turns his attention to St Augustine.
St Augustine not only shaped the development...
When You Find My Body: The Disappearance of Geraldine Largay on the Appalachian Trail
| Author | D. Dauphinee |
| ISBN | 1608936902 |
When Geraldine "Gerry" Largay (AT trail name, Inchworm) first went missing on the Appalachian Trail in remote western Maine in 2013, the people of Maine were wrought with concern. When she was not found, the family, the wardens, and the Navy personnel who searched for her were devastated. The Maine...
How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency
| Author | Akiko Busch |
| ISBN | 1101980419 |
It is time to reevaluate the merits of the inconspicuous life, to search out some antidote to continuous exposure, and to reconsider the value of going unseen, undetected, or overlooked in this new world. Might invisibility be regarded not simply as refuge, but as a condition with its own meaning and...
The Oysterville Sewing Circle
| Author | Susan Wiggs |
| ISBN | 0062425617 |
The #1 New York Times bestselling author brings us her most ambitious and provocative work yet—a searing and timely novel that explores the most volatile issue of our time—domestic violence.
At the break of dawn, Caroline Shelby rolls into Oysterville, Washington, a tiny hamlet at the...
| Author | Paula Gooder |
| ISBN | 1473669723 |
The gripping first novel from renowned New Testament scholar Paula Gooder, which brings alive first-century Christianity and the apostle Paul as never before.
Sometime around 56 AD, the apostle Paul wrote to the church in Rome. His letter was arguably his theological masterpiece, and has continued...
Zen: The Art of Simple Living
Zen is the perfect antidote to the chaos of modern life . . .
In clear, practical and easy to follow lessons - one a day for 100 days - renowned Buddhist monk Shunmyo Masuno draws on centuries of wisdom to show you how to apply the essence of Zen to modern life.
You will learn how to exhale deeply...
| Author | Anna Lewington |
| ISBN | 1789140110 |
Elegant, rich in history, and supremely useful, birches have played an extraordinary yet largely unrecognized part in shaping both our natural environment and the material culture and beliefs of millions of people around the world. Exploring birches’ many uses, the ancient beliefs and folklore...
| Author | Lemn Sissay |
| ISBN | 1786892340 |
At the age of seventeen, after a childhood in an adopted family followed by six years in care homes, Norman Greenwood was given his birth certificate. He learned that his real name was not Norman. It was Lemn Sissay. He was British and Ethiopian. And he learned that his mother had been pleading for his safe...
Reimagining the Ignatian Examen: Fresh Ways to Pray from Your Day
| Author | Mark E. Thibodeaux |
| ISBN | 0829442448 |
Following the example of St. Ignatius, we believe that praying the Examen will lead to a better life. The 500-year-old daily practice of honest self-assessment and reflection is a founding principle of Ignatian spirituality. What we don’t know is if St. Ignatius ever felt like changing it up a bit....
Gold from the Stone: New and Selected Poems (Canons)
Lemn Sissay was seventeen when he wrote his first poetry book, which he hand-sold to the miners and mill workers of Wigan. Since then his poems have become landmarks, sculpted in granite and built from concrete, recorded on era-defining albums and declaimed in over twenty countries.
He has...
