A Stone for a Pillow
10 best books like A Stone for a Pillow (Madeleine L'Engle): The Book of Delights, Rain of Gold, Thick: And Other Essays, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again, Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women, A Prayer Journal, The Gospel Comes with a House Key, The Weight of Glory
| Author | Ross Gay |
| ISBN | 1616207922 |
Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; some as long as five pages—that record the small joys that occurred in one year, from birthday to birthday, and that we often overlook in our busy lives. His is a meditation on delight that takes a clear-eyed...
In Rain of Gold, Victor Villasenor weaves the parallel stories of two families and two countries…bringing us the timeless romance between the volatile bootlegger who would become his father and the beautiful Lupe, his mother–men and women in whose lives the real and the fantastical exist side...
| Author | Tressie McMillan Cottom |
| ISBN | 1620974363 |
Smart, humorous, and strikingly original thoughts on race, beauty, money, and more—by one of today's most intrepid public intellectuals
Tressie McMillan Cottom, the writer, professor, and acclaimed author of Lower Ed, now brilliantly shifts gears from running regression analyses...
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
| Author | Anne Lamott |
| ISBN | 0385496095 |
Despite--or because of--her irreverence, faith is a natural subject for Anne Lamott. Since Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, her fans have been waiting for her to write the book that explained how she came to the big-hearted, grateful, generous faith that she so often alluded to in her two earlier...
Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
| Author | Rachel Held Evans |
| ISBN | 0718022319 |
One Woman’s Journey Back to Loving the Bible
If the Bible isn’t a science book or an instruction manual, then what is it? What do people mean when they say the Bible is inspired? When Rachel Held Evans found herself asking these questions, she began a quest to better understand what the...
Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World
| Author | Henri J.M. Nouwen |
| ISBN | 0824519868 |
While I love Nouwen, I was disappointed by this work. I found it to be a beautiful depiction of the Gospel message with one vital omission: Christ. He speaks of us as being (like the bread of the Eucharist) taken, blessed, broken, and given. It is a wonderful way of presenting the role we play in this world,...
Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women
| Author | Sarah Bessey |
| ISBN | 1476717575 |
Written with poetic rhythm, a prophetic voice, and a deeply biblical foundation, this loving yet fearless book urges today’s church to move beyond man-made restrictions and fully welcome women’s diverse voices and experiences.
A freedom song for the church.
Sarah Bessey...
| Author | Flannery O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0374236917 |
"I would like to write a beautiful prayer," writes the young Flannery O'Connor in this deeply spiritual journal, recently discovered among her papers in Georgia. "There is a whole sensible world around me that I should be able to turn to Your praise." Written between 1946 and 1947 while O'Connor was...
The Gospel Comes with a House Key
| Author | Rosaria Champagne Butterfield |
The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World
About The Gospel Comes with a House Key
The word hospitality often invokes a scene of a gracious, impeccably fashioned host welcoming guests into a beautifully appointed home...
"The negative idea of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point."
I have 44 highlights in the Kindle Book and I reread it regularly....
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education
| Author | Christopher Emdin |
| ISBN | 0807006408 |
Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, a prominent scholar offers a new approach to teaching and learning for every stakeholder in urban education.
Drawing on his own experience of feeling undervalued and invisible in classrooms as a young man of color and merging his...
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
| Author | Adrienne Maree Brown |
| ISBN | 1849352607 |
Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent...
The Sexy Years: Discover the Hormone Connection: The Secret to Fabulous Sex, Great Health, and Vitality, for Women and Men
| Author | Suzanne Somers |
| ISBN | 1400081572 |
Getting older can be brutal—women gain weight, lose their sex drive, experience hot flashes, suffer memory loss, become short-tempered, find it difficult to sleep, and on and on. It’s not so easy for men, either—they start to lose energy and stamina as they age, too (and they have to live with...
| Author | Jennifer Chiaverini |
As each holiday season approaches, some revel in welcoming the New Year ahead; others quietly mourn the passing of time gone by. "We can't hold on to the past," says Master Quilter Sylvia Compson, "but we cankeep the best part of 'Auld Lang Syne' in our hearts and in our memories, and we can look forward...
| Author | Rex Stout |
| ISBN | 0670559946 |
A bomb explodes in the desk drawer of a top TV executive. But was the death trap intended for him or for the man who opened the drawer? Each man had a host of enemies, so was it the ambitious business partner, the jealous wife, the office secretary, or the man with blood on his hands? Nero Wolfe finds himself...
| Author | James Patterson |
| ISBN | 0316036986 |
Daniel X's hunt to eliminate each and every intergalactic criminal on Earth is always relentless, but this time, it's getting personal. Number Three on the List of Alien Outlaws takes the form of raging, soul-possessing fire. And fire transports Daniel back to the most traumatic event of his life-the...
| Author | Walter Mosley |
| ISBN | 1852427698 |
'It has come to my attention, sir, that between August 1948 and September of 1952 you came into possession of at least three real estate properties.? 'I have reviewed your tax records back to 1945 and you show no large income, in any year. This would suggest that you could not legally afford such expenditures...'...
The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name
| Author | Sally Lloyd-Jones |
| ISBN | 0310708257 |
If you are a parent, grandparent, pastor, or teacher looking for a way to teach the children in your life about God’s “Never Stopping, Never Giving up, Unbreaking, Always and Forever Love,” look no further than The Jesus Storybook Bible.
What makes The Jesus Storybook Bible different...
