A Thread of Grace

10 best books like A Thread of Grace (Mary Doria Russell): A Bend in the Stars, The Madonnas of Leningrad, White as Snow, The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Queen of Ashes, Far to Go, The First Paul: Reclaiming the Radical Visionary Behind the Church's Conservative Icon, From Image to Likeness: A Jungian Path in the Gospel Journey, The Government Inspector, The Scotch-Irish: A Social History

A Bend in the Stars
AuthorRachel Barenbaum
ISBN1538746263
For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Women in the Castle comes a riveting literary novel that is at once an epic love story and a heart-pounding journey across WWI-era Russia, about an ambitious young doctor and her scientist brother in a race against Einstein to solve one of the greatest mysteries...
AuthorDebra Dean
ISBN0060825316
Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday. And while the elderly Russian woman cannot hold on to fresh memories—the details of her grown children's lives, the approaching wedding of her grandchild—her distant past is preserved: vivid images that rise unbidden of...
AuthorTanith Lee
ISBN0312875495
Once upon a time there was a mirror. . . .

So begins this dark, unusual retelling of the story of Snow White by the writer reviewers have called “the Angela Carter of the fantasy field”—a whole novel based on a beloved story, turning it into a dark and sensual drama full of myth and magic.

Arpazia...
AuthorRobert Crichton
ISBN0881842672
After visiting some of the hilltowns in Tuscany, I wondered what it would have been like to live through WWII there. Based on a true story and the author 's personal experience, the book clearly told the story of one small village and their ordeal. It was light and humorous, insightful and introspective,...
Queen of Ashes
AuthorEleanor Herman
Power, betrayal and desire… It's a dangerous gambit in Queen of Ashes, an ebook companion to the Blood of Gods and Royals series by New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Herman!

If you look away from her face, you will die.

This is the warning given to the suitors of Queen Laila...
AuthorAlison Pick
ISBN0062034626
The Man Booker Prize finalist Far to Go by acclaimed author Alison Pick is historical fiction at its very best.

When Czechoslovakia relinquishes the Sudetenland to Hitler, the powerful influence of Nazi propaganda sweeps through towns and villages like a sinister vanguard of the Reich's...
AuthorMarcus J. Borg
ISBN0061430722
“Borg and Crossan reveal a figure who, besides being neither anti-Semitic, anti-sex, nor misogynist, stresses social and political equality among Christians and between them and others. A refreshing and heartening exculpation of a still routinely maligned figure of the first importance to...
From Image to Likeness: A Jungian Path in the Gospel Journey
AuthorW. Harold Grant
ISBN0809125528
(This is more a story about this book/author, than a review per se).

This book represents to me, what Carl G. Jung called "synchronicity." Reading the book set off a chain of events in my life that to this day, amaze and mystify.

I found the tattered book tucked away in a Jesuit Library...
The Government Inspector
AuthorJeffrey Hatcher
ISBN0822223376
I was surprised I hadn't heard of this play before. It's Russian, it's a comedy, and it's a political satire? All things I love to death! I wish I had heard of it earlier.

The Government Inspector is a comedic farce that pokes fun at the socialist society of 1990's Russia, while also poking fun at...
The Scotch-Irish: A Social History
AuthorJames Graham Leyburn
ISBN0807842591
Dispelling much of what he terms the "mythology" of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He traces their life in Scotland, when the essentials of their character and culture were shaped; their removal to Northern Ireland; and their successive migrations...
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