Going Back to Bisbee
7 best books like Going Back to Bisbee (Richard Shelton): The Lost Letter, Dorothy Day: A Radical Devotion, Thoughts in Solitude, Underground Church: A Living Example of the Church in Its Most Potent Form, La Calle: Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwest City, Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong - and What You Really Need to Know, The Drifter
| Author | Jillian Cantor |
| ISBN | 0399185674 |
A heart-breaking, heart-warming historical novel of love and survival inspired by real resistance workers during World War II Austria, and the mysterious love letter that connects generations of Jewish families. For readers of The Nightingale, Lilac Girls, and Sarah's Key.
Austria,...
| Author | Robert Coles |
| ISBN | 0201079747 |
Robert Coles first met Dorothy Day over thirty-five years ago when, as a medical student, he worked in one of her Catholic Worker soup kitchens. He remained close to this inspiring and controversial woman until her death in 1980. His book, an intellectual and psychological portrait, confronts candidly...
| Author | Thomas Merton |
| ISBN | 0374513252 |
Thoughtful and eloquent, as timely (or timeless) now as when it was originally published in 1956, Thoughts in Solitude addresses the pleasure of a solitary life, as well as the necessity for quiet reflection in an age when so little is private. Thomas Merton writes: "When society is made up of men who...
Underground Church: A Living Example of the Church in Its Most Potent Form
| Author | Brian Sanders |
| ISBN | 0310538076 |
What If the Church Truly Empowered People to Engage in God's Mission?
Something extraordinary has been happening in Tampa, Florida. A new expression of the church has been quietly growing. It's something of an experiment, but over the last ten years the church has been validating its ideas...
La Calle: Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwest City
| Author | Lydia R. Otero |
| ISBN | 0816528888 |
On March 1, 1966, the voters of Tucson approved the Pueblo Center Redevelopment Project—Arizona’s first major urban renewal project—which targeted the most densely populated eighty acres in the state. For close to one hundred years, tucsonenses had created their own spatial reality in the...
Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong - and What You Really Need to Know
| Author | Emily Oster |
| ISBN | 1594204756 |
What to Expect When You're Expecting meets Freakonomics: an award-winning economist disproves standard recommendations about pregnancy to empower women while they're expecting.
Pregnancy—unquestionably one of the most profound, meaningful experiences of adulthood—can...
| Author | Nick Petrie |
| ISBN | 0399174567 |
An explosive thriller debut introducing Peter Ash, a veteran who finds that the demons of war aren't easily left behind...
Peter Ash came home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with only one souvenir: what he calls his "white static," the buzzing claustrophobia due to post-traumatic stress...
