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10 best books like Hymn of the Universe (Pierre Teilhard de Chardin): The Violent Bear It Away, The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man, The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets, The Awakeners: Northshore & Southshore, He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art, Interior Freedom, A Man With One of Those Faces, My Own True Name: New and Selected Poems for Young Adults, Encantado: Desert Monologues

The Violent Bear It Away
AuthorFlannery O'Connor
ISBN0374505241
First published in 1960, The Violent Bear It Away is now a landmark in American literature. It is a dark and absorbing example of the Gothic sensibility and bracing satirical voice that are united in Flannery O'Conner's work. In it, the orphaned Francis Marion Tarwater and his cousins, the schoolteacher...
The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man
AuthorAbraham Joshua Heschel
ISBN0374529752
Elegant, passionate, and filled with the love of God's creation, Abraham Joshua Heschel's The Sabbath has been hailed as a classic of Jewish spirituality ever since its original publication-and has been read by thousands of people seeking meaning in modern life.
In this brief yet profound meditation...
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
AuthorAlan W. Watts
ISBN0679723005
Alan Watts asks what is the cause of the illusion that the self is a separate ego, housed in a bag of skin, and which confronts a universe of physical objects that are alien to it. Rather a person's identity (their ego) binds them to the physical universe, creating a relationship with their environment...
The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets
AuthorTed Kooser
ISBN0803259786
Ted Kooser has been writing and publishing poetry for more than forty years. In the pages of The Poetry Home Repair Manual, Kooser brings those decades of experience to bear. Here are tools and insights, the instructions (and warnings against instructions) that poets—aspiring or practicing—can...
The Awakeners: Northshore & Southshore
AuthorSheri S. Tepper
ISBN0312890222
Come to the world of the River.

Come to a world distant in time and space, a world where the pace of life is counted by tides of the great River, but where, as in the river itself, there are swift dark currents flowing under a placid surface.

Meet Pamra Don--a young woman scarred by her mother's...
He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art
AuthorChristian Wiman
ISBN0374168466
A moving meditation on memory, oblivion, and eternity by one of our most celebrated poets

What is it we want when we can't stop wanting? And how do we make that hunger productive and vital rather than corrosive and destructive? These are the questions that animate Christian Wiman as he explores...
Interior Freedom
AuthorJacques Philippe
ISBN1594170525
Experiencing the freedom of the children of God Interior Freedom leads one to discover that even in the most unfavorable outward circumstances we possess within ourselves a space of freedom that nobody can take away, because God is its source and guarantee. Without this discovery we will always be...
A Man With One of Those Faces
AuthorCaimh McDonnell
LOVED IT!!!

Do you know which famous person you look like?
I've been told that I have an uncanny resemblance to Brad Pitt...in the sense that we both have a body with two legs, two feet, two arms, two hands, and a head with two eyes, two ears, a nose, a mouth and hair. It's only the shape of everything...
My Own True Name: New and Selected Poems for Young Adults
AuthorPat Mora
ISBN1558852921
From My Own True Name, by Pat Mora:

Two Worlds

Bi-lingual, Bi-cultural
able to slip from "How's life"
to "M'estan volviendo loca,"
able to sit in a paneled office
drafting memos in smooth English,
able to order in fluent Spanish
at a Mexican restaurant,
American...
Encantado: Desert Monologues
AuthorPat Mora
ISBN0816538026
Inspired by Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology and Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, Pat Mora brings us the poetic monologues of Encantado, an imagined southwestern town.

Each poem forms a story that reveals the complex and emotional journeys we take through life. Mora meanders through...
The Grandmother
AuthorGeorges Simenon
ISBN0151367388
How many books did Simenon write ? 200? 300? I've read varying accounts as to the exact number, so maybe no one really knows? Seems like he would dash off a book in a week or so, then take a few days off, eating and drinking at the cafes, thinking up the next story. With so many books, he was bound to come up with...
The Priority of Christ: Toward a Postliberal Catholicism
AuthorRobert Barron
For a long time, Christians have tried to bridge the divide between Christianity and secular liberalism with philosophizing and theologizing. In The Priority of Christ, Bishop Robert Barron shows that the answer to this debate--and the way to move forward--lies in Jesus. Barron transcends the usual...
Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution
AuthorNathaniel Philbrick
ISBN0525426787
From the New York Times bestselling author of In The Heart of the Sea, comes a surprising account of the middle years of the American Revolution, and the tragic relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold.
 
In September 1776, the vulnerable Continental Army under an unsure...
Islam : Art and Architecture
AuthorMarkus Hattstein
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Islamic Art in Detail
AuthorSheila R. Canby
ISBN0674023900
How do we know Islamic art? What tells us that images and artifacts are products of the Muslim world, a culture that has historically extended from Spain to Southeast Asia and spanned a period from A.D. 622 to our day? This exquisitely and extensively illustrated book allows readers to identify those...
Islamic Art: Architecture, Painting, Calligraphy, Cermics, Glass, Carpets
AuthorLuca Mozzati
ISBN3791344552
This gorgeous survey of art from the Islamic world covers three continents and fourteen centuries. From its birth in the seventh century through modern times, the Islamic religion has inspired glorious works of art. This stunning book includes more than four hundred reproductions of treasures of...
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