Letters to a Spiritual Seeker
10 best books like Letters to a Spiritual Seeker (Henry David Thoreau): The Alley, The Lost Book of Mormon: A Journey Through the Mythic Lands of Nephi, Zarahemla, and Kansas City, Missouri, Understanding the Book of Mormon: A Reader's Guide, Birds of America, Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: The Devoted Friend/The Nightingale and the Rose, The Wind in the Willows, The Gospel According to Star Wars: Faith, Hope, and the Force, Penguins and Golden Calves: Icons and Idols in Antarctica and Other Unexpected Places, The American Soul: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders, American Transcendentalism: A History
| Author | Eleanor Estes |
| ISBN | 0152049185 |
In the heart of Brooklyn, New York, there is an alley that is the most beautiful place to live in the whole wide world. Or so Connie Ives believes. The alley is the perfect location to sharpen Connie's swinging skills, hold practices for the Alley Conservatory of Music, and convict a burglar by trial.
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| Author | Avi Steinberg |
| ISBN | 0385535694 |
A witty and probing travelogue through the landscapes associated with the Book of Mormon, one the most enduring and influential works of American literature.
Is the Book of Mormon the Great American Novel? Decades before Ishmael’s ship embarked on its search for Moby Dick, before Huck...
| Author | Grant Hardy |
| ISBN | 0199731705 |
Mark Twain once derided the Book of Mormon as "chloroform in print." Long and complicated, written in the language of the King James version of the Bible, it boggles the minds of many. Yet it is unquestionably one of the most influential books ever written. With over 140 million copies in print, it is a...
| Author | John James Audubon |
| ISBN | 1566491959 |
Most all of the North American birds are here...some people believe that true American art began with Audubon?! What a treat it must have been to see the now extinct Carolina parakeet and the most likely extinct Ivory-billed Woodpecker, which recently involved a massive manhunt here in Arkansas and...
| Author | P. Craig Russell |
| ISBN | 1561633917 |
In this graphic novel, Russell takes two fairytales by Oscar Wilde, "The Devoted Friend" and "The Nightingale and the Rose" and turns them into a comic strip story and changes some of the stories elements. The first fairytale, "The Devoted Friend" tells a story of a young boy named Hans, who has the most...
| Author | Malvina G. Vogel |
| ISBN | 0866119906 |
“Wind In The Willows”, a really good book about a bunch of animals, Mole,Badger, and Rat who are trying to control an insane toad. Toad is incredibly interested in different types of transportation. He is very rich, and is spending lots of money on all types of moving things. He starts with boats,...
Star Wars is one of the most beloved movie series of all time, and in this book John McDowell explores the many spiritual themes that weave throughout the six films. From the Force to the dark side, the issues discussed in the films have a moral and spiritual complexity that, if paid attention to, can help...
| Author | Madeleine L'Engle |
| ISBN | 0877886318 |
Despite protests and warnings from friends and family, author Madeleine L’Engle, at the age of seventy-four, embarked on a rafting trip to Antarctica. Her journey through the startling beauty of the continent led her to write Penguins and Golden Calves, a captivating discussion of how opening...
| Author | Jacob Needleman |
| ISBN | 1585422266 |
Looking at the lives of America's founders-including Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin-scholar and bestselling author Jacob Needleman explores their core of inner beliefs; their religious and spiritual sensibilities; and their individual conception of the purpose of life. The founders,...
| Author | Philip F. Gura |
| ISBN | 0809034778 |
The First Comprehensive History of Transcendentalism
American Transcendentalism is a comprehensive narrative history of America's first group of public intellectuals, the men and women who defined American literature and indelibly marked American reform in the decades before and...
| Author | Robert Sullivan |
| ISBN | 0061710318 |
Robert Sullivan, the New York Times bestselling author of Rats and Cross Country, delivers a revolutionary reconsideration of Henry David Thoreau for modern readers of the seminal transcendentalist. Dispelling common notions of Thoreau as a lonely eccentric cloistered at Walden Pond, Sullivan...
| Author | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| ISBN | 0192836005 |
The first paperback edition to include full annotations of these twenty Hawthorne tales written between the 1830s and 50s, this volume contains the classic pieces Young Goodman Brown, The Maypole of Merry Mount, The Birthmark, The Celestial Railroad and Earth's Holocaust, as well as tales, such...
| Author | Chan Khong |
| ISBN | 1888375671 |
Sister Chan Khong's autobiography tells the story of her spiritual and personal odyssey through the many years of her life. The book’s centerpiece is her moving account of her return to Vietnam, her homeland, after 40 years of exile. She describes in refreshing detail her emotional reactions,...
Pass It On: The Story of Bill Wilson and How the A. A. Message Reached the World
| Author | Alcoholics Anonymous |
Bill Wilson never got sober or even worked a program. He switched his drug of choice from booze to unfamiliar women in early recovery. He was a self centered 13th stepper. He also enjoyed a nice sobriety break while tripping on LSD so much his wife and Dr. Bob had to perform an intervention. That is why I take...
| Author | Maximilien Le Roy |
| ISBN | 8415578377 |
Por primera vez en cómic se publica la vida de un filósofo fundamental en la historia del pensamiento moderno, un indignado considerado el padre de la «desobediencia civil», un escritor e intelectual complejo, cambiante, paradójico y provocador.
Marzo de 1845. Henry David Thoreau...
Christianity and the Social Crisis in the 21st Century: The Classic That Woke Up the Church
| Author | Walter Rauschenbusch |
| ISBN | 0060890274 |
First published in 1907, Christianity and the Social Crisis outsold every other religious volume for three years and then became a mainstay for Christians and other religious people seriously interested in social justice, inspiring leaders such as Reinhold and Richard Niebuhr, Martin Luther King...
| Author | Steven Nadler |
| ISBN | 0374229988 |
In the spring of 1672, the German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz arrived in Paris on a furtive diplomatic mission. That project was abandoned quickly, but Leibniz remained in Paris with a singular goal: to get the most out of the city’s intellectual and cultural riches....
| Author | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| ISBN | 0146001168 |
The "Wife of Bath" is a tale about a young knight who makes a bad decision early on in his knighthood. He fulfills his punishment from the Queen by setting out on a quest to find the answer to a question the Queen asks him. She gives him a year and a day to fulfill this quest for her answer. The question the Queen...
| Author | Richard Higgins |
| ISBN | 0520294041 |
Trees were central to Henry David Thoreau’s creativity as a writer, his work as a naturalist, his thought, and his inner life. His portraits of them were so perfect, it was as if he could see the sap flowing beneath their bark. When Thoreau wrote that the poet loves the pine tree as his own shadow in the...
| Author | Robert D. Richardson Jr. |
| ISBN | 0520063465 |
The two years Thoreau spent at Walden Pond and the night he spent in the Concord jail are among the most familiar features of the American intellectual landscape. In this new biography, based on a reexamination of Thoreau's manuscripts and on a retracing of his trips, Robert Richardson offers a view...
| Author | C. Stephen Evans |
| ISBN | 0877843430 |
Is there a God? How can we know? What can we know about God? These questions are the focal points of the philosophy of religion. C. Stephen Evans wrestles with these issues, looking at the classical arguments for God's existence and examining the contemporary challenges to theism from sociology, psychology...
| Author | H.L. Mencken |
| ISBN | 0801885361 |
With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken’s death, the Johns Hopkins University Press announces The Buncombe Collection, newly packaged...
At Home in the World: Stories and Essential Teachings from a Monk's Life
| Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| ISBN | 1941529437 |
This collection of autobiographical and teaching stories from peace activist and Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh is thought provoking, inspiring, and enjoyable to read. Collected here for the first time, these stories span the author’s life. There are stories from Thich Nhat Hanh’s childhood and...
