Love Letters from Cell 92
10 best books like Love Letters from Cell 92 (Dietrich Bonhoeffer): 84, Charing Cross Road, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, The Fountains of Silence, They Called Us Enemy, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast, After the Flood, Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II (Oxford Oral History Series), Dietrich Bonhoeffer, In Waves
| Author | Helene Hanff |
| ISBN | 0140143505 |
This charming classic, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspondence between Helene Hanff, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London. Through the years, though never meeting and separated both geographically and culturally, they share...
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
| Author | Kim Michele Richardson |
| ISBN | 1492671525 |
In 1936, tucked deep into the woods of Troublesome Creek, KY, lives blue-skinned 19-year-old Cussy Carter, the last living female of the rare Blue People ancestry. The lonely young Appalachian woman joins the historical Pack Horse Library Project of Kentucky and becomes a librarian, riding across...
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
| Author | Eric Metaxas |
| ISBN | 1595551387 |
As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a small number of dissidents and saboteurs worked to dismantle the Third Reich from the inside. One of these was Dietrich Bonhoeffer--a pastor and author, known as much for such spiritual...
| Author | Ruta Sepetys |
| ISBN | 0399160310 |
A portrait of love, silence, and secrets under a Spanish dictatorship.
Madrid, 1957. Under the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood into Spain under the welcoming promise of sunshine and wine....
| Author | George Takei |
| ISBN | 1603094504 |
A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself.
Long before George Takei braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke...
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
| Author | Jonathan Safran Foer |
| ISBN | 0374280002 |
Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those of us who accept the reality of human-caused climate change truly believe it? If we did, surely we would be roused to act on what we know. Will future generations distinguish...
| Author | Kassandra Montag |
| ISBN | 0062889397 |
An inventive and riveting epic saga, After the Flood signals the arrival of an extraordinary new talent.
A little more than a century from now, our world has been utterly transformed. After years of slowly overtaking the continent, rising floodwaters have obliterated America’s great...
| Author | J. Todd Moye |
| ISBN | 0195386558 |
In this inspiring account of the Tuskegee Airmen--the country's first African American military pilots--historian J. Todd Moye captures the challenges and triumphs of these brave aviators in their own words, drawing on more than 800 interviews recorded for the National Park Service's Tuskegee...
| Author | Eberhard Bethge |
| ISBN | 0800628446 |
Just finished this; it's a beast but was surprised at how readable it was. The fact that the author, Eberhard Bethge, was Bonhoeffer's student at the underground seminary, a close friend and co-conspirator of Bonhoeffer makes the book come alive. Particularly striking is the story of Bonhoeffer's...
| Author | A.J. Dungo |
| ISBN | 1910620300 |
A tale of love, heartbreak and surfing from an important new voice in comics. In Waves is Craig Thompson's Blankets meets Barbarian Days.
In this visually arresting graphic novel, surfer and illustrator AJ Dungo remembers his late partner and the shared love of surfing that endured throughout...
How Much Is a Little Girl Worth?
| Author | Rachael Denhollander |
| ISBN | 1496441680 |
You’re beautiful, worthy, and you should be loved
Because of all that you are.
Different from anything else in the world,
You are precious beyond the stars.
How Much is a Little Girl Worth? is Rachael Denhollander’s tender hearted anthem to little girls everywhere, teaching...
