Miss American Pie: A Diary of Love, Secrets and Growing Up in the 1970s
10 best books like Miss American Pie: A Diary of Love, Secrets and Growing Up in the 1970s (Margaret Sartor): Dry, Scarlett, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others, Harry, a History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon, Rich in Love, Learning to Walk in the Dark, An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith, Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus, City of God: Faith in the Streets
| Author | Augusten Burroughs |
| ISBN | 0312423799 |
You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinary. But when the ordinary person had two drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when...
| Author | Alexandra Ripley |
| ISBN | 0446363251 |
The timeless tale continues... The most popular and beloved American historical novel ever written, Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind is unparalleled in its portrayal of men and women at once larger than life but as real as ourselves. Now bestselling writer Alexandra Ripley brings us back to...
A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
| Author | Timothy Egan |
| ISBN | 0735225230 |
Moved by his mother's death and his Irish Catholic family's complicated history with the church, Timothy Egan decided to follow in the footsteps of centuries of seekers to force a reckoning with his own beliefs. He embarked on a thousand-mile pilgrimage through the theological cradle of Christianity,...
Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
| ISBN | 0062406582 |
The renowned and beloved New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to Walk in the Dark recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world’s religions to undergraduates in rural Georgia, revealing how God delights...
Harry, a History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon
| Author | Melissa Anelli |
| ISBN | 1416554955 |
THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS WERE JUST THE BEGINNING OF THE STORY... During the brief span of just one decade, hundreds of millions of perfectly ordinary people made history: they became the only ones who would remember what it was like when the Harry Potter saga was still unfinished. What is was like to seek...
| Author | Josephine Humphreys |
| ISBN | 0140296107 |
It's been a while since I read this, but I remember really liking it, and have kept a copy on my personal real life bookshelf ever since it came out. I have a fondness for local authors and books about the but don't uniformly sing all their praises. However Josephine Humphreys deserves my praise and even...
Learning to Walk in the Dark
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
| ISBN | 0062024353 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World, Barbara Brown Taylor’s Learning to Walk in the Dark provides a way to find spirituality in those times when we don’t have all the answers.
Taylor has become increasingly uncomfortable with our tendency to associate all...
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
| ISBN | 0061370460 |
In her critically acclaimed Leaving Church ("a beautiful, absorbing memoir."—Dallas Morning News), Barbara Brown Taylor wrote about leaving full-time ministry to become a professor, a decision that stretched the boundaries of her faith. Now, in her stunning follow-up, An Altar in the World,...
| Author | Thomas Cahill |
| ISBN | 0385483724 |
Cahill's most daring and provocative subject yet: Jesus of Nazareth, the central figure of Western civilization.
In Desire of the Everlasting Hills, Thomas Cahill takes up his most daring and provocative subject yet: Jesus of Nazareth, the central figure of Western civilization.
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Paradise is a garden...but heaven is a city. From the acclaimed author of Take This Bread and Jesus Freak comes a powerful new account of venturing beyond the borders of religion into the unpredictable territory of faith. On Ash Wednesday, 2012, Sara Miles and her friends left their church buildings...
Why Religion?: A Personal Story
| Author | Elaine Pagels |
| ISBN | 0062368559 |
Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to politics, whether they are religious or not? In Why Religion? Elaine Pagels looks to her own life to help address these...
Woke: A Guide to Social Justice
| Author | Titania McGrath |
| ISBN | 1472130847 |
In Woke, Titania McGrath demonstrates how everybody can play their part in the pursuit of social justice. As a millennial icon on the forefront of online activism, Titania is uniquely placed to guide her readers through the often bewildering array of terminology and concepts that constitute twenty-first-century...
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
| Author | Nancy Milford |
| ISBN | 0375760814 |
Thomas Hardy once said that America had two great attractions: the skyscraper and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. The most famous poet of the Jazz Age, Millay captivated the nation: She smoked in public, took many lovers (men and women, single and married), flouted convention sensationally,...
