Nine Essential Things I've Learned About Life
9 best books like Nine Essential Things I've Learned About Life (Harold S. Kushner): Understanding the Borderline Mother, Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, The Fruit of the Tree, The First Paul: Reclaiming the Radical Visionary Behind the Church's Conservative Icon, From Image to Likeness: A Jungian Path in the Gospel Journey, The Government Inspector, The Scotch-Irish: A Social History, Redemption, Le petit Prince ( Illustrate)
Understanding the Borderline Mother
| Author | Christine Ann Lawson |
| ISBN | 0765703319 |
The first love in our lives is our mother. Recognizing her face, her voice, the meaning of her moods, and her facial expressions is crucial to survival. Dr. Christine Ann Lawson vividly describes how mothers who suffer from borderline personality disorder produce children who may flounder in life...
Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas
| Author | Elaine Pagels |
| ISBN | 0375501568 |
Pagels, a writer and thinker on religion and history, winner of the National Book Award for The Gnostic Gospels, reflects on what matters most about spiritual and religious exploration in the 21st century. This book explores how Christianity began by tracing its earliest texts, including the Gospel...
| Author | Edith Wharton |
| ISBN | 1428052305 |
Originally published in 1907, this little known novel by the author of The Age of Innocence and Ethan Frome was considered controversial for its frank treatment of labor and industrial conditions, drug addiction, mercy killing, divorce, and second marriages.John Amherst, an idealistic middle...
| Author | Marcus J. Borg |
| ISBN | 0061430722 |
“Borg and Crossan reveal a figure who, besides being neither anti-Semitic, anti-sex, nor misogynist, stresses social and political equality among Christians and between them and others. A refreshing and heartening exculpation of a still routinely maligned figure of the first importance to...
From Image to Likeness: A Jungian Path in the Gospel Journey
| Author | W. Harold Grant |
| ISBN | 0809125528 |
(This is more a story about this book/author, than a review per se).
This book represents to me, what Carl G. Jung called "synchronicity." Reading the book set off a chain of events in my life that to this day, amaze and mystify.
I found the tattered book tucked away in a Jesuit Library...
| Author | Jeffrey Hatcher |
| ISBN | 0822223376 |
I was surprised I hadn't heard of this play before. It's Russian, it's a comedy, and it's a political satire? All things I love to death! I wish I had heard of it earlier.
The Government Inspector is a comedic farce that pokes fun at the socialist society of 1990's Russia, while also poking fun at...
The Scotch-Irish: A Social History
| Author | James Graham Leyburn |
| ISBN | 0807842591 |
Dispelling much of what he terms the "mythology" of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He traces their life in Scotland, when the essentials of their character and culture were shaped; their removal to Northern Ireland; and their successive migrations...
| Author | Leon Uris |
| ISBN | 0061098442 |
Master storyteller Leon Uris, internationally acclaimed author of such bestsellers as Exodus, Topaz, QB VII,Trinity, the Haj and Mitla Pass,continues the epic story of the Irish struggle for freedom in Redemption. A dramatic saga set against the backdrop of growing unrest in Ireland and a world...
Le petit Prince ( Illustrate)
| Author | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
À LÉON WERTH
Je demande pardon aux enfants d’avoir dédié ce livre à une grande personne. J’ai une excuse sérieuse : cette grande personne est le meilleur ami que j’ai au monde. J’ai une autre excuse : cette grande personne peut tout comprendre, même les livres pour enfants....
