One Man's Initiation: 1917
10 best books like One Man's Initiation: 1917 (John Dos Passos): The Archer's Tale, Dark Night of the Soul, The Lord Chandos Letter: And Other Writings, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God, The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society, Short Letter, Long Farewell, The Normal Christian Life, Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters, The Man Who Knew The Way to the Moon, METAtropolis: The Dawn of Uncivilization
| Author | Bernard Cornwell |
| ISBN | 0060935766 |
From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, now available in paperback—the first book in the Grail Series--a spellbinding tale of a young man, a fearless archer, who sets out wanting to avenge his family's honor and winds up on a quest for the Holy Grail.
At dawn on Easter morning...
| Author | Juan de la Cruz |
| ISBN | 0486426939 |
« Plus les choses divines sont en soi claires et manifestes, plus elles sont naturellement obscures et cachées à l’âme. Il en est ici comme de la lumière naturelle : […] plus on veut fixer le soleil en face, et plus on éblouit la puissance visuelle et on la prive de lumière […]. De même, quand...
| Author | Hugo von Hofmannsthal |
| ISBN | 1590171209 |
Hugo von Hoffmannsthal made his mark as a poet, as a playwright, and as the librettist for Richard Strauss’s greatest operas, but he was no less accomplished as a writer of short, strangely evocative prose works. The atmospheric stories and sketches collected here—fin-de-siècle fairy tales...
The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God
| Author | Dallas Willard |
| ISBN | 0060693339 |
The Divine Conspiracy has revolutionized how we think about the true meaning of discipleship. In this classic, one of the most brilliant Christian thinkers of our times and author of the acclaimed The Spirit of Disciplines, Dallas Willard, skillfully weaves together biblical teaching, popular...
The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society
| Author | Henri J.M. Nouwen |
| ISBN | 0232521026 |
The Wounded Healer is a hope-filled and profoundly simple book that speaks directly to those men and women who want to be of service in their church or community, but have found the traditional ways often threatening and ineffective. In this book, Henri Nouwen combines creative case studies of ministry...
| Author | Peter Handke |
| ISBN | 1590173066 |
Short Letter, Long Farewell is one the most inventive and exhilarating of the great Peter Handke’s novels. Full of seedy noir atmospherics and boasting an air of generalized delirium, the book starts by introducing us to a nameless young German who has just arrived in America, where he hopes to get...
The Normal Christian Life
| Author | Watchman Nee |
| ISBN | 0875084141 |
Oh. My. God. This is the best book I've ever read--and I absolutely mean that with all the sincerity that I can muster.
This book was so good, in fact, that it made me reevaluate how I rate books. There is absolutely nothing flawed in it. NOTHING. And Nee's message was poignant, timeless, and so...
Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters
| Author | Timothy J. Keller |
| ISBN | 0525951369 |
The New York Times bestselling author of The Reason for God and The Songs of Jesus and a nationally renowned minister, Timothy Keller exposes the error of making good things “ultimate” in this book, and shows readers a new path toward a hope that lasts.
Success, true love, and the life...
The Man Who Knew The Way to the Moon
The story of John C. Houbolt, an unsung hero of Apollo 11 and the man who showed NASA how to put America on the moon.
Without John C. Houbolt, a junior engineer at NASA, Apollo 11 would never have made it to the moon.
Top NASA engineers on the project, including Werner Von Braun, strongly...
METAtropolis: The Dawn of Uncivilization
Five original tales set in a shared urban future--from some of the hottest young writers in modern SF
More than an anthology, Metatropolis is the brainchild of five of science fiction's hottest writers--Elizabeth Bear, Tobias Buckell, Jay Lake, Karl Schroeder, and project editor John Scalzi---who...
