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Penguins and Golden Calves: Icons and Idols in Antarctica and Other Unexpected Places

10 best books like Penguins and Golden Calves: Icons and Idols in Antarctica and Other Unexpected Places (Madeleine L'Engle): Phantastes, DARK AGENDA: The War to Destroy Christian America, Becoming Madeleine: A Biography of the Author of a Wrinkle in Time by Her Granddaughters, A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos, Own Your Everyday: Overcome the Pressure to Prove and Show Up for What You're Made to Do, On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old, Sensible Shoes: A Story about the Spiritual Journey, A Light So Lovely: The Spiritual Legacy of Madeleine L'Engle, Author of A Wrinkle in Time, A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18, The Turquoise Table: Finding Community and Connection in Your Own Front Yard

Phantastes
AuthorGeorge MacDonald
C.S. Lewis said that upon reading this astonishing 19th-century fairy tale he "had crossed a great frontier," and numerous others both before and since have felt similarly.

In MacDonald's fairy tales, both those for children and (like this one) those for adults, the "fairy land" clearly...
DARK AGENDA: The War to Destroy Christian America
AuthorDavid Horowitz
Specific and inclusive! The chapter "Obama's Arc" is so spot on that I feel Horowitz was in Rev. Wright's "church" and viewed the true criteria, as I did. It's short and precise-this book. And it's wholly accurate to the realities of the situations I see where I live all the time. And for public schooling...
Becoming Madeleine: A Biography of the Author of a Wrinkle in Time by Her Granddaughters
AuthorCharlotte Jones Voiklis
ISBN0374307644
This middle-grade biography explores the life and works of Madeleine L'Engle --written by her granddaughters--coming just in time for the all-new A Wrinkle in Time film, directed by Ava DuVernay.

This elegant and insightful biography of Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) was written by her...
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
AuthorDava Sobel
ISBN0802717934
By 1514, the reclusive cleric Nicolaus Copernicus had written and hand-copied an initial outline of his heliocentric theory-in which he defied common sense and received wisdom to place the sun, not the earth, at the center of our universe, and set the earth spinning among the other planets. Over the...
Own Your Everyday: Overcome the Pressure to Prove and Show Up for What You're Made to Do
AuthorJordan Lee Dooley
ISBN0735291497
Do you ever feel the pressure to prove yourself? Or to "figure it all out" as you're waiting in seasons that seem like the awkward in-between? Does it ever feel seem that you're the only one with "unfigured-out dreams"?
Jordan equips you to confront the feeling of being stuck and instead live your...
On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old
AuthorParker J. Palmer
ISBN1523095431
From beloved and bestselling author Parker J. Palmer (Let Your Life Speak, The Courage to Teach, Healing the Heart of Democracy), comes a beautiful book of reflections on what we can learn as we move closer to "the brink of everything."

Drawing on eight decades of life -- and his career as a writer,...
Sensible Shoes: A Story about the Spiritual Journey
AuthorSharon Garlough Brown
ISBN0830843051
Sharon Garlough Brown tells the moving story of four strangers as they embark together on a journey of spiritual formation: Hannah, a pastor who doesn't realize how exhausted she is. Meg, a widow and recent empty-nester who is haunted by her past. Mara, a woman who has experienced a lifetime of rejection...
A Light So Lovely: The Spiritual Legacy of Madeleine L'Engle, Author of A Wrinkle in Time
AuthorSarah Arthur
ISBN0310353408
Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time has captured the imagination of millions - from literary sensation to timeless classic and now a major motion picture starring Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Storm Reid, and Mindy Kaling. A Light So Lovely tells the story of the woman at the center of it all -...
A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18
AuthorJoseph Loconte
ISBN0718021762
The untold story of how the First World War shaped the lives, faith, and writings of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis

The First World War laid waste to a continent and permanently altered the political and religious landscape of the West. For a generation of men and women, it brought the end of innocence—and...
The Turquoise Table: Finding Community and Connection in Your Own Front Yard
AuthorKristin Schell
ISBN0718095588
A simple way to connect your neighborhood, your community and build friendships.

Are you consumed with a busy life but unsure how to slow down? Do you desire connection within your community and think, “Absolutely, but I don’t have time for that” or “I can’t create that”? What...
Jesus in Me: Experiencing the Holy Spirit as a Constant Companion
AuthorAnne Graham Lotz
The internationally recognized Bible teacher and daughter of Billy Graham combines unique biblical insights and her own personal stories to show how the Holy Spirit guides us in our decisions, comforts us in pain, and stays by our side at all times, enriching our daily lives.
 
In Jesus in...
Following Jesus: Finding Our Way Home in an Age of Anxiety
AuthorHenri J.M. Nouwen
ISBN1101906391
In this brand-new, never before published work of inspiration, the bestselling author of The Return of the Prodigal Son offers a compelling case for why Christianity is still relevant, beautiful, intelligent and necessary in the modern world.

At one of the lowest points in Henri Nouwen's...
The Mother
AuthorPearl S. Buck
The Mother, Pearl S. Buck
The Mother is a novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1934. Within this novel Ms. Buck paints the portrait of a poor woman living in a remote village whose joys are few and hardships are many. As the ancient traditions, which she bases her philosophies upon, begin to collide with...
The Man Who Knew The Way to the Moon
AuthorTodd Zwillich
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...
Waste Tide
AuthorChen Qiufan
ISBN0765389312
Mimi is a 'waste girl', a member of the lowest caste on Silicon Isle.

Located off China's southeastern coast, Silicon Isle is the global capital for electronic waste recycling, where thousands like Mimi toil day and night, hoping one day they too will enjoy the wealth they’ve created for...
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