Radical Reinvention: An Unlikely Return to the Catholic Church
10 best books like Radical Reinvention: An Unlikely Return to the Catholic Church (Kaya Oakes): Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families, Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, Our Lady of Kibeho: Mary Speaks to the World from the Heart of Africa, The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life, Rediscover Catholicism, Jesus: A Pilgrimage, A Simple Path, The Happiness Manifesto
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
| Author | John Berendt |
| ISBN | 0679751521 |
A sublime and seductive reading experience. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, this enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city has become a modern classic.
Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was...
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
| Author | Philip Gourevitch |
| ISBN | 0312243359 |
In April of 1994, the government of Rwanda called on everyone in the Hutu majority to kill everyone in the Tutsi minority. Over the next three months, 800,000 Tutsis were murdered in the most unambiguous case of genocide since Hitler's war against the Jews. Philip Gourevitch's haunting work is an anatomy...
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
| Author | Immaculée Ilibagiza |
| ISBN | 1401908977 |
Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee’s family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly...
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright's remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews...
Our Lady of Kibeho: Mary Speaks to the World from the Heart of Africa
| Author | Immaculée Ilibagiza |
Thirteen years before the bloody 1994 genocide that swept across Rwanda and left more than a million people dead, the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ appeared to eight young people in the remote village of Kibeho. Through these visionaries, Mary and Jesus warned of the looming holocaust, which (they assured)...
The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life
| Author | James Martin |
| ISBN | 0061432687 |
The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything by the Revered James Martin, SJ (My Life with the Saints) is a practical spiritual guidebook based on the life and teachings of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus. Centered around the Ignatian goal of “finding God in all things,” The...
| Author | Matthew Kelly |
| ISBN | 0984131892 |
I am torn over this book
On the one hand, the core message rings extremely (and sometimes uncomfortably) close to home. In many people's lives, religion has become an afterthought. Church is something to drag yourself to on early Sunday mornings and praying is often belatedly remembered when...
James Martin, SJ, gifted storyteller, editor at large of America magazine, popular media commentator, and New York Times bestselling author of The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything, brings the Gospels to life in Jesus: A Pilgrimage, and invites believers and seekers alike to experience Jesus...
| Author | Mother Teresa |
| ISBN | 0345397452 |
Known around the globe for her indefatigable work on behalf of the poor, the sick, and the dying, Mother Teresa has devoted her life to giving hope to the hopeless in more than one hundred and twenty countries. She inspires us all to find a way to translate our spiritual beliefs into action in the world....
Synopsis: Much of modern life is based on the assumption that happiness comes from economic prosperity. Many -- politicians, media and citizens alike -- seem to assume the goal of government is to keep the economy moving. Here, Nic Marks argues that the blind pursuit of economic growth has created an...
Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis
| Author | Daniel W. Webster |
| ISBN | 1421411105 |
Amid a growing consensus that the staggering toll of gun violence in the United States is an urgent public health issue, the Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health has convened experts on gun policy and violence from the United States and selected other countries to summarize...
The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001–2014
| Author | Carlotta Gall |
| ISBN | 0544045688 |
Carlotta Gall has reported from Afghanistan and Pakistan for almost the entire duration of the American invasion and occupation, beginning shortly after 9/11. She knows just how much this war has cost the Afghan people, and how much damage can be traced to Pakistan and its duplicitous government and...
Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America
| Author | Adam Winkler |
| ISBN | 0393077411 |
Gunfight promises to be a seminal work in its examination of America's four-centuries-long political battle over gun control and the right to bear arms. In the tradition of Gideon's Trumpet, Adam Winkler uses the landmark 2008 case District of Columbia v. Heller, which invalidated a law banning handguns...
Black Power in the Belly of the Beast
| Author | Judson L. Jeffries |
| ISBN | 0252031482 |
Despite the growing scholarly interest in the Civil Rights movement, to date there has been no comprehensive examination of the Black Power movement. Black Power in the Belly of the Beast fills this gap by providing the first in-depth look at the Black Power movement from the 1963 founding of the Revolutionary...
Whose Black Politics?: Cases in Post-Racial Black Leadership
| Author | Andra Gillespie |
| ISBN | 0415992168 |
The past decade has witnessed the emergence of a new vanguard in African American political leaders. They came of age after Jim Crow segregation and the Civil Rights Movement, they were raised in integrated neighborhoods and educated in majority white institutions, and they are more likely to embrace...
Voices from Iraq: A People's History, 2003-2009
| Author | Mark Kukis |
| ISBN | 0231156928 |
Featuring the testimony of close to seventy Iraqis from all walks of life, "Voices from Iraq" builds a riveting chronological history unmatched for its insight and revelations. Here is a history of the war in Iraq as told entirely by Iraqis living through the U.S. invasion and occupation.
Beginning...
| Author | Christopher Rice |
| ISBN | 1477826645 |
Four childhood friends in present-day New Orleans are torn apart by envy, passion, and a secret murder.
Five years ago, Meredith, Brandon, Greg, and Stephen quickly discover the fragile boundaries between friendship and betrayal as they enter high school and form new allegiances. Meredith,...
Star Wars: Shattered Empire
| Author | Greg Rucka |
| ISBN | 0785197818 |
Journey with us into the time after the end of Star Wars: Episode IV Return of the Jedi! Writer Greg Rucka and artist Marco Checchetto take us past the destruction of the second Death Star--and into the chaos of a shattered Empire. Everything you need to know is right here!
COLLECTING: Journey...
