Ragman: And Other Cries of Faith

10 best books like Ragman: And Other Cries of Faith (Walter Wangerin Jr.): Julia's House for Lost Creatures, The Gathering Storm, Walking Across Egypt, The Fever Code, Tehanu, The Four Loves, Classic Myths to Read Aloud: The Great Stories of Greek and Roman Mythology, Specially Arranged for Children Five and Up by an Educational Expert, Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat, The Greatest Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy, The Rage of Achilles

Julia's House for Lost Creatures

Author	Ben Hatke
ISBN	1596438665

When Julia and her walking house come to town, she likes everything about her new neighborhood except how quiet it is! So Julia puts a sign up: "Julia's House for Lost Creatures." Soon she's hosting goblins, mermaids, fairies, and even a dragon. Quiet isn't a problem anymore for Julia...but getting...

The Gathering Storm

Author	Robert Jordan
ISBN	0765302306

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Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time(R) by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters.

The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend....

Walking Across Egypt

Author	Clyde Edgerton
ISBN	0345419073

She has as much business keeping a stray dog as she would walking across Egypt–which not so incidentally is the title of her favorite hymn. She’s Mattie Rigsbee, an independent, strong-minded senior citizen who, at seventy-eight, might be slowing down just a bit. When teenage delinquent Wesley...

The Fever Code

Author	James Dashner
ISBN	0553513095

Once there was a world’s end.

The forests burned, the lakes and rivers dried up, and the oceans swelled.

Then came a plague, and fever spread across the globe. Families died, violence reigned, and man killed man.

Next came WICKED, who were looking for an answer. And then...

Tehanu

Author	Ursula K. Le Guin
ISBN	1416509631

Years ago, they had escaped together from the sinister Tombs of Atuan—she, an isolated young priestess; he, a powerful wizard. Now she is a farmer's widow, having chosen for herself the simple pleasures of an ordinary life. And he is a broken old man, mourning the powers lost to him through no choice...

The Four Loves

Author	C.S. Lewis
ISBN	0062565397

A repackaged edition of the revered author's classic work that examines the four types of human love: affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God—part of the C. S. Lewis Signature Classics series.

C.S. Lewis—the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster,...

Classic Myths to Read Aloud: The Great Stories of Greek and Roman Mythology, Specially Arranged for Children Five and Up by an Educational Expert

Author	William F. Russell
ISBN	0517588374

Reason for Reading: I first read this book to my eldest son approx. ten years ago and it became my favourite retelling of myths to read aloud to children. I had always planned to read it to my 9yo and I've been reading a story a day to him every M-F.

Comments: This is the best book of Greek and Roman myths...

Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat

Author

Perumal Murugan

Through a seeming act of providence, an old couple receives a day-old female goat kid as a gift from the cosmos. Thus begins the story of Poonachi, the little orphan goat. As you follow her story from forest to habitation, independence to motherhood, you recognise in its significant moments the depth...

The Greatest Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy

Author	Leo Tolstoy
ISBN	8184950314

The Greatest Short Stories Of Leo Tolstoy is a compilation of seven enthralling stories by Leo Tolstoy, and it was published in the year 2009. The book contains well-known works by the author, including the book that is considered by many as his best, War and Peace. Some of his other stories that are covered...

The Rage of Achilles

Author	Homer
ISBN	0146001966

Through the genius of Homer's Iliad, the Trojan war and the rage of Achilles have fired imaginations and informed myth for nearly three thousand years. This timeless, powerful pwem conveys the horror and the heroism of men and gods, wrestling with towering emotions amidst devastation and destruction,...

Outcaste: A Novel

Author

Matampu Kunhukuttan

Outcaste ( Brushte in the original Malayalam) is a powerful story of the revenge a single woman named Paptikutty wreaks on her community for the monstrous injustice done to her. It is based on the 1905 trial of a Namboodiri woman for adultery and the revenge she exacted on her sixty-four lovers, who belonged...

Symbol, Status, and Personality

Author	S.I. Hayakawa
ISBN	0156876116

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