Reading Jesus: A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels

9 best books like Reading Jesus: A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels (Mary Gordon): For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, Death in Holy Orders, Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption, The Amateur Marriage, The Beginner's Goodbye, Here on Earth, Back When We Were Grownups, An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith, I Only Say This Because I Love You: How the Way We Talk Can Make or Break Family Relationships Throughout Our Lives

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges

Author	Nathan Englander
ISBN	0375704434

A work of stunning authority and imagination - a book that is as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad, and that heralds the arrival of a profoundly gifted new storyteller.

Already sold in eight countries around the world, these nine energized, irreverent stories from Nathan Englander...

Death in Holy Orders

Author	P.D. James
ISBN	0345446666

The Barnes & Noble Review
A number of traditions come seamlessly together in P. D. James's Death in Holy Orders, another of her acclaimed mysteries featuring Scotland Yard's Commander Adam Dalgliesh. Included among those traditions are the Golden Age detective story, the police procedural,...

Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption

Author	Katie Davis
ISBN	1451612060

What would cause an eighteen-year-old old senior class president and homecoming queen from Nashville, Tennessee, to disobey and disappoint her parents by forgoing college, break her little brother’s heart, lose all but a handful of her friends (because the rest of them think she has gone off the...

The Amateur Marriage

Author	Anne Tyler
ISBN	0345472454

Anne Tyler would laugh, I'm sure, if she read these different reactions to this book. For isn't this her point in so many of her novels? How different we all are and how easily we misunderstand each other? How one person can hate what another loves so passionately? How easy it is to miss the point, get the...

The Beginner's Goodbye

Author	Anne Tyler
ISBN	0307957276

Anne Tyler gives us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving new novel in which she explores how a middle-aged man, ripped apart by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearances—in their house, on the roadway, in the market.
 
Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron spent...

Here on Earth

Author	Alice Hoffman
ISBN	0425169693

After nearly twenty years of living in California, March Murray, along with her fifteen-year-old daughter, Gwen, returns to the sleepy Massachusetts town where she grew up to attend the funeral of Judith Dale, the beloved housekeeper who raised her. Yet returning to her hometown also brings her back...

Back When We Were Grownups

Author	Anne Tyler
ISBN	0345477243

I can see how some would think this book doesnt live up to its potential- but i think thats the whole point and they are missing the point,as well as Anne Tyler's genius. Anne Tyler purposefully captures the lives of people who seemingly may not live up to their potential- alot of her themes are based on how...

An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith

Author	Barbara Brown Taylor
ISBN	0061370460

In her critically acclaimed Leaving Church ("a beautiful, absorbing memoir."—Dallas Morning News), Barbara Brown Taylor wrote about leaving full-time ministry to become a professor, a decision that stretched the boundaries of her faith. Now, in her stunning follow-up, An Altar in the World,...

I Only Say This Because I Love You: How the Way We Talk Can Make or Break Family Relationships Throughout Our Lives

Author	Deborah Tannen
ISBN	0679456015

Why does talk in families so often go in circles, leaving us tied up in knots? In this illuminating book, Deborah Tannen, the linguist and and bestselling author of You Just Don't Understand and many other books, reveals why talking to family members is so often painful and problematic even when we're...