Reluctant Saint: The Life of Francis of Assisi
10 best books like Reluctant Saint: The Life of Francis of Assisi (Donald Spoto): The Rain Watcher, Thy Neighbor's Wife, Love Waits, Children of God, Crystal Singer, Killashandra, The Corner That Held Them, Mistaken Identity, The Leadership Challenge, The Power of Intuition: How to Use Your Gut Feelings to Make Better Decisions at Work
| Author | Tatiana de Rosnay |
| ISBN | 1250200016 |
The first new novel in four years from the beloved superstar author of Sarah's Key, a heartbreaking and uplifting story of family secrets and devastating disaster, in the tradition of THE NEST.
The Rain Watcher is a powerful family drama set in Paris as the Malegarde family gathers to celebrate...
| Author | Georgia Beers |
| ISBN | 1932300155 |
Alex Foster's life is exactly as she wants it. She's quit her job as an English teacher and has decided to hole up in her newly acquired lake house for the summer to try her hand at writing a novel. She has close friends; she has her dog; she plays volleyball. She is content.
Jennifer Wainwright is...
| Author | Gerri Hill |
| ISBN | 1594931860 |
High school sweethearts…and nobody knew.
Ashleigh Pence had been the all-American high school girl: cheerleader, prom queen…and in love with another girl. Gina Granbury hasn’t thought about Calloway High in twenty years, but the arrival of the invitation to the class reunion brings...
Mary Doria Russell's debut novel, The Sparrow, took us on a journey to a distant planet and into the center of the human soul. A critically acclaimed bestseller, The Sparrow was chosen as one of Entertainment Weekly's Ten Best Books of the Year, a finalist for the Book-of-the-Month Club's First Fiction...
| Author | Anne McCaffrey |
| ISBN | 0345327861 |
I read this book as a youth and loved it, but reading it now at age 45 it does not quite hold the same appeal. I see a woman that is hell-bent on remaining without attachments. She is very bright and talented, but remains aloof emotionally (the come-and-go sexual relationships), socially, psychologically...
| Author | Anne McCaffrey |
| ISBN | 0345316002 |
At first Killashandra Ree's ambitions to become a Crystal Singer, get rich, and forget her past, were going just as she had hoped. But after she grew wealthy, a devastating storm turned her claim to useless rock. In short order she was broke, she had crystal sickness so bad she thought she was going to die,...
| Author | Sylvia Townsend Warner |
In memory of the wife who had once dishonored and always despised him, Brian de Retteville founded a 12th-century convent in Norfolk. Two centuries later, the Benedictine community is well established there and, as befits a convent whose origin had such ironic beginnings, the inhabitants are prey...
| Author | Lisa Scottoline |
| ISBN | 0006499953 |
Bennie Rosato, the head of her own law firm, specializes in police misconduct cases. However, nothing can prepare her for a meeting with her new client, Alice Connolly. Accused of murdering her lover, a highly decorated police officer, Connolly claims the police framed her. What shocks Bennie is that...
| Author | James M. Kouzes |
| ISBN | 0787984914 |
I had to read this for work, which must qualify as some kind of cruel and unusual punishment. Anyway:
The Leadership Challenge – A review in clichés and idioms.
The Leadership Challenge describes itself as an evidence-based primer on the near-universal qualities of excellent...
The Power of Intuition: How to Use Your Gut Feelings to Make Better Decisions at Work
| Author | Gary Klein |
| ISBN | 0385502893 |
At times in our careers, we've all been aware of a "gut feeling" guiding our decisions. Too often, we dismiss these feelings as "hunches" and therefore untrustworthy. But renowned researcher Gary Klein reveals that, in fact, 90 percent of the critical decisions we make is based on our intuition. In...
Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America
| Author | Laurie Kaye Abraham |
| ISBN | 0226001393 |
Mama Might Be Better Off Dead is an unsettling, profound look at the human face of health care. Both disturbing and illuminating, it immerses readers in the lives of four generations of a poor, African-American family beset with the devastating illnesses that are all too common in America's inner-cities.
The...
Facing Love Addiction: Giving Yourself the Power to Change the Way You Love
| Author | Pia Mellody |
| ISBN | 0062506048 |
In this revised and updated version of Facing Love Addiction, bestselling author of Facing Codependence and internationally recognized dependence and addiction authority Pia Mellody unravels the intricate dynamics of unhealthy love relationships and shows us how to let go of toxic love. Through...
While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness
| Author | Eli Sanders |
| ISBN | 0670015717 |
“Binged Making a Murderer? Try . . . [this] riveting portrait of a tragic, preventable crime.” —Entertainment Weekly
A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter’s gripping account of one young man’s path to murder—and a wake-up call for mental health care in America
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| Author | Michael Wombacher |
| ISBN | 1608683494 |
For years dog trainer Michael Wombacher has worked with expecting dog owners to prevent problems between dogs and children. He has also unfortunately witnessed too many families forced to surrender their beloved family companions because they failed to prepare the dog for the arrival of a new family...
Eager to Love: The Alternative Way of Francis of Assisi
| Author | Richard Rohr |
| ISBN | 1616367016 |
Francis of Assisi is one of the most beloved of all saints. Both traditional and entirely revolutionary, he was a paradox. He was at once down to earth and reaching toward heaven, grounded in the rich history of the Church while moving toward a new understanding of the world beyond.
Globally...
| Author | Mercedes Lackey |
| ISBN | 0756405750 |
A brand-new Elemental Masters novel from the national bestselling author Mercedes Lackey.
Richard Whitestone is an Elemental Earth Master. Blaming himself for the death of his beloved wife in childbirth, he has sworn never to set eyes on his daughter, Suzanne. But when he finally sees her,...
Oh, Baby, the Places You'll Go!
| Author | Tish Rabe |
| ISBN | 0679885722 |
Artfully extracted and adapted almost entirely from Ted Geisel's work, this is a must for all expectant parents - and introduction to the wonderful world of Dr. Suess for their adorable baby-to-be. Exciting new discoveries are being made all the time about how much learning takes place while a baby...
Inside Out and Outside in: Psychodynamic Clinical Theory and Practice in Contemporary Multicultural Contexts
| Author | Joan N. Berzoff |
| ISBN | 0765703424 |
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| Author | Mercedes Lackey |
| ISBN | 1416509178 |
Eric Banyon, known as Bedlam's Bard, managed to save his young brother Magnus from what seemed to be a killer demon, but now he must rescue Magnus from their tyrannical parents. Eric does not look forward to the custody battle, but his friend Ria heads a high-powered law firm, and in a pinch he can use bardic...
Praying the Franciscan Crown Rosary
| Author | Victoria Lynne Spalding OFS |
| ISBN | 1493592718 |
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| Author | Mercedes Lackey |
| ISBN | 0743499050 |
Eric Banyon, better known as Bedlam's Bard, is finally about to graduate from Julliard and enter the Real World and so, with the help of a psychiatrist who specializes in the problems of magicians, he's finally coming to terms with his past. But a spur-of-the-moment trip home to Boston to visit his parents...
Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics, and the Body of Christ
| Author | William T. Cavanaugh |
| ISBN | 0631211993 |
Cavanaugh’s task is to develop a Eucharistic ecclesiology that leads the church to be "deeply involved in the sufferings of this world" as a "sharp discontinuity with the politics of the world" (13/14). To accomplish this, Cavanaugh names and critiques the normative ecclesiology of the Catholic...
White Dresses: A Memoir of Love and Secrets, Mothers and Daughters
| Author | Mary Pflum Peterson |
| ISBN | 0062386972 |
In this riveting, poignant memoir of three generations of women and the white dresses that adorned them—television producer Mary Pflum Peterson recounts a journey through loss and redemption, and her battle to rescue her mother, a former nun, from compulsive hoarding.
As a successful...
Angels in the Architecture
1185. Bishop Hugh takes on the re-building of Lincoln Cathedral after a devastating earthquake, and attempts to calm superstitious town folk among Christian and Jewish communities, some of whom seek to lay blame at the feet of a poor ‘idiot’ child.
1981. Journalist and stay-at-home dad,...
| Author | Daniel Mason |
| ISBN | 0316477605 |
Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital. But when he arrives, at a commandeered church tucked away high in a remote...
The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
| Author | Chris Whipple |
| ISBN | 1524722960 |
The first in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions--and inactions--have defined the course of our country.
What do Dick Cheney and Rahm Emanuel have in common? Aside from polarizing personalities, both served as chief of staff to the president...
Rediscover the Saints: Twenty-Five Questions That Will Change Your Life
We are capable of so much more than we think. You have no idea what you are capable of. None of us do. God is constantly trying to open our eyes to the amazing possibilities that he has enfolded in our being. The saints continue this work, encouraging us to explore all our God-given potential, not with speeches...
Into His Likeness: Be Transformed as a Disciple of Christ
| Author | Edward Sri |
| ISBN | 0999375652 |
In In Into His Likeness, Dr. Edward Sri provides an approachable but in-depth exploration of what it means to be a disciple of Christ. At the outset, he emphasizes the importance of every Christian’s developing the desire to be a true disciple of Christ and gives the reader a first glimpse of what...
The Leadership Challenge Workbook
| Author | James M. Kouzes |
| ISBN | 0787968218 |
Based on Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner's classic book The Leadership Challenge, this Workbook will be your hands-on guide for improving your ability to put into action the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership(R) model and become a leader who Models the Way, Inspires a Shared Vision, Challenges the...
| Author | Oscar Wilde |
| ISBN | 0192833766 |
For the first time in one volume, this complete collection of all the short fiction Oscar Wilde published contains such social and literary parodies as "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" and "The Canterville Ghost;" such well-known fairy tales as "The Happy Prince," "The Young King," and "The Fisherman...
