Seeing through the Fog: Hope When Your World Falls Apart
10 best books like Seeing through the Fog: Hope When Your World Falls Apart (Ed Dobson): The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses, The Kings of Cool, Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief, A Mind of Her Own, Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions, Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution, The Union War, Summer of the Midnight Sun, The Ultimate Gift, The Parting
The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
| Author | Dan Carlin |
| ISBN | 0008340927 |
From the creator of the wildly popular podcast comes Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History: History at the Extremes.
Dan Carlin has created a new way to think about history. His award-winning podcast is revered for its unique blend of high drama, enthralling narration, and Twilight Zone-style...
| Author | Don Winslow |
| ISBN | 1451665342 |
In Savages, Don Winslow introduced Ben and Chon, twenty-something best friends who risk everything to save the girl they both love, O. Among the most celebrated thrillers in recent memory—and now a major motion picture directed by Academy Award–winning filmmaker Oliver Stone—Savages was...
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
| Author | James M. McPherson |
| ISBN | 1594201919 |
I thought this was a good companion history to Goodwin's Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Whereas that one delves into Lincoln's relationship with his fractious cabinet, McPherson's is a chronological history of Lincoln's interactions with his generals. After reading this,...
Listening time: 1 hour and 15 minutes
From Paula McLain, the best-selling author of The Paris Wife and Love and Ruin, comes a breathtakingly intimate story of the brilliant, willful Marie Curie - a young woman in Paris on the verge of her greatest discovery yet: herself.
Paris, 1893....
| Author | Rachel Held Evans |
| ISBN | 0310293995 |
Eighty years after the Scopes Monkey Trial made a spectacle of Christian fundamentalism and brought national attention to her hometown, Rachel Held Evans faced a trial of her own when she began to have doubts about her faith.
In Faith Unraveled, Rachel recounts growing up in a culture obsessed...
Rough Crossings turns on a single huge question: if you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, whom would you want to win? In response to a declaration by the last governor of Virginia that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the King would be emancipated, tens of thousands...
| Author | Gary W. Gallagher |
| ISBN | 0674045629 |
Even one hundred and fifty years later, we are haunted by the Civil War--by its division, its bloodshed, and perhaps, above all, by its origins. Today, many believe that the war was fought over slavery. This answer satisfies our contemporary sense of justice, but as Gary Gallagher shows in this brilliant...
Summer of the Midnight Sun
| Author | Tracie Peterson |
| ISBN | 0739465333 |
Tracie Peterson is one of my favorite authors. The Alaskan Quest is series is an older series of hers. The first book in the series is Summer of the Midnight Sun. It is the sequel to the Yukon Quest series which is an absolute must read! Jacob and Leah are the characters that carry over from that series. Karen...
| Author | Jim Stovall |
| ISBN | 1589193571 |
What would you do to inherit a million dollars? Would you be willing to change your life? Jason Stevens is about to find out in Jim Stovall's The Ultimate Gift.
Red Stevens has died, and the older members of his family receive their millions with greedy anticipation. But a different fate...
Bykans 100 dae het verloop sedert die ontydige dood van Nellie Mae Fisher se jonger suster, Suzy. Nellie begin droom nou van ’n toekoms saam met die sjarmante Caleb Yoder. Maar sy wonder of hy haar ooit raaksien. Met die gerugte oor Suzy wat nog nie gaan lê het nie, is daar mense wat kan sorg dat die jong...
NPR American Chronicles: The Civil War
| Author | National Public Radio |
| ISBN | 1611742536 |
NPR captures the battlefield action, the personal struggles, and the moral dilemmas of the war that pitted brother against brother (and sometimes sister) and friend against friend. This revealing collection of Civil War stories features gripping history, expert commentary, and unforgettable...
1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War They Failed to See
Highly recommended?a gripping narrative of the critical year of 1858 and the nation's slide toward disunion and war. Chadwick is especially adept at retelling the intense emotions of this critical time, particularly especially in recounting abolitionist opposition to the Fugitive Slave Act and...
The Lost Art of Praying Together: Rekindling Passion for Prayer
| Author | James Banks |
| ISBN | 1572933518 |
Praying together is a privilege and an opportunity to enter into the presence of God in a unique and powerful way. Yet the truth is that prayer meetings aren’t at the top of most Christians’ lists of favorite things to do. Praying together is a lost art for many Christians today. Author and pastor James...
Abolitionism: A Very Short Introduction
| Author | Richard S. Newman |
| ISBN | 0190213221 |
From early slave rebels to radical reformers of the Civil War era and beyond, the struggle to end slavery was a diverse, dynamic, and ramifying social movement. In this succinct narrative, Richard S. Newman examines the key people, themes, and ideas that animated abolitionism in the eighteenth- and...
The Great Gospel Deception
In this eye-opening book, David Servant takes a close look at what the New Testament actually teaches about saving faith, God's transforming grace, and "the holiness without which no one will see the Lord" (Hebrews 12:14)
This book examines the modern gospel that is so popular in America and...
Love in the House: Filling Your Home with the Greatest Commandment
| Author | Chris Jeub |
| ISBN | 0979564204 |
The life of Chris and Wendy Jeub, parents of 13 children, was captured on camera for the TLC miniseries Kids by the Dozen. Over 50 hours of film were whittled down to 44 minutes. The questions raised are answered in these straight-to-the-point chapters, questions like: "How do you keep your grocery bill...
| Author | Miralee Ferrell |
| ISBN | 0781408083 |
Do Dandelion Wishes Actually Come True? Katherine Galloway knew this moment of calm wouldn’t last, blown away like the dandelion seeds she scattered as a girl. In 1880, three years after her husband’s death, she struggles to run an Oregon boardinghouse and raise two girls alone. Things don't get...
Rethinking Retirement: Finishing Life for the Glory of Christ
| Author | John Piper |
| ISBN | 1433506378 |
John Piper challenges fellow baby boomers to forego the American dream of retirement and live out their golden years with a far greater purpose in mind.
They say it's a person's reward for all those years of labor. "Turn in your time card and trade in your IRAs. Let travel plans and golf-course...
