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Shirt of Flame: A Year with St. Therese of Lisieux

10 best books like Shirt of Flame: A Year with St. Therese of Lisieux (Heather King): Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture, Confessions, Look Both Ways, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux, Strangers and Sojourners, An Essay On the Development of Christian Doctrine, A Time to Die: Monks on the Threshold of Eternal Life, My Sisters the Saints: A Spiritual Memoir, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming, Life's Too Short to Go So F*cking Slow: Lessons from an Epic Friendship That Went the Distance

Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
AuthorRoss King
ISBN0142000159
Brunelleschi's Dome is the story of how a Renaissance man bent men, materials, and the very forces of nature to build an architectural wonder. Not a master mason or carpenter, Filippo Brunelleschi was a goldsmith and clock maker. Over twenty-eight years, he would dedicate himself to solving puzzles...
Confessions
AuthorAugustine of Hippo
ISBN0192833723
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century A.D. and during his first years as a bishop, they reflect on his life and on the activity of remembering and interpreting...
Look Both Ways
AuthorJason Reynolds
From National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes a novel told in ten blocks, showing all they different directions a walk home can take.

This story was going to begin like all the best stories. With a school bus falling from the sky. But no one saw it...
Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux
AuthorThérèse de Lisieux
ISBN0935216588
I can't remember the first time I read this but I think it was in high school. Dear St. Thérèse was my Confirmation saint so I wanted to read her autobiography. I remember being blown away by her simple and yet powerful approach to sanctity. It IS the Gospel -- so gentle, humble, meek and Christian -- and...
Strangers and Sojourners
AuthorMichael D. O'Brien
ISBN0898709237
An epic novel set in the rugged interior of British Columbia, the first volume of a trilogy which traces the lives of four generations of a family of exiles. Beginning in 1900, and concluding with the climactic events leading up to the Millennium, the series follows Anne and Stephen Delaney and their...
An Essay On the Development of Christian Doctrine
AuthorJohn Henry Newman
John Henry Cardinal Newman begins the Essay with a deffinition of development, pointing out that the real problem is how to distinguish true developments from corruptions and decays. He then goes on to sweeping consideration of the growth and development of doctrine in the Catholic Church, from the...
A Time to Die: Monks on the Threshold of Eternal Life
AuthorNicolas Diat
ISBN1621642747
Behind monastery walls, men of God spend their lives preparing for the passage of death. Best-selling French author Nicolas Diat set out to find what their deaths can reveal about the greatest mystery faced by everyone—the end of life.

How to die? How to respond to our fear of death? To answer...
My Sisters the Saints: A Spiritual Memoir
AuthorColleen Carroll Campbell
ISBN0770436498
In this highly acclaimed and award-winning memoir, Colleen Carroll Campbell tells the story of her fifteen-year quest to understand the meaning of her life and identity in light of her Christian faith and contemporary feminism. Launched amid post-partying regrets in a Milwaukee dorm room, that...
The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
AuthorHenri J.M. Nouwen
A chance encounter with a reproduction of Rembrandt's painting, The Return of the Prodigal Son, catapulted Henri Nouwen into a long spiritual adventure. In his highly-acclaimed book of the same title, he shares the deeply personal meditation that led him to discover the place within which God has...
Life's Too Short to Go So F*cking Slow: Lessons from an Epic Friendship That Went the Distance
AuthorSusan Lacke
ISBN1937715655
They were unlikely friends. She was a young, overweight college professor with a pack-and-a-half a day habit and a bad attitude. He was her boss, and an accomplished Ironman triathlete. She was a whiner, he was a hardass. He had his shit together, she most assuredly did not. Yet Susan and Carlos shared...
Be Brave in the Scared: How I Learned to Trust God during the Most Difficult Days of My Life
AuthorMary E. Lenaburg
ISBN1594718830
As a parent, do you struggle with trusting God’s will for your life and for those you love? Are you tired and afraid?

In Be Brave in the Scared, Catholic writer Mary Lenaburg shares how the overwhelming demands of caring for her severely disabled daughter ultimately taught her—and can teach...
Hannah's Choice
AuthorJan Drexler
ISBN0800726561
Hannah Yoder loves her quiet life on the banks of the Conestoga Creek. In 1842, this corner of Lancaster County is settled and peaceful--yet problems lurk beneath the placid façade. Hannah's father worries about the spread of liberal ideas from their Mennonite and Brethren neighbors. And Hannah...
A Wicked Snow
AuthorGregg Olsen
ISBN0786018291
Hannah Griffin was a girl when tragedy struck. She still remembers the flames reflected against the newly fallen snow and the bodies the police dug up--one of them her mother's. The killer was never found. . ..

Twenty years later talented CSI agent Hannah is investigating a case of child abuse...
The Seven Storey Mountain
AuthorThomas Merton
Attempted and succeeded in finally finishing on the third try. The descriptions were often succinct and amusing, whether about his youthful follies, another person’s character, or travel anecdotes. I loved the true-to-life depictions of the draw-and-repel technique applied by both God and...
Mattie's Pledge
AuthorJan Drexler
A Tender, Poignant, and Heartwarming Glimpse into the Amish Migration West from Pennsylvania
Mattie Schrock is no stranger to uprooting her life. Even as her father relocated her family from one Amish community to the next, she always managed to find a footing in their new homes. Now as the Schrock...
Letter to a Suffering Church: A Bishop Speaks on the Sexual Abuse Crisis
AuthorRobert Barron
The sexual abuse scandal has gripped the Catholic Church for the past thirty years, and continues to wreak havoc even today.

It's been a diabolical masterpiece, one that has compromised the work of the Church in every way and has left countless lives in ruin.

Many Catholics are understandably...
It All Comes Back to You
AuthorBeth Duke
ISBN0578448831
Alabama, 1947.

War's over, cherry-print dresses, parking above the city lights, swing dancing.

Beautiful, seventeen-year-old Violet lives in a perfect world.
Everybody loves her.

In 2012, she's still beautiful, charming, and surrounded by admirers.


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In Sinu Jesu: When Heart Speaks to Heart-The Journal of a Priest at Prayer
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN1621382192
In Sinu Jesu is the sort of book that one wants to read in chapel; and this makes it difficult to write about. It a book about the intimacies of prayer, a book that should be read in silence. It is a journal that the author kept at adoration, and consists largely of words “given” to Him by our Lord and our...
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