Stations of the Heart: Parting with a Son

6 best books like Stations of the Heart: Parting with a Son (Richard Lischer): Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion, The Indigo Girl, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, Just My Luck, The Orphan Keeper, It Rained Warm Bread

Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

Author	Gregory Boyle
ISBN	1439153027

Father Gregory Boyle’s sparkling parables about kinship and the sacredness of life are drawn from twenty years working with gangs in LA.

How do you fight despair and learn to meet the world with a loving heart? How do you overcome shame? Stay faithful in spite of failure? No matter where people...

The Indigo Girl

Author	Natasha Boyd
ISBN	1455137111

An incredible story of dangerous and hidden friendships, ambition, betrayal, and sacrifice.

The year is 1739. Eliza Lucas is sixteen years old when her father leaves her in charge of their family's three plantations in rural South Carolina and then proceeds to bleed the estates dry in pursuit...

An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination

Author	Elizabeth McCracken
ISBN	0316027677

"This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending," writes Elizabeth McCracken in her powerful, inspiring memoir. A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, McCracken was happy to be an itinerant writer and self-proclaimed spinster. But suddenly she fell in love, got married,...

Just My Luck

Author	Cammie McGovern
ISBN	0062330659

Fourth grade is not going at all how Benny Barrows hoped. He hasn’t found a new best friend. He’s still not a great bike rider—even though his brother George, who’s autistic, can do tricks. And worst of all, he worries his dad’s recent accident might be all his fault. Benny tries to take his mom’s...

The Orphan Keeper

Author	Camron Wright
ISBN	1629722243

Based on a true story.
Seven-year-old Chellamuthu’s life is forever changed when he is kidnapped from his village in India, sold to a Christian orphanage, and then adopted by an unsuspecting couple in the United States. It takes months before the boy can speak enough English to tell his parents...

It Rained Warm Bread

Author

Gloria Moskowitz-Sweet

A middle grade novel in verse about Moishe Moskowitz's Holocaust survival story.

Moishe was thirteen when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939 and he was sent to Auschwitz. His home was ravaged, his family torn apart by illness and abduction. Years of brutality drew on as Moishe moved from one labor...