The Christian World of the Hobbit
10 best books like The Christian World of the Hobbit (Devin Brown): Phantastes, Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence, The Feast of All Saints, The Thief, The Tomb: A Novel of Martha, The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression, Fewer, Better Things: The Importance of Objects Today, Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History, The Rational Bible: Exodus, Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus: Beginnings
C.S. Lewis said that upon reading this astonishing 19th-century fairy tale he "had crossed a great frontier," and numerous others both before and since have felt similarly.
In MacDonald's fairy tales, both those for children and (like this one) those for adults, the "fairy land" clearly...
Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence
| Author | Lisa Cron |
| ISBN | 1607742454 |
This guide reveals how writers can utilize cognitive storytelling strategies to craft stories that ignite readers’ brains and captivate them through each plot element.
Imagine knowing what the brain craves from every tale it encounters, what fuels the success of any great story,...
| Author | Anne Rice |
| ISBN | 0345376048 |
In the days before the Civil War, there lived in New Orleans the gens de couleur libre - copper-skinned half-castes, liberated by their owners, but confined by their color to a life of political nonexistence and social subordination. Still, an aristocracy would emerge in this society: artist, poets,...
| Author | Stephanie Landsem |
| ISBN | 1451689101 |
A Roman centurion longing for peace and a Jewish woman hiding a deadly secret witness a miracle that transforms their lives and leads them to the foot of the cross.
My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?
Nissa is a Jewish woman with a sharp tongue and no hope of marriage. Abandoned by...
The Tomb: A Novel of Martha
| Author | Stephanie Landsem |
| ISBN | 1451689128 |
In this captivating retelling of a classic biblical story, Jesus shocks the town of Bethany with Lazarus’s resurrection from the dead, leading Martha—a seemingly perfect woman trapped by the secrets of her past—to hope and a new life.
Everyone in Bethany admires Martha—the perfect...
The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression
The bestselling Emotion Thesaurus, often hailed as “the gold standard for writers” and credited with transforming how writers craft emotion, has now been expanded to include 55 new entries!One of the biggest struggles for writers is how to convey emotion to readers in a unique and compelling...
Fewer, Better Things: The Importance of Objects Today
| Author | Glenn Adamson |
| ISBN | 1632869640 |
Curator and scholar Glenn Adamson opens Fewer, Better Things by contrasting his beloved childhood teddy bear to the smartphones and digital tablets children have today. He laments that many children and adults are losing touch with the material objects that have nurtured human development for thousands...
Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History
| Author | Bill O'Reilly |
| ISBN | 1250165547 |
Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the latest installment in the mega-bestselling Killing series
As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly caught, including...
The Rational Bible: Exodus
Why do so many people think the Bible, the most influential book in world history, is outdated? Why do our friends and neighbors – and sometimes we ourselves – dismiss the Bible as irrelevant, irrational, immoral, or all of these things? This explanation of the Book of Exodus, the second...
Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus: Beginnings
Alternate cover edition for B01DB5ITIK
Saving the world is such a bother when it makes you late for tea.
By day, book-loving wizard Lily Singer manages library archives. By night? She sleeps, of course. In between, she studies magic and tries to keep her witch friend Sebastian from...
The hideous God of Manna has taken away the soul of Mortristan’s father. Now, it is Mortristan’s doom to find what his father never could: something worth living for.
But when Mortristan is forced to hunt an intruder in the God of Manna’s paradise-city, he learns just how enslaved he is....
YESHUA: A Personal Memoir of the Missing Years of Jesus
When Jesus was a teenager. Eighteen years in the life of Jesus (Yeshua) are not covered in the Bible.
Between his finding in the Temple and the beginning of his short ministry.
Stan Law, an expert of Biblical Symbolism and an acclaimed fiction author, follows a statement by the late American prophet...
It's a Wonderful Life Study Guide: A Bible Study Based on the Christmas Classic It's a Wonderful Life
The most complete Bible study guide on the Christmas classic, It’s a Wonderful Life.
It’s a Wonderful Life is one of the most popular and heart-warming films ever made. It’s near universal appeal and association with Christmas has provided a rich story of redemption that has inspired generations...
Gaze Upon Jesus: Experiencing Christ's Childhood through the Eyes of Women
What if you had walked beside the Virgin Mary from the Annunciation to the point at which she and Joseph found Jesus in the temple? How might seeing Christ as a child impact you and your faith?
WINE: Women In the New Evangelization offers its second, six-week scripture study, this time following the...
When Alveria is plunged into a pitch-black darkness, can a dragon-shifter labelled as "Untameable" and the dragon-hunter sent to kill her, bond together to save their world?
Laini Unclaimed, a maid at the Alveria Palace, thought supervising a kid's birthday party of young dragons was going...
My Queen, My Mother: A Living Novena
| Author | Marge Steinhage Fenelon |
In My Queen, My Mother: A Living Novena, award-winning author Marge Steinhage Fenelon brings you along on a pilgrimage to nine Marian shrines across the United States. Each day of this spiritual journey helps you encounter God and a deeper relationship with the Blessed Mother.“My Queen, My Mother,...
Insane Mode: How Elon Musk's Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil
"You'll tell me if it ever starts getting genuinely insane, right?"
--Elon Musk, TED interview
Hamish McKenzie tells how a Silicon Valley start-up's wild dream came true. Tesla is a car company that stood up against not only the might of the government-backed Detroit car manufacturers,...
The Last Days of Jesus: His Life and Times
| Author | Bill O'Reilly |
| ISBN | 0805098771 |
Two thousand years ago, Jesus walked across Galilee; everywhere he traveled he gained followers. His contemporaries are familiar historical figures: Julius Caesar, Caesar Augustus, Herod the Great, Pontius Pilate. It was an era of oppression, when every man, woman, and child answered to the brutal...
