The Dark Path: A Memoir

6 best books like The Dark Path: A Memoir (David Schickler): The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna, The Stone Diaries, Bloodroot, All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, Ascent Into Hell

The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna
AuthorJuliet Grames
In this stunning debut novel, a young woman tells the story behind two elderly sisters’ estrangement, unraveling family secrets stretching back a century and across the Atlantic to early 20th century Italy
For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella’s childhood is full...
The Stone Diaries
AuthorCarol Shields
The Stone Diaries is one ordinary woman's story of her journey through life. Born in 1905, Daisy Stone Goodwill drifts through the roles of child, wife, widow, and mother, and finally into her old age. Bewildered by her inability to understand her place in her own life, Daisy attempts to find a way to tell...
AuthorAmy Greene
ISBN0307269868
Named for a flower whose blood-red sap possesses the power both to heal and poison, Bloodroot is a stunning fiction debut about the legacies—of magic and madness, faith and secrets, passion and loss—that haunt one family across the generations, from the Great Depression to today.

The...
All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir
AuthorBrennan Manning
ISBN1434764184
It has been over twenty years since the publication of The Ragamuffin Gospel, a book many claim as the shattering of God’s grace into their lives. Since that time, Brennan Manning has been dazzingly faithful in preaching and writing variations on that singular theme –   “Yes, Abba is very fond...
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
AuthorDavid Epstein
ISBN0735214484
What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think.

Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. If you...
Ascent Into Hell
AuthorAndrew M. Greeley
ISBN0446349496
As he so movingly revealed in the bestselling The Cardinal Sins and Thy Brother's Wife, Father Andrew Greeley knows tragedy and frustration, the power and the glory, of the priest's role in contemporary life. In his new novel, Ascent into Hell, he illuminates the pain of choice--the dilemma of a priest...
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