The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith
10 best books like The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith (Marcus J. Borg): Maigret in Montmartre, M. Butterfly, Brute: Poems, The Story of Kullervo, Mom's Cancer, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe, The Declaration of Independence, A New Christianity for a New World: Why Traditional Faith is Dying How a New Faith is Being Born, Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect, Why Religion?: A Personal Story
| Author | Georges Simenon |
| ISBN | 0156551624 |
It is four o'clock in the morning and out of the rain-slick cobbled streets of Montmartre appears a garishly dressed young woman. Her lipstick is smudged and her gait is unsteady, but there is no mistaking her extraordinary allure. At the police station in the rue de la Rochefoucauld she insists that...
| Author | David Henry Hwang |
| ISBN | 0822207125 |
Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and soon to be back on Broadway in a revival directed by the Lion King's Julie Taymor, starring Clive Owen
"A brilliant play of ideas... a visionary work that bridges the history and culture of two worlds."--Frank...
| Author | Emily Skaja |
| ISBN | 1555978355 |
Selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets
Emily Skaja’s debut collection is a fiery, hypnotic book that confronts the dark questions and menacing silences around gender, sexuality, and violence. Brute arises, brave and furious, from...
| Author | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| ISBN | 0008131376 |
The world first publication of a previously unknown work of fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the powerful story of a doomed young man who is sold into slavery and who swears revenge on the magician who killed his father.
Kullervo son of Kalervo is perhaps the darkest and most tragic of all...
| Author | Brian Fies |
| ISBN | 0810958406 |
How does one deal when the only parent you have left is diagnosed with cancer? Brian Fies created a web comic to deal with the looming death of loved one.
This book is the complete collection of the strips from the orginal Eisner Award winning web comic. This is a physical copy of something that...
The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe
| Author | Richard Rohr |
| ISBN | 1524762091 |
Richard Rohr, one of the world's most influential spiritual thinkers, delivers his long-awaited book on Jesus. In this radical message of hope, Rohr shows how "Jesus" + "Christ" reveal the divine wholeness at the heart of things--and what that means for every one of us.
In his decades as a globally...
The Declaration of Independence
| Author | Thomas Jefferson |
| ISBN | 1844671577 |
My first thoughts, on the morning of July 4, 2017.
Put aside slavery and hypocrisy—if you can—for a moment, and read the first paragraph (71 words, 405 characters):
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected...
| Author | John Shelby Spong |
| ISBN | 0060670630 |
In his bestselling book Why Christianity Must Change or Die, Bishop John Shelby Spong described the toxins that are poisoning the Church. Now he offers the antidote, calling Christians everywhere into a new and radical reformation for a new age. Spong looks beyond traditional boundaries to open new...
Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect
Running on Empty is the first self-help book about Emotional Neglect: an invisible force from your childhood which you can't see, but may be affecting you profoundly to this day. It is about what didn't happen in your childhood, what wasn't said, and what cannot be remembered.
Do you sometimes...
Why Religion?: A Personal Story
| Author | Elaine Pagels |
| ISBN | 0062368559 |
Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to politics, whether they are religious or not? In Why Religion? Elaine Pagels looks to her own life to help address these...
Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus
“Scholarly, pastoral, prophetic, and eloquent. The invitation to follow Jesus instead of worshiping Christ could not come at a more important time, or be issued by a more credible source.” — Desmond Tutu
“Robin Meyers emerges in Saving Jesus from the Church as a national voice for...
| Author | Toni Morrison |
| ISBN | 0674976452 |
America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others?...
Honoring Your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration
| Author | Mallorie Vaudoise |
| ISBN | 0738761001 |
Discover the Spiritual Nourishment and Magical Power of Ancestor Veneration
Learn how to connect to your ancestors and receive the benefits that come from veneration--deeper spirituality, more love in your life, better outcomes in creative pursuits, powerful magic and spellwork, and...
Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter
When The Writer's Tale was published in autumn 2008, it was immediately embraced as a classic. For this extensively revised and updated paperback edition, Russell T Davies and Benjamin Cook continue their candid and in-depth correspondence to take in work on the last of Russell's 2009 specials - and...
Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse: Inspector Maigret #58
| Author | Georges Simenon |
| ISBN | 0241303931 |
A retired manufacturer has been shot dead by his own pistol, last seen alive by his son-in-law. In this seemingly motiveless murder, Inspector Maigret must rely on his famous intuition to discover the truth.
Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This...
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness
| Author | Russ Roberts |
| ISBN | 1591846846 |
A forgotten book by one of history’s greatest thinkers reveals the surprising connections between happiness, virtue, fame, and fortune.
Adam Smith may have become the patron saint of capitalism after he penned his most famous work, The Wealth of Nations. But few people know that when it...
Maigret et la jeune morte
| Author | Georges Simenon |
| ISBN | 2253142409 |
Maigret bâilla, poussa les papiers vers le bout du bureau. – Signez ça, les enfants, et vous pourrez aller vous coucher. Les « enfants » étaient probablement les trois gaillards les plus durs à cuire qui fussent passés par la P. J. depuis un an. L’un d’eux, celui qu’on appelait Dédé,...
Civilized to Death: What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity
Progress, the basic illusion of our age, is exhausted. Kids typically no longer expect their lives to be better than their parents’ were. Dystopian scenarios loom ever larger in public consciousness as fisheries collapse, CO2 levels rise, and clouds of radioactive steam billow from “fail-safe”...
