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10 best books like The Last Crusader (Louis de Wohl): My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness, Helena, Brand, The Global War on Christians: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Anti-Christian Persecution, Nettie's Trip South, The Mystery of the Periodic Table, Angel Girl, Outcast, The Old Testament, Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad

My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness
AuthorHoward Jones
ISBN0195393600
During the summer of 1971, in the midst of protests and demonstrations in the United States against the Vietnam War, it became evident that something horrific had happened in the remote South Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai. Three years previously, in March 1968, a unit of American soldiers engaged in seemingly...
Helena
AuthorEvelyn Waugh
“In Helena, the play of words and the fireworks, the exquisite descriptions of landscapes, and even the finished portraits of the heroine, her husband, and her son, are always subordinate to the author’s broad vision of the mixed anguish and hope with which the world of Constantine’s time...
Brand
AuthorHenrik Ibsen
ISBN1406790109
Brand is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It is a verse tragedy, written in 1865 and first performed in Stockholm, Sweden on 24 March 1867. Brand was an intellectual play that provoked much original thought.
Brand is a priest who wants to take consequence of his choices, and is therefore...
The Global War on Christians: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Anti-Christian Persecution
AuthorJohn L. Allen Jr.
ISBN0770437354
One of the most respected journalists in the United States and the bestselling author of The Future Church uses his unparalleled knowledge of world affairs and religious insight to investigate the troubling worldwide persecution of Christians.
 
From Iraq and Egypt to Sudan and Nigeria,...
Nettie's Trip South
AuthorAnn Turner
ISBN0689801173
In a letter to her friend, Nettie remembers her trip to the pre-Civil War South. She remembers the sweet cedar smell in the air and the sun pressing on her head. But she also remembers Tabitha, the slave at the hotel who has only that one name, and she remembers the heaps of rags the slaves use for beds. Most...
The Mystery of the Periodic Table
AuthorBenjamin Wiker
Leads the reader on a delightful and absorbing journey through the ages, on the trail of the elements of the Periodic Table as we know them today. He introduces the young reader to people like Von Helmont, Boyle, Stahl, Priestly, Cavendish, Lavoisier, and many others, all incredibly diverse in personality...
Angel Girl
AuthorLaurie B. Friedman
ISBN0822587394
EDIT on 12/28: I changed this from 5 to 3 stars given that the 5 star rating was based partially on the assumption that this was a true story and some of it was also based on the post story "non-fction" material. It might be a 4 star book for me, even as a fictional book, but I read it as non-fiction (which I just...
Outcast
AuthorRosemary Sutcliff
ISBN0192750402
Sole survivor of a shipwreck as a baby, Beric is an outsider from the start. the village druid warns that he is cursed by the sea, and when death come to the tribe, the fingers of blame point in only one direction. Cast out by the warriors, Beric is left alone without friends or family. With no home and little...
The Old Testament
AuthorAmy-Jill Levine
ISBN1565853652
Course Lecture Titles

1. In the Beginning
2. Adam and Eve
3. Murder, Flood, Dispersion
4. Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar
5. Isaac
6. The Jacob Saga
7. Folklore Analysis and Type Scenes
8. Moses and Exodus
9. The God of Israel
10. Covenant and Law, Part I
11....
Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad
AuthorJames Rumford
ISBN1596432764
WHEN BOMBS BEGIN TO FALL, Ali drowns out the sound of war with a pen.
 
Like other children living in Baghdad, Ali loves soccer, music and dancing, but most of all, he loves the ancient art of calligraphy. When bombs begin to fall on his city, Ali turns to his pen, writing sweeping and gliding words...
The God Stealer and Other Stories
AuthorF. Sionil José
ISBN9718845356
The God Stealer, F. Sionil José's most widely anthologized fiction, is a moving story of a friendship. An American and a Filipino go to the Cordilleras to look at the rice terraces which were built by the Filipino's ancestors. There, they find the meaning of their friendship, how it defines the relationship...
The Price to Pay: A Muslim Risks All to Follow Christ
AuthorJoseph Fadelle
ISBN1586175998
During his military service, Muhammad, a young Muslim Iraqi from a leading Shiite family, discovers to his dismay that his roommate is a Christian. Muhammad tries to convert his roommate, but he is the one who is converted. In Islam changing one's religion is a crime, and Muhammad's family does everything...
A Whispered Name
AuthorWilliam Brodrick
ISBN0316731544
”Later in the day, after we’d taken the Ridge, I looked into a crater the size of a lake without water. The clay was blue. Gas from the cordite was still rising from its veins and everywhere lay men with their eyes open, dead men with their limbs bent in strange angles, like clowns...bunkers the size...
A Soldier Surrenders: The Conversion Story of Saint Camillus De Lellis
AuthorSusan Peek
ISBN1586171186
A dramatic and powerful story of a great sinner who became a great saint, similar to the famous conversion stories and lives of St. Augustine, St. Paul, and St. Mary Magdalene. St. Camillus is a man that anyone can relate to and be inspired by, a moving story that will appeal to people of all walks of life...
The Bells of Nagasaki
AuthorTakashi Nagai
ISBN4770018452
‘Yes, we were a defeated army in retreat, but even so we were still the faculty of a university. We were dedicated to the truth. We were determined to come to the assistance of the needy, using all our resources. In the heat and the din, searching for the wounded, it was still the pursuit of truth that gave...
The Twelve Caesars
AuthorMichael Grant
ISBN0760700885
The twelve Caesars of ancient Rome (Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus & Domitian) form a fabulous series. The themes of countless legends, these men were infamously depicted in Suetonius's Lives of the Caesars as strange...
The Ballad of the White Horse
AuthorG.K. Chesterton
The Ballad of the White Horse is one of the last great epic poems in the English language. On the one hand it describes King Alfred's battle against the Danes in 878. On the other hand it is a timeless allegory about the ongoing battle between Christianity and the forces of nihilistic heathenism. Filled...
Exiles
AuthorRon Hansen
ISBN0374150974
With Exiles, Ron Hansen tells the story of a notorious shipwreck that prompted Gerard Manley Hopkins to break years of self-elected silence with an outpouring of dazzling poetry. In December 1875 the steamship Deutschland left Bremen, bound for England and then America. On board were five young...
A Weekend in September
AuthorJohn Edward Weems
ISBN0890963908
The hurricane that swept Galveston Island early in September, 1900, occupies a unique place in the reckoning of events of the Texas Gulf coast. Nearly a century after its passing, the storm remains the standard against which the ferocity and destructiveness of all others are measured. Twothirds of...
The Valley of Light
AuthorTerry Kay
I was sad and satisfied to reach the last page: sad to leave behind new friends; satisfied with the way the story ended. The Valley of Light is both the novel’s title and nostalgic setting; the Hiawassee River running through a little valley in post-World War II North Carolina.

It’s a quiet...
The Ignatius Bible: Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition
AuthorAnonymous
We did it! Dear husband and I took our pastor's challenge to ‘read the Bible and the Catechism in a year’. We began on the 4th of February last year and we followed this guide a handy little fold-out which you mark off as you go. We would read a couple chapters from the Old Testament, something from the...
Milestones: Memoirs 1927-1977
AuthorBenedict XVI
ISBN0898707021
Rich in humor and culture, as well as passion and love for the cause of God and of man, Milestones is the early autobiography of Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger. It tells the fascinating and inspiring story of his early family life, the years under Nazi oppression in Germany, and his part in World...
Au revoir, les enfants
AuthorLouis Malle
ISBN2070388735
Pour ne pas oublier…
(recensione del gennaio 2015)

Francia, 1944, durante l’occupazione tedesca.
In un collegio cattolico trovano rifugio, sotto falsa identità e grazie all’interessamento del direttore, tre ragazzini ebrei; a uno di questi, Jean, si lega d’amicizia...
The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton
AuthorMichael Mott
ISBN0156806819
“When I reveal most, I hide most.” ~Thomas Merton

I thoroughly enjoyed this biography savoring it as I spent time getting to know an author—who I consider more of a friend—better. I do not, however, recommend Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton for someone who has only a casual interest...
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