The Little Way of Ruthie Leming: A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret of a Good Life

8 best books like The Little Way of Ruthie Leming: A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret of a Good Life (Rod Dreher): The Tao of Martha: My Year of LIVING; Or, Why I'm Never Getting All That Glitter Off of the Dog, Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention, Reflections on the Psalms, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer, He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art, An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives, Miracles, Miracles: What They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life

The Tao of Martha: My Year of LIVING; Or, Why I'm Never Getting All That Glitter Off of the Dog

Author	Jen Lancaster
ISBN	0451417631

One would think that with Jen Lancaster’s impressive list of bestselling self-improvement memoirs—Bitter Is the New Black; Bright Lights, Big Ass; Such a Pretty Fat; Pretty in Plaid; My Fair Lazy; and Jeneration X—that she would have it all together by now.

One would be wrong.

Jen’s...

Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention

Author	Donna Freitas
ISBN	0316450529

In this "compelling and disturbing" true story (Rebecca Traister), a young woman's toxic mentor develops a dark, stalking obsession that disrupts her career -- and her peace of mind. Donna Freitas has lived two lives. In one life, she is a well-published author and respected scholar who has traveled...

Reflections on the Psalms

Author

C.S. Lewis

Some of my favorite things about this wonderful little book by my favorite author:

1. Right away, he takes on the difficult, hard-to-stomach psalms, the ones about such things as dashing the Babylonian babies against the stones. Hard stuff. I'm sure I would have avoided it.

2. This...

My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer

Author	Christian Wiman
ISBN	0374216789

Seven years ago, Christian Wiman, a well-known poet and the editor of Poetry magazine, wrote a now-famous essay about having faith in the face of death. My Bright Abyss, composed in the difficult years since and completed in the wake of a bone marrow transplant, is a moving meditation on what a viable...

He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art

Author	Christian Wiman
ISBN	0374168466

A moving meditation on memory, oblivion, and eternity by one of our most celebrated poets

What is it we want when we can't stop wanting? And how do we make that hunger productive and vital rather than corrosive and destructive? These are the questions that animate Christian Wiman as he explores...

An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives

Author

Matt Richtel

A magnificently reported and soulfully crafted exploration of the human immune system–the key to health and wellness, life and death. An epic, first-of-its-kind book, entwining leading-edge scientific discovery with the intimate stories of four individual lives, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning...

Miracles

Author	C.S. Lewis
ISBN	0007461259

‘The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became Man. Every other miracle prepares the way for this, or results from this.’

This is the key statement of ‘Miracles’, in which C. S. Lewis shows that a Christian must not only accept but rejoice in...

Miracles: What They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life

Author	Eric Metaxas
ISBN	0525954422

An inspiring and eye-opening exploration of the phenomenon of miracles from the  New York Times #1 bestselling author of  Bonhoeffer.

What are miracles, and why do so many people believe in them? What do they tell us about ourselves? And what do we do with experiences that we cannot explain? 

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