The Long Awakening
10 best books like The Long Awakening (Lindsey O'Connor): Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General, Washington Square, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement, Stepping Heavenward, My Squirrel Days, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe, Give Me This Mountain, Broken for You, Sacred Stories: Wisdom from World Religions, The Last to See Me
Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General
Readers around the world have thrilled to Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, and Killing Jesus—riveting works of nonfiction that journey into the heart of the most famous murders in history. Now from Bill O’Reilly, anchor of The O’Reilly Factor, comes the most epic book of all in this multimillion-selling...
| Author | Henry James |
| ISBN | 0451528719 |
The plot of Washington Square has the simplicity of old-fashioned melodrama: a plain-looking, good-hearted young woman, the only child of a rich widower, is pursued by a charming but unscrupulous man who seeks the wealth she will presumably inherit. On this premise, Henry James constructed one of...
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
| Author | Jodi Kantor |
| ISBN | 0525560343 |
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters who broke the news of Harvey Weinstein's sexual harassment and abuse for the New York Times, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the thrilling untold story of their investigation and its consequences for the #MeToo movement
For many years, reporters...
| Author | Elizabeth Payson Prentiss |
| ISBN | 1577483421 |
"Stepping Heavenward" is the fictional coming of age story of a young Christian girl named Katherine. The story follows her life from when she is sixteen, though courtship, engagement, marriage, having children, and the many challenges that she confronts in her adult life. This classic Christian...
| Author | Ellie Kemper |
| ISBN | 1501163345 |
Comedian and star of The Office and
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Ellie Kemper delivers a hilarious, refreshing, and inspiring collection of essays “teeming with energy and full of laugh-out-loud moments” (Associated Press).
“A pleasure. Ellie Kemper is the kind of stable, intelligent,...
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...
| Author | Helen Roseveare |
| ISBN | 1845501896 |
'Give Me This Mountain' is the autobiography of Dr. Helen Roseveare, well-known missionary doctor and author. She worked in the north-eastern province of the Belgian Congo with the Heart of Africa Mission in the 1950's and 60's. Physical dangers and her personal ambition in the Congo often almost...
| Author | Stephanie Kallos |
| ISBN | 0802142109 |
National best seller and Today show Book Club selection, Broken for You is the story of two women in self-imposed exile whose lives are transformed when their paths intersect. Stephanie Kallos's debut novel is a work of infinite charm, wit and heart. It is also a glorious homage to the beauty of broken...
Sacred Stories: Wisdom from World Religions
| Author | Marilyn McFarlane |
| ISBN | 1582703043 |
This comprehensive collection of timeless and powerful stories puts the wisdom of world religions in the hands of young readers.When attempting to find a simple, engaging, and unbiased approach to world religions for her own family, Marilyn McFarlane discovered such a book did not exist. Understanding...
| Author | M. Dressler |
| ISBN | 1510720677 |
For fans of Lauren Oliver and Kazuo Ishiguro, a sophisticated, literary ghost story that reminds us the past is never, ever forgotten.
In a small logging town along the coast of northern California, young Emma Rose Finnis was born and died. Now, no one remembers her hardworking life and her...
Living Sacrifice: Willing to Be Whittled as an Arrow
| Author | Helen Roseveare |
| ISBN | 1845502949 |
What a challenging book! When reading books by missionaries or persecuted Christians, I am put to shame considering the egotistical, me-centered life I live as an American Christian! What does it mean to be a living sacrifice? It means giving up my "rights," whether real or perceived. Give them up!...
| Author | Rachel Starr Thomson |
Beauty and terror await beyond the veil in this classic Christian fantasy.
The Council for Exploration Into Worlds Unseen believed there was more to reality than the Empire had taught them—but when they came a little too close to the truth, tragedy ended their work, leaving the terrifying and...
Just home from her trip to California where, once again, Alexa Hartfield managed to find herself in suspicious circumstances, Alexa is ready for life to calm down. She has a wedding to attend, a wedding to plan, and an aunt to settle into her quiet Fairbury life.
But when Aunt Faye interrupts...
| Author | Jennifer Rogers Spinola |
| ISBN | 1616263644 |
Ride the rollercoaster of Shiloh Jacobs’s life as her dreams derail, sending her on a downward spiral from the heights of an AP job in Tokyo to penniless in rural Virginia. Trapped in a world so foreign to her sensibilities and surrounded by a quirky group of friends, will she break through her hardened...
| Author | Chautona Havig |
| ISBN | 1449551270 |
No one knows what the cloaked creature is or why it is so terrifying. The villagers of Wynnewood only know that they must stay away from 'the creature' for fear of their physical and spiritual safety. An unfortunate encounter with a dragon introduces Philip Ward to the creature, and to his surprise, he...
Digging Ditches: The Latest Chapter of an Inspiritational Life
Doctor Helen Roseveare, affectionately called Mama Luka, pioneered vital medical work in the rain forests of the Belgian Congo - now the Democratic Republic of Congo. Throughout her eight years in training for the mission field and her first twelve years in Congo Helen Roseveare had prayed that God...
Their childhood letters formed the friendship of a lifetime.
As part of an international school pen pal program, Carol and Michal began writing monthly letters twenty years ago. So, when Carol’s artisan guild decides to send an emissary to the United States to investigate a new gift store...
The Matchmakers of Holly Circle
Flirtation can be an art, or so they say. Well, if so, Ruth and Richard are “the old masters” of the flirting game. Despite their strictly platonic relationship, there’s “something there,” as so many of their friends and families say. Neighbors and friends for ten years, neither seems willing...
