The Price to Pay: A Muslim Risks All to Follow Christ
9 best books like The Price to Pay: A Muslim Risks All to Follow Christ (Joseph Fadelle): Wise Blood, The Violent Bear It Away, Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism, The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist, As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor, Memoria de elefante, Natural Law and Natural Rights (Clarendon Law Series), A Prayer Journal, The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life
| Author | Flannery O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0374530637 |
Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor’s astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. It is a story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his innate, desperate faith. He falls under the spell of a "blind" street preacher...
| Author | Flannery O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0374505241 |
First published in 1960, The Violent Bear It Away is now a landmark in American literature. It is a dark and absorbing example of the Gothic sensibility and bracing satirical voice that are united in Flannery O'Conner's work. In it, the orphaned Francis Marion Tarwater and his cousins, the schoolteacher...
Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism
| Author | Scott Hahn |
| ISBN | 0898704782 |
The well-known and very popular Catholic couple, Scott and Kimberly Hahn, have been constantly travelling and speaking all over North America for the last few years about their conversion to the Catholic Church. Now these two outstanding Catholic apologists tell in their own words about the incredible...
The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist
| Author | Dorothy Day |
| ISBN | 0060617519 |
This inspiring and fascinating memoir, subtitled, “The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist,” The Long Loneliness is the late Dorothy Day’s compelling autobiographical testament to her life of social activism and her spiritual pilgrimage. A founder of the Catholic...
As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor
| Author | Júlio Dinis |
| ISBN | 8589155447 |
Romance de Júlio Dinis publicado, em 1866, sob o formato de folhetins no Jornal do Porto, e em volume no ano seguinte. Segundo o próprio autor, numa referência das «Notas», a obra teria principiado a ser escrita em 1863, durante a permanência de Júlio Dinis em Ovar. O título refere-se às personagens...
| Author | António Lobo Antunes |
| ISBN | 8439712529 |
Memoria de elefante, primera novela de António Lobo Antunes, publicada en Portugal en 1979, es el retrato de una crisis existencial. El protagonista, un psiquiatra residente en Lisboa cuya verdadera vocación es la escritura, cuenta a través de una voz exuberante, facetas y capítulos de su vida,...
| Author | John Finnis |
| ISBN | 0198761104 |
This book uses contemporary analytical tools to provide basic accounts of values and principles, community and `common good', justice and human rights, authority, law, the varieties of obligation, unjust law, and even the question of divine authority..
| Author | Flannery O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0374236917 |
"I would like to write a beautiful prayer," writes the young Flannery O'Connor in this deeply spiritual journal, recently discovered among her papers in Georgia. "There is a whole sensible world around me that I should be able to turn to Your praise." Written between 1946 and 1947 while O'Connor was...
The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life
| Author | Alison Gopnik |
| ISBN | 0374231966 |
For most of us, having a baby is the most profound, intense, and fascinating experience of our lives. Now scientists and philosophers are starting to appreciate babies, too. The last decade has witnessed a revolution in our understanding of infants and young children. Scientists used to believe...
