The Religions of Man

10 best books like The Religions of Man (Huston Smith): Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback, Captive: A Mother's Crusade to Save Her Daughter from the Terrifying Cult Nxivm, A River Runs Through it and Other Stories, San Manuel Bueno, mártir, A Good Death: Making the Most of Our Final Choices, Honour Thy Father, Out of the Shadows: A Memoir, Trafficked, Promiscuities, Object of Your Love: Stories

Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback

Author	Robyn Davidson
ISBN	0679762876

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Robyn Davidson's opens the memoir of her perilous journey across 1,700 miles of hostile Australian desert to the sea with only four camels and a dog for company with the following words: “I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned...

Captive: A Mother's Crusade to Save Her Daughter from the Terrifying Cult Nxivm

Author	Catherine Oxenberg
ISBN	1508260176

Now updated with a new afterword, Captive is an emotional, ripped-from-the-headlines exposé that lays bare the secretive cult that shocked the world—for fans of Leah Remini’s Troublemaker and Lawrence Wright’s Going Clear.

I am a mother whose child is being abused and exploited....

A River Runs Through it and Other Stories

Author	Norman Maclean
ISBN	0226500667

Just as Norman Maclean writes at the end of "A River Runs through It" that he is "haunted by waters," so have readers been haunted by his novella. A retired English professor who began writing fiction at the age of 70, Maclean produced what is now recognized as one of the classic American stories of the twentieth...

San Manuel Bueno, mártir

Author	Miguel de Unamuno
ISBN	8423919102

San Manuel Bueno, mártir, obra maestra de Miguel de Unamuno, es considerada como su testamento espiritual. La novela muestra un espacio no descriptivo en el que se asientan los símbolos clave de la dialéctica entre fe y duda: el lago, la montaña, la nieve, la villa sumergida, etc. San Manuel asume...

A Good Death: Making the Most of Our Final Choices

Author	Sandra Martin
ISBN	1443435961

We can’t avoid death, but the prospect is a lot less terrifying since the Supreme Court of Canada legalized physician-assisted death. Competent adults, suffering grievously from intolerable medical conditions, will have the right to ask for a doctor’s help in ending their lives. That much is...

Honour Thy Father

Author	Lesley Glaister
ISBN	0747542058

It's been a hell of a long time sine I've given any book 5*
Totally my problem, reading block, lack of concentration etc. But this book has hit so many of my admittedly odd buttons. I rarely love what others do and vice versa.

There is something very compelling for me in the four sisters, quietly...

Out of the Shadows: A Memoir

Author

Timea E. Nagy

An unforgettable story of an ordinary woman in astonishing circumstances who defies the odds.

Timea Nagy was twenty years old when she answered a newspaper ad in Budapest, Hungary, calling for young women to work as babysitters and housekeepers in Canada. Hired by what seemed like a legitimate...

Trafficked

Author	Sophie Hayes
ISBN	0007438885

When Sophie Hayes met Bledi she knew he'd change her life – but she had no idea how much. At first, it was a typical whirlwind romance. But one day Bledi told her that love always comes at a price ...

Bledi tricked Sophie into travelling to Italy, where he forced her to sell her body to help him pay...

Promiscuities

Author	Naomi Wolf
ISBN	0449907643

In this provocative and highly personal book, bestselling author Naomi Wolf explores a subject that has long been taboo in our society: women's sexual coming-of-age. Promiscuities brazenly exposes the truths behind the conflicting messages directed at young women during and after the sexual revolution....

Object of Your Love: Stories

Author

Dorothy Speak

Linked by themes of desire and adultery, the nine diamond-hard stories that comprise this collection tell of the disappointments and reconciliations of women whose lives have fallen out from under them. A woman's husband is carrying on with her best friend. A dentist's assistant is pleading with...

Partial Eclipse

Author	Lesley Glaister
ISBN	0140242813

This book presents two twinned, parallel storylines of women suffering imprisonment.

In the main story, Jenny, a young girl in solitary confinement, reminisces about her lost love affair with Tom, an older man. There are hints that this love affair is the cause for her imprisonment (but I...

The Crow Girl

Author	Erik Axl Sund
ISBN	0099583682

The most terrifying thriller you'll read this year

It starts with just one body – the hands bound, the skin covered in marks.

Detective Superintendent Jeanette Kihlberg is determined to find out who is responsible, despite opposition from her superiors. When two more bodies are...

This Little Light

Author

Lori Lansens

This brilliant new novel is an urgent bulletin from an all-too-believable near future in which the religious right has come out on top. And where a smart young girl who questions the new order is suddenly a terrorist. By the bestselling author of The Girls and The Mountain Story .

Taking...

Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath

Author	Kate Moses
ISBN	1400035007

This engrossing debut novel depicts Sylvia Plath's feverish artistic process in the bitter aftermath of her failed marriage to Ted Hughes--the few excruciating yet astoundingly productive weeks in which she wrote Ariel," " her defining last collection of poems.
In December 1962, shortly before...

Fugls føde

Author	Peter Seeberg
ISBN	8700398810

Historien om forfatteren Tom som ikke kan skrive, platter sig frem og ikke kan finde nøglen til livet er ikke for sarte sjæle. Det er psykologisk portræt af en mand, som gerne vil, men ikke evner. Huset er ikke bygget færdigt, romanen bliver aldrig skrevet, han elsker ikke sin troskyldige kone, som...

The Pursuit of God

Author	A W Tozer
ISBN	1727853016

Of Tozer's many books and other writings, The Pursuit of God is his most famous and widely read. The Pursuit of God in particular has reached all the corners of the world. This book is considered a Christian classic and is still read and listened to by many faithful Christians to this day. It was written...

The World's Wisdom: Sacred Texts of the World's Religions

Author	Philip Novak
ISBN	0060663421

A world Bible for our time from Buddhist, Hindu, Confucian, Taoist, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and primal religion sources!

In this perfect companion to Huston Smith's bestselling The World's Wisdom, Philip Novak distills the most powerful and elegant expressions of the wisdom of humankind....

Black Money

Author	Ross Macdonald
ISBN	0679768106

A young girl from a good background becomes involved with a mysterious Frenchman at the country club, and her ex-fiancee hires Lew Archer to discover if the Frenchman is an impostor. Soon the Frenchman seems to be connected to an earlier death labeled as a suicide, and then the bodies begin to pile...