The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories
9 best books like The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories (Joan Aiken): Twenty and Ten, George Washington's Breakfast, The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind, Secret of the Tiger's Eye, The Secret of Hanging Rock, The Heart of Centering Prayer: Nondual Christianity in Theory and Practice, אהבתה של גברת רוטשילד, Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words, The Violin Maker's Daughter
| Author | Claire Huchet Bishop |
| ISBN | 0140310762 |
This must have been one of the earliest historical fiction children titles for World War II, since it came out in 1952. I probably read it in the 1960s. It meets one of my main problems with WWII lit for young kids: while it makes it clear that it was a case of life and death for the kids, it never actually says...
| Author | Jean Fritz |
| ISBN | 0698300998 |
George Washington Allen, a boy who never gives up until he finds out what he wants to know, is determined to learn all there is to know about his namesake including what the first president ate for breakfast! "The sprightly, humorous story and likable colored illustrations bring history alive and make...
| Author | Cynthia Bourgeault |
| ISBN | 1590305809 |
If you put aside what you think you know about Jesus and approach the Gospels as though for the first time, something remarkable happens: Jesus emerges as a teacher of the transformation of consciousness. Cynthia Bourgeault is a masterful guide to Jesus's vision and to the traditional contemplative...
| Author | Phyllis A. Whitney |
| ISBN | 0606012249 |
Phyllis Ayame Whitney (1903 – 2008) was an American mystery writer. Rare for her genre, she wrote mysteries for both the juvenile and the adult markets, many of which feature exotic locations. A review in The New York Times once dubbed her "The Queen of the American Gothics".
She was born in...
The Secret of Hanging Rock
Joan Lindsay's best-selling novel Picnic at Hanging Rock is a subtle blend of mysterious and sinister events set in a period drawn with loving nostalgia. The final chapter of the novel was removed at the request of her publishers, creating a mystery to which thousands have begged to know the solution....
The Heart of Centering Prayer: Nondual Christianity in Theory and Practice
| Author | Cynthia Bourgeault |
| ISBN | 1611803144 |
Perceiving nondual awareness through the Christian contemplative method called Centering Prayer--an in-depth introduction to theory and practice by the best-selling author The Wisdom Jesus and The Meaning of Mary Magdalene.
Centering Prayer is the path to a wonderful and radical new way...
La gran historia de amor que forjó una de las familias más emblemáticas de la historia del judaísmo y la construcción de su fortuna, elogiada por la crítica, por Amos Oz y Abraham B. Yehoshúa, y en la lista de más vendidos de Israel.
1770. Desde su ventana en el gueto amurallado de Frankfurt,...
Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
With the imagery of a poet and the reflection of a philosopher, David Whyte turns his attention to 52 ordinary words, each its own particular doorway into the underlying currents of human life.
Beginning with ALONE and closing with WORK, each chapter is a meditation on meaning and context,...
The Violin Maker's Daughter
When the Nazis march onto the cobbled streets of Colmar on November 1st 1940, Josef, a Jewish violin maker, gathers his wife and daughters closely to him and tells them everything will be alright.
But one year later, three sharp knocks on the door at midnight turn his seventeen year old daughter...
