The Spiritual Danger of Doing Good

10 best books like The Spiritual Danger of Doing Good (Peter Greer): The Hangman's Secret, Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves, Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well, Fast Falls the Night, For Men Only: A Straightforward Guide to the Inner Lives of Women, Getting Organized in the Google Era: How to Get Stuff out of Your Head, Find It When You Need It, and Get It Done Right, You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit, Tell Me More: Stories about the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say, For Women Only: What You Need to Know About the Inner Lives of Men

The Hangman's Secret
AuthorLaura Joh Rowland
Intrepid photographer Sarah Bain and her motley crew of friends are back to hunt criminals in the dark, seedy underbelly of Victorian London, but little do they know, the darkness may lurk closer than they first divined.

Photographer Sarah Bain and her friends Lord Hugh Staunton and sometime...
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
AuthorFrans de Waal
ISBN0393635066
New York Times best-selling author and primatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emotions.

Frans de Waal has spent four decades at the forefront of animal research. Following up on the best-selling Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, which...
Troilus and Cressida
AuthorWilliam Shakespeare
ISBN0671669168

When I was young and naive, I loved Troilus and Cressida for its brave cynicism, but now that I am older--and my outlook is bleaker--I appreciate it for its realism and compassion. Shakespeare shows us a world in which lovers yearn to be true and warriors strive to be brave, but both inevitably fail,...
All's Well That Ends Well
AuthorWilliam Shakespeare
ISBN0743484975
Helena, a ward of the Countess of Rousillion, falls in love with the Countess's son, Bertram. Daughter of a famous doctor, and a skilled physician in her own right, Helena cures the King of France-who feared he was dying-and he grants her Bertram's hand as a reward. Bertram, however, offended by the inequality...
Fast Falls the Night
AuthorJulia Keller
ISBN1250089611
In the next powerful mystery from Julia Keller, a murder investigation leads West Virginia prosecuting attorney Bell Elkins to the shattering truth about her own past.

The first drug overdose comes just after midnight, when a young woman dies on the dirty floor of a gas station bathroom. To...
For Men Only: A Straightforward Guide to the Inner Lives of Women
AuthorShaunti Feldhahn
ISBN1590525728
Finally--You "Can"Understand Her!
Women: Complicated and impossible to understand? Do you love and want to please the woman in your life, but just can't seem to figure her out? That was before "For Men Only." Now at your fingertips is the tool that will unlock the secret to her mysterious ways. Through...
AuthorDouglas C. Merrill
ISBN0385528175
Whether it's a faulty memory, a tendency to multitask, or difficulty managing our time, every one of us has limitations conspiring to keep us from being organized. But, as organizational guru and former Google CIO Douglas C. Merrill points out, it isn't our fault. Our brains simply aren't designed...
You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
AuthorJames K.A. Smith
You are what you love. But you might not love what you think.

In this book, award-winning author James K. A. Smith shows that who and what we worship fundamentally shape our hearts. And while we desire to shape culture, we are not often aware of how culture shapes us. We might not realize the ways...
Tell Me More: Stories about the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say
AuthorKelly Corrigan
It’s a crazy idea: trying to name the phrases that make love and connection possible. But that’s just what Kelly Corrigan has set out to do here. In her New York Times bestselling memoirs, Corrigan distilled our core relationships to their essences, showcasing a warm, easy storytelling style. Now,...
For Women Only: What You Need to Know About the Inner Lives of Men
AuthorShaunti Feldhahn
ISBN1601424442
Discover the Truth He Wants You to Know
 
The man in your life carries important feelings so deep inside he barely knows they’re there, much less how to talk about them. Yet your man genuinely wants you to “get” him—to understand his inner life, to know his fears and needs, to hear what...
Culture Shift: Engaging Current Issues with Timeless Truth (Today's Critical Concerns)
AuthorR. Albert Mohler Jr.
the blurb mentions an "aggressive new atheism." Let me guess: it's the atheists who're bombing Planned Parenthood facilities and putting up death lists of women's providers? And atheists who are pushing for laws that deny women control of their own bodies? And who are in favor of the death penalty?...
How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
AuthorAlan Jacobs
ISBN0451499603
How to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we're not as good at thinking as we assume - but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life.

As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications like The Atlantic and Harper's, Alan Jacobs...
Bitter River
AuthorJulia Keller
ISBN1250003490
Phone calls before dawn are never good news. Especially when you're a prosecuting attorney in a small Appalachian town. Still, Bell Elkins is not prepared for this: sixteen-year-old Lucinda Trimble's body has been found at the bottom of Bitter River. And Lucinda didn't drown--she was dead before...
Restless in Carolina
AuthorTamara Leigh
ISBN1601421680
She’s all about going green. Could he be her white knight—or will he make her see red?
 
Tree-huggin’, animal-lovin’ Bridget Pickwick-Buchanan is on a mission. Well, two. First she has to come to terms with being a widow at thirty-three. After all, it’s been four years and even her...
The Art of Neighboring: Building Genuine Relationships Right Outside Your Door
AuthorJay Pathak
Once upon a time, people knew their neighbors. They talked to them, had cook-outs with them, and went to church with them. In our time of unprecedented mobility and increasing isolationism, it's hard to make lasting connections with those who live right outside our front door. We have hundreds of "friends"...
Jesus Prom: Life Gets Fun When You Love People Like God Does
AuthorJon Weece
ISBN1400206901
Jesus loves people. 

Wouldn't it make sense that those who claim to love Jesus would love the same people Jesus loves? 

Nouns need verbs, a requirement that's more than just a grammatical truth; it's a spiritual truth. The noun Christian and the noun church require action verbs...
Summer of the Dead
AuthorJulia Keller
ISBN1466843187
High summer in Acker's Gap, West Virginia but no one's enjoying the rugged natural landscape. Not while a killer stalks the small town and its hard-luck inhabitants. County prosecutor Bell Elkins and Sheriff Nick Fogelsong are stymied by a murderer who seems to come and go like smoke on the mountain....
Ready to Wed
AuthorMelody Carlson
When Belle Bannister, a real Georgia peach, checks into Grace Chapel Inn on a mission to find a husband among the eligible bachelors of Acorn Hill, the Howard sisters teeter between disbelief and awe. Belle sets off to plan her wedding, trusting God to supply the groom, and teaches them all an unlikely...
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