The Thread That Runs So True
10 best books like The Thread That Runs So True (Jesse Stuart): The Relatives Came, Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life, Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, Get Thee to a Punnery: An Anthology of Intentional Assaults Upon the English Language, Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot, Escape From Colditz, The Life of Moses, Roget's International Thesaurus, Raylan, Levi's Will
| Author | Cynthia Rylant |
| ISBN | 0689717385 |
In a rainbow-colored station wagon that smelled like a real car, the relatives came. When they arrived, they hugged and hugged from the kitchen to the front room. All summer they tended the garden and ate up all the strawberries and melons. They plucked banjos and strummed guitars.
When they finally...
Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life
| Author | Susan Forward |
| ISBN | 0553381407 |
All parents fall short from time to time. But Susan Forward pulls no punches when it comes to those whose deficiencies cripple their children emotionally. Her brisk, unreserved guide to overcoming the stultifying agony of parental manipulation—from power trips to guilt trips and all other killers...
| Author | Jean Lee Latham |
| ISBN | 0618250743 |
Readers today are still fascinated by “Nat,” an eighteenth-century nautical wonder and mathematical wizard. Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in a sailor’s world—Salem in the early days, when tall-masted ships from foreign ports crowded the wharves. But Nat didn’t promise to have the makings...
Parts of this book were really fascinating. I liked reading about the different types of puns and other types of word play. As a dictionary of puns, it really works and has a lot of good examples. Sometimes there were too many examples and I really didn't want to read through them all. Some of the puns relied...
Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot
Shadow of the Almighty is a modern classic story of faithfulness, obedience, and martyrdom. It is the best-selling account of the martyrdom of Jim Elliot and four other missionaries at the hands of the Huaorani Indians in Ecuador.
Shadow of the Almighty has inspired Christians since its first...
The Colditz Story gets Five Stars to honor the men who would not be caged and fought to escape the toughest Stalag in Nazi Germany. This book is just as exciting to read as it likely was back in the early ‘50s when it was first published. Nail-biting successful and unsuccessful escape attempts from start...
| Author | Gregory of Nyssa |
| ISBN | 0809121123 |
St. Gregory of Nyssa This great spiritual master of the fourth century was born as the general persecution of Christians was ending. One of the Greek Cappadocian Fathers (the other two were Gregory's brother, St. Basil the Great, and their mutual friend, St. Gregory Nazianzen), Gregory has come to...
| Author | Peter Mark Roget |
| ISBN | 0062700146 |
Roget's International Thesaurus®, fifth edition, is the original -- now completely expanded, reorganized, revised and updated -- the definitive thesaurus for the 21st century.
While retaining Dr. Peter Mark Roget's fundamental and brilliant category concept which groups all synonyms,...
US Marshal Raylan Givens investigates a kidney stealing ring, acts as a bodyguard to a beautiful coal mining executive, and tracks down a missing college girl named Jackie Nevada who is a poker player and possibly a bank robber.
Bad Pun Alert: I've only seen the first season of the show starring...
| Author | W. Dale Cramer |
| ISBN | 0764229958 |
Will flees his Old Order community at the age of 19, leaving behind a pregnant girlfriend and all things Amish. He begins a new life, joining the army and later marrying and having two sons of his own. But his life and his new family are tainted by the hidden sins of his past. Hoping to patch things up with his...
