Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith
10 best books like Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith (Nora Gallagher): The Bookshop on the Shore, The Little Shop of Found Things, Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith, Dorothy Day; The World Will Be Saved By Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of Dorothy Day, Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again, The Air I Breathe: Worship as a Way of Life, Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer Is Awakening a Generation, The Daring Ladies of Lowell, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
The Bookshop on the Shore
| Author | Jenny Colgan |
| ISBN | 0062850180 |
A grand baronial house on Loch Ness, a quirky small-town bookseller, and a single mom looking for a fresh start all come together in this witty and warm-hearted novel by New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan.
Desperate to escape from London, single mother Zoe wants to build a new life...
The Little Shop of Found Things
| Author | Paula Brackston |
| ISBN | 1250072433 |
A new series about a young woman whose connection to antiques takes her on a magical adventure, reminiscent of Outlander
New York Times bestselling author of The Witch's Daughter Paula Brackston returns to her trademark blend of magic and romance to launch a new series guaranteed to enchant...
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
| ISBN | 0060872632 |
By now I expected to be a seasoned parish minister, wearing black clergy shirts grown gray from frequent washing. I expected to love the children who hung on my legs after Sunday morning services until they grew up and had children of their own. I even expected to be buried wearing the same red vestments...
Dorothy Day; The World Will Be Saved By Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of Dorothy Day
| Author | Kate Hennessy |
| ISBN | 1501133969 |
The life and work of Dorothy Day—the iconic, celebrated, and controversial Catholic whom Pope Francis called a “great American”—told with illuminating detail by her granddaughter.
Dorothy Day (1897-1980) was a prominent Catholic, writer, social activist, and co-founder of...
| Author | Rachel Held Evans |
| ISBN | 0310293995 |
Eighty years after the Scopes Monkey Trial made a spectacle of Christian fundamentalism and brought national attention to her hometown, Rachel Held Evans faced a trial of her own when she began to have doubts about her faith.
In Faith Unraveled, Rachel recounts growing up in a culture obsessed...
Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
| Author | Rachel Held Evans |
| ISBN | 0718022319 |
One Woman’s Journey Back to Loving the Bible
If the Bible isn’t a science book or an instruction manual, then what is it? What do people mean when they say the Bible is inspired? When Rachel Held Evans found herself asking these questions, she began a quest to better understand what the...
The Air I Breathe: Worship as a Way of Life
| Author | Louie Giglio |
| ISBN | 1590526708 |
Where Do You Worship?
Not everyone may frequent the church on the corner, but we each have a place of worship. For some, it’s at the office. For others, before the mirror. Still others, on the basketball court. You were created to worship! So you naturally find a place to do it. But to worship...
Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer Is Awakening a Generation
| Author | Pete Greig |
| ISBN | 0972927662 |
An extraordinary story about the adventure of faith and the power of persevering prayer… On a summer's day in 1727 a community of Moravians started praying and didn't stop for more than 100 years. Throughout history God has mobilised such movements and moments of 24/7 prayer - from the Upper Room of...
The Daring Ladies of Lowell
| Author | Kate Alcott |
| ISBN | 0385536496 |
From the best-selling author of The Dressmaker comes the warm-hearted and enthralling saga of a bold young woman caught between two worlds-the vibrant camaraderie of factory life and the opulence that a budding romance with the mill owner's son affords-as the murder of her best friend sends shock...
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
| Author | Rachel Held Evans |
| ISBN | 0718022122 |
From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans comes a book that is both a heartfelt ode to the past and hopeful gaze into the future of what it means to be a part of the Church.
Like millions of her millennial peers, Rachel Held Evans didn't want to go to church anymore. The hypocrisy,...
Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith
| Author | Sarah Bessey |
| ISBN | 1476717583 |
From the popular blogger and provocative author of Jesus Feminist comes a riveting new study of Christianity that helps you wrestle with—and sort out—your faith.
In Out of Sorts, Sarah Bessey—award-winning blogger and author of Jesus Feminist, which was hailed as “lucid, compelling,...
| Author | Jason Boyett |
| ISBN | 0310289491 |
In O Me of Little Faith, author Jason Boyett brings you a transparent and personal account of his own of struggles with doubts and unbelief in living out his faith. With humor and frankness, Boyett uses personal anecdotes and a fresh look at Scripture to explore the realities of pursuing Christ through...
| Author | Shane Claiborne |
| ISBN | 1400204186 |
For all the Christians facing conflict between Jesus’ words and their own lives, for all the non-Christians who feel they rarely see Jesus’ commands reflected in the choices of his followers, Red Letter Revolution is a blueprint for a new kind of Christianity, one consciously centered on the words...
| Author | Michael Frost |
| ISBN | 1565636708 |
Frost has quite a few thought provoking insights in here. I don't agree with him in every area and there were several places that I felt he was being down right snobby ("If you are a REAL exile you wont..."). I, for one, don't see myself ever pulling out of a traditional church setting, but I don't think that...
Contemplative Youth Ministry: Practicing the Presence of Jesus
| Author | Mark Yaconelli |
| ISBN | 0310267773 |
“Contemplative Youth Ministry is refreshing rain for dry youth workers and barren youth ministries. More than the same old youth ministry tips and tricks, it gives principles and practices to soak in God’s grace, love, and power. I wish I had read it 15 years ago.”- Kara Powell, Ph.D., executive...
Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven, But Nobody Wants to Die, or (the eschatology of bluegrass)
| Author | David Crowder |
| ISBN | 0977748006 |
The conflict between the here and now and the ever after is a familiar one. Death and life are forever intertwined, as a life lived to the fullest includes pain and grief. Even more, it requires dying to self, which frees one to experience a greater joy: community. Thus explains best- selling recording...
Benefit of the Doubt: Breaking the Idol of Certainty
| Author | Gregory A. Boyd |
| ISBN | 0801014921 |
In Benefit of the Doubt, influential theologian, pastor, and bestselling author Gregory Boyd invites readers to embrace a faith that doesn't strive for certainty, but rather for commitment in the midst of uncertainty. Boyd rejects the idea that a person's faith is as strong as it is certain. In fact,...
The Last Word and the Word After That: A Tale of Faith, Doubt, and a New Kind of Christianity
| Author | Brian D. McLaren |
| ISBN | 0787975923 |
For all those seeking more authentic ways to hold and practice Christian faith, Brian McLaren has been an inspiring, compassionate--and provocative--voice. Starting with the award-winning A New Kind of Christian, McLaren offered a lively, wide-ranging fictional conversation between Pastor...
Coming Clean: A Story of Faith
“I suppose we're all drunk on something.”
Seth Haines was in the hospital with his wife, planning funeral songs for their not-yet two-year-old, when he made a very conscious decision: this was the last day he wanted to feel. That evening, he asked his sister to smuggle in a bottle of gin,...
स्वास्नीमान्छे [Swasni Manchhe]
| Author | Hridaya Chandra Singh Pradhan |
Hridya Chandra Singh Pradhan was born in 1972 B.S, at Maruhiti, Kathmandu. His childhood name was Chandra Prasad. He was white, lien and dwarf. Early in the life he was caught by asthma at the age of 5years. One day, Hridaya Chandra went to great poet Lekhanath poudel and requested the poet to teach him...
| Author | Hridaya Chandra Singh Pradhan |
Hridya Chandra Singh Pradhan was born in 1972 B.S, at Maruhiti, Kathmandu. His childhood name was Chandra Prasad. He was white, lien and dwarf. Early in the life he was caught by asthma at the age of 5years. One day, Hridaya Chandra went to great poet Lekhanath poudel and requested the poet to teach him...
Don't Let the Goats Eat the Loquat Trees: The Adventures of an American Surgeon in Nepal
| Author | Thomas Hale |
| ISBN | 0310213010 |
Thomas Hale writes about being a missionary surgeon in the same delightful way James Herriot writes about being a country veterinarian. Dr. Hale's incredible experience in tiny, mountainous Nepal are surpassed only by his talent for telling about them. Imagine, for example, the culture shock of...
The Barbarian Way: Unleash the Untamed Faith Within
| Author | Erwin Raphael McManus |
| ISBN | 0785264329 |
Two thousand years later the call to follow Christ has been repackaged to be smooth and trouble-free, filled with opportunity and promise but lacking risk, passion, and sacrifice. Is this really what Jesus died for? If He chose the way of the cross, where would He hesitate leading us? Is it possible that...
This Beautiful Mess: Practicing the Presence of the Kingdom of God
| Author | Rick McKinley |
| ISBN | 1590525019 |
I've lived in Portland all of my life. It's one of the most progressive cities in the US--a sort of European colony tossed in the middle of the Pacific Northwest.
As is the case with Europe, Portland is a proudly post-Christian society. Cheerfully deemed, "The place where churches go to die"....
Memories of the White House: The Home Life of Our Presidents from Lincoln to Roosevelt (1911)
"An intimate picture of the domestic side of life at the capital from the time of Lincoln to the close of Roosevelt's regime. It is an informal, chatty narrative." -The Bookseller, 1911
William H. Crook (1839 – 1915) was one of President Abraham Lincoln's bodyguards in 1865. After Lincoln's...
The Ghost in Roomette Four: A California Zephyr Mystery
| Author | Janet Dawson |
| ISBN | 1564745988 |
It's almost midnight on the sleek streamliner known as the California Zephyr en route from Oakland to Chicago in 1954. Heading for her quarters, Zephyrette Jill McLeod walks through the Silver Gorge Pullman car, and sees something she can't explain. Is the shimmering light a ghost? Jill doubts the...
Under This Roof: The White House and the Presidency--21 Presidents, 21 Rooms, 21 Inside Stories
Why, in the minutes before John F. Kennedy was murdered, was a blood-red carpet installed in the Oval Office? If Abraham Lincoln never slept in the Lincoln Bedroom, where did he sleep?Why was one president nearly killed in the White House on inauguration day—and another secretly sworn in? What really...
| Author | Marjorie Hart |
| ISBN | 0061189529 |
Do you remember the best summer of your life?
New York City, 1945. Marjorie Jacobson and her best friend, Marty Garrett, arrive fresh from the Kappa house at the University of Iowa hoping to find summer positions as shopgirls. Turned away from the top department stores, they miraculously find...
Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote
| Author | Truman Capote |
| ISBN | 1400066611 |
Portraits and Observations, what a fitting title for this collection of poetic oddities and fluid cognizance. Capote's work is what you label belletrist, because be it fiction or nonfiction, the magnetism of his artful prose is the transfixing element. I was enthralled by “Master Misery,” and...
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
| Author | Arnold Bennett |
| ISBN | 1406922900 |
You have to live on twenty-four hours of daily time. Out of it you have to spin health, pleasure, money, content, respect, and the evolution of your immortal soul. This timeless classic is one of the first self-help books ever written and was a best-seller in both England and America. It remains as useful...
