What Happened at Vatican II
10 best books like What Happened at Vatican II (John W. O'Malley): Lords and Ladies, Nemesis, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin, Jumper, Sleeping Murder, Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book, The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life, Flags in the Dust, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering, Pylon
A Discworld Novel. It's a hot Midsummer Night. The crop circles are turning up everywhere-even on the mustard-and-cress of Pewseyy Ogg, aged four. And Magrat Garlick, witch, is going to be married in the morning...Everything ought to be going like a dream. But the Lancre All-Comers Morris Team have...
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 0451200187 |
In utter disbelief, Jane Marple read the letter addressed to her from the recently deceased Mr Rafiel - an acquaintance she had met briefly on her travels. He had left instructions for her to investigate a crime after his death. The only problem was, he had failed to tell her who was involved or where and...
The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
| Author | Corey Robin |
| ISBN | 0199793743 |
Late in life, William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin. Capitalism is "boring," said the founding father of the American right. "Devoting your life to it," as conservatives do, "is horrifying if only because it's so repetitious. It's like sex." With this unlikely conversation began Robin's...
| Author | Steven Gould |
| ISBN | 0765342286 |
Davy lives alone with his father. But the truth is, it isn't much of a home. When things get so bad that Davy decides to run away, his big question is, Where? And how will he live?
The magical answer: anywhere Davy wants!
Davy discovers he has the power to "jump" from one place to another....
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 0002317850 |
Miss Marple’s last case, Sleeping Murder, was written over 30 years before it was published and sees Miss Marple solve her final mystery.
Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernise the house, she only succeeded in dredging...
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
| Author | Walker Percy |
| ISBN | 0312253990 |
I have read and reread this book half a dozen times. No doubt that number will reach a dozen or more during the course of my lifetime. It is, first of all, absolutely hilarious: a subtler, non-narrative, written precursor to "I Heart Huckabees." Who are we? Why are we here? What is the problem of the Self...
The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life
| Author | James Martin |
| ISBN | 0061432687 |
The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything by the Revered James Martin, SJ (My Life with the Saints) is a practical spiritual guidebook based on the life and teachings of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus. Centered around the Ignatian goal of “finding God in all things,” The...
| Author | William Faulkner |
| ISBN | 0394712390 |
Flags in the Dust: William Faulkner's Creation of Yoknapatawpha County
Flags in the Dust, First Ed., Random House, New York, New York (1973)
Flags in the Dust was selected as a group read by members of On the Southern Literary Trail for the month of December, 2014. Special thanks...
No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
| Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| ISBN | 1937006859 |
The secret to happiness is to acknowledge and transform suffering, not to run away from it. In No Mud, No Lotus, Thich Nhat Hanh offers practices and inspiration for transforming suffering and finding true joy. Thich Nhat Hanh acknowledges that because suffering can feel so bad, we try to run away from...
| Author | William Faulkner |
| ISBN | 0394747410 |
According to Polk, Faulkner wrote this novel in three months as a break from composing _Absalom, Absalom!_, and he revised in galley proofs. Considering that, the corrected text (which restores Faulkner's original sentence and paragraph lengths, as well as some four-letter words the original publisher...
| Author | Galway Kinnell |
| ISBN | 0395320461 |
Did you know Galway Kinnell was active in the Civil Rights movement, jailed in Louisiana for his role in voter registration activities? I didn't know that until I read the excerpts from Kinnell's long poem "The Last River" that are included in this 1982 compilation. "The Last River" is, interestingly,...
Whistling in the Dark: A Doubter's Dictionary
| Author | Frederick Buechner |
| ISBN | 0060611405 |
I am me. I am a sinner. ” “Hi, you. ” Hi, every Sadie and Sal. Hi, every Tom, Dick, and Harry. It is the forgiveness of sins, of course. It is what the Church is all about. No matter what far place alcoholics end up in, either in this country or virtually anywhere else, they know that there will be an A.A....
Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi
| Author | Amy-Jill Levine |
| ISBN | 0061561010 |
The renowned biblical scholar, author of The Misunderstood Jew, and general editor for The Jewish Annotated New Testament interweaves history and spiritual analysis to explore Jesus’ most popular teaching parables, exposing their misinterpretations and making them lively and relevant for...
Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
| Author | Ray Bradbury |
| ISBN | 0060544880 |
For more than sixty years, the imagination of Ray Bradbury has opened doors into remarkable places, ushering us across unexplored territories of the heart and mind while leading us inexorably toward a profound understanding of ourselves and the universe we inhabit. In this landmark volume, America's...
Rick Nagano is a graduate student in the history department at USC, struggling to make rent on his South Los Angeles apartment near the neighborhood where his family once lived. When he lands a job as a research assistant for the elderly Mrs. W—, the heir to an oil fortune, he sees it at first simply as...
Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love
| Author | Elizabeth A. Johnson |
| ISBN | 1472903730 |
For millennia plant and animal species have received little sustained attention as subjects of Christian theology and ethics in their own right. Focused on the human dilemma of sin and redemptive grace, theology has considered the doctrine of creation to be mainly an overture to the main drama of human...
