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Title: Test Book Author: Bob Campbell ISBN: 9876543210 Price: 34.56 Publisher: Incognito Press Publication Date: 2002-03-01 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 123 Description: This is a test book. This is a test book. This is a test book. This is a test book. This is a test book. This is a test book. |
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Title: The Betrothed Author: Alessandro Manzoni ISBN: 978014044274 Price: 20.00 Publisher: Penguin Classics Format: Paperback Pages: 720 Description: Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620's, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, prevented from marrying by the petty tyrant Don Rodrigo, who desires Lucia for himself. Forced to flee, they are then cruelly separated, must face many dangers including plague, famine and imprisonment, and confront a variety of strange characters - the mysterious Nun of Monza, the fiery Father Cristoforo and the sinister "Unnamed" - in their struggle to be reunited. A vigorous portrayal of enduring passion, The Betrothed's exploration of love, power and faith presents a whirling panorama of seventeenth-century Italian life and is one of the greatest European historical novels. |
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Title: Medieval Exegesis Author: DeLubac ISBN: 0802841457 Price: 45.00 Publisher: William B. Berdmans Publishing Company Publication Date: April 1998 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 489 Description: "In Medieval Exegesis one of the greatest Catholic thinkers of the twentieth century opens the way to exploration of the vast intriguing but little known land of medieval theology. Henri de Lubac shows how medieval authors gathered and joined multiple kinds of biblical interpretation, yielding them an immense harvest of theology that can still richly profit contemporary readers of the Bible" Robin D. Young |
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Title: The Splendor of the Church Author: Henri de Lubac ISBN: 978089870742 Price: 21.95 Publisher: Ignatius Format: Paperback Pages: 384 Description: Drawing deeply from Scripture and Tradition, de Lubac provides readers with a spiritual and theological feast. His is a rich and profound meditation on the Church, revealing her multifaceted, mysterious reality as both a visible, hierarchical community and an invisible, spiritual communion. At the same time, de Lubac reflects on the Church as a community moving through history to its consummation in Christ, as well as her being the spotless and glorious Bride of Christ. Also treated is the mysterious relationship between the Church and the Eucharist, the "heart of the Church" (a relationship upon which Pope John Paul II's encyclical on the eucharist, Ecclesia de Eucharistia, drew). Other important themes include the Church as the Sacrament of Christ , as Mother of Christians, and as profoundly united to Mary, Virgin and Mother, the model of the Church. In short, The Splendor of the Church is a monumental doctrinal and More... |
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Title: The End of the Modern World Author: Romano Guardini ISBN: 978188292658 Price: 18.00 Publisher: Intercollegiate College Institute Publication Date: April 2001 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 220 Description: An extended inquiry into the nature of the modern age, as well as a historical, philosophical, and theological analysis of modernity's prospects in the next millennium. This expanded edition includes the original text of The End of the Modern World, as well as the entirety of its explicit sequel, Power and Responsibility. Guardini analyzes modern man's conception of himself in the world, and examines the nature and use of power. It is the principle of individual responsibility that weaves both works into a seamless, comprehensive, and compelling moral statement. Guardini tirelessly argues that human beings are responsible moral agents, possessed of free will and answerable to God and their fellow man. |
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Title: Hamlet Author: Shakespeare ISBN: 978019283416 Price: 10.95 Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication Date: June 1998 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 416 |
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Title: The Karamazov Brothers Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky ISBN: 978019283509 Price: 14.95 Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication Date: August 1998 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 1054 Description: Bound up with this intense drama is an exploration of many deeply felt ideas about God, freedom, the collective nature of guilt, the disastrous consequences of rationalism. The novel is also richly comic: the Church, the law and even the author's most cherished causes and beliefs are presented with irreverance, so that orthodoxy and radicalism, sanity and madness, love and hatred, right and wrong are no longer mutually exclusive. |
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Title: Crime and Punishment Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky ISBN: 978014044913 Price: 15.00 Publisher: Penguin Classics Publication Date: December 2002 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 718 Description: Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St. Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer the chance of redemption. |
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Title: Demons Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky ISBN: 978014144141 Price: 18.00 Publisher: Penguin Classics Publication Date: 06/24/08 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 880 Description: Verkhovensky and Stavrogin are the leaders of a Russian revolutionary cell. Their aim is to overthrow the government, destroy society and seize power for themselves. But when it seems their motley group is about to be discovered, will their recruits be willing to kill on of their own circle in order to cover their tracks? Partly based on the real-life case of a student murdered by is fellow revolutionaries, Dostoyevsky's expansive novel is a powerful and prophetic, yet also lively and often comic depiction of nineteenth-century Russia, and a savage indictment of the madness and self-destruction of those who use violence to serve their beliefs. |
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Title: The Idiot Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky ISBN: 978019283411 Price: 11.95 Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication Date: 08/01/08 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 688 Description: "The main idea of the novel isto depict the positively good man, There is nothing more difficult than this in the world, especially nowadays." Dostoevsky Into a compelling real portrait of nineteenth-century Russian society Dostoevsky introduces his ideal hero, the saintly Prince Myshkin. the tensions subsequently unleashed by the hero's innocence, truthfulness, and humility betray the inadequacy of his moral idealism and disclose the spiritual emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate him. Mushkin's mission ends in idiocy and darkness, but it is the world that is rotten not he. |
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Title: God at the Ritz Author: Lorenzo Albacete ISBN: 978082452472 Price: 18.95 Publisher: Crossroads Publishing Publication Date: 9/25/07 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 208 Description: Lorenzo Albacete, a close friend of Pope John Paul II, physicist, and New York Times columnist, shows that religion has a place amid conversations on science and contemporary culture. With humor and honesty, Albacete answers questions about life and death, good and evil, science and religion, religion and politics, and other issues |
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Title: Literary Converts Author: Joseph Pearce ISBN: 97815861715 Price: 24.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: 1/28/06 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 452 Description: The twentieth century has been marked by both belief and unbelief. While church attendance has declined, the lives of many of the more salient figures of our times have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Literary Converts is a biographical exploration into the spiritual lives of some of those figures. It takes us on a journey into the deepest beliefs of some of the great writers in the English language -- from G. K. Chesterton to Evelyn Waugh, Edith Sitwell to Siegfried Sassoon. Many will be intrigued to know more about what inspired their literary heroes; others will find the association of such names with Christian belief controversial. Whatever our viewpoint, Literary Converts touches on some of the more important questions of the twentieth century, making it a fascinating read. |
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Title: The Drama of Atheist Humanism Author: Henri de Lubac ISBN: 978089870443 Price: 26.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: 10/28/95 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 539 Description: De Lubac traces the origin of 19th century attempts to construct a humanism apart from God, the sources of contemporary atheism which purports to have "moved beyond God." The three persons he focuses on are Feuerbach, who greatly influenced Marx; Nietzsche, who represents nihilism; and Comte, who is the father of all forms of positivism. He then shows that the only one who really responded to this ideology was Dostoevsky, a kind of prophet who criticizes in his novels this attempt to have a society without God. Despite their historical and scholarly appearance, de Lubac's work clearly refers to the present. As he investigates the sources of modern atheism, particularly in its claim to have definitely moved beyond the idea of God, he is thinking of an ideology prevalent today in East and West which regards the Christian faith as a completely outdated. |
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Title: Literary Converts Author: Joseph Pearce ISBN: 97808987079 Price: 24.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: 3/01/00 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 452 Description: The twentieth century has been marked by both belief and unbelief. While church attendance has declined, the lives of many of the more salient figures of our times have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Literary Converts is a biographical exploration into the spiritual lives of some of those figures. It takes us on ajourney into the deepest beliefs of some of the great writers in the English language -- from G. K. Chesterton to Evelyn Waugh, Edith Sitwell to Siegfried Sassoon. Many will be intrigued to know more about what inspired their literary heroes; others will find the association of such names with Christian belief controversial. Whatever our viewpoint, Literary Converts touches on some of the more important questions of the twentieth century, making it a fascinating read. |
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Title: Flannery O'Connor: The Complete Stories Author: Flannery O'Connor ISBN: 978037451536 Price: 20.00 Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Publication Date: 1/1/71 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 555 Description: The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime—Everything That Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find. |
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Title: The Kings Achievement Author: Robert Hugh Benson ISBN: 978159818996 Price: 16.95 Publisher: Alan Rodgers Books Publication Date: 9/1/06 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 360 Description: Benson tells the story of a fictitious family during the time of King Henry VIII's dissolution of English monasteries. The brothers of the Torridon family make their way in the world -- the eldest, Ralph, in service to Cromwell and the youngest, Christopher in service to God and the Catholic Church as a monk in the Priory at Lewes. Their paths carry them to completely different destinations and Ralph is instrumental in turning Christopher and his fellow monks out of their monastery. Christopher, however, manages to rise above his pride and anger and ministers to Ralph in his hour of need. |
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Title: St. Thomas & St Francis Author: G.K. Chesterton ISBN: 97808987094 Price: 16.95 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: 10/1/02 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 275 Description: "Here, together in a single volume, are the two biographies that many critics consider to be Chesterton's best and the best short portraits ever written of these two great saints. St. Francis of Assisi was first published in 1923, shortly after Chesterton was received into the Catholic Church. It is a profoundly Catholic work, explaining and illuminating the life of St. Francis in a way no other biography has. The spiritual kinship the author felt with his subject enables the reader to delve into insights on the character of Francis that have eluded many." St. Thomas Aquinas was written later in Chesterton's career. It also is enriched by the author's unique ability to see the world through the saint's eyes, a view that shows us Aquinas in a fresh way. Chesterton's pen brings the author of the Summa vividly to life. |
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Title: Catholic Martyrs of the 20th Century Author: Robert Royal ISBN: 97808245241 Price: 20.95 Publisher: The Crossroad Publishing Compsny Publication Date: 10/06 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 448 Description: In the twentieth century, more Catholics were persecuted, tortured, and martyred than in any previous century. The willingness to die for one's beliefs is the ultimate test of faith. The willingness to slaughter others for their faith is the ultimate proof of tyranny. Never before have faith and tyranny clashed with the ferocity of the twentieth century. From the atholic martyrs at Auschwitz to Oscar Romer; from Ita Ford and her companions to the recent murders of Christians in India: it is estimated that more than one million believers died for their faith in the "century of progress" we have just experienced. |
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Title: Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses Author: Regine Pernoud ISBN: 978081281260 Price: 16.95 Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Publication Date: 1/25/69 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 316 Description: This is historical biography as it should be written...The author uses the letters, chronicles, and testimony at Joan's trial to thrust the legendary aspects of this young girl's life into the background and create an alive, believable human being. The translator, Edward Hyams, received the Scott-Moncrireff Translation Prize in 1965 for this book." 'Library Journal |
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Title: Father Elijah Author: Michael O'Brien ISBN: 978089870690 Price: 20.00 Publisher: Ignatius Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 597 Description: "Enthralling reading. This book deserves the very exalted tribute of being reminiscent of Tolstoy and Charles Williams. One is almost agog at the dexterity - the artistry really - with which O'Brien shapes enormously charged material into a narrative which exhibits the integrity one finds only in the very best fiction." Thomas Howard |
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Title: Paradise Author: Dante Alighieri, translation by Anthony Esolen ISBN: 97808129772 Price: 18.00 Publisher: Random House Publishing Group Publication Date: 2/13/07 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 544 Description: In this, the concluding volume of "The Divine Comedy, Dante ascends from the devastation of the Inferno and the trials of Purgatory. Led by his beloved Beatrice, he enters Paradise to profess his faith, hope, and love before the Heavenly court. Completed shortly before his death, Paradise is the volume that perhaps best expresses Dante's spiritual philosophy about resurrection, redemption, and the nature of divinity. It also affords modern-day readers a clear widow into late medieval perceptions about faith. A bilingual text, classic illustrations by Gustave Dore, an appendix that reproduces Dante's key sources, and other features make this the definitive edition of Dante's ultimate masterwork. |
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Title: Inferno Author: Dante Alighieri, translation by Anthony Esolen ISBN: 978081297006 Price: 16.00 Publisher: Random House Publishing Group Publication Date: 1/3/12 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 528 Description: "Crisp and clear, Esolen's version avoids two modern temptations: a slavish literalness to the Italian or a taking of liberties inn the attempt to make this greatest of medieval poems esthetically modern ... In addition to his scholarly tact, Esolen is simply one of the most vigorous English translators of Dante ever." |
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Title: Purgatory Author: Dante Alighieri, translation by Anthony Esolen ISBN: 978081297125 Price: 16.00 Publisher: Random House Publishing Group Publication Date: 3/9/04 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 544 Description: A new translation by Anthony Esolen Illustrations by Gustave Dore Written in the fourteenth century by Italian poet and philosopher Dante Alighieri, "The Divine Comedy "is" "arguably the greatest epic poem of all time presenting Dante s brilliant vision of the three realms of Christian afterlife: "Inferno, Purgatory, "and" Paradise." In this second and perhaps most imaginative part of his masterwork, Dante struggles up the terraces of Mount Purgatory, still guided by Virgil, in a continuation of his difficult ascent to purity. Anthony Esolen s acclaimed translation of "Inferno, " Princeton professor James Richardson said, follows Dante through all his spectacular range, commanding where he is commanding, wrestling, as he does, with the density and darkness in language and in the soul. It is living writing. This edition of "Purgatory" includes an appendix of key sources and extensive endnotes an invaluable guide for both general readers and students." |
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Title: Rilkes Book of Hours Author: Rainer Maria Rilke ISBN: 978159448156 Price: 16.00 Publisher: Penguin Group Publication Date: 11/1/05 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 272 Description: "These poems of spiritual yearning and discovery composed by the Rilke one hundred years ago feel very fresh and moving in the beautifully transparent, supple versions of Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy. With their psalm-like directness and emotional urgency, they nourish and quicken the life of the spirit." Chana Bloch, translator of "The Song of Songs" |
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Title: The Habit of Being Author: Flannery O'Connor ISBN: 978037452104 Price: 24.00 Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Publication Date: 8/1/88 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 624 Description: Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Special Award "I have come to think that the true likeness of Flannery O'Connor will be painted by herself, a self-portrait in words, to be found in her letters . . . There she stands, a phoenix risen from her own words: calm, slow, funny, courteous, both modest and very sure of herself, intense, sharply penetrating, devout but never pietistic, downright, occasionally fierce, and honest in a way that restores honor to the word."—Sally Fitzgerald, from the Introduction |
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Title: The End of the Affair Author: Graham Greene ISBN: 978014029109 Price: 18.00 Publisher: Penguin Group Publication Date: 11/28/99 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 192 Description: "This is a record of hate far more than of love," writes Maurice Bendrix in the opening passages of The End of the Affair. And it is a strange hate indeed that compels him to set down the retrospective account of his adulterous affair with Sarah Miles -- a hate bred of a passion that ultimately lost out to God. Now, a year after Sarah's death, Bendrix seeks to exorcise the persistence of that passion by retracing its course from obsessive love to lovehate. At the start he believes he hates Sarah and her husband, Henry. By the end of the book, Bendrix's hatred has shifted to the God he feels has broken his life but whose existence he has at last come to recognize. Originally published in 1951, The End of the Affair was acclaimed by William Faulkner as "for me one of the best, most true and moving More... |
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Title: Paul of Tarsus Author: Joseph Holzner ISBN: 978090613861 Price: 15.95 Publisher: Scepter Publication Date: 12/1/02 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 539 Description: Rev. Joseph Holzner's extensive biography of St. Paul is rigorously based on biblical and other sources. The reader's attention is drawn to the Apostle's Christian virtues, to his faithful response to the divine call, his union with God, his apostolic spirit in tackling every difficulty.... Pauline doctrine is described with in the context of the culture in which it was developed, this is the key to a deeper understanding of the Letters of St. Paul. |
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Title: Cancer Ward Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ISBN: 978037451199 Price: 20.00 Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Publication Date: 11/1/91 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 560 Description: "Cancer Ward," which has been compared to the masterpiece of another Nobel Prize winner, Thomas Mann's " The Magic Mountain," examines the relationships of a group of people in a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, two years after Stalin's death. Through their stories, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has created a vivid portrait of life in the Soviet Union. |
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Title: Barabbas Author: Par Lagerkvist ISBN: 978067972544 Price: 16.00 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication Date: 11/28/1989 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 160 Description: Barabbas is the acquitted; the man whose life was exchanged for that of Jesus of Nazareth, crucified upon the hill of Golgotha. Barabbas is a man condemned to have no god. "Christos Iesus" is carved on the disk suspended from his neck, but he cannot affirm his faith. He cannot pray. He can only say, "I want to believe." Translated from the Swedish by Alan Blair |
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Title: The Wife Author: Sigrid Undset ISBN: 978014118041 Price: 15.99 Publisher: Penguin Group Publication Date: 12/28/97 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 336 Description: Set in fourteenth-century Norway, "The Wreath" begins the life story of Kristin Lavransdatter. Starting with Ktristin's childhood and continuing through her romance with Erlend Nikulaussen, a dangerously charming and impetuous man, Sigrid Undset re-creates the historical backdrop in vivid detail, immersing readers in the day-to-day life, social conventions, and political undercurrents of the period. But the story she tells is a modern one, brought to life with clarity and lyrical beauty in this remarkable translation by Tiina Nunnally. Defying her parents and stubbornly pursuing her own happiness, Kristin emerges as a woman who loves with power and passion. |
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Title: The Wife Author: Sigrid Undset ISBN: 978014118128 Price: 17.00 Publisher: Penguin Group Publication Date: 11/28/99 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 448 Description: The Wife (1921) continues the story of a passionate and willful woman in medieval Norway. Kristin is now married to Erlend Nikulausson, a man whose single-minded determination to become an influential social and political figure forces Kristin to take over the management of Erlend's estate, Husbay, while raising their seven sons. Once again, Undset presents the rich historical detail and compelling characters that make her Norway's most beloved author. |
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Title: The Cross Author: Sigrid Undset ISBN: 978014118235 Price: 16.00 Publisher: Penguin Group Publication Date: 4/28/00 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 464 Description: The Cross (1922) finds Kristin returning with her husband, Erlend, and their sons to her childhood home, Jorundgaard. As the boys grow older, Kristin is increasingly worried about their prospects, and she and Erlend become estranged. The most devastating and emotional volume in the trilogy, The Cross chronicles the trials and losses Kristin must bear, and how she finds the strength to endure them. This final chapter in her story emphasized the medieval belief that the spiritual world has primacy over the material one, a belief with which Undset herself concurred but found lacking in most of her own contemporaries. |
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Title: The Friendship of Christ Author: Robert Hugh Benson ISBN: 978188933440 Price: 13.95 Publisher: Scepter Publication Date: 1/28/02 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 148 Description: The Friendship of Christ shows you how to enjoy a relationship with God the Son that’s as easy and intimate as that between two old friends. Robert Hugh Benson explains how Christ works in the souls of those who seek Him, and how Christ is the one ideal friend in whom we find, perfect and complete, that for which we look in the faces of our human lovers. Examining Christ in the Church, the Eucharist, and in His earthly ministry, he introduces you to this ideal friend. |
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Title: Religion and the Rise of Western Culture Author: Christopher Dawson ISBN: 978038542110 Price: 16.00 Publisher: Doubleday Religious Publishing Group Publication Date: 11/1/91 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 244 Description: In this edition of his classic work, "Religion and the Rise of Western Culture," Christopher Dawson addresses two of the most pressing subjects of our day: the origin of Europe and the religious roots of Western culture. With the magisterial sweep of Toynbee, to whom he is often compared, Dawson tells here the tale of medieval Christendom. From the brave travels of sixth-century Irish monks to the grand synthesis of Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century, Dawson brilliantly shows how vast spiritual movements arose from tiny origins and changed the face of medieval Europe from one century to the next. The legacy of those years of ferment remains with us in the great cathedrals, Gregorian chant, and the works of Giotto and Dante. Even more, though, for Dawson these centuries charged the soul of the West with a spiritual concern--a concern that he insists "can never be entirely More... |
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Title: Handmaid of the Lord Author: Adrienne Von Speyr ISBN: 978089870042 Price: 15.50 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: 10/85 Format: Trade Paperback Description: Von Speyr's masterpiece on the life, attitude, and prayer of the Mother of God. She shows how Mary's assent to God's will, as personified in her fiat, "let it be done to me according to thy word", is what defines and sanctifies every aspect of her life. New insights into Mary's holiness, suffering, prayer, and her role of spiritual motherhood for all mankind. |
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Title: Peace Like a River Author: Leif Enger ISBN: 978080213925 Price: 17.00 Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc. Publication Date: 8/28/2002 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 320 Description: Born with no air in his lungs, it was only when Reuben Land's father, Jeremiah, picked him up and commanded him to breathe that Reuben's lungs filled. Reuben struggles with debilitating asthma from then on, making him a boy who knows firsthand that life is a gift, and also one who suspects that his father is touched by God and can overturn the laws of nature. The quiet 1960's midwestern life of the Lands is upended when Reuben's brother Davy kills to marauders who have come to harm the family. The morning of his sentencing, Davy -- a hero to some, a cold-blooded murderer to others -- escapes from his cell, and the Lands set out in search of him. Their journey is touched by serendipity and the kindness of strangers, and they cover territory far more extraordinary than even the Badlands where they search for Davy from their Airstream trailer. Sprinkled More... |
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Title: The Master and Margarita Author: Mikhail Bulgakov ISBN: 978067976080 Price: 18.00 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication Date: 3/28/96 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 384 Description: Publishers Weekly Bulgakov's satire of the greed and corruption of Soviet authorities illustrates the redemptive nature of art and faith, and Julian Rhind-Tutt's superb interpretation does the classic full justice. With a dramatic flair and a deep, multilayered voice, he pulls off a host of fantastical characters including Professor Woland (Satan) and several of his associates, Pontius Pilate and Jesus Christ, witches and madmen and a variety of early 20th-century Moscow literary and theater types. Two minor caveats: a few characterizations are too nasal, and his cockney accents for low-class Russian characters are a bit disconcerting. (June) Joyce Carol Oates A wild surrealistic romp…. Brilliantly flamboyant and outrageous. —The Detroit News |
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Title: A Soldier of the Great War Author: Mark Helprin ISBN: 978015603113 Price: 16.00 Publisher: Harvest Publication Date: June 01, 2005 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 864 Description: From acclaimed novelist Mark Helprin, a lush, literary epic about love, beauty, and the world at war Alessandro Giuliani, the young son of a prosperous Roman lawyer, enjoys an idyllic life full of privilege: he races horses across the country to the sea, he climbs mountains in the Alps, and, while a student of painting at the ancient university in Bologna, he falls in love. Then the Great War intervenes. Half a century later, in August of 1964, Alessandro, a white-haired professor, tall and proud, meets an illiterate young factory worker on the road. As they walk toward Monte Prato, a village seventy kilometers away, the old man--a soldier and a hero who became a prisoner and then a deserter, wandering in the hell that claimed Europe--tells him how he tragically lost one family and gained another. The boy, envying the richness and drama of Alessandro's experiences, realizes that this magnificent More... |
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Title: Murder in the Cathedral Author: T. S. Eliot ISBN: 978015663277 Price: 9.99 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publication Date: 3/28/64 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 96 Description: T. S. Eliot's verse dramatization of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature The Archbishop Thomas Becket speaks fatal words before he is martyred in T. S. Eliot's best-known drama, based on the murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1170. Praised for its poetically masterful handling of issues of faith, politics, and the common good, T. S. Eliot's play bolstered his reputation as the most significant poet of his time. A dramatization in verse of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury. |
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Title: The Life of Christ Author: Fulton Sheen ISBN: 978038513220 Price: 19.00 Publisher: The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group Publication Date: 8/28/1977 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 476 Description: Widely proclaimed a classic work of Christian faith, Life of Christ has been hailed as the most eloquent of Fulton J. Sheen's many books. The fruit of many years of reflection, prayer, and research, it is a dramatic and moving recounting of the birth, life, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Christ, and a passionate portrait of the God-Man, the teacher, the healer, and, most of all, the Savior, whose promise has sustained humanity for two millenia. With his customary insight and reverence, Sheen interprets the Scripture and describes Christ not only in historical perspective but also in exciting and contemporary terms -- seeing in Christ's life both modern parallels and timeless lessons. His thoughtful, probing analysis provides new insight into well-known Gospel events. An appealing blend of philosophy, history, and biblical exegesis, from the best-known and most-loved American Catholic leader of the twentieth century, Life of Christ has long been a source of More... |
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Title: The Lord Author: Romano Guardini ISBN: 978089526714 Price: 24.99 Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Incorporated, An Eagle Publishing Company Publication Date: 1/28/1982 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 629 Description: "This book is a masterpiece. It embodies the wealth of modern exegetical criticism opened by Protestant theologians like Karl Barth; the great traditions of 'devotio moderna'; French 17th century thought; the great insights of the Catholic mystics; and the matured speculation of scholasticism. But above all, it is an approach to Christ through the Gospels".--Commonwealth. |
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Title: The Rosary of Our Lady Author: Romano Guardino ISBN: 978091847778 Price: 11.95 Publisher: Sophia Institute Press Publication Date: 7/1/99 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 164 Description: The Rosary book for everyone: This charming book will help to awaken or deepen your devotion to this beautiful prayer. Msgr. Romano Guardini offers clear explanations of the Rosary and fresh insights into the Mysteries found within it. |
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Title: Angels & Demons: What do we really know about them Author: Peter Kreeft ISBN: 0898705509 Price: 15.50 Publisher: Ignatius Publication Date: 12/12/95 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 157 Description: In response to actual questions many people have asked him about angels & demons, well-known author and philosophy professor Peter Kreeft separates fact from fantasy and myth from reality as he answers 101 common questions about these spiritual beings. Based on a very popular college course he teaches on this subject, this book responds to the incredible amount of interest in angelic beings and attempts to clear up some of the misinformation abounding in numerous books today on what we really know about these mysterious spirits |
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Title: The Power and the Glory Author: Graham Greene ISBN: 978014243730 Price: 18.00 Publisher: Penguin Group Publication Date: 2/25/03 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 240 Description: In a poor, remote section of Southern Mexico, the paramilitary group, the Red Shirts, have taken control. God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed. Now, the last priest is on the run. Too human for heroism, too humble for martyrdom, the little worldly “whiskey priest” is nevertheless impelled toward his squalid Calvary as much by his own compassion for humanity as by the efforts of his pursuers. In his introduction, John Updike calls The Power and the Glory, “Graham Greene’s masterpiece…. The energy and grandeur of his finest novel derive from the…will toward compassion, an ideal communism even more Christian than Communist.” |
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Title: Disarming Beauty Author: Julian Carron ISBN: 978-02681019 Price: 25.00 Publisher: Notre Dame Press Publication Date: May 2017 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 304 Description: In 2005, Father Julián Carrón became the leader of the global ecclesial movement Communion and Liberation, following the death of the movement’s founder, Father Luigi Giussani. Disarming Beauty is the English translation of an engaging and thought-provoking collection of essays by one of the principal Catholic leaders and intellectuals in the world today. Adapted from talks given by Fr. Carrón, these essays have been thoroughly reworked by the author to offer an organic presentation of a decade-long journey. They present the content of his elaboration of the gospel message in light of the tradition of Fr. Giussani, the teachings of the popes, and the urgent needs of contemporary people. |
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Title: Friendship with Jesus Author: Amy Welborn ISBN: 978158617619 Price: 14.95 Publisher: Ignatius Press Publication Date: 8/28/2011 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 32 Description: To receive Jesus in Holy Communion is to enter into a lifelong friendship with him. In this beautifully illustrated book, Amy Welborn, well-known author and blogger, introduces Pope Benedict's profound yet simple answers to various questions put to him by children in Rome who had recently made their First Holy Communion. Pope Benedict's answers, and the children's wonderful questions concerning this very important spiritual occasion in their young lives, provide inspiring text for this beautiful gift book for First Communion. |
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Title: Book of Hours ISBN: 978888417051 Price: 10.00 Publisher: Nuovo Mondo Publication Date: 1993 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 230 |
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Title: The Chosen Author: Chaim Potok ISBN: 978044921344 Price: 14.99 Publisher: Fawcett Books Publication Date: April 12. 1984 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 304 Description: In 1940s Brooklyn, two boys who have grown up within a few blocks of each other, but in entirely different worlds, meet for the first time in a bizarre encounter -- a baseball game between two Jewish parochial schools that turns into a holy war. With dramatic force and simplicity that seizes the heart, "The Chosen" depicts the powerful bonds of love and pain that join father and son, the communions and quarrels of friendship, the true religionist's love of God, and the tumults by which the heart is made human. |
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Title: The Diary of a Country Priest Author: George Bernanos ISBN: 978-07867096 Price: 16.99 Publisher: ‎ Da Capo Press Publication Date: (January 9, 2002) Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 304 Description: Follow a young Catholic cleric as his faith is laid bare through his reflections on his parishioners in the "Best Spiritual Book of the 20th Century" (USA Today). In this classic Catholic novel, Bernanos movingly recounts the life of a young French country priest who grows to understand his provincial parish while learning spiritual humility himself. Awarded the Grand Prix for Literature by the Academie Francaise, The Diary of a Country Priest was adapted into an acclaimed film by Robert Bresson. "A book of the utmost sensitiveness and compassion...it is a work of deep, subtle and singularly encompassing art." -- New York Times Book Review |
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Title: To Give One’s Life for the Work of Another Author: Luigi Giussani ISBN: 978-0228011 Price: 22.95 Publisher: McGill Queens University Press Publication Date: February 28, 2022 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 168 Description: Father Luigi Giussani engaged tirelessly in educational initiatives throughout the course of his life. Much of his thought was communicated through the richness and rhythm of oral discourse, preserved as audio and video recordings in the archive of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation in Milan. This volume presents the last three spiritual exercises of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation, drawing from the transcripts of these recordings. In these exercises Giussani investigates the rise of ethics and the decline of ontology that have accompanied modernity and the spread of rationalism. Bearing up against old age and illness, he resisted the urge to withdraw, instead finding new avenues of communication and the technological means to reach all corners of the movement. To Give One’s Life for the Work of Another explores the nature of God, the powerful human experience of self-awareness, and the fundamental components of Christianity, in the unmistakable More... |