| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||
books tagged “Catholicism”
books tagged “Catholicism”
›› Find signed collectible books by ''
English
Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Powerby Marvin Meyer, Richard SmithISBN 0060655844 (0-06-065584-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power'More editions of Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power:
Archbishop: Inside the Power Structure of the American Catholic Churchby Thomas J. ReeseISBN 0060668369 (0-06-066836-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Archbishop: Inside the Power Structure of the American Catholic Church'More editions of Archbishop: Inside the Power Structure of the American Catholic Church:
Autobiography of st Ignatius Loyola With Related Documentsby John C. OlinISBN 0061317837 (0-06-131783-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins College Div
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Autobiography of st Ignatius Loyola With Related Documents'More editions of Autobiography of st Ignatius Loyola With Related Documents:
Bread for the Journey: A Day Book of Wisdom and Faithby Henri J.M. NouwenISBN 0060663596 (0-06-066359-6)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Bread for the Journey: A Day Book of Wisdom and Faith'Book summary:Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith is a devotional containing meditations for every day of the year. Henry Nouwen begins the book by honing in on everyday experiences and objects. His reflection on the spiritual significance of mealtime, for instance, renders breakfast a revelatory hour:
The table is one of the most intimate places in our lives. It is there that we give ourselves to one another. When we say, "Take some more, let me serve you another plate, let me pour you another glass...," we say a lot more than our words express. We invite our friends to become part of our lives. We want them to be nurtured by the same food and drink that nurture us. We desire communion.
As the year progresses, Nouwen's focus shifts to the person of Jesus, the nature of the Church, and, finally, to the eternal life that is facilitated, in part, by books of wisdom like this one. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]More editions of Bread for the Journey: A Day Book of Wisdom and Faith:
Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientistby Guy ConsolmagnoISBN 0071372318 (0-07-137231-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist'More editions of Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist:
Butler's Lives of the Patron Saintsby Michael WalshISBN 0060692626 (0-06-069262-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Butler's Lives of the Patron Saints'More editions of Butler's Lives of the Patron Saints:
-
Butler's Lives of the Saintsby Michael WalshISBN 0060692995 (0-06-069299-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Butler's Lives of the Saints'Book summary:For more than two centuries, Butler's Lives of the Saints has been hailed as the authority on the Christian patron saints. Now, in this new edition of the original classic, Michael Walsh has culled the ruch resources of earlier editions to accentuate the more modern and best-documented saints. Echoing the charm and style of the eighteenth-century edition, Walsh's volume has been edited to make the fascinating and inspiring lives of the saints easily accessible to readers today. This edition features saints from many nations and backgrounds and includes new articles on recently canonized saints. The index offers the list of saints from the complete edition, and includes all new canonizations and new dates, making it eh most up-to-date listing of saints available. Butlter's Lives of the Saints remains a remarkable reference source and, through its comprehensive biographies, a valuable aid to devotion and a rich source of historical information.
[via]More editions of Butler's Lives of the Saints:
-
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Weptby Paulo Coelho, Alan R. ClarkeISBN 0060977264 (0-06-097726-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept'Book summary:This first United States paperback of By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept comes after huge worldwide sales of the novel of faith, romance, miracles, and the importance of following the heart's true path. The inspirational tale follows Pilar, a young woman from the Spanish countryside who, sparked by the teachings of a now-mysterious man she has known and loved since childhood, leaves her graduate studies and embarks on a spiritual pilgrimage through the Pyrenees Mountains and reevaluates her life and her future. Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho, author of the international bestseller The Alchemist, is considered to be one of the most widely-read Latin American writers in the world. [via]
More editions of By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept:
- By the River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept: A Novel Of Forgiveness: ISBN 0061122092 (0-06-112209-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins - By the River Piedra I Sat down and Wept: ISBN 0062513982 (0-06-251398-2)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: ISBN 0062513990 (0-06-251399-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins - By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: ISBN 0060977264 (0-06-097726-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
- By the River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept: A Novel Of Forgiveness: ISBN 0061122092 (0-06-112209-2)
-
The Catholic Moment: The Paradox of the Church in the Postmodern Worldby Richard John NeuhausISBN 006066097X (0-06-066097-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Catholic Moment: The Paradox of the Church in the Postmodern World'Book summary:Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Publication date: 4/28/1990 Pages: 263 [via]
More editions of The Catholic Moment: The Paradox of the Church in the Postmodern World:
Catholicismby Richard P. McBrienISBN 006065404X (0-06-065404-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Catholicism'More editions of Catholicism:
Cave of Starsby George ZebrowskiISBN 0061058068 (0-06-105806-8)
Softcover, Avon Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Cave of Stars'
Christian Monasticismby David KnowlesISBN 0070351910 (0-07-035191-0)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Christian Monasticism'More editions of Christian Monasticism:
-
The Day Christ Diedby Jim BishopISBN 0061043427 (0-06-104342-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Day Christ Died'Book summary:A journalist-historian's approach to the most dramatic and significant day in the history of the Christian world presents an inspiring and profoundly moving recreation of events during the final hours of Jesus's life on earth. Reprint. K. [via]
More editions of The Day Christ Died:
-
Dialogues With Silence: Prayers & Drawingsby Thomas Merton, Jonathan MontaldoISBN 0060656034 (0-06-065603-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Dialogues With Silence: Prayers & Drawings'Book summary:Though best known for his spiritual writings, Thomas Merton also made drawings, whose Eastern-style brushwork have a meditative power rivaling that of his finest prayers. In Dialogues with Silence, these (mostly unpublished) drawings--of human figures, churches, the crucifixion, and abstract forms--are paired on pages with the texts of his well-known prayers. Editor Jonathan Montaldo's introduction to this volume asserts that Merton, the author of classics including The Seven Storey Mountain, became a:
witness for his generation of the way out of self-defeating individualism by tracking anew the boundaries of that ancient other country, whose citizens recognize a hidden ground of unity and love among all living things.
He might have added that, for Merton, one direct escape from individualism was the act of loving other individuals, an aspect of Merton's character that shines clearly in the many portraits here. Notably, the most arresting of these images is a face without features. It hovers next to a prayer that begins, "O God, my God, why am I so mute?" --Michael Joseph Gross [via]More editions of Dialogues With Silence: Prayers & Drawings:
-
The Divine Milieuby Pierre Teilhard De ChardinISBN 0060937254 (0-06-093725-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Milieu'Book summary:The essential companion to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's The Phenomenom of Man, The Divine Milieu expands on the spiritual message so basic to his thought. He shows how man's spiritual life can become a participation in the destiny of the universe.
Teilhard de Chardin -- geologist, priest, and major voice in twentieth-century Christianity -- probes the ultimate meaning of all physical exploration and the fruit of his own inner life. The Divine Milieu is a spiritual treasure for every religion bookshelf.
[via] -
The Divine Milieu: An Essay on the Interior Lifeby De Chardin Pier TeilhardISBN 0060904879 (0-06-090487-9)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Milieu: An Essay on the Interior Life'Book summary:A spiritual treasure for every religion bookshelf. De Chardin, geologist and priest, probes the ultimate meaning of all physical exploration and the fruit of his own inner life. "Extraordinary."--Karl Stern [via]
More editions of The Divine Milieu: An Essay on the Interior Life:
Dorothy Day: A Biographyby William MillerISBN 0060657499 (0-06-065749-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Dorothy Day: A Biography'More editions of Dorothy Day: A Biography:
-
Either - Orby Soren KierkegaarISBN 0061320722 (0-06-132072-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins College Div
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Either - Or'More editions of Either - Or:
The Essential Pope Benedict XVI: His Central Writings And Speechesby John F. ThorntonISBN 006112883X (0-06-112883-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Pope Benedict XVI: His Central Writings And Speeches'More editions of The Essential Pope Benedict XVI: His Central Writings And Speeches:
For the Love of God: The Faith and Future of the American Nunby Lucy KaylinISBN 0060937076 (0-06-093707-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'For the Love of God: The Faith and Future of the American Nun'More editions of For the Love of God: The Faith and Future of the American Nun:
The Future of Manby Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, Teilhard Pierre De ChardinISBN 0061303860 (0-06-130386-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Future of Man'More editions of The Future of Man:
-
A God in Ruinsby Leon UrisISBN 0061097934 (0-06-109793-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A God in Ruins'Book summary:Veteran bestselling author Leon Uris (Exodus, Trinity) stays true to form with A God in Ruins, delivering yet another vast and vigorous novel about politics and history, right and wrong, love and loss. This time his country of choice is the United States, on the eve of the 2008 presidential election.
The incumbent, Thornton Tomtree, is running against the Catholic governor of Colorado, Quinn Patrick O'Connell. Thornton, who grew up playing in his daddy's Providence junkyard, made billions on a computer invention before becoming president. Brainy, calculating, and stiff, he lacks both charm and scruples--qualities that the honest and open Quinn, an ex-Marine, has in spades. Though set in 2008, A God in Ruins has its roots firmly in the past. In order to flesh out his characters, Uris casts his net all the way back to World War II, highlighting some of the more dramatic moments in Thornton and Quinn's lives as they move inexorably from youth towards a run for the White House. In the process, Uris takes up some of the attention-grabbing political issues in America from the second half of the 20th century: gun control, terrorist attacks, and Clinton's sex scandals.
Uris can always be counted on to inject the political with the personal, and Quinn is the perfect vehicle for this when his presidential bid is threatened at the eleventh hour by potentially damning information about his past. A lively supporting cast of characters--from Quinn's delicious wife Rita to Thornton's conflicted right-hand man Darnell--adds spark to this emotional story. At one point, when the campaign has reached a fever pitch, Thornton says about Quinn, "Our jingle-jangle rope-a-dope cowboy is going to be a handful." So is Uris's engaging book, which positively spills over with simple heroism and hot-button political issues. --Katherine Anderson [via]
More editions of A God in Ruins:
-
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witchby Terry Pratchett, Neil GaimanISBN 0060853972 (0-06-085397-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch'Book summary:Pratchett (of Discworld fame) and Gaiman (of Sandman fame) may seem an unlikely combination, but the topic (Armageddon) of this fast-paced novel is old hat to both. Pratchett's wackiness collaborates with Gaiman's morbid humor; the result is a humanist delight to be savored and reread again and again. You see, there was a bit of a mixup when the Antichrist was born, due in part to the machinations of Crowley, who did not so much fall as saunter downwards, and in part to the mysterious ways as manifested in the form of a part-time rare book dealer, an angel named Aziraphale. Like top agents everywhere, they've long had more in common with each other than the sides they represent, or the conflict they are nominally engaged in. The only person who knows how it will all end is Agnes Nutter, a witch whose prophecies all come true, if one can only manage to decipher them. The minor characters along the way (Famine makes an appearance as diet crazes, no-calorie food and anorexia epidemics) are as much fun as the story as a whole, which adds up to one of those rare books which is enormous fun to read the first time, and the second time, and the third time... [via]
More editions of Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch:
- Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch: ISBN 0060853980 (0-06-085398-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch: ISBN 0061121304 (0-06-112130-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch: ISBN 0060853964 (0-06-085396-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch: ISBN 0060853972 (0-06-085397-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
- Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch: ISBN 0060853980 (0-06-085398-0)
Gothic Art: Glorious Visionsby Michael CamilleISBN 0131830600 (0-13-183060-0)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Gothic Art: Glorious Visions'More editions of Gothic Art: Glorious Visions:
-
Gracias: A Latin American Journalby Henri J.M. NouwenISBN 0060663189 (0-06-066318-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Gracias: A Latin American Journal'Book summary:In this journal of his travels in Bolivia and Peru, Nouwen ponders the presence of God in the poor, the challenge of a persecuted church, the relation between faith and justice, and his own struggle to discern the path along which God is calling him. "Nouwen puts his inexhaustible curiosity and hunger for religious experience gladly at the service of a worldwide audience."--The Boston Globe. [via]
More editions of Gracias: A Latin American Journal:
History of Italian Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Slipcasedby Frederick HarttISBN 0131832514 (0-13-183251-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'History of Italian Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Slipcased'More editions of History of Italian Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Slipcased:
-
The Holy Bible: King James VersionISBN 0061043818 (0-06-104381-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This BookBook summary:Presents a new handy-sized edition of the traditional, classic version of the Scriptures that comes complete with footnotes. Reprint. [via]
More editions of The Holy Bible: King James Version:
-
Hymn of the Universeby Pierre Teilhard De ChardinISBN 0061319104 (0-06-131910-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins College Div
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Hymn of the Universe'Book summary:Pere Teilhard de Chardin, a figure-head in the unfolding of a new cycle in the life of mankind, moves us profoundly not only by the amazing lucidity of his scientific vision but also by his love, his immense love, of God, which enabled him to see, everywhere throughout the created world, what the majority of men are blind to: the constant presence of the Creator. [via]
More editions of Hymn of the Universe:
-
I Know This Much Is Trueby Wally LambISBN 0060987561 (0-06-098756-1)
Softcover, Regan Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'I Know This Much Is True'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, June 1998: What if you were a 40-year-old housepainter, horrifically abused, emotionally unavailable, and your identical twin was a paranoid schizophrenic who believed in public self-mutilation? You'd either be a guest on the Jerry Springer Show or Dominick Birdsey, the antihero, narrator, and bad-juju magnet of I Know This Much Is True. Somewhere in the recesses of this hefty 912-page tome lurks an honest, moving account of one man's search, denial, and acceptance of self. This is no easy feat considering his grandfather seemed to take parenting tips from the SS and his grandmother was a possible teenage murderess, his stepfather a latent sadist, and his brother, Thomas, a politically motivated psychopath. Not one to break with tradition, Dominick continues the dysfunctional legacy with rape, a failed marriage, a nervous breakdown, SIDS, a car crash, and a racist conspiracy against a coworker--just to name a few.
A stretch, both literally and figuratively from his Oprah-christened bestseller, She's Come Undone, Lamb's book ventures outside the confines of the tightly bound beach read and marathons through a detailed, neatly cataloged account of every familial travesty and personal failure one can endure. At its heart lies Freud's "return of the repressed": the more we try to deny who we are, the more we become what we fear. Lamb takes Freud's psychological abstraction to the realm of everyday living, packing his novel with tender, believable dialogue and thoughtful observation. --Rebekah Warren [via]
More editions of I Know This Much Is True:
Intimacyby Henri J.M. NouwenISBN 0060663235 (0-06-066323-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Intimacy'More editions of Intimacy:
-
The Last Cato: A Novelby Matilde Asensi, Pamela CarmellISBN 0060828587 (0-06-082858-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Cato: A Novel'Book summary:A masterful blend of Christian scholarship and thrilling adventure, The Last Cato is a novel about the race to find the secret location of the Vera Cruz, the True Cross on which Christ was crucified, and the ancient brotherhood sworn to protect it.
Holy relics are disappearing from sacred spots around the worldand the Vatican will do whatever it takes to stop the thieves from stealing what is left of the scattered splinters of the True Cross.
Brilliant paleographer Dr. Ottavia Salina is called upon by the highest levels of the Roman Catholic Church to decipher the scars found on an Ethiopian man's corpse: seven crosses and seven Greek letters.
The markings, symbolizing the Seven Deadly Sins, are part of an elaborate initiation ritual for the Staurofilakes, the clandestine brotherhood hiding the True Cross for centuries, headed by a secretive figure called Cato.
With the help of a member of the Swiss Guard and a renowned archaeologist, Dr. Salina uncovers the connection between the brotherhood and Dante's Divine Comedy, and races across the globe to Christianity's ancient capitals. Together, they will face challenges that will put their faithand their very livesto the ultimate test.
[via]More editions of The Last Cato: A Novel:
-
Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horseby Louise ErdrichISBN 0060931221 (0-06-093122-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse'Book summary:Over the course of 13 years and five novels, Louise Erdrich has staked out a richly imagined corner of North Dakota soil--her own Yoknapatawpha, where every character is connected to every other and nothing can be said to happen for the first time. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse is no exception. The report in question comes from Father Damien Modeste, who has served the Ojibwe through a century of famine, epidemics, murders, and feuds. But the good priest is not what he appears. The prologue ends with the curiously beautiful image of the old man slowly removing heavy robes, undergarments, and, at last, a bandage wound tightly around women's breasts: "small, withered, modest as folded flowers."
How--and why--could such a deception last so long? That's the first mystery. The second begins when Father Jude Miller (a name familiar to readers of The Beet Queen) arrives to investigate the life of Sister Leopolda (or Pauline Puyat, another familiar name). Was Leopolda a saint? Or its opposite, whatever that is? Miracles, after all, are a part of the reservation's everyday life; for every nun's stigmata there's a secular wonder like the death of Nanapush. Indeed, the chapter detailing this old trickster's demise is the kind of earthy, tragicomic fable Erdrich does to perfection, including as it does an extended trial by moose, death by flatulence, and not one but two lustful resurrections.
Erdrich's writing is at its best when she chronicles the bittersweet humor of reservation life. It's at its worst, sadly, when she cranks up the fog machine and goes for the violins. ("He had the odd sensation that petals drifted in the air between them, petals of a fragrant and papery citrus velvet," she tells us, telegraphing Father Jude's attraction to a woman.) But at least the book's sins are sins of ambition--this is a novelist who revisits the same territory because the capaciousness of her vision demands it. Readers may forgive Erdrich's vagueness about Father Damien's religious calling, but they will never forget her images, as lovely and surprising as figures glimpsed in a dream: the devil in the shape of a black dog, his paw in a bowl of soup; freshly planted pansies, nodding at the priests' feet "like the faces of spoiled babies"; a woman in a billowing white nightdress riding a grand piano through the "gray soup" of a flood. Moments like these are small miracles of their own. --Mary Park [via]
More editions of Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse:
The Last Week: A Day-by-Day Account of Jesus's Final Week in Jerusalemby John Dominic Crossan, Marcus J. BorgISBN 0061121282 (0-06-112128-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Week: A Day-by-Day Account of Jesus's Final Week in Jerusalem'Book summary:Top Jesus scholars Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan join together to reveal a radical and little-known Jesus. As both authors reacted to and responded to questions about Mel Gibson's blockbuster The Passion of the Christ, they discovered that many Christians are unclear on the details of events during the week leading up to Jesus's crucifixion.
Using the gospel of Mark as their guide, Borg and Crossan present a day-by-day account of Jesus's final week of life. They begin their story on Palm Sunday with two triumphal entries into Jerusalem. The first entry, that of Roman governor Pontius Pilate leading Roman soldiers into the city, symbolized military strength. The second heralded a new kind of moral hero who was praised by the people as he rode in on a humble donkey. The Jesus introduced by Borg and Crossan is this new moral hero, a more dangerous Jesus than the one enshrined in the church's traditional teachings.
The Last Week depicts Jesus giving up his life to protest power without justice and to condemn the rich who lack concern for the poor. In this vein, at the end of the week Jesus marches up Calvary, offering himself as a model for others to do the same when they are confronted by similar issues. Informed, challenged, and inspired, we not only meet the historical Jesus, but meet a new Jesus who engages us and invites us to follow him.
[via]More editions of The Last Week: A Day-by-Day Account of Jesus's Final Week in Jerusalem:
Letters to Marc about Jesusby Henri J. M. NouwenISBN 0060663154 (0-06-066315-4)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters to Marc about Jesus'More editions of Letters to Marc about Jesus:
Letters to Marc About Jesus: Living a Spiritual Life in a Material Worldby Henri J.M. NouwenISBN 0060663677 (0-06-066367-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters to Marc About Jesus: Living a Spiritual Life in a Material World'More editions of Letters to Marc About Jesus: Living a Spiritual Life in a Material World:
-
Little Altars Everywhereby Rebecca WellsISBN 0060759968 (0-06-075996-8)
Softcover, Perennial
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Altars Everywhere'Book summary:"We are swinging high flying way up, higher than in real life.And when I look down, I see all the ordinary stuff -- our brick house, the porch the tool shed, the oil drum barbecue pit, the clothesline, the chinaberry tree.But they are all lit up from inside so their everyday selves have holy sparks in them, and if only people could see those sparks, they'd go and kneel in front of them and pray and just feel good. Somehow the whole world looks like little altars everywhere."Little Altars Everywhere is a national best-seller, a companion to Rebecca Wells's celebrated novel Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. Originally published in 1992, Little Altars introduces Sidda, Vivi, the rest of the spirited walker clan, and the indomitable Ya-Yas. It is now available for the first time in hardcover.Told in alternating voices of Vivi and her husband, Big Shep, along with Sidda, her siblings Little Shep, Lulu, Baylor, and Cheney and Willetta--the black couple who impact the Walkers' lives in ways they never fully comprehend--Little Altars embraces nearly thirty years of life on the plantation in Thorton, Louisiana, where the cloying air of the bayou and a web of family secrets at once shelter, trap and define an utterly original community of souls.Who can resist such cadences of Sidda Walker and her flamboyant, secretive mother, ViVi? Here the young Sidda -- a precocious reader and an eloquent observer of the fault lines that divide her family -- leads us on a mischievous adventures at Our Lady of Divine Compassion parochial school and beyond. A Catholic girl of pristine manners, devotion, and provocative ideas, Sidda is the very essence of childhood sorrow and joy and sorrow.In a series of Luminous reminiscences, we also hear Little Shep's stories of his eccentric grandmother, Lulu's matter-of-fact account of her shoplifting skills, and Baylor's memories of Vivi and her friends, the Ya-Yas. [via]
More editions of Little Altars Everywhere:
Lives of the Saints: From Mary and St. Francis of Assisi to John XXIII and Mother Teresaby Richard P. McBrienISBN 0060653418 (0-06-065341-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Lives of the Saints: From Mary and St. Francis of Assisi to John XXIII and Mother Teresa'More editions of Lives of the Saints: From Mary and St. Francis of Assisi to John XXIII and Mother Teresa:
Love Medicineby Louise ErdrichISBN 0060786469 (0-06-078646-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Love Medicine'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The lives and destinies of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines intertwine on and around a North Dakota Indian reservation from 1934 to 1984, in an authentic tale of survival, tenacity, tradition, injustice, and love. [via]
Middle Agesby Morris BishopISBN 0070054665 (0-07-005466-5)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Middle Ages'Book summary:In this single indispensable volume, one of Americas ranking scholars combines a lifes work of research and teaching with the art of lively narration. Both authoriatative and beautifully told, THE MIDDLE AGES is the full story of the thousand years between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance a time that saw the rise of kings and emperors, the flowering of knighthood, the development of Europe, the increasing power of the Church, and the advent of the middle class. With exceptional grace and wit, Morris Bishop vividly reconstructs this distinctive era of European history in a work that will inform and delight scholars and general readers alike.[via]
Monastery: Prayer, Work, Communityby M. Basil PenningtonISBN 0060664959 (0-06-066495-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Monastery: Prayer, Work, Community'More editions of Monastery: Prayer, Work, Community:
Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biographyby Kathryn SpinkISBN 0062515535 (0-06-251553-5)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography'More editions of Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography:
The Nag Hammadi Library in Englishby Coptic Gnostic Library ProjectISBN 0060669292 (0-06-066929-2)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Nag Hammadi Library in English'More editions of The Nag Hammadi Library in English:
-
The Nag Hammadi Library in Englishby James RobinsonISBN 0060669357 (0-06-066935-7)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Nag Hammadi Library in English'Book summary:The Nag Hammadi Library was discovered in 1945 buried in a large stone jar in the desert outside the modern Egyptian city of Nag Hammadi. It is a collection of religious and philosophical texts gathered and translated into Coptic by fourth-century Gnostic Christians. These texts have since been translated into English by dozens of highly reputable experts. First published in 1978, this is the revised 1988 edition, supported by illuminating introductions to each document. The library itself is a diverse collection of texts that the Gnostics considered to be related to their heretical philosophy in some way. There are 45 separate titles, including a Coptic translation from the Greek of two well-known books: The Gospel of Thomas attributed to Jesus's brother Judas, and Plato's Republic. The word "gnosis" is defined as "the immediate knowledge of spiritual truth", thus this doomed radical sect believed in being here now, in withdrawing from the contamination of society and materiality, and that heaven is an internal state, not some place above the clouds. That this collection has come back into the light of day at this historical juncture is more than likely no coincidence. --P. Randall Cohan [via]
More editions of The Nag Hammadi Library in English:
-
The Nag Hammadi Library in Englishby Richard Smith, James Robinson, Coptic Gnostic Library ProjectISBN 0060669349 (0-06-066934-9)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Nag Hammadi Library in English'Book summary:First published in 1978, The Nag Hammadi Library launched modern Gnostic studies and exposed a movement whose teachings are in many ways as relevant today as they were sixteen centuries ago. [via]
More editions of The Nag Hammadi Library in English:
New Catholic Women: A Contemporary Challenge to Traditional Religious Authorityby Mary Jo WeaverISBN 006069288X (0-06-069288-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'New Catholic Women: A Contemporary Challenge to Traditional Religious Authority'More editions of New Catholic Women: A Contemporary Challenge to Traditional Religious Authority:
The New Testament: A Student's Introductionby Stephen L. HarrisISBN 0072876018 (0-07-287601-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Testament: A Student's Introduction'More editions of The New Testament: A Student's Introduction:
Nun: A Memoirby Mary Gilligan WongISBN 0060911883 (0-06-091188-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Nun: A Memoir'More editions of Nun: A Memoir:
Opus Dei: An Investigation into the Powerful Secret Society Within the Catholic Churchby Michael WalshISBN 0060750685 (0-06-075068-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Opus Dei: An Investigation into the Powerful Secret Society Within the Catholic Church'More editions of Opus Dei: An Investigation into the Powerful Secret Society Within the Catholic Church:
-
Opus Dei: An Investigation into the Secret Society Struggling for Power Within the Roman Catholic Churchby Michael WalshISBN 0060692685 (0-06-069268-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Opus Dei: An Investigation into the Secret Society Struggling for Power Within the Roman Catholic Church'Book summary:To its supporters Opus Dei is a spiritual organization dedicated to preserving Catholic orthodoxy in the face of modernist assault. To its detractors this highly secret society is 'a church within the Church", prmoting its own ecclesiastical allegiances, preserving an antiquated set of spiritual and penitential practices. [via]
More editions of Opus Dei: An Investigation into the Secret Society Struggling for Power Within the Roman Catholic Church:
Our Greatest Gift: A Meditation on Dying and Caringby Henri J.M. NouwenISBN 0060663553 (0-06-066355-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Our Greatest Gift: A Meditation on Dying and Caring'More editions of Our Greatest Gift: A Meditation on Dying and Caring:
Parish Priest: Father Michael McGivney And American Catholicismby Douglas Brinkley, Julie M. FensterISBN 0060776854 (0-06-077685-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Parish Priest: Father Michael McGivney and American Catholicism'More editions of Parish Priest: Father Michael McGivney And American Catholicism:
-
The Perennial Philosophyby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0060901918 (0-06-090191-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Perennial Philosophy'Book summary:"Both an anthology and an interpretation of the supreme mystics, East and West. . . . A magnificent achievement."--Rufus M. Jones "In his absorption and other-worldliness, he soars clear out of sight."--The New Yorker [via]
More editions of The Perennial Philosophy:
The Pope and the Heretic: The True Story of Giordano Bruno, the Man Who Dared to Defy the Roman Inquisitionby Michael WhiteISBN 0060933887 (0-06-093388-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pope and the Heretic: The True Story of Giordano Bruno, the Man Who Dared to Defy the Roman Inquisition'More editions of The Pope and the Heretic: The True Story of Giordano Bruno, the Man Who Dared to Defy the Roman Inquisition:
The Pope Speaks to the American Church: John Paul's Homilies, Speeches, and Letters to Catholics in Americaby John Paul IIISBN 0060642114 (0-06-064211-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pope Speaks to the American Church: John Paul's Homilies, Speeches, and Letters to Catholics in America'More editions of The Pope Speaks to the American Church: John Paul's Homilies, Speeches, and Letters to Catholics in America:
Portrait of an Unknown Womanby Vanora BennettISBN 0061251836 (0-06-125183-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Portrait of an Unknown Woman'More editions of Portrait of an Unknown Woman:
Praying by Hand: Rediscovering the Rosary As a Way of Prayerby M. Basil PenningtonISBN 0060665416 (0-06-066541-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Praying by Hand: Rediscovering the Rosary As a Way of Prayer'More editions of Praying by Hand: Rediscovering the Rosary As a Way of Prayer:
Principles for a Catholic Moralityby Timothy E. O'ConnellISBN 0062548654 (0-06-254865-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Principles for a Catholic Morality'More editions of Principles for a Catholic Morality:
The Promise of Partnership: A Model for Collaborative Ministryby James D. Whitehead, Evelyn Eaton WhiteheadISBN 0060695722 (0-06-069572-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Promise of Partnership: A Model for Collaborative Ministry'More editions of The Promise of Partnership: A Model for Collaborative Ministry:
The Promise of Partnership: Leadership and Ministry in an Adult Churchby James D. Whitehead, Evelyn Eaton WhiteheadISBN 0060693622 (0-06-069362-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Promise of Partnership: Leadership and Ministry in an Adult Church'More editions of The Promise of Partnership: Leadership and Ministry in an Adult Church:
The Reshaping of Catholicism: Current Challenges in the Theology of Churchby Avery Robert DullesISBN 0062548565 (0-06-254856-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Reshaping of Catholicism: Current Challenges in the Theology of Church'More editions of The Reshaping of Catholicism: Current Challenges in the Theology of Church:
-
Ruthless Trustby Brennan ManningISBN 0062517767 (0-06-251776-7)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Ruthless Trust'Book summary:We suffer from the disease of melancholy, the sickness of self-hatred, the darkness of doubt. Yet, author Brennan Manning sees the place of our worst despair as a tangible starting point for the remedy: a ruthless trust in God. In his sequel to The Ragamuffin Gospel, Manning pries us loose from our shame, our mistakes and our doubts, and encourages us to let go and trust God--ruthlessly.
It's been 40 years since author Brennan Manning was "ambushed by God"--and on the far side of despair himself. As a gutter-alcoholic who was completely broken, he found an unshakeable trust in the love of Christ for him as he was then--not as he could be, or is now.
Authenticity with God is critical in developing this trust relationship. In his own inimitable voice, Manning tells us, "Raw honesty with Jesus about our doubts and anxieties, our lust and laziness, our shabby prayer life and stale religiosity, our mixed motives and divided hearts, is the risk we take in the certainty of being acceptable and accepted. It is the full and mature expression of invincible trust". Over the years, this trust ripens into confidence, and bears certain fruit, such as gratitude to God. But it is not always easy, he admits. "Ruthless trust is hanging tough in the dark nights, when we are plunged into desolation but know that absence of God is only apparent".
For author Brennan Manning--and for us, if we choose--ruthless trust is not just a concept, it's a way of life. As Manning observes, "Ill winds may blow, more character defects may surface, sickness may visit, and friends will surely die, but a stubborn irrefutable certainty persists that God is with us and loves us in our struggle to be faithful". Now, that's ruthless trust. You won't fail to be moved. --Cindy Crosby [via]
More editions of Ruthless Trust:
Ruthless Trust : The Ragamuffin's Path to Godby Brennan ManningISBN 0062517090 (0-06-251709-0)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Ruthless Trust : The Ragamuffin's Path to God'More editions of Ruthless Trust : The Ragamuffin's Path to God:
Sins of the Fathersby Chris LynchISBN 006074037X (0-06-074037-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Sins of the Fathers'
The Stranger Houseby Reginald HillISBN 0060821426 (0-06-082142-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stranger House'-
Trinityby Leon UrisISBN 0060827882 (0-06-082788-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Trinity'Book summary:From the acclaimed author who enthralled the world with Exodus, Battle Cry, QB VII, Topaz, and other beloved classics of twentieth-century fiction comes a sweeping and powerful epic adventure that captures the "terrible beauty" of Ireland during its long and bloody struggle for freedom. It is the electrifying story of an idealistic young Catholic rebel and the valiant and beautiful Protestant girl who defied her heritage to join his cause. It is a tale of love and danger, of triumph at an unthinkable cost -- a magnificent portrait of a people divided by class, faith, and prejudice -- an unforgettable saga of the fires that devastated a majestic land . . . and the unquenchable flames that burn in the human heart.
[via]More editions of Trinity:
-
Understanding the Bibleby Stephen L. HarrisISBN 0072965487 (0-07-296548-7)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Understanding the Bible'Book summary:NA [via]
More editions of Understanding the Bible:
A War of Witches: A Journey into the Underworld of the Contemporary Aztecsby T. J. KnabISBN 0062512641 (0-06-251264-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A War of Witches: A Journey into the Underworld of the Contemporary Aztecs'More editions of A War of Witches: A Journey into the Underworld of the Contemporary Aztecs:
-
The Way to Christ: Spiritual Exercisesby Karol WojtylaISBN 0060642165 (0-06-064216-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Way to Christ: Spiritual Exercises'Book summary:The Writings of One of the World's Greatest Religious Leaders on the Most Important Spiritual Issues of Our Time.
The Way to Christ offers a unique opportunity to experience inspiring sermons Pope John Paul II preached during spiritual retreats he led while he was still a cardinal. In them he addresses the pressing spiritual issues of our day: the miracle and dignity of each human life, the need for a community that nurtures humanity, the necessity of cultivating the inner spiritual life, and the power of Christ to transform our present and future realities. These deeply scriptural, very personal talks celebrate the reality and the immediacy of Christ, offering rich insights and solid guidance for Christians living in today's world.
[via]More editions of The Way to Christ: Spiritual Exercises:
When Women Were Priests: Women's Leadership in the Early Church and the Scandal of Their Subordination in the Rise of Christianityby Karen Jo TorjesenISBN 0060686618 (0-06-068661-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'When Women Were Priests: Women's Leadership in the Early Church and the Scandal of Their Subordination in the Rise of Christianity'Book summary:Vital to the current debate about women and the Church, this book discloses that women played prominent leadership roles in Jesus' own ministry and in the early Church - as prophets, heads of churches and teachers. It explains why women were marginalized and scapegoated as the Church successfully emerged as a public institution and what the reasons were for women's subordination in Christianity. [via]
More editions of When Women Were Priests: Women's Leadership in the Early Church and the Scandal of Their Subordination in the Rise of Christianity:
- When Women Were Priests: Women's Leadership in the Early Church and the Scandal of Their Subordination in the Rise of Christianity: ISBN 0060682973 (0-06-068297-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - When Women Were Priests: Women's Leadership in the Early Church and the Scandal of Their Subordination in the Rise of Christianity: ISBN 0060686618 (0-06-068661-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
- When Women Were Priests: Women's Leadership in the Early Church and the Scandal of Their Subordination in the Rise of Christianity: ISBN 0060682973 (0-06-068297-3)
Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speaks to Believers in Exileby John Shelby SpongISBN 0060675365 (0-06-067536-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speaks to Believers in Exile'More editions of Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speaks to Believers in Exile:
You Must Remember Thisby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 006097169X (0-06-097169-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'You Must Remember This'More editions of You Must Remember This:
Spanish
-
A Orillas Del Rio Piedra Me Sente Y Llore / By the River Piedra, I Sat Down and Weptby Paulo CoelhoISBN 0062514628 (0-06-251462-8)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Orillas Del Rio Piedra Me Sente Y Llore / By the River Piedra, I Sat Down and Wept'Book summary:Viaje a través delos pirineos junto a dos amantes en una busqueda espiritual sin tiempo, y descubra los prufundos secretos del amor y la vida en esta nueva novela comovedora, estilulante y mágica escrita a la manera de su aclamado libro El Alquimista,por el incomparable narrador Paulo Coelho.
[via]More editions of A Orillas Del Rio Piedra Me Sente Y Llore / By the River Piedra, I Sat Down and Wept:
![[powered by Muze Inc.]](http://i.bookfinder.com/images/site/muze/powered_by_muze.gif){kind=small}