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 | Smith, Philip | Poetry | ||
 | Orwell, George | 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmare vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. "1984" is still the great modern classic "negative Utopia" - a startling original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from the… | Literature ⋅ Classics | |
 | Dickens, Charles | On Christmas Eve, Scrooge sits in his house with not a kind word for anyone; he just wants to be left alone until the "humbug" of Christmas is over. But four ghostly visitors--his former business partner, followed by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come--show… | Literature ⋅ Classics | |
 | Brighten the season with tales from the master of Christmastime fiction.
Charles Dickens' most famous holiday story was the 1843 publication, A Christmas Carol, but he was a prolific writer in the yuletide genre and a great contributor to many now-prevalent traditions of the holiday itself. In the year following the release… | Literature ⋅ Classics | ||
 | Frost, Robert | Robert Frost (1874-1963) was a critically acclaimed, highly popular American poet. He was awarded four Pulizer Prizes for poetry and served as the poet laureate of Vermont. His most famous works include "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "Mending Wall," and "The Road Not Taken." | Literature ⋅ Poetry | |
 | Aesop | A beautifully illustrated collection of 487 of Aesop's fables. | Literature ⋅ Classics | |
 | Lewis, C. S. | Why do we read literature and how do we judge it? C. S. Lewis's classic An Experiment in Criticism springs from the conviction that literature exists for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. He argues that 'good reading'… | Literature ⋅ The Art of Reading | |
 | Orwell, George | In this controversial classic fairy tale, a farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality, setting the stage for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned. Illustrations and Orwell's… | Literature ⋅ Classics | |
 | A classic tale of adventure from renowned French author Jules Verne.
Originally published in 1872, Around the World in Eighty Days imagined for readers the possibility of circumnavigating the world when the prospect of such a feat was still in its infancy. After an argument with colleagues at London's Reform Club, the wealthy… | Literature ⋅ Classics | ||
 | Wallace, Lew | "Ben-Hur" is the remarkable saga of betrayal, revenge, and redemption, played out in the bloodstained arenas of ancient Rome. Framed for attempting to murder a Roman official, Ben-Hur is robbed of his freedom, family, and fortune. Condemned to death as a galley slave, he lives only to avenge himself against… | Literature ⋅ Classics | |
 | Jacobs, Alan | Breaking Bread with the Dead teaches us how to learn from authors from the past to navigate modern life. | The Art of Reading | |
 | Brenneman, Helen Good | Maria and Hans Penner, Mennonite refugees from the Russian Ukraine, forge ever west with their family, west to freedom! In east Germany the Communists tragically separate Maria and Hans. Each fears the other lost or killed. Hoping against hope, each continues westward. This book graphically portrays the effects of war… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading ⋅ Literature ⋅ Anabaptist | |
 | Michael D. O'Brien | By the Rivers of Babylon presents the early life of the prophet Ezekiel, from his childhood to his service in the Temple to the Babylonian Captivity, where he was enslaved among the exiles along the River Chebar.
Ezekiel, a bricklayer, is simple and timid. He is not yet a priest, and his… | Books ⋅ Literature ⋅ Classics | |
 | Lee, Katrina Hoover | For years, Nicholas faces storms, pirates, and the lure of loose living. He longs to be worthy of his family's trust. | Anabaptist | |
 | Dickens, Charles | Four classic novels from Charles Dickens: The Adventures of Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, and A Tale of Two Cities. | Literature ⋅ Classics | |
 | Gilbreth, Frank B. | What do you get when you mix a blunt-talking, famous efficiency-expert father and a brilliant, compassionate psychologist mother with twelve rambunctious offspring of various sizes? You get one of America's all-time best- loved memoirs! The hilarious story of growing up Gilbreth has already delighted generations of readers -- and it… | Literature ⋅ Classics | |
 | Chaim Potok. 9781501142468. | The Chosen is a novel written by Chaim Potok. It was first published in 1967. It follows the narrator Reuven Malter and his friend Daniel Saunders, as they grow up in the Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, in the 1940s. A sequel featuring Reuven's young adult years, The Promise… | Classics | |
 | Lewis, C.S. | A box set of all 7 books in the Chronicles of Narnia series: The Magician's Nephew, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Horse and His Boy, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Silver Chair, and The Last Battle. | Literature ⋅ Classics | |
 | Chesterton, G.K. | Critic, author, and debunker extraordinaire, G. K. Chesterton (1874 1936) delighted in probing the ambiguities of Christian theology. A number of his most successful attempts at combining first-rate fiction with acute social observation appear in this compilation of detective stories featuring the priest-sleuth Father Brown.
A Chestertonian version of Sherlock Holmes… | Literature ⋅ Classics | |
 | Paton, Alan | Cry, the Beloved Country is a novel by Alan Paton, published in 1948. American publisher Bennett Cerf remarked at that year's meeting of the American Booksellers Association that there had been "only three novels published since the first of the year that were worth reading." | Literature ⋅ Classics | |
 | Stevenson, Robert Louis | Dr. Jekyll is a well respected medical doctor in the community. When a series of bizarre crimes are committed by a rather ugly man named Mr. Hyde, no one can imagine that they are one in the same person. But they are, because Dr. Jekyll has discovered a drug that… | Classics | |
 | Miller, Evie Yoder | A gripping historical novel, set on the Pennsylvania-Ohio frontiers from 1810-1861. The murder of an Amish baby goes unsolved for more than 50 years, greatly disturbing these settlers and their newly formed communities. | Literature ⋅ Anabaptist | |
 | Ferris, Helen | With more than seven hundred classic and modern poems, Favorite Poems Old and New is one of the most comprehensive volumes of verse available for children. Eighteen sections of children's favorite topics, such as pets, playtime, family, nature, and nonsense, make this the perfect book for browsing as well as a… | Literature ⋅ Poetry | |
 | Wendell Berry | Reissued as part of Counterpoint's celebration of beloved American author Wendell Berry, the five stories in Fidelity return readers to Berry's fictional town of Port William, Kentucky, and the familiar characters who form a tight–knit community within.
"Each of these elegant stories spans the twentieth century and reveals the profound interconnectedness of… | Books ⋅ Literature ⋅ Contemporary Literature | |
 | Kauffman, Christmas Carol | This moving story is based on the real struggles of a boy who grew up in the emotional turmoil of a broken home and the political turmoil of Nazi Germany. 353 pp. | Literature ⋅ Anabaptist | |
 | Robinson, Marilynne | Gilead takes its name from a fictional Iowa town, the setting of several novels by Marilynne Robinson. In Gilead, Robinson writes in the voice of the aging Reverend John Ames, exploring the beauty, mystery, and pain of existence through a lyrical, meditative letter Ames writes to his young son. This… | Literature ⋅ Contemporary Literature | |
 | Martin, Jamie C. | With inspiring stories, practical suggestions, and a carefully curated reading treasury of the best children’s literature for each area of the globe, Give Your Child the World helps parents raise insightful, compassionate kids who fall in love with the world and are prepared to change it for good.
Young children live… | Books ⋅ Literature ⋅ The Art of Reading | |
 | Dickens, Charles | Humbled, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman -- and one day he finds himself in possession of "great expectations." One of Dickens' finest novels, this is a gripping tale of crime and guilt, revenge and reward. | Literature ⋅ Classics | |
 | Negri, Paul | Outstanding anthology features more than 150 English and American masterpieces spanning over 400 years. "Death Be Not Proud," "The Tyger," "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," plus works by Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Frost, others. Includes 3 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative. | Poetry | |
 | Goudge, Elizabeth | When Marianne LePatourel meets William Ozanne in the 1830s on an island in the English Channel, she sets her heart on him. However, her sister Marguerite falls in love with him too. And so begins this sweeping novel that takes the characters on dramatic adventures from childhood through old age… | Literature ⋅ Classics | |
 | Swift, Jonathan | Gulliver sees life from many different perspectives during the course of his exciting voyages around the world. In Lilliput he is a giant among a race of little people only six inches high; in Brobdingnag he himself seems tiny compared to the giant inhabitants; and in the country of the… | Literature ⋅ Classics | |
 | Carroll, Abigail | Habitation of Wonder is an offering of poems that travels the intersection of the natural landscape and the landscape of spirit. Here, the moon is a "white comma / in the breath of space." Crocuses are "ephemeral prophets, first of the sun's spring projects." The ocean is "a vast /… | Literature ⋅ Poetry | |
 | Berry, Wendell | Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry’s seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman character in its telling. Hannah, the now-elderly narrator, recounts the love she has for the land and for her community. | Literature ⋅ Contemporary | |
 | Conrad, Joseph | The tale concerns the journey of the narrator (Marlow) up the Congo River on behalf of a Belgian trading company. Far upriver, he encounters the mysterious Kurtz, an ivory trader who exercises an almost godlike sway over the inhabitants of the region. Both repelled and fascinated by the man, Marlow… | Literature ⋅ Classics | |
 | Kauffman, Christmas Carol | Hidden Rainbow is not an imaginary story, nor one dug out of antiquity. It is a true story about a forbidden New Testament that shattered the calm of a Yugoslavian village. John and Anna Olesh, raised in a solid Catholic community, face severe censure when John leaves his family for… | Literature ⋅ Anabaptist | |
 | Stauffer, Romaine | Fictionalized account of the immigration of the boy Christian Burkholder to Pennsylvania from the Palatinate in 1754. | Literature ⋅ Anabaptist ⋅ Level 34 items | |
 | Marilynne Robinson | One of America's most acclaimed living authors, Marilynne Robinson, revisits the characters from her Pulitzer Prize–winning Gilead, in this "impossibly rich and beautiful new novel" (San Francisco Chronicle)
Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father, Reverend Robert Boughton. Soon her brother, Jack—the prodigal son of… | Books ⋅ Literature ⋅ Contemporary Literature | |
 | Hunt, Gladys & Hampton, Barbara | Honey for a Teen's Heart spells out how good books can help you and your teen-ager communicate heart-to-heart about ideas, values, and the various issues of a Christian worldview. Sharing the adventure of a book lets both of you know the same people, see the same sights, face the same choices… | The Art of Reading | |
 | Lewis, C.S. | Book three of the Chronicles of Narnia. The story of a Narnian horse in Calormen and his escape with a young boy. | Literature ⋅ Classics | |
 | Adler, Mortimer Jerome | How to Read A Book is an elegant guide to the lost arts of Active Reading, Conversation, and Intellectual Etiquette. Learn how to fairly and methodically assess an author's intentions and how the author fulfills, or doesn't, what they set out to do with the book. Learn how to interact… | The Art of Reading | |
 | Sire, James W. | Your eyes see the words, but do you read what you see? Every article, poem, book, even every printed advertisement not only carries information but also projects a way of looking at life. In How to Read Slowly, James Sire helps readers detect not only what writers say but what… | Literature ⋅ The Art of Reading | |
 | Victor Hugo | A gypsy girl's beauty and charm captivate a priest, a vagabond, a soldier, and a deformed bell-ringer, in a gripping tale that culminates in a riot and murder. More than simply a thrilling story, Victor Hugo's tale explores the mysteries of good and evil in the human heart and illuminates… | Literature ⋅ Classics | |
 | Siegrist, Audrey | "Thank you, heavenly Father, for giving our family a new little sister to love!" Happy laughter rippled up from Dawn's heart. At seventeen, she relished the addition of the eighth child to her family, even if it meant added responsibilities as the oldest daughter. Little does Dawn know what her… | Anabaptist | |
 | Sheldon, Charles M. | Deeply shaken by the appearance of a mysterious stranger in town and his impassioned pleas for the poor and downtrodden, the minister and five influential parishioners begin a year-long experience in Christianity. Each has resolved to conduct his life according to the precepts of Christ, applying His behavior to their… | Literature ⋅ Classics | |
 | Lofgren, Rachael | The 1500s were a time of great upheaval - a time of change. As people tired of the oppression of the ruling state church, they began to rebel, demanding more freedom. Although this rebellion was quickly squashed, the hunger for a new and living faith in God led to the… | Literature ⋅ Anabaptist | |
 | Timmerman, John H. | In the World equips readers to become better writers. It also introduces quality writing with forty classic and contemporary selections from writers such as Augustine, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, John Donne, Henri Nouwen, Philip Yancey, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Walter Wangerin Jr., and Charles Colson. This second edition contains a completely updated and revised… | Literature ⋅ The Art of Reading | |
 | Ripken, Nik with Lewis, Gregg | Nik Ripken has walked with followers of Christ from the hills of Kentucky to war-torn Somalia. Faced with suffering in his own family, the realities of war around him, and the systemic destruction of the work he felt called to do, the evil was at times overwhelming. How could God… | Classics | |
 | Michael D. O'Brien | This powerful novel tells the story of a child born in 1933 into the turbulent world of the Balkans and traces his life into the third millennium. The central character, Josip Lasta, is the son of an impoverished school teacher in a remote village high in the mountains of the… | Literature ⋅ Contemporary | |
 | Bronte, Charlotte | Jane Eyre is Charlotte Bronte's most enduring masterpiece, the unforgettable tale of an orphan girl's ardent search for a wider and richer life. Originally published in 1847, it was an immediate popular success, but it also caused a storm of controversy. Bronte's firm insistence on the equality of the sexes… | Literature ⋅ Classics | |
 | Berry, Wendell | “This is a book about Heaven,” says Jayber Crow, “but I must say too that . . . I have wondered sometimes if it would not finally turn out to be a book about Hell.” It is 1932 and he has returned to his native Port William to become the… | Contemporary |