Rated a very respectable 3.8 out of 5 on Goodreads.
New, hard cover book that does have a ripple across the top of the front jacket cover.￼ 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Maryland

One Man's Discovery of Beauty and Truth in Times of Crisis

The publisher and editor of the influential "Crisis" magazine tells for the first time his story of how his conservative upbringing led him to convert to Roman Catholicism.

An American Conversion

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Pope John Paul II

Jenny McPhee

Martha McPhee

Dust jacket show somewhere as you can see in the photos. The book itself is in good condition; however, it does show some signs of wear. This is still a good reading copy. P23msvt

Massachusetts

Pope John Paul II speaks out on some of the major issues confronting humankind at the dawn of the twenty-first century, sharing a timely and thoughtful message with people of all nations and faiths. 1,000,000 first printing. $500,000 ad/promo.

Crossing the Threshold of Hope

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William X. Kienzle

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

Eminence

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Vintage, some grunge from age, but in good shape overall. Adult Catholic Catechism 

Oregon

A New Catechism 

#hardcover #nonfiction #catholic #history #hitler #nazis #exlibrary

The Secret History of Pius XII

Draws on secret archives to present a record of the career of Pope Pius XII, showing his collaboration with the Nazis and his anti-Semitism, and discusses his continuing influence

Hitler's Pope

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Luís Miguel Rocha

Dolores M. Koch

Washington

Already an international bestseller, The Last Pope is a terrific, fast-paced thriller about the conspiracy surrounding the 1978 death of Pope John Paul I.

The Last Pope

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Wally Lamb

Book has a sticker mark on the back, very minor light spotting to outside of pages. Inside is clean.

Pennsylvania

A Christmas Story

Wally Lamb, the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much Is True, and She’s Come Undone, delivers a holiday treat with Wishin’ and Hopin’—an unforgettable novella that captures the warmth and joy of the holiday season. Poignant and hilarious, in a vein similar to Jean Shepherd’s A Christmas Story and David Sedaris’s The Santaland Diaries, Lamb’s Christmas tale focuses on a feisty parochial school fifth grader named Felix Funicello—a distant cousin of the iconic Annette!

Wishin' and Hopin'

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Youth Catechism of the Catholic Church

Introduces young readers to Catholic beliefs as expressed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Youcat

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The book has some minor wear to the edges, the back looks like it had about a 2 inch piece of tape on it that was removed. Overall, still in good condition.

#hardcover #pope #nonfiction #religion #catholic #onheavenandearth #popefrancis

Kansas

Pope Francis on Faith, Family, and the Church in the Twenty-First Century

New York Times Bestseller!

From the man who became Pope Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio shares his thoughts on religion, reason, and the challenges the world faces in the 21st century with Abraham Skorka, a rabbi and biophysicist.

For years Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Argentina, and Rabbi Abraham Skorka were tenacious promoters of interreligious dialogues on faith and reason. They both sought to build bridges among Catholicism, Judaism, and the world at large. On Heaven and Earth, originally published in Argentina in 2010, brings together a series of these conversations where both men talked about various theological and worldly issues, including God, fundamentalism, atheism, abortion, homosexuality, euthanasia, same-sex marriage, and globalization. From these personal and accessible talks comes a first-hand view of the man who would become pope to 1.2 billion Catholics around the world in March 2013.

On Heaven and Earth

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#paperback #catholic #teen #historicalfiction #darkages #ya #saints 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Story of Sinners, Servants, and Saints

Immersed in the historical background of the tenth century, this true tale of Good King Wenceslas, as told by his faithful servant Poidevin, brings the reader into the Dark Ages. Fear grips the land of Bohemia as the faithful face betrayal and persecution under the reign of the pagan Duchess Dragomira. As she struggles for power with the rightful heir, Prince Vaclav, her foes forge alliances in secret despite the risk of discovery. Who will survive?

Treachery and Truth

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Helps children to see that Jesus is their faithful, companion. Illustrated in full color.

My Friend Jesus

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Jon Leonetti

Michigan

How will the world change? What is the key to moving the culture from death to life? The key is to communicate God's will to people in a way that they can understand and follow. The best place to pass on God's magnificent plan of sheer goodness is in the family.

Mission of the Family

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Amy Welborn

Stories of Catholic Heroes and Saints Throughout History

What do heroes do?

Do they fight monsters? Sometimes, but they also hold the hands of people who are sick and lonely. They build schools. They study the planets. They forgive those who have harmed them. Heroes are people who look at the world around them, see what needs to be done, and through the grace of God find the strength to help others.
nbsp;In the thirty-six stories in Loyola Kids Book of Heroes, you'll meet a Catholic nun who stood up to the most infamous outlaw in the Old West. You'll learn how entire villages of men and women devoted their lives to building great cathedrals to show their love and respect for God. You'll learn about John the Baptist, Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, Charlemagne, St.nbsp;Albert the Great, Dorothy Day, St.nbsp;Patrick, and many others. Most of all, you'll learn that with God's help anyone can be a hero and make the world a better place.

Loyola Kids Book of Heroes

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Louisiana

One in four Americans is Roman Catholic, and the beliefs, practices, structures, and loyalties of this large faith community are important to the political, social, and religious life of America. This book explores the dynamic and sometimes difficult relationship that Catholics have with American culture and society. It describes Catholics' history, contributions, unique characteristics, and participation in American life from the beginnings of the nation to the present. This volume portrays key figures and events in the life of American Catholicism, clarifies topics that may be commonly misunderstood by those who are not Catholic, and offers Catholics an objective look at their faith. With strong opinions and a widely diversified population, the American Catholic community remains one of the most visible in the nation.

Catholic Faith in America & Padres of The California Mission Frontier #53

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Please see pics for marks on the book. All inside pages are in great used condition. 

The Bible Story

Utah

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu work to solve the murder of an elderly curator of the Louvre, a case which leads to clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci and a centuries-old secret society.

The Da Vinci Code

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Life is messy.
It isn't a color within the lines exercise.
It's a wild and outrageous invitation 
full of uncertain outcomes.
The mess of life is both inevitable and unexpected.
It is filled with delightful mysteries
and frustrating predicaments.
In our disposable culture,
we throw broken things away.
So, what will we do with broken people,
broken relationships, broken institutions, broken families,
and of course, our very own broken selves?
We are all broken and wounded.
This book is about putting our lives back together,
and allowing ourselves to be put back together,
when life doesn't turn out as we expected it to. 
Based on his own heart-wrenching personal journals,
Matthew Kelly shares how the worst three years of his life 
affected him, by exploring this question:
Can someone who has been broken be healed
and become more beautiful and more lovable
than ever before?
The answer will fill you with hope.
There has never been a more urgent need 
for us to attend to what is happening within us.
This is quite simply
the right book at the right time.

Life is Messy

Alice McDermott

Illinois

A Novel

A magnificent new novel from one of America’s finest writers—a powerfully affecting story spanning the twentieth century of a widow and her daughter and the nuns who serve their Irish-American community in Brooklyn. On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove—to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his badgering, pregnant wife—“that the hours of his life belong to himself alone.” In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child. We begin deep inside Catholic Brooklyn, in the early part of the twentieth century. Decorum, superstition, and shame collude to erase the man’s brief existence. Yet his suicide, although never spoken of, reverberates through many lives and over the decades testing the limits and the demands of love and sacrifice, of forgiveness and forgetfulness, even through multiple generations. The characters we meet, from Sally, the unborn baby at the beginning of the novel, who becomes the center of the story to the nuns whose personalities we come to know and love to the neighborhood families with whose lives they are entwined, are all rendered with extraordinary sympathy and McDermott’s trademark lucidity and intelligence. Alice McDermott’s The Ninth Hour is a crowning achievement by one of the premiere writers at work in America today.

The Ninth Hour

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Donna M. Gershten

Excellent instead of “like new” bc you can tell it’s been loved! No real damage but you can tell the cover isn’t “brand new” off the shelf. Histocialized fiction of a female, Mexican 

California

Selected as the first winner of Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize, Kissing the Virgin's Mouth is a beautifully written, lyrical first novel that offers a rare window into another culture. Its irresistible heroine takes the reader into her Mexican world and the experience is unforgettable. Barbara Kingsolver founded the Bellwether Prize in support of a literature of social change. In her words, Donna Gershten's novel has "the kind of political boldness and complexity we're hoping to promote with this prize. It sets a standard for what we're defining as a literature of social responsibility." Kissing the Virgin's Mouth is the fictional memoir of Guadalupe Magdalena Molina Vásquez -- wife, scoundrel, courtesan, and mother. In a world where gender and class roles are unbending, and religion predominant, Magda creates a philosophy of life that she can thrive in, a religion of cynical optimism, pragmatism, and determined gratitude. The invincible yet fallible Magda climbs from the poor barrio of a coastal Mexican town to American affluence, from wide-eyed childhood to worldly courtesan life, from full-blooded youth to oncoming blindness. In the Golden Zone of Teatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico, where tourists and wealthy Mexicans thrive and where poor Mexicans come only to work or to visit the shrine of the miracle baby Jesus, Guadalupe Magdalena Molina Vásquez performs her daily ritual. In the chair of her beloved Tía Chucha, mortared to the roof of her Golden Zone home, Magda shaves her long legs, tells her life stories, and thrusts her fierce prayers of gratitude toward the Sea of Cortés. "More cabrón than hunger is the person who has suffered it," Magda says, and in her unsentimental and savvy fashion, she recounts her life strategies -- seasoned with an earthy, hard-earned wisdom -- so that she might pass them along to her half-American daughter, Martina, and to her young Mexican cousin, Isabel. Kissing the Virgin's Mouth is a novel about love, the power of sex, and the struggles of women. It is about the secrets of survival. It is about what a woman can do.

Kissing the Virgin's Mouth

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Matthew Kelly

New Jersey

An Invitation

At a time when so many people are spiritually disillusioned and searching for ways to live, love, work, and play that nurture the soul rather than destroy it, Matthew Kelly once again delivers a powerful book that encourages us in our weariness, challenges us in our comfort, and invites us to rediscover the beautiful possibilities God places before us daily.Rediscover Jesus is a profound invitation to seek deeply personal answers to our deeply personal questions. Each page seems to effortlessly reach into every aspect our lives, providing spiritual wisdom and practical insights that help us to know both Jesus and ourselves in a new way.Some books find us at just the right time, and those books change our lives forever. Rediscover Jesus is one of those books.

Rediscover Jesus

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#youngchesterton #edwardian #catholic #homeschool

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

John McNichol s The Emperor of North America The Young Chesterton Chronicles Book 2 It s been over a year since Gilbert Keith Chesterton and his friends defeated the Martian tripod invasion. Since then, he has a new faith, a new job as a reporter for the London Times, and a new love a beautiful heiress named Frances. Life couldn t be better. But then things begin to go very wrong. Disturbing questions surface from Gilbert s murky past. His best friend Herb s sudden, unexplained wealth has made him distant and evasive. And the mysterious redheaded woman reappears, with trouble surely behind her. When Gilbert learns his life is in jeopardy, he leaves England and returns to his American homeland, where he thinks he ll be safe. There he meets a powerful man who calls himself the Emperor of North America. Why has he taken such a keen interest in Gilbert s career? Gilbert fights past dogged, airborne assassins and steam-powered cowboys, through the streets of New York and a floating city in the clouds. Along the way he learns that while his adversaries may change, America may not be any safer than England. For it is in America that both Gilbert and Herb will confront their most dangerous opponents yet...themselves. About the Book The Emperor of North America by John McNichol is the sequel to the bestselling novel The Tripods Attack and the second volume in the Young Chesterton Chronicles a delightfully inventive fiction series for teens to adults that re-imagines the famous Catholic author as a young man living in an alternative Edwardian age of steam-driven wonders. The Tripods Attack is a page-turning adventure of Chestertonian proportions, a feast of the imagination for the young and for adults. It rendered this reader ready to read more Chesterton, as well as, this, McNichol s next volume Kevin Vost, Psy.D., bestselling author of Tending the Temple and Memorize the Faith

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