Peace Like a River  by Leif Enger - This was our book club read for the month, and I absolutely loved it. I read it at the airport and on a ...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, written by Himself  - This classic of American history is now one of our ass...

  River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile  by Candace Millard - link to my post (purchase...

Talking Leaves by Joseph Bruchac I was chatting in one of my Facebook groups about how much I love James Rumford's picture book Sequoya...

Calvary Hero: Casimir Pulaski  by Dorothy Adams (American Background Series) - I picked this book up used at a big sale because my grandmoth...

Books that Matter: The Federalist Papers by Joseph L. Hoffmann First Son used the Mater Amabilis beta government plans, which included lots ...

Woman and the New Race by Margaret Sanger This book is included in the primary source reading in the Mater Amabilis high school history plan...

Charis in the World of Wonders by Mary Youmans My friend, Sally Thomas , recommended this book repeatedly, so I put it on my wish list and w...

The Mayflower: The Perilous Voyage that Changed the World by Libby Romero illustrated by Olga Baumert This is a lovely new book on the Pilgr...

The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89 by Edmund S. Morgan First Son is studying American Government this year, working roughly from the new Mat...

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey  by Candice Millard - link to my post (copy from PaperBackSwap.com ) Doctor Fa...

River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard This is a fascinating book about the mapping and exploration of ...

Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen E. Ambrose This book is on the extrac...

This Country of Ours by H. E. Marshall This Country of Ours  is the first option on the Mater Amabilis™ Level 1B syllabus for History...

Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II  by Robert Matzen - This book tells the experiences of Audrey Hepburn under Nazi occupation fo...

Food: A Cultural Culinary History (The Great Courses) by Ken Albala Professor Albala attempts to cover all of human history through fo...

The Rise and Fall of the British Empire (The Great Courses) by Patrick N. Allitt We've been immersed in Mater Amabilis™ for over t...

The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith I don't know how this book ended up on my to-read list back in 2012, but I enjoyed ...

10,000 Days of Thunder: A History of the Vietnam War by Philip Caputo In the last six weeks of our year (which I have condensed a litt...

Holy Friends: Thirty Saints and Blesseds of the Americas Written by Diana M. Amadeo Illustrated by Irina Lombardo with Augusto Curreli...