The Drover's Road Collection by Joyce West This collection includes three books:  Drovers Road , Cape Lost , and  The Golden Country   (...

Far From Home I learned of this podcast when listening to a recent Planet Money podcast episode . I was immediately intrigued by this modern...

Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It by Ethan Kross I heard about this book on an episode of The Happiness ...

Psychology Handbook for a Windy World by Mary O'Keefe Daly Mary Daly cared deeply about young people. She wrote many books of science fr...

My Antonia by Willa Cather Originally, I put this book on First Son's English novels list for senior year. Because First Son started wit...

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

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...

The Office of Assertion: The Art of Rhetoric for the Academic Essay by Scott F. Crider This book is recommended in our Mater Amabilis high ...

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson Kansas Dad has assigned this book in his college courses. He recommended it...

Water, Wood, and Wild Things: Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town by Hannah Kirshner I found this book on the new boo...

Fearfully and Wonderfully: The Marvel of Bearing God's Image by Dr. Paul Brand and Philip Yancey This is an updated edition, combining t...

Nafanua: Saving the Samoan Rain Forest   by Paul Alan Cox I heard about this book in the Living Books of All Peoples group on Facebook, a fa...

For the Love of Physics by Walter Lewin First Son and I have been reading this book together over the last three years along with Sabbath M...

The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso) by Dante Alighieri, translated by John Ciardi The Divine Comedy  was sched...

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World   by David Epstein This book was recommended to me by a fellow moderator in the Mater ...

The Ghost Keeper by Natalie Morrill Historical fiction books set during World War II are everywhere. This one was recommended by a friend wh...

The Planets by Dava Sobel This is such a delightful book through the solar system. There are chapters devoted to each of the planets (and so...

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...

18 Miles: The Epic Drama of Our Atmosphere and Its Weather by Christopher Dewdney This far-ranging book begins with the creation of the eart...

Great Catholic Scientists: Discoveries and Lives of Faith Dr. Guy Consolmagno, SJ and Dr. Michelle Francl-Donnay This is a wonderful little ...