Gilgamesh  retold by Stephen Mitchell - I picked this book off my shelf for a reading challenge of my local homeschool friends for "a b...

Some homeschooling moms proposed a bingo card reading challenge for the year. We all picked some categories and made a card. I was inspired ...

The Art of Conflict Management: Achieving Solutions for Life, Work, and Beyond by Michael Dues (Great Courses audio lecture series) - When ...

The Red Address Book  by Sofia Lundberg - I came across this book at a library used bookstore. In this novel, an elderly Swedish woman, Dori...

All Hands On Deck: A Modern-Day High Seas Adventure to the Far Side of the World   by Will Sofrin - I saw this at the library and thought it...

Apologia Pro Vita Sua   by St. John Henry Cardinal Newman This book is recommended for Level 6 Year 2 in the Mater Amabilis high school reli...

The Hearthstone of My Heart by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Elizabeth Borton de Trevino is such a delight. This book is like sitting down to ...

Travels with Charley: In Search of America  by John Steinbeck - The author modified a truck into a camper and took off across America with h...

Everything Sad is Untrue (a true story) by Daniel Nayeri This is a heart-breaking but hopeful story of Christian conversion, fatwas, escape,...

The Sun is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds   by Caroline Van Hemert Caroline Van Hemert is a scientist and adventurer...

My Heart Lies South: The Story of My Mexican Heritage (Young People's Edition) by Elizabeth Borton de Treviño This was a delightful ligh...

The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?  by Michael J. Sandel - link to my post (library copy) The Birth of the Republi...

Menagerie Manor by Gerald Durrell I added this book to my  PaperBackSwap.com wish list as soon as I read My Family and Other Anima...

Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World  by Charles J. Chaput - link to my post (inter-library l...

Mother Teresa of Calcutta: A Personal Portrait by Leo Maasburg Mater Amabilis™ recommends three biographies of twentieth-century saint...

West with the Night by Beryl Markham Beryl Markharm moved to Africa with her father when she was very young. Her memoir, West with the...

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

A Man of the Beatitudes: Pier Giorgio Frassati by Luciana Frassati Luciana Frassati wrote this book about her dearly loved brother...

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah This was a recent selection for my book club, one rather different...