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Paul: A biography, by N.T. WrightThe Seal of Aeolus, by Manuel Alfonseca
I vote for Bodies and souls, by Maxence Van der Meersch and The Secrets of Successful Financial Planning: Inside Tips from an Expert, by Dan Gallagher
I would like to vote for Bodies and souls, by Maxence Van der Meersc and Eifelheim, by Michael Flynn,Thanks
Dear and Glorious Physician, by Taylor CaldwellTill we have faces, by C. S. Lewis
1) Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future by Pope Francis2) Till We Have Faces, by C.S. Lewis
1. From Fire by Water2. Poor Banished Children
1 Christus Vincit2 Till We Have Faces
I would like to vote for: Eifelheim, by Michael Flynn and Invasion ‘ 14, by Maxence Van dear Meersch.
1. Eifelheim by Michael FlynnI2. The Light: Who Do You Become When the World Falls Away? by Jacqueline Brown
This is not a vote, just a question. Fire By Water was nominated by "Sohrab and John." Is Sohrab the author himself and part of this book club or is he a member who has the same name?There are a couple of books on that list that I have been wanting to read. I can't vote because I can't commit to the read but if one of them does turn up a winner I might try to find the time.
Poor Banished Children, by Fiorella De MariaThe Seal of Aeolus, by Manuel Alfonseca
In answer to Manny: John mentioned that he was interested in reading "Fire by water" and asked if someone would be willing to nominate it. Then Sohrab (the author) put forward the nomination. According to the club's rules, the author can nominate his book.
Yes Manny is the authentic Shorab Ahmari :-).
Mariangel wrote: "In answer to Manny: John mentioned that he was interested in reading "Fire by water" and asked if someone would be willing to nominate it. Then Sohrab (the author) put forward the nomination. Accor..."Well, I'm impressed that Sohrab reads your blog. That is one of the books on my short reading list. Unfortunately they have not recorded an audiobook for it. I could then have handled several books at the same time if it were recorded.
Race With the Devil. Til We Have Faces
The Seal of AeolusFrom Fire, by Water: My Journey to the Catholic Faith
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Yes, that was under the old way of nominating and Fonch and I were "under restriction" because of our, shall we say "enthusiasm," for nominating books to read. I did nominate it, but suggested that if anyone else also wanted to nominate it, I would yield to them. Sohrab then nominated it.
Let Us Dreamand
Dear & Glorious Physician
Race with the devil;Dear and glorious physician.
John wrote: "Mariangel wrote: "In answer to Manny: John mentioned that he was interested in reading "Fire by water" and asked if someone would be willing to nominate it. Then Sohrab (the author) put forward the..."Yes i remember. It is as John said it. Shorab and John purposed the Shorab Ahmari`s book and i purposed also. For this reason the book was nominated three times :-).
My votes: 1. The seal of Aeolus
2. The Light
My votes:1: Christus Vincit
2: Dear and Glorious Physician
Paul, NT WrightTill We Have Faces, CS Lewis
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From Fire by Water
Seal of Aeolus
Voting for....1. Christus Vincit
2. The Marian Option
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Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future has been added to the list as the Current Interest Book.
Voting will remain open until approximately Noon Eastern Time on February 18.
Bodies and souls, by Maxence Van der Meersch, nominated by Fonch.
This dramatic novel about doctors, students, nurses and patients, has become a classic. It seems to be difficult to obtain in English (it doesn't even have a page in Goodreads), but it can easily be got in other languages (French, Spanish or Italian). This is their page in Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Voting History: August 2020 - 2; September 2020 - 2; October 2020 - 3; November 2020 - 3; December 2020 - 2; January 2021 - 4; February 2021 - 2
Christus Vincit: Christ's Triumph Over the Darkness of the Age, by Athanasius Schneider, nominated by John
In this absorbing interview, Bishop Athanasius Schneider offers a candid, incisive examination of controversies raging in the Church and the most pressing issues of our times, providing clarity and hope for beleaguered Catholics. He addresses such topics as widespread doctrinal confusion, the limits of papal authority, the documents of Vatican II, the Society of St. Pius X, anti-Christian ideologies and political threats, the third secret of Fatima, the traditional Roman rite, and the Amazon Synod, among many others. Like his fourth-century patron, St. Athanasius the Great, Bishop Schneider says things that others won’t, fearlessly following St. Paul’s advice: “Preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching” (2 Tim 4:2). His insights into the challenges facing Christ’s flock today are essential reading for those who are, or wish to be, alert to the signs of the times. Reminiscent of The Ratzinger Report of 1985, Christus Vincit will be a key point of reference for years to come.
Voting History: February 2021 - 7
Dear and Glorious Physician, by Taylor Caldwell, nominated by Mariangel
Today St. Luke is known as the author of the third Gospel of the New Testament, but two thousand years ago he was Lucanus, a Greek, a man who loved, knew the emptiness of bereavement, and later traveled through the hills and wastes of Judea asking, "What manner of man was my Lord?" And it is of this Lucanus that Taylor Caldwell tells here in one of the most stirring stories ever lived or written.
Voting History: February 2021 - 3
Eifelheim, by Michael Flynn, nominated by Fonch
In 1349, one small town in Germany disappeared and has never been resettled. Tom, a contemporary historian, and his theoretical physicist girlfriend Sharon, become interested. Tom indeed becomes obsessed. By all logic, the town should have survived, but it didn't and that violates everything Tom knows about history. What's was special about Eifelheim that it utterly disappeared more than 600 years ago?
Voting History: December 2020 - 5; January 2021 - 5; February 2021 - 5
From Fire, by Water: My Journey to the Catholic Faith, by Sohrab Ahmari, nominated by Sohrab and John
Sohrab Ahmari was a teenager living under the Iranian ayatollahs when he decided that there is no God. Nearly two decades later, he would be received into the Catholic Church. In From Fire, by Water, he recounts this unlikely passage, from the strident Marxism and atheism of a youth misspent on both sides of the Atlantic to a moral and spiritual awakening prompted by the Mass. At once a young intellectual’s finely crafted self-portrait and a life story at the intersection of the great ideas and events of our time, the book marks the debut of a compelling new Catholic voice.
Voting History: February 2021 - 3
Invasion '14, by Maxence Van der Meersch, nominated by John
Novel about the effects of the War on the French families behind the German lines.
Voting History: November 2020 - 2; December 2020 - 2; January 2021 - 3; February 2021 - 2
The Light: Who Do You Become When the World Falls Away?, by Jacqueline Brown, nominated by Madeleine
A blinding flash … then darkness. Bria Ford and her three closest friends are stranded on a country highway in the middle of a November night. No phones. No car. No lights. Helpless and hundreds of miles from home, they put their lives in the hands of handsome Jonah Page and his flinty sister, East, strangers who somehow know Bria better than she knows herself. As the group bonds to adapt to a new, yet old, way of life, the secrets of Bria’s past provide them with the means to survive the extremes of Mother Nature, and the even more frightening extremes of human nature.
Voting History: August 2020 - 1; September 2020 - 2; October 2020 - 2; November 2020 - 1; December 2020 - 4; January 2021 - 2; February 2021 - 2
The Mango Murders, by Mara Campos, nominated by Madeleine
All is not what it seems in Old San Juan, in the Pio Nono home for boys, in the life of the island's most famous artist, or in the memories of his models. Detective Sergeant Julio Ramos and gringo FBI agent Steve Halloran work in uneasy alliance to catch a serial killer with a penchant for mangoes and a need to avenge lost love and lost innocence. To come to truth, the investigators have to face their own painful issues, and even their targets must choose between light or darkness. In language, memory, race, and blood, the novel tells the story of the burden and the promise of identity.
Voting History: August 2020 - 3; September 2020 - 2; October 2020 - 2; November 2020 - 2; December 2020 - 2; January 2021 - 2; February 2021 - 3
The Marian Option: God’s Solution to a Civilization in Crisis, by Carrie Gress PhD, nominated by Marlicia
As the world descends into chaos, Christians are thinking deeply about how to stem the tide. Many options and suggestions have been presented to deal with Christian persecution and cultural decadence, but none can hold a candle to The Marian Option.
Dr. Carrie Gress provides a thoroughly researched bird’s eye view of the significant cultural and military events mediated through Mary on behalf of her spiritual children. From miraculous victories to the soaring heights of culture, you have never seen Mary like this before. Until now, books on the Virgin Mary have generally focused upon one apparition or various theological elements of this mysterious woman. But the scope of The Marian Option is far greater. Drawing from a vast array of dogmas, Vatican approved apparitions, and writings of the saints, Dr. Gress has pulled together the remarkable story of Mary’s overwhelming influence and intercession.
Voting History: August 2020 - 1; September 2020 - 3; October 2020 - 2; November 2020 - 2; December 2020 - 3; January 2021 - 3; February 2021 - 2
Paul: A Biography, N.T. Wright, nominated by Jill
In this definitive biography, renowned Bible scholar, Anglican bishop, and bestselling author N. T. Wright offers a radical look at the apostle Paul, illuminating the humanity and remarkable achievements of this intellectual who invented Christian theology—transforming a faith and changing the world.
Voting History: August 2020 - 3; September 2020 - 5; October 2020 - 3; November 2020 - 1; December 2020 - 5; ; January 2021 - 3; February 2021 - 4
Poor Banished Children, by Fiorella De Maria, nominated by Fonch
An explosion is heard off the coast of sixteenth-century England, and a woman washes up on the shore. She is barely alive and does not speak English, but she asks for a priest... in Latin. She has a confession to make and a story to tell, but who is she and where has she come from? Cast out of her superstitious, Maltese family, Warda turns to begging and stealing until she is fostered by an understanding Catholic priest who teaches her the art of healing. Her willful nature and hard-earned independence make her unfit for marriage, and so the good priest sends Warda to serve an anchorite, in the hope that his protege will discern a religious vocation.
Voting History: August 2020 - 1; September 2020 - 5; October 2020 - 3; November 2020 - 2; December 2020 - 4; ; January 2021 - 3; February 2021 - 4
Race with the Devil by Joseph Pearce proposed by Fonch.
Joseph Pearce is foremost Catholic biographer of our time, but it wasn't always so. Imagine discovering God for the first time in the confines of a jail cell. Imagine spending the first half your life amidst the seedy underground of the white supremacy movement before becoming one of the foremost Religious scholars in the world. Imagine being converted by the writings of Chesterton, and years later writing a biography on him. Joseph Pearce doesn't have to imagine it - he lived it.
"In Race With the Devil: My Journey from Racial Hatred to Rational Love" take a journey through the peaks and valleys of one of the most fascinating conversion stories of our time, written first-hand by Pearce himself.
Voting History: October 2020 - 4; November 2020 - 4; December 2020 - 6; January 2021 - 2; February 2021 - 4
The Seal of Aeolus, by Manuel Alfonseca, proposed by John
During the war of the Roman Empire against the Parthian Empire, in the time of emperor Marcus Aurelius, young Flavius is made a standard bearer in the legions. His father wishes to make him stop being a Christian, as he has been recently converted. The boy must face many dangers, travel to far away countries and work as a spy of the Roman Empire. After finding true love, he must deal with a complex moral issue that will be solved providentially, in a way he would never have foreseen.
Voting History: None
The Secrets of Successful Financial Planning: Inside Tips from an Expert, by Dan Gallagher
There are six interrelated segments to a complete financial plan: Cash & Budget Planning, Insurance & Risk Management, Tax Management, Retirement Planning, Investment Planning, and Estate Planning. What aspects of the financial plan require sophisticated planning by a professional, and what can savvy, well-educated consumers handle themselves? The Secrets of Successful Financial Planning empowers readers to take charge of their financial present and future, regardless of where they are financially, by presenting technical jargon in a way that's easy to understand.
Voting History: August 2020 - 2; September 2020 - 2; October 2020 - 2; November 2020 - 2; December 2020 - 2; January 2021 - 2; February 2021 - 2
Till We Have Faces, by C.S. Lewis, proposed by Mary
In this timeless tale of two princesses- one beautiful and one unattractive- C.S. Lewis reworks the classical myth of Cupid and Psyche into an enduring piece of contemporary fiction. This is the story of Orual, Psyche's embittered and ugly older sister, who posessively and harmfully loves Psyche. Much to Orual's frustration, Psyche is loved by Cupid, the god of love himself, setting the troubled Orual on a path of moral development.
Voting History: None
Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future by Pope Francis, proposed by Faith.
The Pope explains why we must—and how—make the world safer, fairer, and healthier for all people now.