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Friends in High Places - Corinna TurnerMexican Martyrdom: Firsthand Accounts of the Religious Persecution in Mexico 1926-1935, - Wilfrid Parsons
Ten Battles Every Catholic Should KnowMexican Martyrdom
The Saint Monica ClubTen Battles Every Catholic Should Know
Ten Battles Every Catholic Should KnowRace With The Devil
Race with the DevilBook that Made your World
Friends in High Places and Invasion '14
- The Marian Option (Carrie Gress)- The Restless Flame (Louis de Wohl)
- The Screwtape Letters (CS Lewis)
Friends in High PlacesThe Mystery of Joseph
The restless flameThe screwtape letters
1. The Restless Flame: A Novel About Saint Augustine by Louis de Wohl2. Ten Battles Every Catholic Should Know, by Michael D. Greaney
Mango Murders; andMartyrdom in Mexico.
Aprilmilly you only can vote for two books and you wrote three books. You Will have to choose only two. I apologize for doing the role of moderador.
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- The Restless Flame (Louis de Wohl)
- The Screwtape Letters (CS Lewis)"
As Fonch pointed out, you can only vote for two books. If you don't say otherwise, I'll count the two books you voted first (The Marian Option and The Restless Flame)
The restless flameThe screwtape letters
The Light . . . Jacqueline BrownTen Battles
I vote for "Friends in High Places" by Corinna Turner, and "The Tartessian Crown" by Manuel Alfonseca.
Saint Monica ClubFriends in high places
Friends in high placesThe resurrection of the son of God
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The Tartessian Crown
The Screwtape LettersThe restless flame
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The Mystery of Joseph
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Books mentioned in this topic
The Book That Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization (other topics)The Boy Who Knew: Carlo Acutis (other topics)
Old Men Don't Walk to Egypt: Saint Joseph (other topics)
Child, Unwanted: Margaret of Castello (other topics)
Invasion '14 (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Vishal Mangalwadi (other topics)Corinna Turner (other topics)
Maxence Van der Meersch (other topics)
Jacqueline Brown (other topics)
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Voting will end at approximately 11:00 AM Eastern Time on Saturday , February 18.
The Voting List for March:
The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization, by Vishal Mangalwadi, nominated by Mariangel
Indian philosopher Vishal Mangalwadi reveals the personal motivation that fueled his own study of the Bible and systematically illustrates how its precepts became the framework for societal structure throughout the last millennium. From politics and science, to academia and technology, the Bible's sacred copy became the key that unlocked the Western mind.
Voting History: September 2022 - 2; November 2022 - 2; February 2023 - 2
Friends in High Places (https://www.goodreads.com/series/3264...), by Corinna Turner, nominated by Manuel.
This nomination is to read the following three very short books in this series:
The Boy Who Knew: Carlo Acutis
Old Men Don't Walk to Egypt: Saint Joseph
Child, Unwanted (Margaret of Castello)
Voting History: March 2022 - 5; April 2022 - 2; May 2022 - 3; June 2022 - 3; July 2022 - 3; September 2022 - 2; November 2022 - 3; February 2023 - 6
Invasion '14, by Maxence Van der Meersch, nominated by John
A novel about the effects of the War on the French families behind the German lines.
Voting History: February 2023 - 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. Quietly suspenseful, The Light explores how the stories we tell ourselves shape the person we present to the world, and what happens to that person when the world falls away.
Voting History: February 2023 - 7
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: November 2022 - 5; February 2023 - 2
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.
Voting History: November 2022 - 3; February 2023 - 4
Mexican Martyrdom: Firsthand Accounts of the Religious Persecution in Mexico 1926-1935, by Wilfrid Parsons, nominated by Susan.
Mexican Martyrdom is a series of true stories of the terrible anti-Catholic persecutions which took place in Mexico in the 1920s. Told by the Jesuit priest, Fr. Wilfrid Parson, these stories are based upon cases he had seen himself or that had been described to him personally by the people who had undergone the atrocities of those times.
Voting History: None
The Mystery of Joseph, Fr. Marie-Dominique Philippe, OP, John.
Although the greatest of saints, after Mary, St. Joseph is perhaps the least well understood. What Scripture teaches is compelling, but mysterious: he moves quietly and thoughtfully through its pages, almost unobserved in his humility and silence. In this illuminating book, Fr. Philippe leads you deep into the beautiful mystery of St. Joseph -- revealing the greatness of the apparently unremarkable man who was the guardian of Jesus and Mary, and who is now the Guardian of the Church, ''overflowing with immeasurable wisdom and power.''
This book may be difficult to find.
Voting History: July 2022 - 5; September 2022 - 6; November 2022 - 4; February 2023 - 6
Race with the Devil, by Joseph Pearce, nominated by Fonch.
Growing up on the rough streets of Dagenham, England, Joseph Pearce was thrown into a life that led anywhere but to God and salvation. A world of hate and violence was all he knew, until one day he picked up the writings of G.K Chesterton and everything changed. 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: February 2023 - 6
The Restless Flame: A Novel About Saint Augustine by Louis de Wohl, nominated by Manuel.
This is a stirring novel which deals reverently but realistically with the fascinating life and era of St. Augustine, one of the most remarkable men of all time.
Voting History: None
The Resurrection of the Son of God, by N.T. Wright, nominated by Frances
Why did Christianity begin, and why did it take the shape it did? To answer this question – which any historian must face – renowned New Testament scholar N.T. Wright focuses on the key points: what precisely happened at Easter? What did the early Christians mean when they said that Jesus of Nazareth had been raised from the dead? What can be said today about his belief?
Voting History: May 2022 - 4; June 2022 - 4; July 2022 - 3; September 2022 - 2; November 2022 - 3; February 2023 - 2
The Saint Monica Club: How to Hope, Wait, and Pray for Your Fallen-Away Loved Ones, by Maggie Green, nominated by Maggie.
In the fourth century, a young man named Augustine turned his back on the Church, plunging into a frenzied life of lust and dissipation. His renunciation left Monica, his pious Catholic mother, weeping and praying for his salvation . . . for more than a decade! In these pages, author Maggie Green provides wise, compassionate guidance for members of what she calls “The Saint Monica Club”: good Catholics suffering like Monica the rejection of the Faith by persons they love dearly.
Voting History: ; July 2022 - 2; September 2022 - 2; November 2022 - 2; February 2023 - 3
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, by Nishaal, nominated by Fonch and Susan.
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis is a classic masterpiece of religious writing that entertains readers with its portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of a nephew of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to "Our Father Below."
Voting History: None
The Tartessian Crown, by Manuel Alfonseca, nominated by John.
In this third novel in the Aeolian Family series, Julius Aeolius is a fourteen-year-old boy who lives with his grandfather Lucius in Cesaraugusta, present-day Zaragoza, in the days of the Visigoth king Theodoric. They start a long journey, for Lucius is obsessed with finding the Tartessian crown. According to legend, whoever owns the crown will be king of all Hispania. But who is the mysterious goth who insists on going with them? What is Lucius hiding, who seems to know more than he says? Will Julius win the love of Dido, the orphan girl who barely speaks, but who knows how to get them out of their troubles? In this journey through the most important cities and islands of the Mediterranean (Tarraco, Carthage, Malta, Rome...), the protagonist will face not just many adventures, but also an internal journey towards his own maturity.
Voting History: None
Ten Battles Every Catholic Should Know, by Michael D. Greaney, nominated by Fonch.
Ten Battles Every Catholic Should Know offers readers richly detailed accounts of pivotal engagements—many little known in the West—in the centuries-long defense of Christendom against militant Islam. Join military historian Michael D. Greaney as, in gripping prose, he describes the struggle, primarily on Christendom’s eastern borders, against the dreaded Ottoman Turks in places such as:
• Manzikert, which marked the beginning of the fight,
• Wallachia, where Vlad II, the real “Dracula”, carried out a personal crusade against the Turks to such good effect that his name strikes terror down to the present day,
• Mohács, “the Tomb of Hungary,”
• Vienna (the siege of 1529), the first setback experienced by Süleymân the Magnificent, perhaps the greatest ruler the Ottoman Turks ever knew,
• Szigetvár (known as the “Hungarian Alamo”),
• ...and five others.
Voting History: None