The Handmaid and the Carpenter by Elizabeth Berg A retelling of the story of Mary and Joseph as two young people, struggling to understand God’s plan for their lives.
Dissolution by C.J. Sansom As Henry VIII works to dissolve the monastic holdings in 16th century England, lawyer Matthew Shardlake is sent to solve a murder on the grounds of a Benedictine monastery.
Sarah: Women of Genesis by Orson Scott Card
Well-known science fiction author Card tells the story of Sarah, beautiful and courageous wife of Abraham.
Unholy Orders: Mystery stories with a religious twist edited by Serita Stevens
A collection of mysteries.
The Hawk and the Dove Trilogy by Penelope Wilcock Set in a 14th century monastery, these novels address universal spiritual themes relevant to today’s world.
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok Celebrated novel tells the story of a young man who cannot reconcile his religious tradition and his natural talents.
Mackenzie Allen Phillips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant, The Shack wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him."
An American Gospel By Erick Reece.
Traces the author's conflicted relationship with Christianity, describing how his childhood was marked by his Baptist minister grandfather and a father who violently committed suicide, and relates the author's spiritual renewal.
Path of Miracles By Sammy Rodriguez
That abundance exists, not only in the afterlife, but right here on earth. In this life you can discover the path of miracles that leads toward the magnificence you are meant to experience.
The Furious Longing of God By Brennan Manning
The author of the bestselling "Ragamuffin Gospel" illumines the most powerful force in the universe--God's intense love for his children.
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
"One day in 1993, high up in the world's most inhospitable mountains, Greg Mortenson wandered lost and alone, broken in body and spirit, after a failed attempt to climb K2, the world's deadliest peak. When the people of an impoverished village in Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya took him in and nursed him back to health, Mortenson made in impulsive promise: He would return one day and build them a school. Although he was homeless "climbing bum" living out of his aging Buick in Berkeley, California, Mortenson sold what few possessions he had to launch one of the most remarkable humanitarian campaigns of our time."
