- It has all the hallmarks of a best-selling fictional thriller: espionage, conspiracy, a struggle against evil powers, undercover work by dark of night... but it's all true. The Scarlet and the Black tells the astonishing and heroic true story of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, the man dubbed "The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican" during World War II.
- ISBN: 9781586174095
- Softcover, 5.25 x 8 inches, 191 pages.
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- Here is Chesterton in his own words, in a book he preferred not to write, but did so near the end of his life after much insistence by friends and admirers.
- ISBN: 9781586170714
- Softcover, 336 pages, 5.25 x 8 inches.
- Includes photgraphs.
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- The beloved G.K. Chesterton presents a well-crafted and joyous work of political fantasy about a small group of rebels who rail against the government’s attempt to impose prohibition in England.
- ISBN: 9781621641032
- Softcover, 295 pages, 5.25 x 8 inches
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- The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis is the most engaging account of temptation—and triumph over it—ever written.
- ISBN: 9780060652937
- Softcover, 209 pages, 5.5 x 8 inches.
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- In The Problem of Pain, C.S. Lewis, one of the most renowned Christian authors and thinkers, examines a universally applicable question within the human condition: “If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain?”
- ISBN: 9780060652968
- Softcover, 162 pages, 5.5 x 8 inches.
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- This biography of St. Francis stands alone as a richly informed portrait of a man whose complex faith and commitment continue to inspire today. Written by Fr. Augustine Thompson, a Dominican, in 2013.
- ISBN: 9780801479069
- Softcover, 186 pages, 5.5 x 8.5"
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- Tales from the Perilous Realm is the perfect opportunity for fans of Middle-earth to enjoy some of Tolkien’s often overlooked yet most creative storytelling. Includes Adventures of Bombadil, Smith of Wootton Major and Leaf by Niggle.
- ISBN: 9780358652960
- Softcover, 403 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches
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- Paperback
- 414 pages
- 4.25 x 7
- ISBN: 9780895552457
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- In this astounding interview, you will marvel as Antonia and Andrea retrace the path they walked with Carlo and share fascinating moments in his life in which his faith matured, including the plan of life that he developed for himself on the day after his First Holy Communion.
- Softcover, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 143 pages.
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- In An Exemplary Couple: Saint Gianna Beretta and Pietro Molla, you will read the story of the spouses Saint Gianna Beretta and Pietro Molla, and with an account, through direct testimonies, of the most significant moments of their married life.
- ISBN: 9781505132625
- Hardcover, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 146 pages.
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- The Price to Pay is the true story of Joseph Fadelle's conversion to Christianity. He risks everything--family, friends, his inheritance and home, and even his life--in order to follow Christ.
- ISBN: 9781586175993
- Softcover, 5.25 x 8 inches, 224 pages.
- Read in the refectory at Clear Creek Abbey in 2016.
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- This book will inspire those already committed to the cause of life, and make abortion advocates second-guess their convictions.
- ISBN: 9781621644545
- Softcover, 5.25 x 8, 178 pages.
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- This autobiography of a Jesuit priest in Elizabethan England is a most remarkable document and John Gerard, its author, a most remarkable priest in a time when to be a Catholic in England courted imprisonment and torture; to be a priest was treason by act of Parliament.
- ISBN: 9781586174507
- Softcover, 5.25 x 7 inches, 370 pages.
- Read in the refectory at Clear Creek Abbey in 2016.
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- This work is an extraordinary contribution to contemporary history and an eyewitness account of a Church and country under brutal Communist domination in the Cold War era.
- ISBN: 9781621645856
- Softcover, 6 x 9 inches, 445 pages.
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- Carlo Acutis is a sign of contradiction in the modern world who serves as a heroic model for today's young people--a teenager who programmed computers and enjoyed films and comics yet lived as an authentic and sincere disciple of Christ.
- ISBN: 9781644134849
- Softcover, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 193 pages.
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- Based on exclusive, personal interviews with Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Pearce's biography of the renowned Russian dissident provides profound insight into a towering literary and political figure.
- ISBN: 9781586174965
- Softcover, 6 x 9 inches, 392 pages.
- Read in the refectory at Clear Creek Abbey in 2010/
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- Here is the astonishing true story of the harrowing experiences of a young German seminarian drafted into Hitler's dreaded SS at the onset of World War II. Without betraying his Christian ideals, against all odds, and in the face of Evil, Gereon Goldmann was able to complete his priestly training, be ordained, and secretly minister to German Catholic soldiers and innocent civilian victims caught up in the horrors of war. How it all came to pass will astound you.
- ISBN: 9780898707748
- Softcover, 5.25 x 8 inches, 345 pages.
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- As he recounts his lifelong search for joy, C. S. Lewis demonstrates its role in guiding him to find God.
- ISBN: 9780062565433
- Softcover, 291 pages, 5.5 x 8 inches.
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- This book, Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know, by Joseph Pearce, is an insightful introduction to world literature. It directs the reader back to the Story of Salvation History, because this is what great literature does.
- ISBN: 9781733522120
- Softcover, 5.25 x 8"
- 210 pages.
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- Featuring a radically expanded index, this volume contains 354 letters, dating between October 1914, when Tolkien was an undergraduate at the University of Oxford, and August 29, 1973, four days before his death.
- ISBN: 9780358652984
- Hardcover, 707 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches.
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- ISBN: 9780895551542
- Paperback
- 5.5 x 8.5 inches
- 334 pages
- A wonderful Marian classic
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- This is a thoroughly readable and delightful biography of G. K. Chesterton, a multi- faceted author, artist and debater who loved the friendship of children, idolized his wife and enjoyed great friendships with the likes of Hilaire Belloc, Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells.
- ISBN: 9781621640554
- Softcover, 544 pages, 6 x9 inches.
- Read in the refectory at Clear Creek Abbey in 2018.
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- Fascinating biography of Mother Veronica Namoyo Le Goulard, her conversion and vocation story.
- Softcover, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 189 pages.
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- Frequently, St. Frances of Rome experienced ecstasies and visions, especially after receiving Holy Communion. In these absorbing pages, translated by Fr. Robert Nixon, O.S.B., her spiritual director records her life, mystical graces, and miracles as well as her severe demonic attacks and her unwavering trust in God throughout.
- Softcover, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 135 pages.
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- Set in rural France, the novel recounts the joys and travails of a young parish priest, tormented by illness and afflicted by awkwardness, as he deals with a colorful cast of local characters and endures deep interior suffering. Accessible to Catholic and non-Catholic readers alike, it is a tour de force of spiritual storytelling, destined to be a classic for generations to come.
- New translation made in 2025 by Michael Tobin.
- Softcover, 288 pages, 5.25 x 8 inches.
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- In Saintly Women of Modern Times, best-selling author Joan Carroll Cruz presents portraits of seventy-five Catholic women from the past century whose extraordinary holiness set them on the path to sainthood.
- ISBN: 9780895558619
- Softcover, 6 x 9 inches, 259 pages.
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- From this excellent popular biography, read the definitive life of St. Catherine Laboure by Fr. Joseph Dirvin. Included are also 61 pictures and photographs to edify readers' piety and devotion to this holy advocate of our causes before Our Lady and Our Lord.
- ISBN: 9780895552426
- Softcover, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 245 pages.
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- Father Popiełuszko's witness of spiritual resistance, deeply rooted in the life of Christ, retains its relevance and urgency in the twenty-first century. The young Polish priest who stood up to Communist totalitarianism at the cost of his life will embolden those who resist tyranny and defend human dignity.
- ISBN: 9781621641681
- Softcover, 5.25 x 8, 125 pages.
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- Captured by a Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a “Vatican spy,” Jesuit Father Walter J. Ciszek spent twenty-three agonizing years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. Ciszek learns to accept the inhuman work in the infamous Siberian salt mines as a labor pleasing to God. And through that experience, he was able to turn the adverse forces of circumstance into a source of positive value and a means of drawing closer to the compassionate and never-forsaking Divine Spirit.
- ISBN: 9780804141529
- Softcover, 5 x 7 inches, 208 pages.
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- It is the tale of an unfolding, developing relationship with God — told with directness and honesty — and of a painful surrender at the foot of the Cross. It is the account of a lifelong, transformative love of reading and the story of how a competitive fencer put down her sabre to pick up the sword of the Spirit.
- ISBN: 9781586178932
- Softcover, 5.25 x 8 inches, 187 pages.
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- The Way of Perfection is an astounding work by an astounding saint, St. Teresa of Avila, a highly detailed and immensely useful guide to approaching the Lord through higher and higher degrees of meditative prayer and contemplation, written by the queen among the saints of meditation, beyond compare in mystical wisdom.
- ISBN: 9781505134087
- Softcover, 355 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches.
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- This edition of Chesterton's masterpiece and most famous novel, The Man Who Was Thursday, explicates and enriches the complete text with extensive footnotes, together with an introductory essay on the metaphysical meaning of Chesterton's profound allegory.
- ISBN: 9781586170424
- Softcover, 289 pages, 5.25 x 8 inches.
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- These Father Brown detective mysteries underscore the Roman Catholic beliefs of Chesterton and his detective priest.
- ISBN: 9780898709537
- Softcover, 265 pages, 5. 25 x 8 inches.
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- In The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis again employs his formidable talent for fable and allegory. The writer finds himself in Hell boarding a bus bound for Heaven.
- ISBN: 9780060652951
- Softcover, 146 pages, 5.5 x 8 inches.
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- Experience all of The Chronicles of Narnia in full color in this seven-book paperback box set.
- ISBN: 9780064409391
- Softcover, seven volumes with color illustrations.
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- The central character of the Plague Journal is Nathaniel Delaney, the editor of a small-town newspaper, who is about to face the greatest crisis of his life.
- ISBN: 9780898709810
- Softcover, 269 pages, 5.5 x 8 inches.
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- This novel, The Sabbatical, by Michael O'Brien deals with the tension between fatalism and the providential understanding of history, with the courage and love that are necessary for navigating through a confusion of signs, and with the triumph of faith and reason over the forces of destruction.
- ISBN: 9781621644903
- Hardcover, 375 pages, 5.5 x 8.25"
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- Joseph Pearce uncovers the rich—and distinctly Christian—meaning just beneath the surface of The Lord of the Rings in Frodo's Journey from the Shire to Mordor.
- ISBN: 9781618906755
- Softcover, 154 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches.
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- Format: Paperback
- ISBN/UPC: 9781586171599
- Height: 8.9
- Size: 6 x 1.1
- Pages: 464
