Santa: 181 books

Many people, at one time or another, struggle with faith issues about sin, guilt, punishment, and hell. But a large segment of the population, many of them Catholic, are so afraid of sin that their lives are marked with anxiety and fear. These people suffer from an affliction called ""scrupulosity.""...

(Da «Il libro della vita», cap. 22, 6-7, 14) "Chi ha come amico Cristo Gesù e segue un capitano così magnanimo come lui, può certo sopportare ogni cosa; Gesù infatti aiuta e dà forza, non viene mai meno ed ama sinceramente. Infatti ho sempre riconosciuto e tuttora vedo chiaramente che...

I vedere poi il diavolo, che è la terza pena, moltiplica ogni loro sofferenza. Se infatti i santi sempre esultano nella mia visione ripensando con gaudio al frutto dei sacrifici che hanno sopportato per me con grandissimo amore e disprezzo di sé, il contrario è di questi sventurati,...

St. Alphonsus was a man in love with Jesus. For Alphonsus, the Stations of the Cross provided the opportunity to meditate on the true meaning of the love of the Most Holy Redeemer. With its poetic translation of the original, this revised version of St. Alphonsus' Way of the Cross--long a parish favorite--offers...

The Little Scarecrow Boy comes to life in the light of the Harvest Moon when a little spark of life essense comes over Hay's forehead and passes through the fibers of burlap from which Hay's head is made. He suddenly awakens and he leaps off of the workbench only to fall in a heap on the floor. That's...

“Escapism of the highest order” (Booklist) from the #1 internationally bestselling author, her first book set in America, the story of a mother and daughter searching for love and happiness, unaware of the secrets that bind them. England, 1932: Grace Hamblin is growing up on the beautiful...

Edición con Prólogo de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, a partir de la original: Madrid: Imprenta de la Sociedad Literaria y Tipográfica, 1844.

En esta excepcional antología la académica Clara Janés recoge composiciones de las primeras poetisas que escribieron en lengua castellana, mujeres que sintieron la inquietud de la creación y la desarrollaron hasta alcanzar las más altas cotas. Ya en el siglo XVII, María de Zayas y Sotomayor...

Mission Impossible and James Bond have nothing on this wily bunch of rabbits who are pledged to protect the Queen of England—and the President of the United States—from a dastardly plot in this charming second novel of the Royal Rabbits of London series. Life is an adventure. Anything in...

Set in Ireland on the wild coast of Connemara, this hauntingly romantic novel tells the story of a young woman who goes in search of her family’s past and ends up discovering her future. Ellen Trawton is running away from it all. She hates her job, she doesn’t love the aristocratic man...

A beguiling new novel from the internationally bestselling author of Last Voyage of the Valentina When an elegant French antiques dealer dies in her adopted hometown of New York City, her son, Misha, is astonished to learn that she owned a priceless, uncataloged Titian known as The Gypsy Madonna....

Southeast Asian Ecocriticism presents a timely exploration of the rapidly expanding field of ecocriticism through its devotion to the writers, creators, theorists, traditions, concerns, and landscapes of Southeast Asian countries. While ecocritics have begun to turn their attention to East and South...

Pieles de todos los colores e inverosímiles cabelleras han envuelto el interior y las osamentas de los genios más creativos jamás vistos sobre un campo de juego, magos o deportistas que han dotado de un ruedo fascinante a la pelota sudaca. Este compendio de historias en formato de enciclopedia...

En 1562 Teresa de Jesús fundó el convento de San José de Ávila, el primero de las carmelitas y, a instancias de Francisco de Soto y Salazar, su confesor, comenzó a escribir el Libro de mi vida, influido por sus lecturas de libros de caballería y comparado por algunos con las Confesiones de san...