Read it. If it doesn't encourage some deep soul-searching, you may be part of the problem.
http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Divers-Adventure-Americans-Everything/dp/0345482476/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198505940&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/Place-Earth-Modern-Library-Exploration/dp/0375754741/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198506009&sr=1-2
I cried for the last third of the book. At the time, I didn't realize that there was a movie version. I have since seen the movie; but it didn't even touch the book in excellence.
Albert Einstein: His Life and Universe-- Excellent biography by Walter Isaacson
The First Grace--On natural law by Russell Hittinger
Sea of Thunder--The last great naval battle of WW II(Leyte Gulf) written through the character studies of four great leaders. by Evan Thomas.
Story of the Confederacy--The Civil War from the South's point of view. by Robert Selph Henry.
1776--The rise of General Washington and the first crucial year of independence. by David McCullough
The Cost of Discipleship--theology of the Cross in the shadow of the Third Reich. by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
"This spiritual classic was written by Lorenzo Scupoli, a sixteenth-century Venetian priest. Immensely popular in its own day, it was ranked by Francis de Sales with the Imitation of Christ. In the general rapport between Western and Eastern Christendom, it reached Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain, who first recognized its immense spiritual worth, and later, in the nineteenth century, Theophan the Recluse, both of whom edited and translated the work."
"Rich in its references to the teachings of the saints and Fathers, Unseen Warfare combines the insights of West and East on that spiritual combat which is the road to perfection and the stripping away of all that militates against it. Staretz Theophan wrote in his foreword, "the arena, the field of battle, the site where the fight actually takes place is our own heart and all our inner man. The time of battle is our whole life."" Unseen Warfare is a perfect complement to the Philokalia.
The Reagan Diaries — Edited by Douglas Brinkley
My Grandfather’s Son — Clarence Thomas
Rescuing Sprite — Mark Levin
Blacklisted By History — M. Stanton Evans
read, or reading, recently.
Henry VIII: A King and His Court by Allison Weir
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
Anything by Joel Rosenberg:
“Faith Undone” by Roger Oakland:
Shadow Divers is a GREAT BOOK
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (wrote "All the Pretty Horses")
I also enjoyed:
Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn
Those interested in pop culture might pick up "Blonde Ambition" by Rita Cosby.
"Silent Witness" by Mark Fuhrman
Shadow Warriors by Kenneth Timmerman.
Going back to A Tree Grows in Brooklyn for a change of pace.
I am a big Silverberg fan.
So what did you get?