Bookses, precious!

Need something new to read? Here a some great books for you to put on your "next trip to the library or bookstore" list:

The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine
Sorry, I just had to mention this one. It's one of my all time favorite books. It's a funny, heart-warming story about finding courage in times of cowardice. Also to check out by this author, Ella Enchanted.

Christy by Catherine Marshall
An inspirational classic, this is the story of 19-year-old Christy Huddleston, who in the year of 1912 goes to work as a teacher in the remote village of Cutter Gap, far back in the Tenessee mountains. There she learns lessons about love for God and other people by living with, working with, and befriending the fascinating, complex mountain-dwellers.

All For The Love of Mothers: Memoirs of a Catholic Midwife by Lisbeth Burger
An absolutely wonderful book, composed of true stories and anecdotes told from the view of a Catholic midwife working in Germany. As a midwife in a relatively small town, she was closely assosciated with the families she helped and many of the other women around confided in her. With true stories taken from the lives of these women and their family, she illustrates an unabashedly Catholic view of chastity, abortion, marriage, and child-raising. A great book. I'd recommend it only to people 15 and over, as it deals with some rather mature topics.

Lady Susan by Jane Austen
Probably the least-known of her works, this is Austen's tale of a scheming, scornful woman and the people she tries to manipulate. It's written in epistolary style, which makes it really interesting because we get the story from virtually every character's point of view.


Have any books you'd like to recommend? Comment and let us know!

P.S.
A great way to get the classics, for free! Go to librivox.org, where you can download audio versions of books onto your computer and even your mP3 player. Only books that are in the public domain (i.e., published before 1923. For more information go here).