Reading Materials We know there are
times when you're looking for just the right article or book but
you're not sure where to turn. Or you don't know if a book you saw
in the store is really worth reading. That's why we've compiled
a list to get you pointed in the right direction. We will also include
reviews to help you decide if a particle book or article is really
right for you.
If
you have suggestions, we'd love to hear them.
Special List Section: FOCUS Conference
Below is a list of books that were recommended
at the FOCUS conference by our speakers. Enjoy!
A Call
to Solidarity With Africa
US Conference of Catholic Bishops: NCCB-USCC
A Grief Observed
C.S. Lewis: Bantam
A Lesson Before Dying
Gaines: Vintage
Becoming the Parent You Want to Be
Laura Davis & Janis Keyser: Broadway Books
Walking a Sacred Path- The Labyrinth
as a Spiritual Tool
Lauren Artress: Riverhead/Penguin
Blessed Grieving
Joan Guntzelman: St. Mary's Press
Boundaries: Where You End and I Begin
Anne Katherine: Simon & Schuster
Building Healthy Minds
Stanley Greenspan: Perseus
Callings! Following an Authentic Life
Gregg Levoy: Crown Publishers
Career Change: Everything You Need to Know
David Helfand: Belantine/Rando
Catechism of the Catholic
Church
Liguori Publications
Catholic Customs and Traditions
Greg Dues: Twenty-Third Publications
Catholics Experiencing Divorce
Rev. William Rabion and Vicki Wells Bedard: Liguori Publications
Children are from Heaven
John Gray, Ph.D.: Harper Collins Publishers
Choosing the Better Part? Women in the
Gospel of Luke
Barbara E. Reid: Liturgical Press
Codependent No More
Molody Beattie: Hazelden Ed. Materials
Come to the Feast: An Invitation to Eucharistic
Transformation
Rev. Richard Fragomeni: Continuum Publishing Co.
Coping with Separation and Loss as a
Young Adult
Louis Lagrand: Charles C. Thomas
Daddyhood
Daniel Driscoll: Sorin Books
Dance of Anger
Lerner: Harper Collins
Deep River
Shusako Endo: New Directions
Do What You Are
Tieger and Tieger: Little Brown
Eight Weeks to Optimum Health
Andrew Weil, MD: Knopf
Emotional Intelligence
Dr. Daniel Goleman: Bantam Books
Emotional Unavailability Collins:
McGraw Hill
Even if I Did Something Awful
Shook-Hazen: Aladdin Paperbooks
Everyday Sacred Stretching Lessons
Sue Bender: Harper
For Better...Forever
Gregory Popcak: Our Sunday Visitor
From Age to Age: How Christians Have
Celebrated the Eucharist
Edward Foley: Liturgy Training Pub.
Full-Time Christians
William Droel
Getting the Love You Want
Harville Hendrix: Holt & Company
God Knows Your Stressed
Ann Bryan Smollin: Sorin Books
Good News About Sex and Marriage
Christopher West: Servant Publications
Gospel Light: Jesus Stories for Spiritual
Consciousness John Shea: Crossroad
Grow Up! How taking Responsibility Can
Make You a Happy Adult
Dr. Frank Pittman: Golden Books
Handbook of Spirituality for Ministers
Robert J. Wicks: Paulist Press
Happiness is an Inside Job
John Powell: Tabor Publishing
Healing the Wounds of Divorce-A Spiritual
Guide to Recovery
Barbara Leahy Shlemon: Ave Maria Press
How Can I Get Through to You?
Terence Real: Scribner
How Good Do We Have to Be?
Harold Kushner: Little, Brown & Co.
How to Raise Your Self-Esteem
Nathaniel Branden: Bantam Books
How to Read the Gospels: Answers to Common
Questions
Daniel J. Harrington: New City Press
How to Survive the Loss of a Love
Melba Colgrove: G.K. Hall
How to Talk so Kids will Listen and Listen
so Kids will Talk
Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
Integrity Stephen Carter: Harper
Collins
Introduction to the New Testament
raymond E. Brown: Doubleday
Islam: A Short History
Modern Library
Jesus in Blue Jeans
Laurie Beth Jones: Hyperion
Journey of the Spirit-Meditations for
the Spiritual Seeker
Hudson and Kelsey: Paulist Press
Lay Ministers, Lay Disciples: Evangelizing
Power in the Parish
Blum Gerding and DeJiano: Paulist Press
Let Your Life Speak-Listening to the
Voice of Vocation
Parker Palmer: Jossey-Bass Publishers
Life Skills for Adults
J. Woititz and A. Garner: Health Com
Listening...How to Increase
Awareness of Your Inner Guide
Lee Coit: Las Brisas Retreat Center
Lives of Moral Leadership
Robert Coles: Random House
Living Faith
Daily Catholic Devotions
Living Simply in God's Abundance
Suzanne Dale Ezell: Thomas Nelson Inc.
Living With Faith and Hope after September
11
US Conference of Catholic Bishops: NCCB-USCC
Logotherapy and Life
Joseph Fabry: Harper Collins
Lonliness and the Long Distance Runner
Sillitoe: Plume
Love and Fertility
Mercedes Arzu Wilson: BBE
Love and Will
Rollo May: W.W. Norton & Company
Love is Never Enough
Aaron T. Beck: Harper Perennial
Lying
Sisella Bok: Vintage Books
Major Themes of the Quran
Falzur Rahman: Bibliotheca Islamica
Making Peace With Your Parents
Harold H. Bloomfield: First Ballantine Books
Man's Search for Himself
Rollo May: Delacorte Press
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl: Washington Square
Man's search for Ultimate Meaning
Viktor Frankl: Perseus Book Group
Manifesto for a New Medicine
James Gordon, MD: Addison Wesley
Mars and Venus on a Date
John Gray: Harper Collins
Mastering the Art of Self-Renewal
Frederic Hudson: MVF Books
May I Have this Dance?
Joyce Rupp: Ave Maria Press
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
John Gray: Harper Collins
Mohammad: His Life Based on the Earliest
Sources
Martin Lings: Inner Traditions International
Myth and Ritual in Christianity
Alan W. Watts: Beacon Press
Nuturing Good Children Now
Dr. Ron Taffel: Golden Books Publishing
One Thousand Roads to Mecca: Ten Centuries
of Travelers Writing About the Muslim Pilgrimage
Michael Wolfe: Grove Atlantic
Open Mind, Open Heart
Thomas Keating: Continuum
Parenting with Grace
Gregory Popcak: Our Sunday Visitor Pub.
Please Understand Me II
David Reinsing: Peonethias Nemisis Book
Praying Our Good-byes
Joyce Rupp: Ave Maria
Praying with Women of the Bible
Bridget Mary Meehan: Liguori/Triumph
Premarital Counseling
Robert Stanmann and William Hiebert: Lexington Books
Recollections: An Autobiography
Viktor Frankl: Perseus Book Group
Reinventing Medicine
Larry Dossey, MD: Harper Collins
Relationship Rescue
Phillip C. McGraw: Hyperion
Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved
in the Americas
Sylviane Diouf: University Press
Sex Begins in the Kitchen
Dr. Kevin Leman: Fleming H. Revell
Shifting Gears [out of print-only available
through Amazon.com]
Neena and George O'Neill: Avon
Siblings Without Rivalry
Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish: Avon
Spirituality at Work
Gregory Pierce: Acta
Spiritual Wisdom for
Pastoral Ministries (audio tape set)
John Shea: Audio File
Springs of Creative Living: A Study of
Human Nature and God
Rollo May
Stories for the Heart
Alice Gray: Multnomah Publishers
Strategies For Success: Parish Social Ministry
Tom Ulrich: Ave Maria Press
Surviving Your Friend's Divorce
Mary Kay Leatherman: Acta Publications
Ten Days to Self-Esteem
David Burns: Quill
The Art of Natural Family Planning
John & Sheila Kippley: CCL International, Inc
The Basic Guide to Young Adult Ministry
John Cusick & Kate DeVries: Orbis Books
The Better Part
Thomas Keating: Continuum
The Billings Method: Controlling Fertility
Without Drugs or Devices
Dr. Evelyn Billings & Ann Westmore: Anne O'Donovan Pty Ltd
The Catholic Study Bible / New American
Don Senior, General Editor: Oxford University Press
The Cosmic Dance
Joyce Rupp, Orbis
The Courage for Peace
Louise Diamond: Conari Press
The Courage to Be
Paul Tillich Yale: University Press
The Divorce Culture
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead: Alfren A. Knopf
The Gift of Peace
Joseph Cardinal Bernardin: Loyola Press
The God Instinct
Tom Stella Sorin Books
The God Who Won't Let Go
Peter Van Breeman, SJ: Ave Maria Press
The Good Enough Catholic: A Guide for the Perplexed
Paul Wilkes: Ballantine Books
The Healing Power of Faith
Harold Koenig, MD Simon & Schuster
The Holy Longing: the Search for a Christian
Spirituality
Ronald Rolheiser OMI Doubleday
The Holy Quran
translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation
Thomas Keating: Paulist Press
The Intentional Family
William Doherty PhD: Addison-Wesley
The Meaning of Anxiety
Rollo May: W.W. Norton & Company
The Prayer of Jabez
Bruce Wilkinson: Multnomah Publishers
The Resilient Self
Steven Wolin & Sybil Wolin: Villard Books
The Spirit Master
John Shea: Thomas More
The Starter Marriage
Pamela Paul: Villard Publishing
The Two-Step: The Dance Toward Intimacy
Eileen McCann & Douglas Shannon: Grove Press
The Unheard Cry for Meaning
Viktor Frankl: Washington Square
The Wellness Book
Herbert Benson, MD & Eileen Stuart, RN, MS: Simon & Schuster
To Life! A Celebration of Jewish Being and
Thinking
Harold Kushner: Warner Books
Tomorrow, Catholic: Understanding God and Jesus
in a New Millenium
Michael Morwood: Twenty-third Publications
Toward Understanding Islam
A. Maududi: Islamic Circle of North America
Toxic Coworkers
Cavaiola & Lavender: New Harbinger Publications
Turning to One Another
Margaret Wheatley: Berrett-Kochler Pub.
Urging of the Heart
Wilkie Au & Noreen Cannon: Paulist Press
Vocations Anonymous-A Handbook for Adults Discerning
Priesthood and Religious Life
Kathleen Bryant, LSC: National Coalition for Church Vocations
What Color is your Parachute?
Richard Bolles: Ten Speed Press
What Makes us Catholic: Eight Gifts for Life
Thomas H Groome: Harper
What You Fear Is Who You Are
David Thompson, Ph.D.: MTR Corp
What's Happening to Home? Balancing Work, Life
and Refuge in the Information Age
Maggie Jackson: Sorin Books
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Harold Kushner: Schocken Books
When I Say No I Feel Guilty
Manuel J. Smith Bantam
Why Marriages Succeed or Fail
John Gottman PhD: Simon & Schuster
Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications
of Logotherapy
Viktor Frankl: New American Library Trade
Wisdom of the Body
Evelyn and James Whitehead: Crossroads
Yesterday I Cried
Iyanla Vanzant: Simon & Scheister
You are Special
Max Lucado: Crossway Books
You Can Be Happy No Matter What
Richard Carlson, PhD: New World Library
You Give Them Something to Eat
Joe Paprocki: Ave Maria Press
You Just Don't Understand
Deboran Tannen Morrow: Hassaballa, HA.
"Jesus an important figure to Muslims." San Angelo
TX, Standard-Times, December 22, 2001.
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