Slant Books
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Matters for You Alone
$17.00 Add to cartMatters for You Alone is a spiritual exploration of friendship: its shapes and duties, stresses and blames-and its absolute necessity. The book takes its title from Jean-Pierre de Caussade’s classic,
- Author: Williams, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1639821651
- Language: English
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Gather the Olives: On Food and Hope and the Holy Land
$34.00 Add to cartGather the Olives is an achingly lovely essay collection that celebrates the multiculturalism of Israel and Palestine, lifting up those whose generosity and kindness lights the way to lasting peace. –
- Author: Lott, Bret
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1639821635
- Language: English
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All in a Garden Green
$16.00 Add to cartThirteen-year-old Erica Pickins does not want to play the piano–and she definitely does not want to go to England. But her father must take family and students for a fall semester abroad, and her mot
- Author: Willis, Paul J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: June 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1639820604
- Language: English
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Drunken Silenus
$19.00 Add to cartThe Drunken Silenus is a book that is as hard to categorize as it is to put down–an enlightening and mesmerizing blend of philosophy, history, and art criticism. Morgan Meis begins simply enough, wit… [more below]
- Series: Three Paintings Trilogy
- Author: Meis, Morgan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: April 09 2020
- ISBN10: 163982054X
- Language: English
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Kinderszenen
$20.00 Add to cartAn old man-poet, playwright, essayist, and scholar-sifts through the broken fragments of his memory as he recounts what it was like to grow up in Warsaw during the German occupation of World War II. T
- Author: Rymkiewicz, Jaroslaw Marek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1639821503
- Language: English
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In the Unwalled City
$17.00 Add to cartIn the Unwalled City takes its title from Epicurus, who wrote: “Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death, we human beings all live in an unwalled city.” This
- Author: Cording, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1639821147
- Language: English
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Cry of the Heart: On the Meaning of Suffering
$27.00 Add to cartThe experience of suffering has posed a profound existential challenge to human hearts and minds throughout history. But it has become especially problematic in our time, when, with our good intention
- Author: Albacete, Lorenzo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: February 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1639821279
- Language: English
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Moon Grammar
$29.00 Add to cartIn the opening poem of Matthew Porto’s dazzling debut collection, we hear the voice of the recurring angel figure for the first time, commanding us to “Get used to the light.” That light-blinding, mys
- Author: Porto, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1639821570
- Language: English
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Everything I Did I Did for Happiness: The Life of Enzo Piccinini
$19.00 Add to cartIn May 1999, seven thousand people crowded the basilica in Bologna, Italy to offer a farewell to Enzo Piccinini, a surgeon who died tragically at the age of forty-eight. Who was this doctor who had le
- Author: Bardazzi, Marco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: February 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1639821325
- Language: English
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The Miracle of Hospitality
$18.00 Add to cartIn his introduction, Fr. Juliç–£ Carr asks: “Why is hospitality a miracle? It seems like something we should take for granted-opening the door of our home and let-ting someone in should be normal.”
- Author: Giussani, Luigi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: February 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1639821295
- Language: English
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Sleeping as Fast as I Can: Poems
$32.00 Add to cartWith the rise of anti-Semitism, extremism, political polarization, mass shootings, the fraying of Black-Jewish-Asian alliances, and the loss of personal connections during the age of Covid, where is G
- Author: Michelson, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1639821368
- Language: English
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Searching for Home
$17.00 Add to cartSearching for Home, Pack’s splendid twenty-second collection of poems, written largely during his last year of life, centers on the search for meaning. At its heart are sequences of poems about three
- Author: Pack, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1639821473
- Language: English
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Relevance of the Stars: Christ, Culture, Destiny
$19.00 Add to cartFrom popes to television personalities to high school students, everyone who encountered Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete knew there was no one like him. He could engage you with a joke about a New Yorker c
- Author: Albacete, Lorenzo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1639820841
- Language: English
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Old Songs: Poems
$17.00 Add to cart“Olga Sedakova is a writer of global significance. . .the publishing of this collection is a welcome stage in the reception of her exceptional genius in the West.” So writes Rowan Williams in his fore
- Author: Sedakova, Olga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1639821414
- Language: English
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Throw
$18.00 Add to cart“Llorona was no harmless little pigeon. She was the lechuza, the owl you see just before someone is about to die, the one that haunts you in your dreams and you never want to see in real life because
- Author: Degollado, Rub?n
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: February 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1639820183
- Language: English
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There Will Never Be Another Night Like This
$19.00 Add to cartA woman tries to prepare her man-child husband for their impending divorce. A middle-aged guy in the grip of codeine and suburban ennui reinvents himself as an old west gunfighter. A heartbroken fathe
- Author: Salter, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1639821538
- Language: English
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There Will Never Be Another Night Like This
$32.00 Add to cartA woman tries to prepare her man-child husband for their impending divorce. A middle-aged guy in the grip of codeine and suburban ennui reinvents himself as an old west gunfighter. A heartbroken fathe
- Author: Salter, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1639821546
- Language: English
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Sleeping as Fast as I Can: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartWith the rise of anti-Semitism, extremism, political polarization, mass shootings, the fraying of Black-Jewish-Asian alliances, and the loss of personal connections during the age of Covid, where is G
- Author: Michelson, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 163982135X
- Language: English
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Living the Liturgy: A Witness
$18.00 Add to cartThere is an ancient Christian saying from the Patristic Era which is known in its most concise form as lex orandi, lex credendi. As the Catechism of the Catholic Church translates it: “The law of pray
- Author: Giussani, Luigi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1639821597
- Language: English
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Moon Grammar
$17.00 Add to cartIn the opening poem of Matthew Porto’s dazzling debut collection, we hear the voice of the recurring angel figure for the first time, commanding us to “Get used to the light.” That light-blinding, mys
- Author: Porto, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1639821562
- Language: English
