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Title: 10 Principles for Spiritual Parenting: Nurturing Your Child's Soul
Author: Mimi Doe Marsha F. Walch
This mother-daughter team offers practical advice for parents who wish to bring more spirituality into their parenting as well as their children's day-to-day life. Parents, regardless of whether they belong to an organized religion or not, report that the book has been profoundly inspirational. Each chapter is devoted to 1 of the 10 principles of spiritual parenting and includes ruminations as well as specific suggestions. The writing is fluid, well organized, and filled with respect for parents and their children. In the chapter titled Create a Flexible Structure, suggestions include: provide daily quiet time, downshift into your child's rhythms rather than always imposing your own, and try not to get caught up in the competitive rush to sign up, join in, and push harder to give your child a leg up on other kids.

Title: 365 WWJD: Daily Answers to What Would Jesus Do?
Author: Nick Harrison
365 WWJD? offers people of all ages daily food for thought, warmly reminding us of the many ways we can model our everyday actions after the life of Jesus.

Title: A Catholic Perspective on the Purpose Driven Life
Author: Joseph M. Champlin
A companion guide to The Purpose Driven Life, it follows author Rick Warren's 40-day process that will assist Roman Catholics in transforming their lives and appreciating the richness and beauty of their faith. This book also provides great opportunities for guided reflection, sharing and prayer that reinforce many of Warren's points with additional commentaries on areas in which Catholic teaching varies.

Title: A Divine Addiction
Author: Dornell M. Griffin Kodzina D. Griffin
A Divine Addiction is a touching, and candid story about true and pure love, obedience, and deliverance. The pages and message in this book ministers one's soul. A Divine Addiction is a reminder that if one is obedient and will listen to God, He brings one out of the wilderness.

Title: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of 'A Course in Miracles'
Author: Marianne Williamson
Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles is the first book by author Marianne Williamson and is to date the biggest selling book of interpretation of the spiritual thought system found in the book A Course In Miracles. Most estimates claim that A Return to Love has sold in excess of three million copies, making it not only the best selling book of ACIM interpretation but one of the best selling self-help books of all time.

Title: A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality
Author: Ken Wilber
A concise, comprehensive overview of Wilber's revolutionary thought and its application in today's world. In A Theory of Everything, Wilber uses clear, nontechnical language to present complex, cutting-edge theories that integrate the realms of body, mind, soul, and spirit. He then demonstrates how these theories and models can be applied to real-world problems in areas such as politics, medicine, business, education, and the environment. Wilber also discusses daily practices that readers take up in order to apply this integrative vision to their own everyday lives.

Title: Discover the Power Within You: A Guide to the Unexplored Depths Within
Author: Eric Butterworth
This book is a valuable guide for all who are seeking a truly full way of life. It deals definitively with the question, What did Jesus really teach? and offers direct and simple answers to what Jesus himself taught about such vital subjects as: How to Succeed, How to Attain True Prosperity, How to Pray, How to Find Healing, How to Overcome Virtually All Personal Problems.

Title: Finding Noel
Author: Richard Paul Evans
Mark seems to be failing in everything in life. He just lost his mother, his scholarship at the University of Utah has been cancelled, he lost his dorm room and his part time job. To top it all, on a dark, cold, snowy night, his car dies. Finding warmth of the diner where his car stops, he meets a young woman that will change his life forever.

Title: Godless: The Church of Liberalism
Author: Ann Coulter
Conservative author Ann Coulter discusses how liberalism could be defined as a religion. She correlates how political beliefs are similar to religious beliefs, and could be construed as the same thing, depending on how someone explains and interprets them.

Title: Grey Eminence
Author: Aldous Huxley
is a biography of François Leclerc du Tremblay, the French monk who served as advisor to Cardinal de Richelieu. He was also known as Father Joseph and as L'éminence grise; that phrase originally referred to du Tremblay.

Title: Heaven and Hell
Author: Emanuel Swedenborg
This book is a detailed description of the afterlife where people go after the death of the physical body. It deals with God, heaven, hell, angels, spirits, and devils, which the author claimed to have witnessed first hand.

Title: In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do?
Author: Charles Monroe Sheldon
In His Steps is a best-selling book written by Charles Monroe Sheldon. First published in 1896, the book has sold more than 30,000,000 copies, which ranks as the ninth best-selling book of all time, along with Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls. The full title of the book is: In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do?

Title: Integral Psychology: Consciousness, Spirit, Psychology, Therapy
Author: Ken Wilber
The goal of an integral psychology is to honor and embrace every legitimate aspect of human consciousness under one roof. This book presents one of the first truly integrative models of consciousness, psychology, and therapy.

Title: Integral Spirituality: A Startling New Role for Religion in the Modern and Postmodern World
Author: Ken Wilber
Integral Spirituality is being widely called the most important book on spirituality in our time. Applying his highly acclaimed integral approach, Ken Wilber formulates a theory of spirituality that honors the truths of modernity and postmodernity—including the revolutions in science and culture—while incorporating the essential insights of the great religions. He shows how spirituality today combines the enlightenment of the East, which excels at cultivating higher states of consciousness, with the enlightenment of the West, which offers developmental and psychodynamic psychology. Each contributes key components to a more integral spirituality.

Title: Martin Luther: A Man Who Changed The World
Author: Paul Maier
Martin Luther served as a catalyst of the Protestant Reformation in sixteenth-century Europe. This book teaches children about his fascinating life, influence, and teaching while encouraging them to see how God uses them in His kingdom today. Beautiful picture book highlighting the important events in Luther's life, and why the Reformation was the result.

Title: Morning Star of the Reformation
Author: Andy Thomson
When young John of Wycliffe arrives at Oxford University, he finds it a fascinating and perilous place. With his friend, Sebastian Ayleton, John experiences the terrible plague called the Pestilence (the Black Death), and he becomes involved in clashes between university factions as well as riots among the townspeople.

Title: Of A Mustard Seed: The New Tithe
Author: C.F. Jackson
In Of a Mustard Seed, the author deftly illustrates her philosophical insight into this critical problem of coming to terms with the direction in which we are headed, not in the form of heavy-handed preaching, but as a unique and ultimately entertaining story.

Title: Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution
Author: Ken Wilber
Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution is integral philosopher Ken Wilber's 1995 magnum opus. Wilber intends it to be the first volume of a series called The Kosmos Trilogy, but subsequent volumes are still in preparation. The scholarly work comprises 850 pages, including 270 pages of notes. The German edition of Sex, Ecology, Spirituality was entitled Eros, Kosmos, Logos: Eine Jahrtausend-Vision ('A Millennium-vision'). The book has been both highly acclaimed by some authors, harshly criticized by others, and largely ignored by academia.

Title: Shapeshifting: Shamanic Techniques for Global and Personal Transformation
Author: John Perkins
Many indigenous cultures practice shapeshifting. Native American hunters take on the spirit of their prey to insure a successful hunt; Asian medicine men ingest a sickness to heal the one afflicted; Amazon warriors become jaguars to soundlessly travel the jungle. Those who shapeshift understand that all of life is energy, and that by focusing your intent you can change energetic patterns, rendering a new form. Shapeshifting can occur on three levels: cellular -- transforming from human to plant or animal, or losing weight; personal -- becoming a new self, or leaving an addiction behind; and institutional -- creating a new business or cultural identity.

Title: Siddhartha
Author: Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha is an allegorical novel by Hermann Hesse which deals with the spiritual journey of an Indian man called Siddhartha during the time of the Buddha.

Title: The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
The Book of Mormon is a volume of holy scripture comparable to the Bible. It is a record of God’s dealings with the ancient inhabitants of the Americas and contains, as does the Bible, the fulness of the everlasting gospel.

Title: The Christ Commission
Author: Og Mandino
An Og Mandino mystery! In front of eight million TV viewers, The Greatest Mystery Writer in the Word bragged he could prove Christ was actually stolen from the tomb and never really rose from the dead...if he were given just one week in ancient Jerusalem. That night, author Matt Lawrence, got his wish. A knockout punch from a drunk in a bar took him right out of this world and landed him in Biblical Judea in 36 A.D.

Title: The Devils of Loudun
Author: Aldous Huxley
This is a non fiction book. It is a historical account of demonic possession, superstition and religious fanaticism in seventeenth-century France, based on events which took place in the small town of Loudun in Poitou.

Title: The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
Author: Aldous Huxley
The title is derived from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake. The essay explains the relationship between bright, colorful objects, geometric designs, psychoactives, art, and profound experience. The text is usually published in a volume combined with Huxley's companion work The Doors of Perception.

Title: The Fifth Mountain
Author: Paulo Coelho
For a considerable portion of the story Elijah is very compliant, obeying everything God's angels say. Eventually he realises that his destiny is not being chosen by him but by God. Ultimately he decides to do go by his own desires and will. In this way Coelho suggests that Elijah was able to reach an ultimate level of spiritual awareness and have the most powerful relationship with God.
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