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13 stories, each a mini-biography of one of those great souls whose faith in Jesus inspired and necessitated and sustained their work toward a more righteous world.
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In June, Americapublished online summer reading recommendations from members of our editorial staff. Given that we have the smartest readers in publishing, it felt fitting that we ask for their recommendations, too. Below you will find a sample of suggestions from our staff, newsletter readers and members of our Catholic Book Club and Jesuitical Facebook groups.

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Jack Miles
Patrick Ryan, S.J., has produced a book that is a word of culmination and ratification. It is a kind of extended amen at the end of a long life of scholarly faith and faithful scholarship.
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Benjamin Ivry
During her lifetime, poetry turned into a vocation that helped Marie Ponsot achieve her true essence.
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Pete Holmes discovers a new meaning to Christ’s words “Go and do likewise,” not as a moralistic command, but as a call to an awakening, a conversion, the practice Catholic tradition calls the “imitation of Christ.”
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Zac Davis
Kristen Arnett’s novel is about intimacy and wanting what is forbidden, about childhood and family, about absent parents and absent lovers, and about the secondhand self-destruction that can be wrought by ignoring cries of the heart.