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Want to suggest a book, music CD or other item for Anglican Marketplace, or offer other advice on how to make this site better? Let us hear from you!

We at the Prayer Book Society wanted the redesigned Anglican Marketplace to offer a wider selection of trustworthy works and resources for orthodox Anglicans to choose from. And indeed, between books and CDs offered directly by PBS, and those commended by the Society Board and offered through our Associate relationship with Amazon.com, the new Marketplace debuted in the summer of 2010 with four times the listings of its predecessor site.

Yet we know that this is just a start. We realize that much more is needed to round out the selection of works and resources commended on the new Marketplace, and that we must constantly strive to enhance and update this service with fresh listings. And we know we can't do that all by ourselves; we need your help to make this the comprehensive resource that will truly serve your needs and those of other faithful Anglicans. To that end, the PBS Board will welcome and consider suggestions for additional offerings, or on how to improve this on-line ministry, from Marketplace visitors and patrons.

How to contact us about the Marketplace:

Please direct all suggestions or other comments or questions relating to Anglican Marketplace to prayerbooksoc@aol.com. If you wish to commend a book or music CD that is not currently listed on the Marketplace, please include its full identifying and locating information (e.g. in the case of a book, its full title and author name, and its ISBN number), and a brief description/review (a paragraph or two) of the volume or recording. All suggested books should be compatible with orthodox Anglicanism; books and CDs available from Amazon.com are preferred.

Christian Fiction: For Adults

 
The item(s) cited below are among works and resources in this category that the Prayer Book Society (PBS) suggests for orthodox Anglicans. You can acquire any book or CD listed by following the links provided to Amazon.com, where your purchase will also produce a modest commission to help fund the Society's mission efforts. PBS/Anglican Marketplace is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, which enables sites to earn referral fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. Thank you for your support. (Note: To get more information on a suggested book or CD before you buy it, click on the item's title in the link box following each listing; click on "Best Price" or "Buy from Amazon.com" to go more directly to purchase information.)

A Charles Williams Reader

One of the greatest Christian writers of the 20th century, Anglican and Dante scholar Charles Williams wrote allegorical novels filled with Christian imagery. He was a member of the Inklings, the group of creative Oxford intellectuals of the 1930s and ‘40s that included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.  Remembered also for his poetry, Williams excelled as well in the fiction genre, writing “contemporary religious novels filled with suspense, mystery and supernatural conflict,” as the front flap of A Charles Williams Reader puts it. This volume brings together three of Williams’ best-recalled novels, Descent into Hell, Many Dimensions, and War in Heaven. “Whether read independently or as a loose trilogy, these psychological thrillers…explore our very real relation to the supernatural world lying just behind the appearances of everyday life.”



A Trilogy of Novels By Christine Sunderland/Oaktara Books
Here is something one doesn't find very often: Good Christian fiction written by a traditional Anglican with special significance for Anglicans and other orthodox Christians and devotees of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer. Madeleine Seymour, the central character of Christine Sunderland's three books — titled Pilgrimage, Offerings, and Inheritance — is an orthodox Anglican. Moreover, Mrs. Sunderland — who has clearly studied and traveled widely — seamlessly weaves into her stories information about the Church's faith, practice, liturgy and saints, as well as historical and current detail about various secular and sacred venues that her characters visit over the course of her three novels. A resident of the San Francisco Bay area, Christine Sunderland is Church Schools Director for the Anglican Province of Christ the King and Vice-President of the American Church Union.

Pilgrimage

—Christine Sunderland

This first of Christine Sunderland's trilogy of novels finds the main character, orthodox Anglican Madeleine Seymour, still haunted and anguished by the accidental death of her daughter 22 years before. She takes up the suggestion of her spiritual advisor, Fr. Rinaldi, that she and her husband, Jack, a retired wine broker, visit a carefully selected series of churches and other Christian venues in Italy. As one reviewer put it, "Pilgrimage is a story about guilt, forgiveness and belief. Using a compelling fictional story as her vehicle [the author] contemplates deep matters of faith, such as truth, doubt, suffering, miracles, and martyrdom. As Madeleine visits church after church, she prays that the pilgrimage would '...cleanse and heal me in my own pool of time. I understood why Father sent me here. I needed to desire this, to want this, to be willing to give up my ghosts, just as ...catechumens gave up their past, to be reborn. I had to accept God's grace, his transforming power. Was I willing?'"

Offerings

—Christine Sunderland

In this installment in Sunderland's trilogy, Madeleine and Jack, who is now ill and needs a special operation, travel to France try to catch up with an American-based French-born doctor who perfected the procedure that Jack needs. They initially believe the doctor, Rachelle DuPres, is at Lourdes. But Dr. DuPres - shaken by a misjudgment that led to the death of one of her patients - proves elusive as she travels to different locations in France in search of her roots, and a way to come to terms with the first significant failure in her career. With Madeleine and Jack following behind, both they and the doctor make a spiritual journey that culminates in Paris.

Offerings was awarded a bronze medal in the Independent Publisher Book Awards for 2010. (See http://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=1362, #16, Religious Fiction.)



Inheritance

—Christine Sunderland

In Inheritance, Madeleine and her husband seek to establish a home for children in England, and while there reach out to help a pregnant, unwed Vietnamese-American girl on the run from a powerful mother who insists that she have an abortion.