Madeleine L’Engle Books In Order

Katherine Forrester Vigneras Books In Publication Order

  1. The Small Rain (1945)
  2. Prelude (1968)
  3. A Severed Wasp (1982)

Camilla Dickinson Books In Publication Order

  1. Camilla Dickinson / Camilla (1951)
  2. A Live Coal in the Sea (1962)

Austin Family Chronicles Books In Publication Order

  1. Meet the Austins (1960)
  2. The Moon by Night (1963)
  3. The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas (1964)
  4. The Young Unicorns (1968)
  5. A Ring of Endless Light (1980)
  6. The Anti-Muffins (1981)
  7. Troubling a Star (1994)
  8. A Full House (2000)

Time Quintet Books In Publication Order

  1. A Wrinkle in Time (1962)
  2. A Wind in the Door (1973)
  3. A Swiftly Tilting Planet (1978)
  4. Many Waters (1986)
  5. An Acceptable Time (1989)
  6. Intergalactic P.S. 3 (2018)

Time Quintet Graphic Novels In Publication Order

  1. A Wrinkle in Time (2012)

O’Keefe Family Books In Publication Order

  1. The Arm of the Starfish (1965)
  2. Dragons in the Waters (1976)
  3. A House Like a Lotus (1984)

Crosswicks Journals Books In Publication Order

  1. A Circle of Quiet (1971)
  2. The Summer of the Great-Grandmother (1974)
  3. The Irrational Season (1976)
  4. Two Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage (1988)

Genesis Books In Publication Order

  1. And It Was Good: Reflections on Beginnings (1983)
  2. A Stone for a Pillow: Journeys with Jacob (1986)
  3. Sold into Egypt: Joseph’s Journey into Human Being (1989)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Ilsa (1946)
  2. And Both Were Young (1949)
  3. A Winter’s Love (1957)
  4. The Love Letters (1966)
  5. Dance in the Desert (1969)
  6. The Other Side of the Sun (1971)
  7. The Weather of the Heart (1978)
  8. Certain Women (1992)

Madeleine L’Engle Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. Lines Scribbled on an Envelope and Other Poems (1969)
  2. Ladder of Angels (1979)
  3. A Cry Like a Bell (1987)
  4. The Sphinx at Dawn: Two Stories (1989)
  5. WinterSong: Christmas Readings (With: Luci Shaw) (1996)
  6. Miracle on 10th Street and Other Christmas Writings (1998)
  7. 101st Miracle: Early Short Stories (1999)
  8. The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L’Engle (2005)
  9. The Moment of Tenderness (2020)

Madeleine L’Engle Standalone Plays In Publication Order

  1. The Journey with Jonah (1967)

Madeleine L’Engle Picture Books In Publication Order

  1. Moses, Prince of Egypt (1999)
  2. The Other Dog (2001)

Madeleine L’Engle Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Prayers for Sunday (1974)
  2. Everyday Prayers (1974)
  3. Walking on Water: Personal Reflections (1980)
  4. Trailing Clouds of Glory: Spiritual Values in Children’s Literature (With: Avery Brooke) (1985)
  5. From This Day Forward (1989)
  6. The Glorious Impossible (1990)
  7. The Rock That is Higher: Story as Truth (1993)
  8. Anytime Prayers (1994)
  9. Penguins and Golden Calves: Icons and Idols in Antarctica and Other Spiritual Places (1996)
  10. Glimpses of Grace: Daily Thoughts and Reflections (With: Carole F. Chase) (1996)
  11. Bright Evening Star: Mystery of the Incarnation (1997)
  12. Friends for the Journey (With: Luci Shaw) (1997)
  13. Mothers & Daughters (1997)
  14. My Own Small Place: Developing the Writing Life (1999)
  15. A Prayerbook for Spiritual Friends: Partners in Prayer (1999)
  16. Mothers and Sons (2000)
  17. Madeleine L’Engle Herself: Reflections on a Writing Life (With: Carole F. Chase) (2001)
  18. The Joys of Love (2008)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Second Sight (1999)

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Madeleine L’Engle Books Overview

The Small Rain

Madeleine L’Engle’s classic young adult books include A Wrinkle in Time, A Swiftly Planet, and Certain Women. The Small Place, an adult novel, focuses on Katherine Forrester, the daughter of distinguished musical artists, whose career as a concert pianist evolves through loves and losses. Katherine is a child growing up in a refined, yet bohemian, artistic ambience theatrical as well as musical…
. Her adolescence is lonely and difficult, but as Katherine advances to young womanhood, her heart as well as her talent is promisingly engaged Publishers Weekly.

A Severed Wasp

Katherine Forrester Vigneras, in a continuation of her story from The Small Rain, returns to New York City from Europe to retire. Now in her seventies, she encounters an old friend from her Greenwich Village days who, it turns out, is the former Bishop of New York. He asks Katherine to give a benefit concert at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. This leads to new demands on her resources human, artistic, psychological, and spiritual that are entirely unexpected.

Camilla Dickinson / Camilla

Fifteen year old Camilla Dickinson has led a sheltered life on the Upper East Side with her architect father and stunningly beautiful mother. But this winter the security she has always known has vanished, because her parents marriage is coming apart and Camilla is caught in the middle. She finds a way to escape her troubles when she meets Frank, her best friend’s brother, who is someone she can really talk to about life, death, God, and her dream of becoming an astronomer. When Frank introduces her to the important people in his life, who are so different from anyone she has met before, he opens her eyes to worlds beyond her own, almost as if he were a telescope helping her to see the stars.

This novel, one of the author s earliest, is the story of a girl who, with the help of her first love, leaves childhood behind and enters adulthood with a newfound sense of self and inner strength.

A Live Coal in the Sea

Madeleine L’Engle’s first adult novel in four years now in paperback! With 23,000 copies sold since May 1996, this ‘haunting domestic drama’ Publishers Weekly examines the powers of faith and mercy in one family’s confrontation with a legacy of evil. Best known for A Wrinkle in Time the children’s classic that has sold more than 2 million copies since 1962 Madeleine L’Engle is as adept at exploring faith and human experience as she is at spinning fascinating, fantastic tales. Now this masterful storyteller blends her two passions and offers an engrossing new story to delight her devoted audience. When Dr. Camilla Dickinson’s teenage granddaughter confronts her with the disquieting question of whether Camilla is, in fact, her grandmother, long kept secrets rise to the surface to test the faith, love and loyalty of the Xanthakos family. This skillful, gripping tale shuttles between past and troubled present, providing clues to a multigenerational mystery clues that begin to focus on Camilla’s son, the deeply troubled TV idol Artaxias, and on Camilla’s mother, the irresistibly beautiful and adulterous Rose. Though riveting and psychologically complex, A Live Coal in the Sea is ‘infused with the warmth of love and mercy’ Booklist, showcasing the keen eye and deep compassion that have made L’Engle one of this century’s premier writers on faith and its place in human experience.

Meet the Austins

For a family with four kids, two dogs, assorted cats, and a constant stream of family and friends dropping by, life in the Austin family home has always been remarkably steady and contented. When a family friend suddenly dies in a plane crash, the Austins open their home to an orphaned girl, Maggy Hamilton. The Austin children Vicky, John, Suzy, and Rob do their best to be generous and welcoming to Maggy. Vicky knows she should feel sorry for Maggy, but having sympathy for Maggy is no easy thing. Maggy is moody and spoiled; she breaks toys, wakes people in the middle of the night screaming, discourages homework, and generally causes chaos in the Austin household. How can one small child disrupt a family of six? Will life ever return to normal?

The Moon by Night

In The Moon by Night, we find the Austin children Vicky, John, Suzy, and Rob unhappy at the prospect of leaving their beloved Connecticut house and moving into an apartment in New York City. In order to cushion the change, the Austin parents decide to take the whole family on a trip to California to visit Uncle Douglas and Aunt Elena. They ll drive out to California, camping along the way, and avoid hotels as much as possible. There is a great deal of care spent getting just the right equipment for the trip, and off the family starts. It is a marvelous trip different, exciting, fun. But the trip also brings problems to everyone in the family, and especially to Vicky when she meets Zachary. He’s a troubled and troubling boy who, against the wishes of her family, attaches himself to Vicky. How Vicky meets the challenges of the trip and of her interest in Zachary and in another boy, Andy, who becomes Zachary s rival, make up the body of this warmly appealing story of family life.

The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas

Vicky Austin’s family does one special thing each day of December to prepare for Christmas. This year, they re also preparing for the birth of a new brother or sister, due after the New Year. Vicky is worried that the baby will come early what kind of Christmas Eve would it be without Mother to help them hang up stockings and sing everyone to sleep with carols? This classic story of an old fashioned Christmas is accompanied by merry illustrations by Jill Weber.

The Young Unicorns

The Austins are trying to settle into their new life in New York City, but their once close knit family is pulling away from each other. Their father spends long hours alone in his study working on the research project that brought the family to the city. John is away at college. Rob is making friends with people in the neighborhood: newspaper vendors, dog walkers, even the local rabbi. Suzy is blossoming into a vivacious young woman. And Vicky has become closer to Emily Gregory, a blind and brilliant young musician, than to her sister Suzy.
With the Austins going in different directions, they don t notice that something sinister is going on in their neighborhood and it’s centered around them. A mysterious genie appears before Rob and Emily. A stranger approaches Vicky in the park and calls her by name. Members of a local gang are following their father. The entire Austin family is in danger. If they don t start telling each other what s going on, someone just might get killed.

A Ring of Endless Light

After a tumultuous year in New York City, the Austins are spending the summer on the small island where their grandfather lives. He’s very sick, and watching his condition deteriorate as the summer pas*ses is almost more than Vicky can bear. To complicate matters, she finds herself as the center of attention for three very different boys.
Zachary Grey, the troubled and reckless boy Vicky met last summer, wants her all to himself as he grieves the loss of his mother. Leo Rodney has been just a friend for years, but the tragic loss of his father causes him to turn to Vicky for comfort and romance. And then there s Adam Eddington. Adam is only asking Vicky to help with his research on dolphins. But Adam and the dolphins may just be what Vicky needs to get through this heartbreaking summer.

The Anti-Muffins

John Austin calls a meeting of the Anti Muffin club after little Maggy distinguishes herself in a spectacular Sunday School brawl.

Troubling a Star

The Austins have settled back into their beloved home in the country after more than a year away. Though they had all missed the predictability and security of life in Thornhill, Vicky Austin is discovering that slipping back into her old life isn t easy. She’s been changed by life in New York City and her travels around the country while her old friends seem to have stayed the same. So Vicky finds herself spending time with a new friend, Serena Eddington the great aunt of a boy Vicky met over the summer.
Aunt Serena gives Vicky an incredible birthday gift a month long trip to Antarctica. It s the opportunity of a lifetime. But Vicky is nervous. She s never been away from her family before. Once she sets off though, she finds that s the least of her worries. She receives threatening letters. She s surrounded by suspicious characters. Vicky no longer knows who to trust. And she may not make it home alive.

A Full House

The Austins have A Full House on Christmas Eve when fate brings them a new mother and a young woman who is expecting.

A Wrinkle in Time

It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.’Wild nights are my glory,’ the unearthly stranger told them. ‘I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I’ll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.’A tesseract in case the reader doesn’t know is A Wrinkle in Time. To tell more would rob the reader of the enjoyment of Miss L’Engle’s unusual book. A Wrinkle in Time, winner of the Newbery Medal in 1963, is the story of the adventures in space and time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O’Keefe athlete, student, and one of the most popular boys in high school. They are in search of Meg’s father, a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government on the tesseract problem. A Wrinkle in Time is the winner of the 1963 Newbery Medal.

A Wind in the Door

It is November. When Meg comes home from school, Charles Wallace tells her he saw dragons in the twin’s vegetable garden. That night Meg, Calvin and C.W. go to the vegetable garden to meet the Teacher Blajeny who explains that what they are seeing isn t a dragon at all, but a cherubim named Proginoskes. It turns out that C.W. is ill and that Blajeny and Proginoskes are there to make him well by making him well, they will keep the balance of the universe in check and save it from the evil Echthros. Meg, Calvin and Mr. Jenkins grade school principal must travel inside C.W. to have this battle and save Charles life as well as the balance of the universe.

A Swiftly Tilting Planet

It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.’Wild nights are my glory,’ the unearthly stranger told them. ‘I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I’ll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.’A tesseract in case the reader doesn’t know is a wrinkle in time. To tell more would rob the reader of the enjoyment of Miss L’Engle’s unusual book. A Wrinkle in Time, winner of the Newbery Medal in 1963, is the story of the adventures in space and time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O’Keefe athlete, student, and one of the most popular boys in high school. They are in search of Meg’s father, a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government on the tesseract problem.

Many Waters

Sandy and Dennys have always been the normal, run-of-the-mill ones in the extraodinary Murry family. They garden, make an occasional A in school, and play baseball. Nothing especially interesting has happened to the twins until they accidentally interrupt their father’s experiment.

Then the two boys are thrown across time and space. They find themselves alone in the desert, where, if they believe in unicorns, they can find unicorns, and whether they believe or not, mammoths and manticores will find them.

The twins are rescued by Japheth, a man from the nearby oasis, but before he can bring them to safety, Dennys gets lost. Each boy is quickly embroiled in the conflicts of this time and place, whose populations includes winged seraphim, a few stray mythic beasts, perilous and beautiful nephilim, and small, long lived humans who consider Sandy and Dennys giants. The boys find they have more to do in the oasis than simply getting themselves home–they have to reunite an estranged father and son, but it won’t be easy, especially when the son is named Noah and he’s about to start building a boat in the desert.

An Acceptable Time

It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.’Wild nights are my glory,’ the unearthly stranger told them. ‘I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I’ll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.’A tesseract in case the reader doesn’t know is a wrinkle in time. To tell more would rob the reader of the enjoyment of Miss L’Engle’s unusual book. A Wrinkle in Time, winner of the Newbery Medal in 1963, is the story of the adventures in space and time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O’Keefe athlete, student, and one of the most popular boys in high school. They are in search of Meg’s father, a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government on the tesseract problem.

The Arm of the Starfish

When Adam Eddington, a gifted marine biology student, makes the acquaintance of blond and beautiful Kali Cutter at Kennedy International Airport on his way to Portugal to spend the summer working for the renowned scientist Dr. O Keefe, he has no idea that this seemingly chance meeting will set into motion a chain of events he will be unable to stop. Caught between Kali’s seductive wiles and the trusting adoration of Dr. O Keefe s daughter, Poly, Adam finds himself enmeshed in a deadly power struggle between two groups of people, only one of which can have right on its side. As the danger escalates, Adam must make a decision that could affect the entire world which side is he on?

Dragons in the Waters

A stolen heirloom painting…
a shipboard murder…
Can Simon and the O’Keefe clan unravel the mystery?Thirteen year old Simon Renier has no idea when he boards the M.S. Orion with his cousin Forsyth Phair that the journey will take him not only to Venezuela, but into his past as well. His original plan to return a family heirloom, a portrait of Simon Bolivar, to its rightful place is sidetracked when cousin Forsyth is found murdered. Then, when the portrait is stolen, all passengers and crew become suspect. Simon’s newfound friends, Poly and Charles O’Keefe, and their scientist father help Simon to confront the danger that threaten him. But Simon alone must face up to his fears. What has happened to the treasured portrait? And who among them is responsible for the theft and the murder?

A House Like a Lotus

‘Seventeen year old Polly can accept her dying patron’s lesbianism until Max, overcome by pain and alcohol, attempts to seduce her. While on a working trip to Greece and Cyprus, previously arranged by Max, Polly learns what forgiveness and love really are. Polly is a remarkable hero*ine.’ Children’s Book Review Service’Compelling.’ Starred, Booklist

A Circle of Quiet

This journal shares fruitful reflections on life and career prompted by the author’s visit to her personal place of retreat near her country home.

The Summer of the Great-Grandmother

This journal offers a loving and poignant portrait of L’Engle’s mother in old age that is more about living than dying.

The Irrational Season

The third volume of L’Engle’s autobiography is a gifted and courageous writer’s personal odyssey through the seasons of the Christian year. A great evil of our time, she convincingly asserts, is the ever widening rift between intellect and intuition, sadly reflected in the division of Christendom, the breaking up of our families, and the loss of community everywhere.

Two Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

The story of a marriage of true minds and spirits a brilliant writer’s tribute to lasting love. ‘A vivid and touching chronicle.’ Chicago Tribune

And It Was Good: Reflections on Beginnings

And It Was Good: Reflections on Beginnings by Madeleine L’Engle. Hardcover in dust jacket 213 pages Harold Shaw publishers, 1983

And Both Were Young

Flip feels like a prisoner when she first arrives at boarding school in Switzerland; her days are strictly scheduled and she never has a minute to herself. She’s constantly surrounded by girls who never stop talking about clothes and boys, making Flip feel lonely, clumsy, and awkward. Then she finds a true friend in Paul. He understands her in a way that no one at school does, and she breaks the rules to spend time with him. But as the two become closer, Flip learns that Paul has a mystery in his past. To help him discover the truth, she must put herself in serious danger. This new edition of one of Madeleine L Engle s earliest works features an introduction by the author s granddaughter, the writer L na Roy.

The Love Letters

Charlotte Napier has much to learn about herself, her faith, and her marriage. She flees to Portugal, desperately looking for comfort after the death of her son and, she thinks, her marriage. There she finds solace in the letters of a 17th century nun who struggled with temptation and sin. AAs Charlotte achieves a clearer focus on her own pain, she gains a powerful sense of the rigorous and demanding nature of real love.

The Other Side of the Sun

L’Engle at her best, this novel features Stella, who marries into the aristocratic Renier family and discovers a frightening world of intrigue, greed, prejudice, and superstition. Soon drawn into a raging battle between good and evil, Stella must fight her way through to find The Other Side of the Sun.

The Weather of the Heart

Madeleine L’Engle bids us, in her own words, to ‘sit at sacrament’ with her ‘across a strange and distant table.’ It is a paschal event, a meal of rememberence.

Where her own hurt is cruciform, we are the more alive. When she admits arrogance in Gethsemane, we, too, remember glutting on unleavened loaves. But as she herself declares:

‘Never was a feast finer than this. Come, eat and drink, unfreeze and live.’ Calvin Miller, author of The Singer Trilogy

Certain Women

A deftly woven drama that brings together elements of the theater, biblical narrative and the goings on in unconventional families.

Ladder of Angels

Presents stories and scenes from the Old Testament rewritten by the author and accompanied by children’s paintings.

WinterSong: Christmas Readings (With: Luci Shaw)

Have a cup of coffee and put a log on the fire, settle info a comforable chair and enjoy a winter’s day with the writings of novelist Madeleine L’Engle and poet Luci Shaw. Participate in the winter season: the wonder, the solemnity, the power, and the miracles. These readings reflect on the winter world around us, drawing joy from winter days, hope from Christmas celebrations, and promise for the New Year. This elegant collection is the natural outflow of the long standing friendship between Madeleine L’Engle and Luci Shaw. Sharing similar themes and a reflective style of writing, they combine their two rich literary worlds. Newbery Award Winner Madeleine L’Engle is widely known for her children’s books, and adult fiction and nonfiction. Her most recent book is Live Coal in the Sea. Renowned poet Luci Shaw’s most recent book is The Green Earth: Poems of Creation. Both women are widely known throughout the United States and Canada for their workshops on writing and journaling, lectures, and retreats.

The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L’Engle

Praise for The Ordering of LoveBy Madeleine L Engle In a brilliant marriage of myth and manner, histories sacred and profane, prayers of petition and of praise, these poems both articulate and illumine the trouble in the gap in which we live the gap between human affections and Divine Love. L Engle is unfailing in her willingness to see through not around human suffering, and in so doing announces no final severing of spirit and flesh but an enduring vision of resurrection in that crux, in the cross, in the One in Whom all things meet, continuing. Scott Cairns, author of Slow Pilgrim and Philokalia: New and Selected Poems I love L Engle’s poetry for the way it incarnates not only the great Truths of the faith, but all the little truths of our ordinary existence our working and playing and loving and fighting and dreaming and idling and all the rest of it and for the way it shows us that those big and little truths should not, cannot, be separated. Carolyn Arends, recording artist and author Why is L Engle one of the defining poets of our time? Because when life hurts, she does not shrink from the wounds. She clarifies the murk with hope as we feel the lift of grace. Calvin Miller, Beeson Divinity SchoolBirmingham, Alabama We are, all of us, the richer for this carefully crafted and prayerfully rendered collection. Phyllis Tickle, Author, The Divine Hours Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words. And then it is written to be shared. Madeleine L EngleMadeleine L Engle s writing has always translated the invisible and intricate qualities of love into the patterns and rhythms of visible life. Now, with compelling language and open hearted vulnerability, The Ordering of Love brings together the exhaustive collection of L Engle s poetry for the first time. This volume collects nearly 200 of L Engle s original poems, including eighteen that have never before been published. Reflecting on themes of love, loss, faith, and beauty, The Ordering of Love gives vivid and compelling insight into the language of the heart.

The Other Dog

Touche L’Engle Franklin is confused: Her mistress goes away for several days and then returns with another dog. But this dog doesn’t have a tail. She doesn’t have much hair. And she never has to go outside when it’s raining. What on earth could the family want with that inferior breed known as Baby? Based on the true tale of her own poodle’s experience coping with a new baby in the house, Newbery winning author Madeleine L’Engle gives this familiar domestic drama an utterly charming new twist. Tongue in cheek wit, endearing illustrations, and a revealing author’s note make this a publishing event to celebrate.

Walking on Water: Personal Reflections

In Walking On Water, Madeleine L’Engle addresses the questions, What makes art Christian? What does it mean to be a Christian artist? What is the relationship between faith and art? Through L’Engle’s beautiful and insightful essay, readers will find themselves called to what the author views as the prime tasks of an artist: to listen, to remain aware, and to respond to creation through one’s own art.

The Glorious Impossible

The birth of Jesus was a Glorious Impossible. Like love, it cannot be explained, it can only be rejoiced in. And that is what master storyteller Madeleine L’Engle does in this compellingly written narrative, inspired by Giotto’s glorious frescoes from the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua. With a simple clarity that illuminates the life of Christ, Madeleine L’Engle gives eloquent voice to the miracle of God’s love.

Penguins and Golden Calves: Icons and Idols in Antarctica and Other Spiritual Places

Despite protests and warnings from friends and family, author Madeleine L Engle, at the age of seventy four, embarked on a rafting trip to Antarctica. Her journey through the startling beauty of the continent led her to write Penguins and Golden Calves, a captivating discussion of how opening oneself up to icons, or everyday windows to God, leads to the development of a rich and deeply spiritual faith. Here, L Engle explains how ordinary things such as family, words, the Bible, heaven, and even penguins can become such windows. She also shows how such a window becomes an idol a penguin becomes a golden calf when we see it as a reflection of itself instead of God. With delightful language, insightful metaphor, and personal stories, L Engle brings readers to a deeper understanding of themselves, their faith, and the presence of God in their daily lives.

Glimpses of Grace: Daily Thoughts and Reflections (With: Carole F. Chase)

For half a century, Madeleine L’Engle has spun magic with words, touching millions of lives and earning a devoted readership with her award winning fiction, candid reflections on her personal and family life and graceful meditations on faith. Now, Glimpses of Grace captures the essence of L’Engle’s literary gift in one unprecedented volume. Ranging freely throughout L’Engle’s remarkable lifework of more than 40 volumes of fiction and nonfiction, adventure stories, family dramas, autobiography and religious commentary, editor Carole P. Chase has collected evocative passages and arranged them as daily readings that offer illuminating bits of wisdom, provocative insight, and, above all, engaging and intelligent daily inspiration. With enduring power and resonance, each of these 366 rich selections speaks to the simple joys and sorrows of daily life and the deepest questions of the human heart and spirit, while reflecting the exhilarating artistry of one of the most spiritually alive and articulate storytellers of this century.

Bright Evening Star: Mystery of the Incarnation

For over fifty years, L’Engle has been delighting and inspiring readers with her warm, eloquent prose, and inspirational poetry. She continues this tradition with Bright Evening Star, a personal reflection of the mystery and majesty of the Incarnation of Jesus Christ. Bright Evening Star provides a glimpse into the life stories of this prolific author and her encounters with God. With a foreword by John Tesh, L’Engle invites us on a spiritual adventure that leads to hope, joy, and a closer relationship with Jesus. ‘Christmas,’ says Madeleine L’Engle, ‘should be a time of awed silence.’ If you’re looking for a unique and Christ centered Christmas meditation, Bright Evening Star will be a rich and delightful discovery year round!

Friends for the Journey (With: Luci Shaw)

Born of a friendship spanning a quarter of a century, Madeleine L’Engle and Luci Shaw’s Friends for the Journey considers the golden quality of deep and lasting friendships, showing that the common ground of love for God transcends even separation.

A Prayerbook for Spiritual Friends: Partners in Prayer

Here is a collection of read aloud, read together prayers that will draw close friends even closer to each other, to God, and to the fascinating authors of these prayers. In a brief foreword, Madeleine L’Engle and Luci Shaw talk about the prayers they offer and reflect on the experience of prayer in their lives and in their friendship. Then, successive page spreads feature prayers from both authors about a specific topic or for a special occasion. The prayers are interactive voices responding to each other, praying for each other, praying together and designed to be prayed aloud, together, by spiritual friends. With the prayers, L’Engle and Shaw suggest settings that might enhance the experience. Topics and occasions for the prayers are as universal as the experiences of all friends. The prayers themselves are as unique as the personalities and experiences of the partners who wrote the book and those who use it. This is a book that will build prayer and friendships a perfect gift for friends to share.

Madeleine L’Engle Herself: Reflections on a Writing Life (With: Carole F. Chase)

The author of over fifty books, including Newbery Award winner A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle is internationally acclaimed for her literary skills and her ability to translate intangible things of the spirit both human and divine into tangible concepts through story. In Madeleine L’Engle Herself: Reflections on a Writing Life, you’ll find hundreds of this celebrated author’s most insightful, illuminating, and transforming statements about writing, creativity, and truth. INCLUDES NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED MATERIAL FROML’ENGLE’S WORKSHOPS AND SPEECHES.

The Joys of Love

During the summer of 1946, twenty year old Elizabeth is doing what she has dreamed of since she was a little girl: working in the theatre. Elizabeth is passionate about her work and determined to learn all she can at the summer theatre company on the sea where she is an apprentice actress. She’s never felt so alive. And soon she finds another passion: Kurt Canitz, the dashing young director of the company, and the first man Elizabeth s ever kissed who has really meant something to her. Then Elizabeth s perfect summer is profoundly shaken when Kurt turns out not to be the kind of man she thought he was.

Moving and romantic, this coming of age story was written during the 1940s. As revealed in an introduction by the author s granddaughter L na Roy, the protagonist Elizabeth is close to an autobiographical portrait of L Engle herself as a young woman vibrant, vulnerable, and yearning for love and all that life has to offer.

Second Sight

What lies on the other side of tomorrow? What if tomorrow was actually a doorway to another age a new millennium? What does the world have in store for us? Or perhaps more important: What do we have in store for the world? As seen through the eyes of teens, here are eight stories that attempt to answer those questions. Offering their insight through humor, fantasy, and realism, today’s most important writers for young adults play the role of visionaries in a collection you won’t want to miss. Includes original stories by: Madeleine L’Engle, Richard Peck, Avi, Natalie Babbitt, Rita Williams Garcia, Janet Taylor Lisle, Nancy Springer, and Michael Cadnum.

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