David Pinault

A Hiker's Guide to Purgatory

Fiction

“Grab your favorite walking stick and join newly deceased Dan Geary as he hikes his way to Heaven. But be warned: this soul has lots to learn. A book of rare value, a you-are-there broadcast from the beyond. Read it, and find yourself making better use of the gift of this life as preparation for the next.”

By the Rivers of Babylon

Fiction

“The novel is so vivid that we too are caught up alongside the captive sage as he slogs, barefoot and beaten, into Babylonian exile. His story teaches us how to survive—even thrive—when worldly hopes slide to ruin, by entrusting heart and will to God's own divine plan.”

Exogenesis

Fiction

“Part 1984, part Brave New World, Peco Gaskovski's dystopia nonetheless glimmers with hope: Blade Runner meets The Benedict Option. A vivid read.”

For Love of My People I Will Not Remain Silent

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“No one in the twenty-first century has offered better witness to the suffering of these underground Catholics than Cardinal Zen, who urges the Vatican to shun power-politic deals with the Communist state. Let today's papacy follow instead the path of the "Lamb who appears weak'—the path followed faithfully for so many years by the martyred Church of China.”

How I Became a Man

History & Biography

“Krylov shows how his family environment of deep Christian piety helped him persevere in his faith despite relentless exposure to state-sponsored programs of ‘scientific atheism' and Soviet ideology. Timely reading given the resurgent challenge we face today: expansionist totalitarianism in both Putinist Russia and Communist China.”

Jesus of Nazareth

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Hesemann's up-close experience shines forth on every page. 'Behold the man, behold God', he invites us. He succeeds in this admirably, offering a vision as immediate and sharp as a breeze from the Sea of Galilee.”

Seeing Red

Fiction

“Reminiscent of Fahrenheit 451 and Twilight Zone, where comfortable facades of day-to-day routine are ripped apart to reveal disquieting realities from which we'd rather squirm away.”

The Wedding of Madeburg

Fiction

“With the stab-thrust urgency of a knife blade to the gut, Gertrud von le Fort shows how Germany tore itself apart in the Thirty Years’ War, a horror ignited by the refusal of political rivals to recognize their shared human worth under God’s loving gaze. She published this story in 1938, a last-minute attempt to warn her nation against the destructive militarism of the Third Reich. But there’s much wisdom here for our twenty-first century—and many hard truths for Christian readers to ponder today.”