May we recommend:
CDs
*Nickel Creek; *The Greencards; *Cherryholmes; *Tony Rice; *Tommy Emmanuel; *The Wilders (also from Kansas City, Mo.!); *The Elders (the main man from Ireland, the rest from Kansas City); *Alison Kraus and Union Station Live!; *Heartland: An Appalachian Journey; *EmmyLou Harris: The Light of the Stable; *Chris Thile and Mike Marshall Live; *Josh Groban; *Joshua Bell, Romance of the Violin; *Will the Circle Be Unbroken, 2-disc set; soundtrack of the movie, Walk the Line; A Classical Christmas, Ken Sugita & Anthony Glise, violin and classical guitar; soundtrack from the movie O Brother Where Art Thou?
Family read-alouds
* Journey to the Center of the Earth; The Chronicles of Narnia; Lord of the Rings; Little House on the Prairie; The Little Prince; Little Women; Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn; Hind Feet on High Places; Wm. Bennett's The Moral Compass; Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates; Boys to Men, The Transforming Power of Virtue, Tim Gray and Curtis Martin; Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Favorite reads
*In Conversation with God, Daily Meditations; Imitation of Christ, Thomas a Kempis; A Landscape with Dragons, Michael O'Brien; A Mother's Rule for Life, Holly Pierlot; The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis; The Space Trilogies, C.S. Lewis; Walden, Thoreau; Talking with God, Francois Fenelon; Introduction to the Devout Life, St. Francis de Sales; The Apostolate of Holy Motherhood; Sermons of the Cure of Ars; St. Josemaria Escriva's The Way, The Furrow, The Forge; Raising your Spirited Child, M. Sheedy Kurchinka; Fr. Elijah, and the Children of God series, Michael O'Brien; Crime & Punishment, and The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky; The Art of Loving God, St. Francis de Sales; Living the Simple Life, Elaine St. James; Catholic Handbook for Parents, Fr. Paul Wickens; A Handbook for Parent Leadership and Prep for Peer Pressure, James Stenson; Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury; Brave New World, Aldous Huxley; 1984, George Orwell; any books by St. Therese of Avila, including The Way of Perfection; St. Augustine's Confessions and book on his life suitable for 14 and up, The Restless Flame, Louis de Wohl; The Man Who Was Thursday, G.K. Chesterton; The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis, True Devotion to Mary, St. Louis de Montfort; Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury; Crime and Punishment, Brother Karamazov and The Idiot, by Fyodor Doestevsky
Favorite flicks
*An Affair to Remember (Cary Grant); The Agony & The Ecstasy (Charleton Heston as Michaelangelo); Amazing Grace; The Bells of St. Marys (Bing Crosby); Ben Hur (Charleton, again); Boys Town (Mickey Rooney); Braveheart; Chariots of Fire; The Cinderella Man; Down from the Mountain, the Making of the Music; Dreamer; Field of Dreams; Finding Neverland; Hoosiers; The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt; It's a Wonderful Life; Jonah; the King and I; Lord of the Rings trilogy; The Magic Never Ends and Shadowlands (on the life of C.S. Lewis); The Miracle of Marcelino; The Miracle Worker; Miracle on 34th Street (Maureen O'Hara); Narnia; The Passion; Pride of the Yankees; The Reluctant Saint; Robert F. Kennedy and His Life and Times; Rudy; Sargeant York; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Jimmy Stewart); Secondhand Lions; Singing in the Rain; The Song of Bernadette; The Sound of Music; The Truman Show; The Life of Harry Truman (Gary Sinise); Walk the Line; You Can't Take it With You (Jimmy Stewart); Yankee Doodle Dandy; Young Mr. Lincoln