Books like A Circle of Quiet (Crosswicks Journals #1) by Madeleine L'Engle

Alan Watts examines the paradox of human insecurity, arguing that the pursuit of stability breeds anxiety. Drawing on philosophy, religion, and psychology, he invites Western readers to reconsider their relationship with time, pain, and the world.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh reflects on life’s true values during a seaside retreat, using shells as symbols of inner treasures and the balance between restlessness and peace.

The Road Less Traveled encourages facing life's challenges as a path to deeper self‑understanding, emotional maturity, and healthier loving relationships.

From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the "melancholy star of the imagination," and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death. A moving and exhilarating memoir by a woman whose furious determination to learn the enemy, to use her gifts of intellect to make a difference, led her to become, by the time she was forty, a world authority on manic-depression, and whose work has helped save countless lives.

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

An intimate memoir of Madeleine L'Engle and her husband, chronicling a forty‑year marriage full of joy, struggle, and shared creative pursuits.

An intimate look at the life of children's book author Madeleine L'Engle through interviews with her friends and associates.