I have a friend who is in prison, and will be for a very long time--probably the rest of her life. I send her books, because other than e-mailing her cheery messages, sending greeting cards and putting a little cash into her commissary account, it's about all I can do. The prison only allows books ordered directly from Amazon.com and dropped shipped, so I can't use any sub-sellers which means used or out-of-print books are out of the question.
I mainly send her novels I've read that are somewhere on the line between not too depressing and not so frivolous that she won't be able to get into them. This is a harder goal to hit than you'd think, so I'm always happy to take more recommendations on these, too.
However, I know that she's really gotten into her faith (Christianity) since her imprisonment. She sometimes asks for specific spiritual books, and if Amazon has them I send them. But it worries me because they tend to be of the Prosperity Gospel variety that couple Send Me Money with Magical Positive Thinking, using the ever-present out that "If it didn't work for you, you just failed to pray hard enough."
I hate to support those charlatans.
So what I'm looking for is any recommendations of sincere, uplifting Christian/spiritual books suitable for a prison inmate. If you have any suggestions, please share!
I mainly send her novels I've read that are somewhere on the line between not too depressing and not so frivolous that she won't be able to get into them. This is a harder goal to hit than you'd think, so I'm always happy to take more recommendations on these, too.
However, I know that she's really gotten into her faith (Christianity) since her imprisonment. She sometimes asks for specific spiritual books, and if Amazon has them I send them. But it worries me because they tend to be of the Prosperity Gospel variety that couple Send Me Money with Magical Positive Thinking, using the ever-present out that "If it didn't work for you, you just failed to pray hard enough."
I hate to support those charlatans.
So what I'm looking for is any recommendations of sincere, uplifting Christian/spiritual books suitable for a prison inmate. If you have any suggestions, please share!