Welcome to the James Kavanaugh Bookshop


Please come in and look around but excuse us as we get our books up on the shelves.

If this is your first exposure to the works of James Kavanaugh we hope you will become an old friend.  If you have always liked the wonder that Jim's work explores then we hope you will rediscover and reconnect with the person Larry King called "America's Best Poet".

We will also feature other musicians, writers and artists from time to time.

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We will also have different poetry selections for your on-line viewing enjoyment.

Don't forget to check back often, as we enjoy your visits, just like that of an old friend.

Featured Selections

A Modern Priest Looks At His Outdated ChurchA Modern Priest Looks At His Outdated Church -
25th Anniversary Edition.                                                            .

8 months on the NY Times Best Sellers List

"I am resigning from the Catholic Priesthood in personal protest."   

Dr. Carl Rodgers said, “It is one of the most moving human documents I have ever read!  In an earlier day the author would have been burned at the stake…”.

                                       Find out why this book and these words uttered over 40 years ago
                                       help us understand our world today much better.
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There Are Men Too Gentle To Live Among WolvesThere Are Men Too Gentle To Live Among Wolves.             .
 
The James Kavanaugh classic with over 67 printing!

Kavanaugh writes: “I am one of the searchers… We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything it can provide…we want to love and be loved, to live in a relationship that will not…prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls…”

More Details                Information from the original 1970 edition hardcover

Will You Be My Friend?Will You Be My Friend?                                                .

Over 57 printing.

Kavanaugh writes: “Friendship is freedom, is flowing, is rare… It trusts, understands, grows, explores, it smiles and weeps.  It does not exhaust or cling, expect or demand.  It is – and that is enough – and it dreams a lot!”

                                     More Details                     Information from the original 1971 edition hardcover 


God Lives..From Religious Fear To FreedomGod Lives: ...From Religious Fear to Spiritual Freedom       .

A book written for those who wonder about sin, hell, the bible, infallibility of the pope, a personal god, and how to live within their church when they are still fed historic myths and lies. With 8 years of graduate theology, scripture, archeology, and religious philosophy, Kavanaugh write in the same clear, eloquent, down to earth style that has characterized all his work, incorporating the latest of theological and biblical insights without academic opacity or arrogance.

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Poetry

Poetry - Currently unavailable

 

Allegory and Children


Allegory and Children - Currently Unavailable

  Fiction - Currently Unavailable
  • A Coward For Them All
  • The Celibates

Program/Workbook

  Search: A Guide for Those Who Dare
  to Ask of Life Everything Good
  and Beautiful.

Non-Fiction - Currently Unavailable

  • There's Two Of You
  • Man In Search of God
  • Journal of Renewal
  • The Struggle of the Unbeliever
  • The Birth of God
  • Between Man and Woman (co-authored)