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Featured: Why Should I Learn This
Why Should I Learn This—a collection of chapters written by many authors—including twenty-one Homeschool Connections’ instructors.
With key information from over thirty outstanding published authors, teachers, and professionals, Why Should I Learn This helps increase motivation, gain encouragement, and ensure success in learning.
Whether it is philosophy, math, or creative writing, with this book, you can now find the answers to your question: Why Should I Learn This?
Dale Ahlquist
Monica Ashour
Erin Brown Conroy
- Simplified Writing 101: Top Secrets for College Success
- EB Conroy’s Simplified Vocabulary Guide for College Success
- Matt’s Pup: A Beginning Reader
- 40-Days to Balanced Parenting: How to Bring Your Busy Life Back into Balance
- 20 Secrets to Success with your Child: Wit and wisdom from a mom of 12
- “My Kid Is Driving Me Crazy!:” 14 Realistic Expectations That Make Parenting Easier
- Miracle in the City of Angels: An International Adoption Story (co-author)
- Hope in the Valley of Tears (editor)
- Why Should I Learn This (contributing author and co-editor)
- Simplified Literature (publication pending)
Phillip Campbell
- Tale of Manaeth
- Paladologies
- The Story of Civilization: VOLUME I – The Ancient World
- The Story of Civilization: VOLUME II: The Medieval World
- The Story of Civilization: VOLUME III: The Making of the Modern World
- The Story of Civilization: VOLUME IV: The History of the United States
- Heroes and Heretics of the Reformation
- The Book of Non-Contradiction: Harmonizing the Scriptures
- The Catholic Middle Ages: A Primary Document Catholic Study Course
- The Rending of Christendom: Primary Document Catholic Study Course
- The Complete Works of Saint Cyprian of Carthage (editor)
- Life of St. Columba (editor)
- Hermits and Anchorites of England (editor)
- Epitaphs of the Catacombs (editor)
- Manual for Marian Devotion (editor)
- Pope Innocent III and His Times (introduction)
- Why Should I Learn This (contributing author)
Anthony (Tony) Esolen
- Dante’s Inferno (translator)
- Dante’s Purgatory (translator)
- Dante’s Paradise (translator)
- Defending Boyhood: How Building Forts, Reading Stories, Playing Ball, and Praying to God Can Change the World
- Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child
- Nostalgia: Going Home in a Homeless World
- Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme Liberata)
- Angels, Barbarians, and Nincompoops
- Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture
- Real Music: A Guide to the Timeless Hymns of the Church
- Life Under Compulsion: Ten Ways to Destroy the Humanity of Your Child
- Reclaiming Catholic Social Teaching
- Defending Marriage: Twelve Arguments for Sanity
- Ironies of Faith: The Laughter at the Heart of Christian Literature
- Reflections on the Christian Life
- The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization
Trent Horn
- What the Saints Never Said: Pious Misquotes and Subtle Heresies
- Why We’re Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love
- The Case for Catholicism: Answers to Classic and Contemporary Protestant Objections
- Hard Sayings: A Catholic Approach to Answering Bible Difficulties
- Persuasive Pro Life: How to Talk About Our Culture’s Toughest Issue
- Answering Atheism – How to Make the Case for God with Logic and Charity
Gary Michuta
- Hostile Witnesses: How the Historic Enemies of the Church Prove Christianity
- Making Sense of Mary
- How to Wolf Proof Your Kids: A Practical Guide for Keeping Your Kids Catholic
- Why Catholic Bibles are Bigger
- The Case for the Deuterocanon: Evidence and Arguments
- Why Should I Learn This (contributing author)
Peggy Morrow
Lisa Mladinich
- Heads Bowed: Prayers for Catholic School Days
- True Radiance: Finding Grace in the Second Half of Life
- Be An Amazing Catechist: Sacramental Preparation
- Be An Amazing Catechist: Inspire the Faith of Children
- The Catholic Mom’s Prayer Companion: A Book of Daily Reflections (contributing author)
- Word by Word: Slowing Down With the Hail Mary (contributing author)
- Tending the Temple: 365 Days of Spiritual and Physical Devotions (contributing author)
- Why Should I Learn This (contributing author)
Jason Negri
Eleanor Bourg Nicholson
Kevin O'Brien
Additionally, Mr. O’Brien is the voice actor for many audio books, which can be found at St. Genesius
Dave Palmer
Joseph Pearce
- Poems Every Catholic Should Know
- Race with the Devil: My Journey from Racial Hatred to Rational Love
- Monaghan: A Life
- Frodo’s Journey: Discover the Hidden Meaning of The Lord of the Rings
- The Quest for Shakespeare: The Bard of Avon and the Church of Rome
- C. S. Lewis and the Catholic Church
- Tolkien: Man and Myth, a Literary Life
- Literary Giants, Literary Catholics
- Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile
- Unafraid of Virginia Woolf: The Friends and Enemies of Roy Campbell
- Literary Converts: Spiritual Inspiration in an Age of Unbelief
- The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde
- Shakespeare on Love: Seeing the Catholic Presence in Romeo and Juliet
- Beauteous Truth: Faith, Reason, Literature & Culture
- Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton
- Through Shakespeare’s Eyes
- Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc
- Small is Still Beautiful: Economics as if Families Mattered
- Candles in the Dark: The Fr. Ho Lung Biography
- Bloomsbury and Beyond: The Friends and Enemies of Roy Campbell
- Why Should I Learn This (contributing author)
Professor Pearce is also an editor for the Ignatius Critical Editions.
Jean Rioux
Ed Rivet
- The Catholic Homeschool Companion (contributing author)
- Why Should I Learn This (contributing author)
Tim Staples
Maureen Wittmann
- For the Love of Literature
- The Catholic Homeschool Companion (co-editor and contributing author)
- A Catholic Homeschool Treasury (co-editor and contributing author)
- Why Should I Learn This (co-editor)