Jack (Gilead, #4)
By: Marilynne Robinson
3.86
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, returns to the …
Want to Read $ 9.99"Those who can't hope can still wish."-Marilynne Robinson, Jack (Gilead, #4)
"Those who can't hope can still wish."-Marilynne Robinson, Jack (Gilead, #4)
"Those who can't hope can still wish."-Marilynne Robinson, Jack (Gilead, #4)
"So many of earth's grievances could be soothed by a little consideration."-Marilynne Robinson, Jack (Gilead, #4)
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1. Hannah Coulter
By: Wendell Berry
4.38
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry's seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman charac… read more
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"Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"Living right on called for nothing out of the ordinary. We made no changes. We only accepted the changes as they came."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
2. The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)
By: Wendell Berry
4.34
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
Old Jack, born just after the American Civil War and dying in contemporary times, spends one beauti… read more
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"She mourns for the future, as the past has taught her. And yet there is a rejoicing in her, persistent and unbidden as the beating of her heart."-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)
"The modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature. It is in the arrogance that will believe nothing that cannot be proved, and respect nothing it cannot understan…"-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)
"Now when he walked in his fields and pastures and woodlands he was tramping into his mind the shape of the land, his thought becoming indistinguishable from it, so that when he came to die his intell…"-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)
"Sitting there, eyes shut, head tilted back, hands at rest upon his cane's crook, he seems to sink immeasurably, to float down into a well of light as warm and red as blood. He has met the sun at its …"-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)
3. Nathan Coulter
By: Wendell Berry
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Nathan Coulter begins Wendell Berry's sequence of novels about the citizens of Port William, Kentuc… read more
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- literary fiction
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- audiobook
"Oh Lord, make us able To eat all that's on this table, And if there's some we haven't got Bring it to us while it's hot"-Wendell Berry, Nathan Coulter
"Tobacco,' Jig said. 'I used to raise tobacco once. But I quit. I was plowing one morning, and the Lord said, "Jig, how'd you like for your daughter to smoke?" And I said, "I wouldn't like it, Lord. I…"-Wendell Berry, Nathan Coulter
4. The Jesus Way: A Conversation on the Ways That Jesus Is the Way (Spiritual Theology #3)
By: Eugene H. Peterson
4.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Jesus Way part of Eugene Peterson's meaty "conversations" on spiritual theology A way of sacrif… read more
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5. Cloud Chamber
By: Michael Dorris
3.61
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Ten years after his "dazzling" (San Francisco Chronicle), "unforgettable" (Newsday) bestselling deb… read more
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- literature
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6. The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection
By: Ruth Reichl , Robert Farrar Capon , Deborah Madison
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
From a passionate and talented chef who also happens to be an Episcopalian priest comes this surpri… read more
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7. The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life
By: Terryl L. Givens , Fiona Givens
3.00
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
"Whether by design or by chance," Terryl and Fiona Givens write, "we find ourselves in a universe f… read more
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- religion
8. Peace Like a River
By: Leif Enger
4.09
Format: 315 pages,
Once in a great while, we encounter a novel in our voluminous reading that begs to be read aloud. L… read more
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9. If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother
By: Julia Sweeney
2.88
Format: 29 pages, Hardcover
Julia Sweeney, the delightful former cast member of Saturday Night Live, takes readers into the dep… read more
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10. Andy Catlett: Early Travels
By: Wendell Berry
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Berry opens this latest installment of the Port William series with young Andy Catlett preparing to… read more
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11. Jayber Crow
By: Wendell Berry
3.95
Format: 253 pages,
From the simple setting of his own barber shop, Jayber Crow, orphan, seminarian, and native of Port… read more
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12. The Civil War as a Theological Crisis
By: Mark A. Noll
4.18
Format: 578 pages, Hardcover
Viewing the Civil War as a major turning point in American religious thought, Mark A. Noll examines… read more
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13. Night Watch
By: Jayne Anne Phillips
3.79
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more
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- historical
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- historical fiction
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- audiobook
14. Let Us Descend
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more
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- race
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"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend
15. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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16. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: Anne Lamott
3.95
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
17. This Other Eden
By: Paul Harding
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more
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- audiobook
18. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)
By: Colm Tóibín
3.82
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more
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- historical
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19. The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
3.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more
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- historical
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- historical fiction
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"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
20. I Cheerfully Refuse
By: Leif Enger
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more
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"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
21. Clear
By: Carys Davies
3.92
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more
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22. The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
By: Karen Swallow Prior
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Contemporary American evangelicalism is suffering from an identity crisis--and a lot of bad press. … read more
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- audiobook
"For Hardy and other critics of the evangelical movement, too often the desire for purity encouraged hypocrisy, earnest ideals became mere performance, and the valuation of hard work turned into pursu…"-Karen Swallow Prior, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
"The novel [ Pamela ] is also a very powerful early expression of the modern self, one who sees her soul as equal in human worth and dignity to anyone, regardless of social class or power--and this, t…"-Karen Swallow Prior, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
23. You Are a Tree: And Other Metaphors to Nourish Life, Thought, and Prayer
By: Joy Marie Clarkson
4.10
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In a world dominated by technology and efficiency, we speak of ourselves as we process things, we … read more
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24. Jack (Gilead, #4)
By: Marilynne Robinson
3.86
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, returns to the … read more
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"Those who can't hope can still wish."-Marilynne Robinson, Jack (Gilead, #4)
"So many of earth's grievances could be soothed by a little consideration."-Marilynne Robinson, Jack (Gilead, #4)
"He had a way of anticipating memories he particularly didn’t want to have."-Marilynne Robinson, Jack (Gilead, #4)
"An intensely lonely man for whom life has not gone well - I believe this was your language."-Marilynne Robinson, Jack (Gilead, #4)
25. Charming Billy
By: Alice McDermott
3.48
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
Charming Billy is the winner of the 1998 National Book Award for Fiction. Alice McDermott's striki… read more
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"so your husband's home with the little ones?—it'll be good for him, let him see what it's like with kids all day, right? men never understand until you ask them to do it and then they say, Well, the …"-Alice McDermott, Charming Billy
"Dan Lynch was chuckling, his hand around his small glass. 'I remember Billy saying that AA was a Protestant thing when you came right down to it. Started by a bunch of Protestants. He said he didn't …"-Alice McDermott, Charming Billy
"It made it easier that they both believed in the simplest kind of afterlife - that my father could say to her, even in those last days, joking but without irony, 'You're going to get tired of hearing…"-Alice McDermott, Charming Billy
"In the arc of an unremarkable life, a life whose triumphs are small and personal, whose trials are ordinary enough, as tempered in their pain as in their resolution of pain, the claim of exclusivity …"-Alice McDermott, Charming Billy
26. Home by Marilynn Robinson (September 01,2009)
By: Marilynn Robinson
3.52
Format: None pages, Paperback
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27. Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair
By: Christian Wiman
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Christian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work. … read more
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28. The Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice
By: Wendell Berry
4.03
Format: 513 pages, Paperback
Wendell Berry has never been afraid to speak up for the dispossessed. The Need to Be Whole continue… read more
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- audiobook
29. How It Went: Thirteen More Stories of the Port William Membership
By: Wendell Berry
4.36
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Return to Port William, the fictional Kentucky town that’s long been home to Wendell Berry’s autobi… read more
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- historical fiction
30. Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation
By: Frederick Buechner
4.29
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Spiritual and autobiographical reflections on the author's seminary days, early ministry, and writi… read more
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"The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around."-Frederick Buechner, Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation
"It is more than just memory, I think, that binds us to the past. The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around..."-Frederick Buechner, Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation
"It is within the bonds of marriage that I, for one, found a greater freedom to be and to become and to share myself thatn I can imaine ever having found in any other kind of relationship."-Frederick Buechner, Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation
"Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of …"-Frederick Buechner, Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation
31. Drawn Testimony: My Four Decades as a Courtroom Sketch Artist
By: Jane Rosenberg
4.27
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A penetrating, compulsively readable memoir about the four-decade career of America's top courtroom… read more
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