Wanderings of a Post-Modern Pilgrim: Advent Calendar: Christmas Eve

Friday, December 24, 2010

Advent Calendar: Christmas Eve

Berea Moravian Church, St. Charles, MN

December 24

Except the Christ be born again tonight
In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame,
The world will never see his kingdom bright.
~Vachel Lindsay

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:.. Spoonbenders- Daryl Gregory

:.. Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently- Beau Lotto

:.. Exit West- Mohsin Hamid

:.. The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo- Ian Stansel

:.. The Last Innocents: The Collision of the Turbulent Sixties and the Los Angeles Dodgers- Michael Leahy

:.. International Express: New Yorkers on the 7 Train- Stephane Tonnelat, William Kornblum

~~~~ January - June 2017

:.. Hamlet Globe to Globe: Two Years, 193,000 Miles, 197 Countries, One Play- Dominic Dromgoole

:.. A Life in Parts- Bryan Cranston

:.. A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age- Daniel Levitin

:.. Havana: A Subtropical Delirium- Mark Kurlansky

:.. Smart Baseball: The Story Behind the Old Stats That Are Ruining the Game, the New Ones That Are Running It, and the Right Way to Think About Baseball- Keith Law

:.. The Best American Sports Writing 2016- Rick Telander, Glenn Stout (Editor)

:.. Lost Sound: The Forgotten Art of Radio Storytelling- Jeff Porter

:.. Spirits Rejoice!: Jazz and American Religion- Jason C. Bivins

:.. The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606- James Shapiro

:.. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow- Yuval Noah Harari

:.. The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea- Jack E. Davis

:.. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City- Matthew Desmond

:.. The Grace of Kings- Ken Liu

:.. All the Birds in the Sky- Charlie Jane Anders

:.. Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta- Richard Grant

:.. Norse Mythology- Neil Gaiman

:.. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016- Amy Stewart, Tim Folger

:.. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet- Becky Chambers

:.. Moonglow- Michael Chabon

:.. Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy- Eric Metaxas

:.. Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity- Carlo Rovelli

:.. Lincoln in the Bardo- George Saunders

:.. The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time- Maria Konnikova

:.. The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction- Neil Gaiman

:.. The Water Knife- Paolo Bacigalupi

:.. Born to Run- Bruce Springsteen

:.. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate--Discoveries from a Secret World- Peter Wohlleben, Tim Flannery

~~~~ July - December 2016

:.. Waking the Spirit: A Musician's Journey Healing Body, Mind, and Soul- Andrew Schulman

:.. Alexander Hamilton- Ron Chernow

:.. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis- J. D. Vance

:.. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics- Carlo Rovelli

:.. The Last Days of Night- Graham Moore

:.. Here I Am- Jonathan Safran Foer

:.. The Underground Railroad- by Colson Whitehead

:.. The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain- Bill Bryson

:.. Death's End- Cixin Liu

:.. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance- Angela Duckworth

:.. Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven- John Eliot Gardiner

:.. The Slow Fix: Solve Problems, Work Smarter, and Live Better in a World Addicted to Speed- Carl Honore

:.. The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible- Matti Friedman

:.. Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise- Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool

:.. The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe- Stephon Alexander

:.. Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation- Edward Humes

:.. Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman- James Gleick
~~~~ January - June 2016

:.. Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War- Mary Roach

:.. The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New- Annie Dillard

:.. Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen- Mary Norris

:.. How to Make Coffee: The Science Behind the Bean- Lani Kingston

:.. Write. Publish. Repeat.- Sean Platt, Johnny B. Truant

:.. The Sympathizer- Viet Thanh Nguyen

:.. The Dark Forest- Cixin Liu

:.. Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul- James McBride

:.. When Breath Becomes Air- Paul Kalanithi

:.. Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll- Peter Guralnick

:.. The Art of Memoir- Mary Karr

:.. The Art of the Infinite: The Pleasures of Mathematics- Robert Kaplan, Ellen Kaplan

:.. The Three-Body Problem- Cixin Liu

:.. Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge- Antony Beevor

:.. "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character- Richard P. Feynman

:.. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015- Rebecca Skloot

:.. Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story- David Maraniss

:.. Empire of Cotton: A Global History- Sven Beckert

:.. Not My Father's Son: A Memoir- Alan Cumming

:.. Boys in the Trees: A Memoir- Carly Simon

:.. The Verdict- Nick Stone

:..Words Without Music: A Memoir- Philip Glass

:.. Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout- Philip Connors

:.. Calculating God- Robert J. Sawyer

:.. Why Sinatra Matters- Pete Hamill

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