Some want to live within the sound of church or chapel bell; I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell. -- C. T. Studd
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Nothing said here should be understood or construed to be the opinion of anyone but me. My friends, my employer, any organizations I belong to, my church- all are innocent of these thoughts. They are mine.
:..Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries- Kory Stamper
:..Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1)- Ada Palmer
:..The Mastery of Music: Ten Pathways to True Artistry - Barry Green
:..White Tears- Hari Kunzru
:..No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters - Ursula K. LeGuin
:..Underground Airlines- Ben H. Winters
:.. The Life We Bury - Allen Eskens
:..The Immortalists- Chloe Benjamin
:..Henry David Thoreau: A Life - Laura Dassow Walls
:..Pachinko- Min Jin Lee
:..The Tigers of Bastogne: Voices of the 10th Armored Division in the Battle of the Bulge - Michael Collins and Martin King
:..God: A Human History- Reza Aslan
:..Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital - David Oshinsky
:..The River of Consciousness- Oliver Sacks
:..In the Midst of Winter- Isabel Allende
:..Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within- Kenny Werner
:..Sing, Unburied, Sing- Jesmyn Ward
:..Leonardo da Vinci- Walter Isaacson
:..Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler- Bruce Henderson
:..Future Home of the Living God- Louise Erdrich
:..American War- Omar El Akkad
~~~~ June - December 2017
:..The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation- Richard Rohr, Mike Morrell
:..Thomas Merton: Spiritual Master: the Essential Writings- Lawrence Cunningham, Thomas Merton
:..Falling Upward- Richard Rohr
:..Another Country- James Baldwin
:..The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life- Mark Manson
:..A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes- Adam Rutherford
:..La Rose- Louise Erdrich
:..Electric October: Seven World Series Games, Six Lives, Five Minutes of Fame That Lasted Forever- Kevin Cook
:..Paris in the Present Tense- Mark Helprin
:..The Moth- Catherine Burns (Editor)
:..The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable- Amitav Ghosh
:..The Stone Sky (Broken Earth Series #3)- N. K. Jemisin
:..Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad- Jacqueline L. Tobin, Raymond G. Dobard
:..Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life- William Finnegan
:..The Obelisk Gate (Broken Earth Series #2)- N. K. Jemisin
:..When the English Fall- David Williams
:..The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit- Michael Finkel
:..The Fifth Season(Broken Earth Series #1)- N. K. Jemisin
:..The Handmaid's Tale- Margaret Atwood
:..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
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