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A Dresser of Sycamore Trees: The Finding of a Ministry

by Garret Keizer

Published: 1993-10-01

Paperback: 210 pages

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The prophet Amos, a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore trees, had a parallel, and more challenging, calling as a shepherd of human souls. So too does Garret Keizer, an Episcopalian minister to the community of Island Pond in Vermont's Northeast Kindgdom. This profoundly contemporary book displays not...

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The Lodger: A Novel

by Louisa Treger

Published: 2014-10-14

Kindle Edition: 269 pages

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Dorothy Richardson is existing just above the poverty line, doing secretarial work at a dentist's office and living in a seedy boarding house in Bloomsbury, when she is invited to spend the weekend with a childhood friend. Jane has recently married a writer who is hovering on the brink of ...

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The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf: A Novel

by Mohja Kahf

Published: 2006-09-12

Paperback: 448 pages

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Syrian immigrant Khadra Shamy is growing up in a devout, tightly knit Muslim family in 1970s Indiana, at the crossroads of bad polyester and Islamic dress codes. Along with her brother Eyad and her African-American friends, Hakim and Hanifa, she bikes the Indianapolis streets exploring the...

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The Past Is Never: A Novel

by Tiffany Quay Tyson

Published: 2018-03-20

Hardcover: 284 pages

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**SHORTLISTED for the 2018 Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction****WINNER of the Mississippi Author Award for Adult Fiction selected by the Mississippi Library Association** **WINNER of the 2019 Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters Award for Fiction?** **Finalist for the 2019 Color...

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Summary of the Alice Network by Kate Quinn: Conversation Starters

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Published: 2018-10-08

Paperback: 70 pages

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The Alice Network by Kate Quinn: Conversation Starters "The Alice Network" is a notable historical fiction novel that brings the readers back to the Great War. Author Kate Quinn tells a story of two women in wartime Europe. One is an American socialite Charlie St. Clair. Her pregnancy f...

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On Living

by Kerry Egan

Published: 2017-10-24

Paperback: 224 pages

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"A poetic and philosophical and brave and uplifting meditation on how important it is to make peace and meaning of our lives while we still have them.” –Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat Pray Love"Illuminating, unflinching and ultimately inspiring... A book to treasure.”...

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Emptiness: A Practical Guide for Meditators

by Guy Armstrong

Published: 2017-05-02

Kindle Edition: 328 pages

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If everything is empty, then what ceases in Nirvana and is born in rebirth? How can you live in the world without feeling trapped by it? Guy Armstrong tackles these questions and more in this richly informed, practical guide to emptiness for the meditator.It may seem odd for emptiness t...

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Trust Exercise: A Novel

by Susan Choi

Published: 2019-04-09

Hardcover: 272 pages

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"Enlists your heart as well as your mind. . . . Packed with wild moments of grace and fear and abandon."?The New York Times"Book groups, meet your next selection."?NPR"[Choi is] a master of emotional pacing. . . . You won't be disappointed."?The Washington PostIn an American suburb in the ...

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Bowlaway: A Novel

by Elizabeth McCracken

Published: 2019-02-05

Hardcover: 384 pages

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NATIONAL BESTSELLERA Recommended Book of 2019 fromEntertainment Weekly * O, The Oprah Magazine * Southern Living * BBC * Huffington Post * Lit Hub * Kirkus * Bustle * Publishers Weekly * BookRiot * Popsugar * Bookish * The Boston Globe * The Seattle Times * Vulture * Real SimpleA sweep...

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Louise Penny Boxed Set (1-3): Still Life, A Fatal Grace, The Cruelest Month (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel)

by Louise Penny

Published: 2014-08-26

Paperback: 960 pages

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Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec digs beneath the idyllic surface of village life in Three Pines, finding long buried secrets?and facing a few enemies of his own. With nine books in the series and more to come, this boxed set of the first three books?Still Life, A ...