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 | “An astonishing achievement. . .” — Susanna Clarke, author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and Piranesi“Vigorous and fresh. . . whets the appetite for much more.” — Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury“A rare glimpse at a magnum opus in the making.” Daniel Nayeri, author of Everything Sad Is… | Books ⋅ Literature ⋅ Contemporary | ||
 | Berry, Wendell | Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry’s seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman character in its telling. Hannah, the now-elderly narrator, recounts the love she has for the land and for her community. | Literature ⋅ Contemporary | |
 | Michael D. O'Brien | This powerful novel tells the story of a child born in 1933 into the turbulent world of the Balkans and traces his life into the third millennium. The central character, Josip Lasta, is the son of an impoverished school teacher in a remote village high in the mountains of the… | Literature ⋅ Contemporary | |
 | Berry, Wendell | “This is a book about Heaven,” says Jayber Crow, “but I must say too that . . . I have wondered sometimes if it would not finally turn out to be a book about Hell.” It is 1932 and he has returned to his native Port William to become the… | Literature ⋅ Contemporary | |
 | Alcorn, Randy | Safely Home is a Christian novel by Randy Alcorn. It takes place in present-day China, and follows the story of two Harvard roommates, one American and one Chinese, who reunite decades after they graduate. The novel won the Gold Medallion Book Award for evangelical literature. | Literature ⋅ Contemporary | |
 | O'Brien, Michael | Sophia House is set in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Pawel Tarnowski, a bookseller, gives refuge to David Schäfer, a Jewish youth who has escaped from the ghetto, and hides him in the attic of the book shop. Throughout the winter of 1942-1943, haunted by the looming threat of discovery… | Literature ⋅ Contemporary | |
 | Wendell Berry | Twenty-three stories arranged in fictional chronology map Port William across generations—not an anthology, but a coherent temporal landscape revealing Berry’s mastery of place, affection, and interwoven livesOriginally published in 2005, That Distant Land brings together twenty–three stories from the Port William Membership. Arranged in their fictional chronology, the book is… | Books ⋅ Literature ⋅ Contemporary | |
 | Wendell Berry | In the twenty-two essays collected here, Wendell Berry, whom The Christian Science Monitor called “the prophetic American voice of our day,” conveys a deep concern for the American economic system and the gluttony of consumerismWendell Berry identifies himself as both “a farmer of sorts and an artist of sorts,” which… | Books ⋅ Literature ⋅ Contemporary |