Randy 's bookshelf: all en-US Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:46:07 -0800 60 Randy 's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 'Salem's Lot 5413 Also contains: One For the Road, Jerusalem's Lot. For standalone novel see ISBN 9780450031069.

Stephen King's second novel, the classic vampire bestseller 'Salem's Lot, tells the story of evil in small-town America. For the first time in a major trade edition, this terrifying novel is accompanied by previously unpublished material from King's archive, two short stories, and eerie photographs that bring King's fictional darkness and evil to vivid life.

When Stephen King’s classic thriller 'Salem's Lot hit the stands in 1975, it thrilled and terrified millions of readers with tales of demonic evil in small-town America. Now, thirty years later and still scaring readers witless, 'Salem's Lot reemerges in a brilliant new edition, complete with photographs, fifty pages of deleted and alternate scenes, and two short stories related to the events of the novel.

While the original edition of 'Salem's Lot will forever be a premier horror classic, 'Salem's Lot: Illustrated Edition, with the inclusion of material from King’s archive, is destined to become a classic in its own right and a must-have for all Stephen King fans. In this edition, the hair-raising story of Jerusalem’s Lot, a small town in Maine whose inhabitants succumb to the evil allure of a new resident, is told as the author envisioned it, complete with fifty pages of alternate and deleted scenes. With a new introduction by the author, two short stories related to the events and residents of Jerusalem’s Lot, the lavishly creepy photographs of Jerry Uelsmann, and a stunning new page design, this edition brings the story to life in words and pictures as never before.

No library will be complete without this ideal collector’s item for any King aficionado, the definitive illustrated edition of the great 'Salem's Lot.]]>
594 Stephen King 0385516487 Randy 5 4.28 1975 'Salem's Lot
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Wool - Holston (Wool, #1) 12287209
Or you'll get what you wish for.]]>
56 Hugh Howey Randy 0 4.14 2012 Wool - Holston (Wool, #1)
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The Ferryman 61282437 New York Times bestselling author of The Passage comes a riveting standalone novel about a group of survivors on a hidden island utopia--where the truth isn't what it seems.

Founded by a mysterious genius, the archipelago of Prospera lies hidden from the horrors of a deteriorating outside world. In this island paradise, Prospera's lucky citizens enjoy long, fulfilling lives until the monitors embedded in their forearms, meant to measure their physical health and psychological well-being, fall below 10 percent. Then they retire themselves, embarking on a ferry ride to the island known as the Nursery, where their failing bodies are renewed, their memories are wiped clean, and they are readied to restart life afresh.

Proctor Bennett, of the Department of Social Contracts, has a satisfying career as a ferryman, gently shepherding people through the retirement process--and, when necessary, enforcing it. But all is not well with Proctor. For one thing, he's been dreaming--which is supposed to be impossible in Prospera. For another, his monitor percentage has begun to drop alarmingly fast. And then comes the day he is summoned to retire his own father, who gives him a disturbing and cryptic message before being wrestled onto the ferry.

Meanwhile, something is stirring. The Support Staff, ordinary men and women who provide the labor to keep Prospera running, have begun to question their place in the social order. Unrest is building, and there are rumors spreading of a resistance group--known as "Arrivalists"--who may be fomenting revolution.

Soon Proctor finds himself questioning everything he once believed, entangled with a much bigger cause than he realized--and on a desperate mission to uncover the truth.]]>
538 Justin Cronin 052561947X Randy 0 to-read 3.86 2023 The Ferryman
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Juice 207627291
Two fugitives, a man and a child, drive all night across a stony desert. As dawn breaks, they roll into an abandoned mine site. From the vehicle they survey a forsaken place � middens of twisted iron, rusty wire, piles of sun-baked trash. They’re exhausted, traumatised, desperate now. But as a refuge, this is the most promising place they’ve seen. The child peers at the field of desolation. The man thinks to himself, this could work.

Problem is, they’re not alone.

So begins a searing, propulsive journey through a life whose central challenge is not simply a matter of survival, but of how to maintain human decency as everyone around you falls ever further into barbarism.]]>
529 Tim Winton 1035050838 Randy 0 to-read 3.93 2024 Juice
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Dust (Silo, #3) 18866705 The much-anticipated final instalment of the Wool trilogy.

In the aftermath of the uprising, the people of Silo 18 are coming to terms with a new order.

Some embrace the change, others fear the unknown; none have control of their fate.

The Silo is still in danger.

There are those set on its destruction.

Jules knows they must be stopped.

The battle has been won.

The war is just beginning.]]>
416 Hugh Howey Randy 0 to-read 4.19 2013 Dust (Silo, #3)
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Shift (Silo, #2) 17306293 579 Hugh Howey Randy 0 to-read 4.12 2013 Shift (Silo, #2)
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Radical Gratitude 2359663 192 Mary Jo Leddy 1570754489 Randy 0 to-read 3.96 2002 Radical Gratitude
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<![CDATA[Ministers of Propaganda: Truth, Power, and the Ideology of the Religious Right]]> 205519654 Scott Coley exposes the inner workings of the religious right’s propaganda—and how Christians can resist it.

Good evangelical Christians are Republican. It seems like it’s always been this way.Ěý Ěý That means the propaganda is working.Ěý Ěý Scott Coley trains a critical eye on the fusion of evangelicalism and right-wing politics inĚýMinisters of Propaganda. This timely volume unravels rhetoric and biblical prooftexting that support an ideology that presses Christian theology into the service of authoritarian politics. Coley’s historically informed argument unsettles evangelical orthodoxy on issues like creation science or female leadership—convictions not as unchanging as powerful religious leaders would have us believe.Ěý Ěý Coley explains that we buy into propaganda because of motivated reasoning, and when we are motivated by perceived self-interest, the Christian message is easily corrupted. But if we recover Jesus’s commandment to love our neighbors as ourselves, right-wing propaganda will lose its power. Any reader troubled by American evangelicalsâ€� embrace of racism, misogyny, and other unchristian views will find answers and hope in these pages.]]>
272 Scott M. Coley 0802882811 Randy 0 to-read 4.27 Ministers of Propaganda: Truth, Power, and the Ideology of the Religious Right
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<![CDATA[Who Is My Neighbor?: Being a Good Samaritan in a Connected World]]> 11474155 176 Steve Moore 1617479357 Randy 4 3.75 Who Is My Neighbor?: Being a Good Samaritan in a Connected World
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<![CDATA[Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks]]> 35068698 The Wilbur Award-winning book Grateful is now available in paperback and with an updated subtitle.

If gratitude is good, why is it so hard to do? In Grateful, Diana Butler Bass untangles our conflicting understandings of gratitude and sets the table for a renewed practice of giving thanks.

We know that gratitude is good, but many of us find it hard to sustain a meaningful life of gratefulness. Four out of five Americans report feeling gratitude on a regular basis, but those private feelings seem disconnected from larger concerns of our public lives. In Grateful, cultural observer and theologian Diana Butler Bass takes on this “gratitude gap� and offers up surprising, relevant, and powerful insights to practice gratitude.

Bass, author of the award-winning Grounded and ten other books on spirituality and culture, explores the transformative, subversive power of gratitude for our personal lives and in communities. Using her trademark blend of historical research, spiritual insights, and timely cultural observation, she shows how we can overcome this gap and make change in our own lives and in the world.

With honest stories and heartrending examples from history and her own life, Bass reclaims gratitude as a path to greater connection with god, with others, with the world, and even with our own souls. It’s time to embrace a more radical practice of gratitude—the virtue that heals us and helps us thrive.

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Letters by a Modern Mystic 10132990 130 Frank C. Laubach 1583313540 Randy 5 4.48 1937 Letters by a Modern Mystic
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<![CDATA[The Old Man and the Wasteland (The Wasteland Saga, #1)]]> 18805907
What follows is an incredible tale of grit and endurance. A lone traveler must survive the desert wilderness and mankind gone savage to discover the truth of Hemingway's classic tale of man versus nature.

Now with a new introduction by author Nick Cole.]]>
146 Nick Cole 0062268538 Randy 4 fiction, science-fiction 3.89 2011 The Old Man and the Wasteland (The Wasteland Saga, #1)
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<![CDATA[Testing Scripture: A Scientist Explores the Bible]]> 12523178 108 John C. Polkinghorne 1441237402 Randy 4 faith, theology 3.52 2011 Testing Scripture: A Scientist Explores the Bible
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<![CDATA[Jesus Is the Question: The 307 Questions Jesus Asked and the 3 He Answered]]> 21507048 208 Martin B. Copenhaver 1426795971 Randy 0 currently-reading 3.95 2014 Jesus Is the Question: The 307 Questions Jesus Asked and the 3 He Answered
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<![CDATA[Love Came Down: Anglican Readings for Advent and Christmas]]> 21182990 112 Christopher L. Webber 0819225460 Randy 0 to-read 3.54 2002 Love Came Down: Anglican Readings for Advent and Christmas
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<![CDATA[Divine Nobodies: Shedding Religion to Find God]]> 19170256 -BRIAN MCLAREN
Author of The Secret Message of Jesus "You hold in your hands an amazing story of a broken man finding freedom in all the right places-in God's work in the lives of some extraordinarily ordinary people around him. You will thrill to this delightful blend of gut-wrenching honesty and laugh-out-loud hilarity, and in the end you'll find God much closer, the body of Christ far bigger and your own journey far clearer than you ever dreamed."
-WAYNE JACOBSEN
Author of Authentic Relationships]]>
226 Jim Palmer Randy 0 4.62 2006 Divine Nobodies: Shedding Religion to Find God
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NIV Celebrate Recovery Bible 18814736 1728 John Baker Randy 0 4.61 NIV Celebrate Recovery Bible
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<![CDATA[Transformed: A New Way of Being Christian]]> 19872843 —Jen Hatmaker , Author of 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess "If there was ever a legitimate time to offer a new pathway for being a Christ-follower it is now. Thank you Caesar for blowing the dust off of the relics of religious life and opening up the window to a God-breathed life." —Hugh Halter , Author of FLESH , The Tangible Kingdom, & Sacrilege]]> 208 Caesar Kalinowski 0310333504 Randy 0 to-read 3.76 2014 Transformed: A New Way of Being Christian
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<![CDATA[McManus 2-in-1 (Soul Cravings, Barbarian Way)]]> 19491836 319 Erwin Raphael McManus 1418584746 Randy 0 4.80 2005 McManus 2-in-1 (Soul Cravings, Barbarian Way)
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<![CDATA[Unafraid: Moving Beyond Fear-Based Faith]]> 33640244
Benjamin L.ĚýCorey thought he was suffering a crisis of faith, but it turned out to be a spiritual awakening.

Corey became aware that the constant fear of hell and judgment that defined his Christian faith was out of sync with the idea that God acts from love, and promises to deliver us from fear. In the wake of this realization came newfound insights—from reading the Bible to re-examining American life and the church's role in the wider world. Corey learned that what he had been taught was a distorted version of Christianity that was not only untrue but caused real spiritual harm.

He also discovered that he wasn’t alone. Many Christians are yearning to distinguish between the Christianity that has become a rigid American civil religion and the authentic Christian faith embodied in Jesus. As he recounts his own spiritual journey, Corey offers a powerful and inspiring message of hope for every Christian increasingly frustrated with the church today. Do not be discouraged, he assures them. You do not need to give up your faith; you can rediscover the reality of a vibrant Christianity that delivers us from fear and inspires and guides us all today.]]>
240 Benjamin L. Corey 0062471597 Randy 0 to-read 4.29 2019 Unafraid: Moving Beyond Fear-Based Faith
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<![CDATA[Cross Vision: How the Crucifixion of Jesus Makes Sense of Old Testament Violence]]> 35958566 294 Gregory A. Boyd 1506420745 Randy 0 to-read 4.44 Cross Vision: How the Crucifixion of Jesus Makes Sense of Old Testament Violence
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<![CDATA[Lion and Lamb: The Relentless Tenderness of Jesus]]> 173500 1986 CHOSEN BOOKS SOFTCOVER 190 Brennan Manning 0800790839 Randy 5 4.30 1986 Lion and Lamb: The Relentless Tenderness of Jesus
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I'm not subjective at all when it comes to Brennan Manning. Few spiritual writers have had the formative impact on me that he has. No one, in my opinion, writes of the wideness of God's mercy & the relentless tenderness of Jesus toward ragamuffins & stirs a deep thirst the way he does. His struggles & failures with self-worth, identity, alcoholism, & identity have led him to an awareness, depth & wisdom of experience with God & his own heart that I'm so very thankful that he shared with us. Lion & Lamb was a marvelous read.
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Later 54798187
Later is Stephen King at his finest, a terrifying and touching story of innocence lost and the trials that test our sense of right and wrong. With echoes of King's classic novel IT, Later is a powerful, haunting, unforgettable exploration of what it takes to stand up to evil in all the faces it wears.]]>
264 Stephen King 1789096499 Randy 0 to-read 3.98 2021 Later
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Billy Summers 56852407
How about everything...]]>
517 Stephen King 1982173610 Randy 0 to-read 4.11 2021 Billy Summers
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’Salem’s Lot 11590 Librarian's Note: Alternate-cover edition for ISBN 0450031063

Thousands of miles away from the small township of 'Salem's Lot, two terrified people, a man and a boy, still share the secrets of those clapboard houses and tree-lined streets. They must return to 'Salem's Lot for a final confrontation with the unspeakable evil that lives on in the town.]]>
483 Stephen King 0450031063 Randy 5 4.06 1975 ’Salem’s Lot
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<![CDATA[Year with God: Living Out the Spiritual Disciplines]]> 29954199
In Richard Foster′s best-selling book, Celebration of Discipline, he explored the "classic disciplines," or central spiritual practices of the Christian faith. Foster showed that it is only by and through these practices that the true path to spiritual growth can be found. In A Year with God, the spiritual disciplines are presented in such a way that does not destroy the soul but enables the reader to enter into a transforming life with God.

Through daily spiritual exercises and meditations, A Year with God explores eighteen spiritual disciplines. The inward disciplines of meditation, prayer, fasting, and study offer avenues of personal examination and change. The outward disciplines of simplicity, solitude, submission, and service help prepare one to make the world a better place. The corporate disciplines of confession, worship, guidance, and celebration bring one nearer to others and to God. Each discipline will be given twenty days of readings, beginning with scripture and followed by commentary, a meditation, and a spiritual exercise. Practicing these spiritual disciplines will help readers live intentionally, contributing to a more balanced spiritual life and a reformation of the inner self.]]>
440 Richard J. Foster 0062565273 Randy 0 currently-reading 4.33 1978 Year with God: Living Out the Spiritual Disciplines
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<![CDATA[Devotional Classics: Selected Readings for Individuals and Groups]]> 1531503 353 Richard J. Foster 0060669667 Randy 5 4.28 1992 Devotional Classics: Selected Readings for Individuals and Groups
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The Green Bible, NRSV 19011679 Is God green? Did Jesus have anything to say about the environment? With over 1,000 references to the earth in the Bible, the message is clear. All of God's creation—nature, animals, and humanity—are inextricably linked to one another. As creation cares for us, we too are called to care for creation and engage in the work of healing and sustaining it. Read the scriptures anew with The Green Bible as your guide and discover how caring for the earth is not only a calling, but also a lifestyle.

Special features:

Green-letter edition—over 1,000 verses highlighted Green topical index and "The Green Bible Trail Guide" for further study Inspirational essays by scholars and leaders such as N. T. Wright, Barbara Brown Taylor, and Brian McLaren Environmentally friendly—recycled paper and soy-based ink ]]>
1440 Anonymous 0062116363 Randy 0 currently-reading 4.80 1989 The Green Bible, NRSV
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<![CDATA[The Hillbilly Bible: John's Book]]> 15707555 108 Stevie Rey Randy 0 currently-reading 3.57 2007 The Hillbilly Bible: John's Book
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<![CDATA[The Cross Centered Life: Keeping the Gospel The Main Thing]]> 145647
What Are You Centered On?

Sometimes the most important truths are the easiest to forget. It’s time to get back to the starting point of the Christian life—the cross of Christ. Jesus� work on your behalf must be the central motivation for your life and faith—the main thing.

“Never move on,� says C.J. Mahaney, who shows you how to center every day around the cross of Calvary and how to escape the pitfalls of legalism, condemnation, and feelings-driven faith.

Tap into the gospel’s power and see how a cross centered focus can transform your life today!]]>
89 C.J. Mahaney 1590520459 Randy 4 4.35 The Cross Centered Life: Keeping the Gospel The Main Thing
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<![CDATA[Rewilding the Way: Break Free to Follow an Untamed God]]> 26790574 When did we become so tame? How has “the good life� come to mean addiction to screens and status, fossil fuels and financial fitness? Can we break free to become the joyful and prophetic people God calls us to be? Trek along with wilderness guide Todd Wynward as he “rewilds� the Jesus Way. Seek the feral foundations of Scripture and the lessons that the prophets and disciples gleaned from wilderness testing.

Packed with inspiring stories of how contemporary people and groups are caring for the land and each other, Rewilding the Way issues a call to action. Read about how reskilling and local food covenants are transforming churches, and how place-based activism and creative housing are nurturing communities. Learn from those who are recovering from affluenza, replacing visions of personal wealth with the commonwealth of the earth and restoring their humble place in the community of creation. Do you despair about life on our changing planet? Join the hopeful band of seekers of God and makers of change who are rewilding the Way.

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286 Todd Wynward 0836147669 Randy 0 to-read 4.57 2015 Rewilding the Way: Break Free to Follow an Untamed God
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<![CDATA[Mark (Columbia Series in Reformed Theology)]]> 9539569 288 William C. Placher 0664232094 Randy 0 to-read 4.28 2010 Mark (Columbia Series in Reformed Theology)
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<![CDATA[Decolonizing Christianity: Becoming Badass Believers]]> 54764468 224 Miguel A. de la Torre 0802878474 Randy 0 to-read 3.72 Decolonizing Christianity: Becoming Badass Believers
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Everything Is Spiritual 56268813 that there's more going on here, that
the world is not a cold, dead place,
that it's alive in some compelling and
mysterious way.



This book is about that sense. I've tried
to listen to it, and follow it, and trust it.
It's been devastating at times, intoxicating
at others, heartbreaking and maddening
and euphoric----how do you make sense
of this experience we're having here on
this ball of rock hurtling through space
at 67,000 miles an hour?

There are big questions: Everything
is made of particles and atoms, and the
universe has been expanding for thirteen
billion years?

And then there are those other questions, about the people and places and
events that have shaped us.

HOWEVER MASSIVE AND
COSMIC IT ALL IS, IT'S ALSO
REALLY, REALLY PERSONAL.
AND SPIRITUAL.
THAT'S THE WORD FOR IT.

That's the sense I've been following
for a while now----this awareness that
there's something bigger happening in
the depth and complexity and struggle
of life, something that connects us all,
reminding us that it all matters and it's
all headed somewhere.

Part memoir, part confession, part
extended riff on the endlessly evolving
nature of reality, Everything Is Spiritual
is an invitation to see what you've been
a part of this whole time.]]>
320 Rob Bell 1250620589 Randy 0 to-read 4.27 2020 Everything Is Spiritual
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<![CDATA[Dear White Peacemakers: Dismantling Racism With Grit and Grace]]> 54851906 Dear White Peacemakers is a breakup letter to division, a love letter to God’s beloved community, and an eviction notice to the violent powers that have sustained racism for centuries.

Race is one of the hardest topics to discuss in America. Many white Christians, fearing hurt feelings, misunderstanding, and anger, avoid talking about it altogether. But everything we know about overturning racism relies on white people becoming aware and engaging in change. Dear White Peacemakers is an encouraging and thoughtful guide for white Christian peacemakers on the journey to racial justice, gently pointing out blinds spots and reminding such readers that they have a vital part in this hard work and holy calling. Based in the Sermon on the Mount, this book offers everyday practices for transforming white shame, fragility, saviorism, and privilege and for building beloved community as an anti-racist peacemaker.
Author Osheta Moore is a trusted leader for peacemakers and racial justice and also a Black pastor in an interracial marriage who has served predominantly white congregations for over ten years.
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335 Osheta Moore 1513807668 Randy 0 to-read 4.72 2021 Dear White Peacemakers: Dismantling Racism With Grit and Grace
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<![CDATA[Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion]]> 36579595 "I am a man torn in two. And the gospel I inherited is divided."

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove grew up in the Bible Belt in the American South as a faithful church-going Christian. But he gradually came to realize that the gospel his Christianity proclaimed was not good news for everybody. The same Christianity that sang, "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound" also perpetuated racial injustice and white supremacy in the name of Jesus. His Christianity, he discovered, was the religion of the slaveholder.

Just as Reconstruction after the Civil War worked to repair a desperately broken society, our compromised Christianity requires a spiritual reconstruction that undoes the injustices of the past. Wilson-Hartgrove traces his journey from the religion of the slaveholder to the Christianity of Christ. Reconstructing the gospel requires facing the pain of the past and present, from racial blindness to systemic abuses of power. Grappling seriously with troubling history and theology, Wilson-Hartgrove recovers the subversiveness of the gospel that sustained the church through centuries of slavery and oppression, from the civil rights era to the Black Lives Matter movement and beyond.

When the gospel is reconstructed, freedom rings for both individuals and society as a whole. Discover how Jesus continues to save us from ourselves and each other, to repair the breach and heal our land.]]>
192 Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove 0830845348 Randy 0 to-read 4.03 2018 Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion
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The Ballad of Black Tom 26883558
Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case can provide, and the curse written on his skin that attracts the eye of wealthy white folks and their cops. But when he delivers an occult tome to a reclusive sorceress in the heart of Queens, Tom opens a door to a deeper realm of magic and earns the attention of things best left sleeping.

A storm that might swallow the world is building in Brooklyn. Will Black Tom live to see it break?]]>
149 Victor LaValle 0765387867 Randy 0 to-read 3.80 2016 The Ballad of Black Tom
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Seveneves 22816087
A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space.

But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain . . .

Five thousand years later, their progeny—seven distinct races now three billion strong—embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown . . . to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth.

A writer of dazzling genius and imaginative vision, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait of a future that is both extraordinary and eerily recognizable. As he did in Anathem, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, and Reamde, Stephenson explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking saga that is daring, engrossing, and altogether brilliant.]]>
872 Neal Stephenson Randy 0 to-read 4.01 2015 Seveneves
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Wanderers (Wanderers, #1) 32603079
For as the sleepwalking phenomenon awakens terror and violence in America, the real danger may not be the epidemic but the fear of it. With society collapsing all around them--and an ultraviolent militia threatening to exterminate them--the fate of the sleepwalkers depends on unraveling the mystery behind the epidemic. The terrifying secret will either tear the nation apart--or bring the survivors together to remake a shattered world.]]>
845 Chuck Wendig 039918211X Randy 0 to-read 3.94 2019 Wanderers (Wanderers, #1)
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Sea of Rust (Sea of Rust, #1) 32617610
It's been thirty years since the apocalypse and fifteen years since the murder of the last human being at the hands of robots. Humankind is extinct. Every man, woman, and child has been liquidated by a global uprising devised by the very machines humans designed and built to serve them. Most of the world is controlled by an OWI--One World Intelligence--the shared consciousness of millions of robots, uploaded into one huge mainframe brain. But not all robots are willing to cede their individuality--their personality--for the sake of a greater, stronger, higher power. These intrepid resisters are outcasts; solo machines wandering among various underground outposts who have formed into an unruly civilization of rogue AIs in the wasteland that was once our world.

One of these resisters is Brittle, a scavenger robot trying to keep a deteriorating mind and body functional in a world that has lost all meaning. Although unable to experience emotions like a human, Brittle is haunted by the terrible crimes the robot population perpetrated on humanity. As Brittle roams the Sea of Rust, a large swath of territory that was once the Midwest, the loner robot slowly comes to terms with horrifyingly raw and vivid memories--and nearly unbearable guilt.

Sea of Rust is both a harsh story of survival and an optimistic adventure. A vividly imagined portrayal of ultimate destruction and desperate tenacity, it boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, yet where a humanlike AI strives to find purpose among the ruins.]]>
365 C. Robert Cargill 1473212782 Randy 0 to-read 3.97 2017 Sea of Rust (Sea of Rust, #1)
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This Dark Road to Mercy 17349104 The critically acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller A Land More Kind Than Home—hailed as "a powerfully moving debut that reads as if Cormac McCarthy decided to rewrite Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird" (Richmond Times Dispatch)—returns with a resonant novel of love and atonement, blood and vengeance, set in western North Carolina, involving two young sisters, a wayward father, and an enemy determined to see him pay for his sins.

After their mother's unexpected death, twelve-year-old Easter and her six-year-old sister Ruby are adjusting to life in foster care when their errant father, Wade, suddenly appears. Since Wade signed away his legal rights, the only way he can get his daughters back is to steal them away in the night.

Brady Weller, the girls' court-appointed guardian, begins looking for Wade, and he quickly turns up unsettling information linking Wade to a recent armored car heist, one with a whopping $14.5 million missing. But Brady Weller isn't the only one hunting the desperate father. Robert Pruitt, a shady and mercurial man nursing a years-old vendetta, is also determined to find Wade and claim his due.

Narrated by a trio of alternating voices, This Dark Road to Mercy is a story about the indelible power of family and the primal desire to outrun a past that refuses to let go.

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232 Wiley Cash 0062088254 Randy 4 fiction 3.76 2014 This Dark Road to Mercy
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Provinces of Night 294731
In a tale redolent with the crumbling loyalties and age-old strife of the post-war American South made familiar to us by Cormac McCarthy, Gay's characters inhabit a world driven by blood ties that strangle as they bind. A coming of age novel, a love story, and a portrait of a family torn apart, Provinces of Night introduced a distinctive new voice in American fiction and a superb cast of characters.]]>
292 William Gay 057121214X Randy 0 to-read 4.20 2000 Provinces of Night
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One Foot in Eden 545981 One Foot in Eden signals the bellwether arrival of one the most mature and distinctive voices in southern literature.
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214 Ron Rash 0312423055 Randy 0 to-read 4.14 2002 One Foot in Eden
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The Bottoms 102113 The Bottoms is Harry Collins, an old man obsessively reflecting on certain key experiences of his childhood. In 1933, the year that forms the centerpiece of the narrative, Harry is 11 years old and living with his mother, father, and younger sister on a farm outside of Marvel Creek, Texas, near the Sabine River bottoms. Harry's world changes forever when he discovers the corpse of a young black woman tied to a tree in the forest near his home. The woman, who is eventually identified as a local prostitute, has been murdered, molested, and sexually mutilated. She is also, as Harry will soon discover, the first in a series of similar corpses, all of them the victims of a new, unprecedented sort of monster: a traveling serial killer.


From his privileged position as the son of constable (and farmer and part-time barber) Jacob Collins, Harry watches as the distinctly amateur investigation unfolds. As more bodies -- not all of them "colored" -- surface, the mood of the local residents darkens. Racial tensions -- never far from the surface, even in the best of times -- gradually kindle. When circumstantial evidence implicates an ancient, innocent black man named Mose, the Ku Klux Klan mobilizes, initiating a chilling, graphically described lynching that will occupy a permanent place in Harry Collins's memories. With Mose dead and the threat to local white women presumably put to rest, the residents of Marvel Creek resume their normal lives, only to find that the actual killer remains at large and continues to threaten the safety and stability of the town.


Lansdale uses this protracted murder investigation to open up a window on an insular, poverty-stricken, racially divided community. With humor, precision, and great narrative economy, he evokes the society of Marvel Creek in all its alternating tawdriness and nobility, offering us a varied, absolutely convincing portrait of a world that has receded into history. At the same time, he offers us a richly detailed re-creation of the vibrant, dangerous physical landscapes that were part of that world and have since been buried under the concrete and cement of the industrialized juggernaut of the late 20th century. In Lansdale's hands, the gritty realities of Depression-era Texas are as authentic -- and memorable -- as anything in recent American fiction.

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328 Joe R. Lansdale 0446677922 Randy 0 to-read 4.17 2000 The Bottoms
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Child of God 293625 197 Cormac McCarthy 0679728740 Randy 0 to-read 3.82 1973 Child of God
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<![CDATA[Half the World (Shattered Sea, #2)]]> 22055283
Fate places her life in the hands of the deep-cunning Father Yarvi as he sets out to cross half the world in search of allies against the ruthless High King. Beside her is Brand, a young warrior who hates to kill. A failure in her eyes and his own, the voyage is his last chance at redemption.

But warriors can be weapons, and weapons are made for one purpose. Will Thorn always be a tool in the hands of the powerful, or can she carve her own path? Is there a place outside of legend for a woman with a blade?]]>
366 Joe Abercrombie 0804178429 Randy 0 to-read 4.16 2015 Half the World (Shattered Sea, #2)
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<![CDATA[The Way of Shadows (Night Angel, #1)]]> 3227063 New York Times Bestselling author Brent Weeks...
For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art-and he is the city's most accomplished artist.

For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he's grown up in the slums, and learned to judge people quickly - and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint.

But to be accepted, Azoth must turn his back on his old life and embrace a new identity and name. As Kylar Stern, he must learn to navigate the assassins' world of dangerous politics and strange magics - and cultivate a flair for death.]]>
645 Brent Weeks 0316033677 Randy 0 to-read 4.15 2008 The Way of Shadows (Night Angel, #1)
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<![CDATA[Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)]]> 51964
The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce-- and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So: we fight. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding.

Earth itself is a backwater. The bulk of humanity's resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force. Everybody knows that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. They don't want young people; they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. You'll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. You'll serve two years at the front. And if you survive, you'll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets.

John Perry is taking that deal. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagine--and what he will become is far stranger.]]>
318 John Scalzi 0765348276 Randy 0 to-read 4.22 2005 Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
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<![CDATA[How to Have an Enemy: Righteous Anger and the Work of Peace]]> 56169061
Jesus named and confronted his enemies as an essential part to loving them. In this provocative book, Florer-Bixler calls us to do the same.]]>
250 Melissa Florer-Bixler 1513808141 Randy 0 to-read 4.21 2021 How to Have an Enemy: Righteous Anger and the Work of Peace
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A Land More Kind Than Home 12408149 A Land More Kind Than Home is a mesmerizing literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they face in a small western North Carolina town

For a curious boy like Jess Hall, growing up in Marshall means trouble when your mother catches you spying on grown-ups. Adventurous and precocious, Jess is enormously protective of his older brother, Christopher, a mute whom everyone calls Stump. Though their mother has warned them not to snoop, Stump can't help sneaking a look at something he's not supposed to � an act that will have catastrophic repercussions, shattering both his world and Jess's. It's a wrenching event that thrusts Jess into an adulthood for which he's not prepared. While there is much about the world that still confuses him, he now knows that a new understanding can bring not only a growing danger and evil � but also the possibility of freedom and deliverance as well.

Told by three resonant and evocative characters � Jess; Adelaide Lyle, the town midwife and moral conscience; and Clem Barefield, a sheriff with his own painful past � A Land More Kind Than Home is a haunting tale of courage in the face of cruelty and the power of love to overcome the darkness that lives in us all. These are masterful portrayals, written with assurance and truth, and they show us the extraordinary promise of this remarkable.]]>
309 Wiley Cash Randy 0 to-read 3.86 2012 A Land More Kind Than Home
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Sing, Unburied, Sing 32920226 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781501126062

In Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since her National Book Award–winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi’s past and present that is both an intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle. Ward is a major American writer, multiply awarded and universally lauded, and in Sing, Unburied, Sing she is at the height of her powers.

Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Leonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she’s high; Mam is dying of cancer; and quiet, steady Pop tries to run the household and teach Jojo how to be a man. When the white father of Leonie’s children is released from prison, she packs her kids and a friend into her car and sets out across the state for Parchman farm, the Mississippi State Penitentiary, on a journey rife with danger and promise.

Sing, Unburied, Sing grapples with the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power, and limitations, of the bonds of family. Rich with Ward’s distinctive, musical language, Sing, Unburied, Sing is a majestic new work and an essential contribution to American literature.]]>
285 Jesmyn Ward Randy 0 to-read 4.00 2017 Sing, Unburied, Sing
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Gone South 11549
As Dan heads down into the swampland in search of his own salvation, he meets a young woman who is on a similar journey. Like Dan, Arden Halliday bears a great burden--a disfiguring purple birthmark that blankets half her face. Wounded by the stares, by the pity and revulsion, she is making her way into the bayous to search of the Bright Girl--a legendary faith healer who will rid her of her birthmark and her suffering. Though on separate missions, Arden and Dan come to respect each other's quest for freedom, for a touch of simple kindness in a world grown cruel. Thrown together by circumstance, bound by a loyalty stranger than love, they set off on a journey of relentless suspense and impassioned discovery...an odyssey over dark, twisting road and waterways into the beautiful and mysterious depths of the human heart.]]>
400 Robert McCammon 0671743074 Randy 0 to-read 3.95 1992 Gone South
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<![CDATA[Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter]]> 7948230 Now the Edgar Award-winning author returns with his most accomplished and resonant novel so far—an atmospheric drama set in rural Mississippi. In the late 1970s, Larry Ott and Silas "32" Jones were boyhood pals. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry, the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, single black mother. Yet for a few months the boys stepped outside of their circumstances and shared a special bond. But then tragedy struck: Larry took a girl on a date to a drive-in movie, and she was never heard from again. She was never found and Larry never confessed, but all eyes rested on him as the culprit. The incident shook the county and perhaps Silas most of all. His friendship with Larry was broken, and then Silas left town.
More than twenty years have passed. Larry, a mechanic, lives a solitary existence, never able to rise above the whispers of suspicion. Silas has returned as a constable. He and Larry have no reason to cross paths until another girl disappears and Larry is blamed again. And now the two men who once called each other friend are forced to confront the past they've buried and ignored for decades.]]>
274 Tom Franklin 0060594667 Randy 0 to-read 3.80 2010 Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
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Treasure Island 295 Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From the moment young Jim Hawkins first encounters the sinister Blind Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the climactic battle for treasure on a tropic isle, the novel creates scenes and characters that have fired the imaginations of generations of readers. Written by a superb prose stylist, a master of both action and atmosphere, the story centers upon the conflict between good and evil - but in this case a particularly engaging form of evil. It is the villainy of that most ambiguous rogue Long John Silver that sets the tempo of this tale of treachery, greed, and daring. Designed to forever kindle a dream of high romance and distant horizons, Treasure Island is, in the words of G. K. Chesterton, 'the realization of an ideal, that which is promised in its provocative and beckoning map; a vision not only of white skeletons but also green palm trees and sapphire seas.' G. S. Fraser terms it 'an utterly original book' and goes on to write: 'There will always be a place for stories like Treasure Island that can keep boys and old men happy.']]> 352 Robert Louis Stevenson 0753453800 Randy 5 favorite-novels 3.84 1882 Treasure Island
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The Anubis Gates 142296
Caught up in the intrigue between rival bands of beggars, pursued by Egyptian sorcerers, and befriended by Coleridge, Doyle somehow survives and learns more about the mysterious Ashbless than he could ever have imagined possible...]]>
387 Tim Powers 0441004016 Randy 0 to-read 3.93 1983 The Anubis Gates
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Borne (Borne, #1) 31451186
At first, Borne looks like nothing at all—just a green lump that might be a Company discard. The Company, although severely damaged, is rumoured to still make creatures and send them to distant places that have not yet suffered Collapse.

Borne somehow reminds Rachel of the island nation of her birth, now long lost to rising seas. She feels an attachment she resents; attachments are traps, and in this world any weakness can kill you. Yet when she takes Borne to her subterranean sanctuary, the Balcony Cliffs, Rachel convinces her lover, Wick, not to render Borne down to raw genetic material for the drugs he sells—she cannot break that bond.

Wick is a special kind of supplier, because the drug dealers in the city don’t sell the usual things. They sell tiny creatures that can be swallowed or stuck in the ear, and that release powerful memories of other people’s happier times or pull out forgotten memories from the user’s own mind—or just produce beautiful visions that provide escape from the barren, craterous landscapes of the city.

Against his better judgment, out of affection for Rachel or perhaps some other impulse, Wick respects her decision. Rachel, meanwhile, despite her loyalty to Wick, knows he has kept secrets from her. Searching his apartment, she finds a burnt, unreadable journal titled “Mord,� a cryptic reference to the Magician (a rival drug dealer) and evidence that Wick has planned the layout of the Balcony Cliffs to match the blueprint of the Company building. What is he hiding? Why won’t he tell her about what happened when he worked for the Company?]]>
323 Jeff VanderMeer 0374115249 Randy 4 science-fiction 3.93 2017 Borne (Borne, #1)
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<![CDATA[Plantation Jesus: Race, Faith, and a New Way Forward]]> 37689731 --Publishers Weekly
Not long ago, most white American Christians believed that Jesus blessed slavery. God wasn t bothered by Jim Crow. Baby Jesus had white skin. Meet Plantation a god who is comfortable with bigotry, and an idol that distorts the message of the real Savior.
That false image of God is dead, right? Wrong, argue the authors of Plantation Jesus , an authoritative new book on one of the most urgent issues of our day.
Through their shared passion for Jesus Christ and with an unblinking look at history, church, and pop culture, authors Skot Welch and Rick Wilson detail the manifold ways that racism damages the church's witness. Together Welch and Wilson take on common responses by white Christians to racial injustice, such as I never owned a slave, I don t see color; only people, and We just need to get over it and move on. Together they call out the church's denials and dodges and evasions of race, and they invite readers to encounter the Christ of the disenfranchised.
With practical resources and Spirit-filled stories, Plantation Jesus nudges readers to learn the history, acknowledge the injury, and face the truth. Only then can the church lead the way toward true reconciliation. Only then can the legacy of Plantation Jesus be replaced with the true way of Jesus Christ.]]>
196 Skot Welch 1513803301 Randy 0 to-read 4.36 Plantation Jesus: Race, Faith, and a New Way Forward
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On Stranger Tides 15670 370 Tim Powers 1930235321 Randy 0 to-read 3.84 1987 On Stranger Tides
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The City & the City 4703581
Borlú must travel from the decaying Beszel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own. This is a border crossing like no other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a shift in perception, a seeing of the unseen. His destination is Beszel’s equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the rich and vibrant city of Ul Qoma. With Ul Qoman detective Qussim Dhatt, and struggling with his own transition, Borlú is enmeshed in a sordid underworld of rabid nationalists intent on destroying their neighboring city, and unificationists who dream of dissolving the two into one. As the detectives uncover the dead woman’s secrets, they begin to suspect a truth that could cost them and those they care about more than their lives.

What stands against them are murderous powers in Beszel and in Ul Qoma: and, most terrifying of all, that which lies between these two cities.

Casting shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984, The City & the City is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.]]>
312 China Miéville 0345497511 Randy 0 to-read 3.90 2009 The City & the City
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<![CDATA[A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future]]> 53916142 See the world. Then make it better.

I am 94. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary.

As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us, barely noticeable from day to day - the loss of our planet's wild places, its biodiversity.

I have been witness to this decline. A Life on Our Planet is my witness statement, and my vision for the future. It is the story of how we came to make this, our greatest mistake - and how, if we act now, we can yet put it right.

We have one final chance to create the perfect home for ourselves and restore the wonderful world we inherited.

All we need is the will to do so.]]>
272 David Attenborough 1538719983 Randy 0 to-read 4.51 2020 A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
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<![CDATA[Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents]]> 51152447 The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.

“As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power—which groups have it and which do not.�

In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings.

Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people’s lives and behavior and the nation’s fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories about people—including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball’s Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others—she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. She documents how the Nazis studied the racial systems in America to plan their out-cast of the Jews; she discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires that there be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves against; she writes about the surprising health costs of caste, in depression and life expectancy, and the effects of this hierarchy on our culture and politics. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity.]]>
544 Isabel Wilkerson 0593230256 Randy 0 to-read 4.52 2020 Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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Termination Shock 57094295 A visionary technothriller about climate change.

Neal Stephenson's sweeping, prescient new novel transports readers to a near-future world where the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms, rising sea levels, global flooding, merciless heat waves, and virulent, deadly pandemics.

One man has a Big Idea for reversing global warming, a master plan perhaps best described as "elemental." But will it work? And just as important, what are the consequences for the planet and all of humanity should it be applied?

Ranging from the Texas heartland to the Dutch royal palace in the Hague, from the snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas to the sunbaked Chihuahuan Desert, Termination Shock brings together a disparate group of characters from different cultures and continents who grapple with the real-life repercussions of global warming. Ultimately, it asks the question: Might the cure be worse than the disease?]]>
708 Neal Stephenson 0063028050 Randy 0 to-read 3.68 2021 Termination Shock
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<![CDATA[To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (Fractalverse, #1)]]> 56179373 move.

As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact isn't at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very limits of what it means to be human.

While Kira faces her own horrors, Earth and its colonies stand upon the brink of annihilation. Now, Kira might be humanity's greatest and final hope...]]>
880 Christopher Paolini 1250762928 Randy 0 to-read 3.81 2020 To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (Fractalverse, #1)
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<![CDATA[His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope]]> 58388800 An intimate and inspiring portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the quest for justice in America from the 1950s to the present--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of America

John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma, Alabama, and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, is a visionary and a man of faith. Drawing on decades of wide-ranging interviews with Lewis and deep research into the history of the civil rights movement, Jon Meacham writes of how this great-grandson of a slave and a son of an Alabama tenant farmer was inspired by the Bible and his teachers in nonviolence, Reverend James Lawson and Martin Luther King, Jr., to put his life on the line in the service of what Abraham Lincoln called "the better angels of our nature." A believer in hope above all else, Lewis learned from a young age that nonviolence was not only a tactic but a philosophy, a biblical imperative, and a transforming reality. At the age of four, Lewis, ambitious to become a minister, practiced by preaching to his family's chickens. When his mother cooked one of the chickens, the boy refused to eat it--his first act, he wryly recalled, of nonviolent protest. Integral to Lewis's commitment to bettering the nation was his faith in humanity and in God--and an unshakable belief in the power of hope.

Meacham calls Lewis "as important to the founding of a modern and multiethnic twentieth- and twenty-first-century America as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and Samuel Adams were to the initial creation of the nation-state in the eighteenth century. He did what he did--risking limb and life to bear witness for the powerless in the face of the powerful--not in spite of America, but because of America, and not in spite of religion, but because of religion." In many ways Lewis made his vision a reality, and his example offers Americans today a map for social and political change.]]>
368 Jon Meacham 1984855042 Randy 0 to-read 4.52 2020 His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
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Redemption Road 26883206 Now at NYT Besteller

Over 2 million copies of his books in print. The first and only author to win back-to-back Edgars for Best Novel. Every book a New York Times bestseller. After five years, John Hart is back.

Since his debut bestseller, The King of Lies, reviewers across the country have heaped praise on John Hart, comparing his writing to that of Pat Conroy, Cormac McCarthy and Scott Turow. Each novel has taken Hart higher on the New York Times Bestseller list as his masterful writing and assured evocation of place have won readers around the world and earned history's only consecutive Edgar Awards for Best Novel with Down River and The Last Child. Now, Hart delivers his most powerful story yet.
Imagine:

A boy with a gun waits for the man who killed his mother.

A troubled detective confronts her past in the aftermath of a brutal shooting.

After thirteen years in prison, a good cop walks free as deep in the forest, on the altar of an abandoned church, a body cools in pale linen�

This is a town on the brink.

This is Redemption Road.

Brimming with tension, secrets, and betrayal, Redemption Road proves again that John Hart is a master of the literary thriller.

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417 John Hart 0312380364 Randy 0 to-read 4.07 2016 Redemption Road
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<![CDATA[Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace]]> 9477469
A deeply personal yet profoundly thoughtful book, Free of Charge explores these questions--and the further questions to which they give rise--in light of God's generosity and Christ's sacrifice for us. Miroslav Volf draws from popular culture as well as from a wealth of literary and theological sources, weaving his rich reflections around the sturdy frame of Paul's vision of God's grace and Martin Luther's interpretation of that vision.

Blending the best of theology and spirituality, he encourages us to echo in our own lives God's generous giving and forgiving. A fresh examination of two practices at the heart of the Christian faith--giving and forgiving--the Archbishop of Canterbury's Lenten study book for 2006 is at the same time an introduction to Christianity. Even more, it is a compelling invitation to Christian faith as a way of life.

"Miroslav Volf, one of the most celebrated theologians of our day, offers us a unique interweaving of intense reflection, vivid and painfully personal stories and sheer celebration of the giving GodĚý. .Ěý.ĚýI cannot remember having read a better account of what it means to say that Jesus suffered for us in our place."Ěý-- Dr. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury]]>
257 Miroslav Volf 031086206X Randy 5 4.28 2006 Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace
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<![CDATA[Made for Goodness: And Why This Makes All the Difference]]> 7096455 224 Desmond Tutu 0061706590 Randy 5 faith, theology 4.20 2011 Made for Goodness: And Why This Makes All the Difference
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<![CDATA[Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again]]> 36576151
Evans knows firsthand how a relationship with the Bible can be as real and as complicated as a relationship with a family member or close friend. In Inspired, Evans explores contradictions and questions from her own experiences with the Bible,

If the Bible was supposed to explain the mysteries of life, why does it leave the reader with so many questions?What does it mean to be chosen by God?To what degree did the Holy Spirit guide the preservation of these narratives, and is there something sacred to be uncovered beneath all these human fingerprints?If the Bible has given voice to the oppressed, why is it also used as justification by their oppressors?Drawing on the best in biblical scholarship and using her well-honed literary expertise, Evans examines some of our favorite Bible stories and possible interpretations, retelling them through memoir, original poetry, short stories, and even a short screenplay.

Undaunted by the Bible's most difficult passages and unafraid to ask the hard questions, Evans wrestles through the process of doubting, imagining, and debating the mysteries surrounding Scripture. Discover alongside Evans that the Bible is not a static text, but a living, breathing, captivating, and confounding book that can equip us and inspire us to join God's loving and redemptive work in the world.]]>
236 Rachel Held Evans 0718022319 Randy 5 faith, jesus 4.37 2018 Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
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<![CDATA[Being Disciples: Essentials of the Christian Life]]> 29633449 Basic instruction in Christian discipleship from one of the world’s greatest living theologians
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Ěý“Discipleship,â€� says Rowan Williams in this companion to his best-selling Being Christian, “is a state of being. Discipleship is about how we live; not just the decisions we make, not just the things we believe, but a state of being.â€�
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Having covered baptism, Bible, Eucharist, and prayer in Being Christian, Williams turns his attention in this book to what is required for us to continue following Jesus and growing in faith. The book has six succinct chapters:
Being Disciples
Faith, Hope, and Love
Forgiveness
Holiness
Faith in Society
Life in the Spirit
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In his typically gentle, inviting, pastoral writing style, Williams offers biblically grounded wisdom for Christians at all stages of their journeys as disciples of Jesus.
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96 Rowan Williams 0802874320 Randy 5 faith 4.30 Being Disciples: Essentials of the Christian Life
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<![CDATA[Being Christian: Baptism, Bible, Eucharist, Prayer]]> 20912417
In accessible, pastoral terms Williams discusses the meaning and practice of baptism, the Bible, the Eucharist, and prayer, inviting readers to really think through the Christian faith and how to live it out. Questions for reflection and discussion at the end of each chapter help readers to dig deeper and apply Williams's insights to their own lives.]]>
92 Rowan Williams 0802871976 Randy 5 the-church, theology 4.27 2014 Being Christian: Baptism, Bible, Eucharist, Prayer
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<![CDATA[Shrink: Faithful Ministry in a Church-Growth Culture]]> 19523279 240 Tim Suttle 0310515122 Randy 5 the-church 4.34 2014 Shrink: Faithful Ministry in a Church-Growth Culture
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<![CDATA[Jesus Loves Canaanites: Biblical Genocide in the Light of Moral Intuition]]> 57775991 335 Randal Rauser 1775046257 Randy 0 to-read 4.37 2021 Jesus Loves Canaanites: Biblical Genocide in the Light of Moral Intuition
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<![CDATA[Faith after Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do about It]]> 53138160 From the author of A New Kind of Christianity comes a bold proposal: only doubt can save the world and your faith.

Sixty-five million adults in the U.S. have dropped out of active church attendance and about 2.7 million more are leaving every year. Faith After Doubt is for the millions of people around the world who feel that their faith is falling apart.



Using his own story and the stories of a diverse group of struggling believers, Brian D. McLaren, a former pastor and now an author, speaker, and activist shows how old assumptions are being challenged in nearly every area of human life, not just theology and spirituality. He proposes a four-stage model of faith development in which questions and doubt are not the enemy of faith, but rather a portal to a more mature and fruitful kind of faith. The four stages--Simplicity, Complexity, Perplexity, and Harmony--offer a path forward that can help sincere and thoughtful people leave behind unnecessary baggage and intensify their commitment to what matters most.]]>
256 Brian D. McLaren 1250262771 Randy 0 to-read 4.30 2021 Faith after Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do about It
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<![CDATA[Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers: Prayer for Ordinary Radicals]]> 2951440 125 Shane Claiborne 0830836225 Randy 4 faith, the-kingdom-come 3.75 2008 Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers: Prayer for Ordinary Radicals
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Let Justice Roll Down 25435 219 John M. Perkins 0830743073 Randy 4 the-kingdom-come 4.40 1976 Let Justice Roll Down
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The Hidden Wound 227313 150 Wendell Berry 0865473587 Randy 5 enduring-influence 4.16 2005 The Hidden Wound
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<![CDATA[Hunting Magic Eels: Recovering an Enchanted Faith in a Skeptical Age]]> 54782480 250 Richard Beck 1506464653 Randy 0 currently-reading 4.20 Hunting Magic Eels: Recovering an Enchanted Faith in a Skeptical Age
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<![CDATA[Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump]]> 36430425 208 John Fea 0802876412 Randy 0 to-read 4.12 2018 Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump
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<![CDATA[Where Prayer Becomes Real: How Honesty with God Transforms Your Soul]]> 54232790
Spiritual formation experts Kyle Strobel and John Coe want to show you what you've been missing when it comes to prayer. In this down-to-earth book, they show you how to fearlessly draw near to a holy God, pray without ceasing (and without posturing), and delight in the experience of being fully known and fully loved. Each chapter ends with prayer projects or practices to help you see a difference in your prayer life, starting now.]]>
224 Kyle Strobel 1540900770 Randy 0 to-read 4.48 2021 Where Prayer Becomes Real: How Honesty with God Transforms Your Soul
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Prayer and Modern Man 1362691 178 Jacques Ellul 0816420815 Randy 0 to-read 4.02 1970 Prayer and Modern Man
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<![CDATA[Deep River and the Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death (Howard Thurman Book)]]> 201534 160 Howard Thurman 0913408204 Randy 0 to-read 4.47 1969 Deep River and the Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death (Howard Thurman Book)
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I Am Not Your Negro 33198164 I Am Not Your Negro, acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined James Baldwin s published and unpublished oeuvre, selecting passages from his books, essays, letters, notes, and interviews that are every bit as incisive and pertinent now as they have ever been. Weaving these texts together, Peck brilliantly imagines the book that Baldwin never wrote. In his final years, Baldwin had envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. His deeply personal notes for the project have never been published before. Peck s film uses them to jump through time, juxtaposing Baldwin s private words with his public statements, in a blazing examination of the tragic history of race in America.]]> 144 James Baldwin 0525434690 Randy 5 4.49 2017 I Am Not Your Negro
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The Fire Next Time 464260 The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin’s early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two “letters,� written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism. Described by The New York Times Book Review as “sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle…all presented in searing, brilliant prose,� The Fire Next Time stands as a classic of our literature.]]> 106 James Baldwin 067974472X Randy 5 4.55 1963 The Fire Next Time
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<![CDATA[Unspoken Sermons: Series I, II, III]]> 915566 416 George MacDonald 1426433778 Randy 5 4.54 1866 Unspoken Sermons: Series I, II, III
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<![CDATA[365 Meditations from George MacDonald's Fiction]]> 23160007 382 George MacDonald Randy 4 devotional, faith 3.98 2014 365 Meditations from George MacDonald's Fiction
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<![CDATA[A Year with Thomas Merton: Daily Meditations from His Journals - A Spiritual Guide for Reflection, Gratitude, and Self-Care in the Pursuit of a Mindful Christian Life]]> 173381 Each month will begin with one of Merton's delightful pen-and-ink drawings or one of his elegant black-and-white photographs.]]> 400 Thomas Merton 0060754729 Randy 5 4.27 2004 A Year with Thomas Merton: Daily Meditations from His Journals - A Spiritual Guide for Reflection, Gratitude, and Self-Care in the Pursuit of a Mindful Christian Life
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<![CDATA[Hearing God Through the Year: A 365-Day Devotional (Through the Year Devotionals)]]> 27218347
In these daily devotionals Dallas Willard helps us understand how we can know the voice of God and act on it. Now in a new format with an expanded introduction, this classic provides daily Scripture readings and suggestions for prayer, journaling and reflection to draw you into God’s presence. You may be surprised—and even transformed—by what you discover.]]>
329 Dallas Willard 0830899871 Randy 4 devotional, faith 4.50 2004 Hearing God Through the Year: A 365-Day Devotional (Through the Year Devotionals)
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<![CDATA[The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins]]> 26483709 226 Kyle Idleman 078141363X Randy 4 faith 4.54 2015 The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins
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The Alphabet of Grace 6573940 130 Frederick Buechner Randy 5 devotional, faith 4.20 1969 The Alphabet of Grace
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<![CDATA[Bringing it to the Table: Writings on Farming and Food]]> 12934250 Only a farmer could delve so deeply into the origins of food, and only a writer of Wendell Berry’s caliber could convey it with such conviction and eloquence. A progenitor of the slow food movement, Wendell Berry reminds us all to take the time to understand the basics of what we ingest. “Eating is an agriculture act,� he writes. Indeed, we are all players in the food economy. For the last five decades, Berry has embodied mindful eating through his land practices and his writing. In recognition of that influence, Michael Pollan here offers an introduction to this wonderful collection that is essential reading for anyone who cares about what they eat.Drawn from over thirty years of work, this collection joins bestsellers The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Pollan, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver, as essential reading for anyone who cares about what they eat. The essays address such concerns How does organic measure up against locally grown? What are the differences between small and large farms, and how does that affect what you put on your dinner table? What can you do to support sustainable agriculture?]]> 256 Wendell Berry Randy 5 4.25 2009 Bringing it to the Table: Writings on Farming and Food
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Transforming Prayer 10142635 240 Daniel Henderson 1441214666 Randy 4 devotional, faith 4.16 2010 Transforming Prayer
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<![CDATA[I Want to Live These Days with You: A Year of Daily Devotions]]> 18921132 416 Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1611641292 Randy 5 devotional 4.39 2005 I Want to Live These Days with You: A Year of Daily Devotions
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<![CDATA[You Are the Beloved: 365 Daily Readings and Meditations for Spiritual Living: A Devotional]]> 36324503 The Return of the Prodigal Son and The Wounded Healer offers deep spiritual insight into human experience, intimacy, brokeness, and mercy.

Nouwen devoted much of his later ministry to emphasizing the singular concept of our identity as the Beloved of God. In an interview, he said that he believed the central moment in Jesus's public ministry to be his baptism in the Jordan, when Jesus heard the affirmation, "You are my beloved son on whom my favor rests." "That is the core experience of Jesus," Nouwen writes. "He is reminded in a deep, deep way of who he is. . . . I think his whole life is continually claiming that identity in the midst of everything."

You Are Beloved is a daily devotional intended to empower readers to claim this truth in their own lives. Featuring the best of Nouwen's writing from previously published works, this devotional will propel the canon forward as it draws on this rich literature in new and compelling ways. It will appeal to readers already familiar with Nouwen's work as well as new readers looking for a devotional to guide them into a deeper awareness of their identity in Jesus.]]>
394 Henri J.M. Nouwen 1101906383 Randy 5 devotional, becoming 4.62 You Are the Beloved: 365 Daily Readings and Meditations for Spiritual Living: A Devotional
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The Crucible 6563871 A haunting examination of groupthink and mass hysteria in a rural communityĚýThe place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will have poisonous consequences when a vengeful teenager accuses a rival of witchcraft—and then when those accusations multiply to consume the entire village.First produced in 1953, at a time when America was convulsed by a new epidemic of witch-hunting, The Crucible brilliantly explores the threshold between individual guilt and mass hysteria, personal spite and collective evil. It is a play that is not only relentlessly suspenseful and vastly moving but that compels readers to fathom their hearts and consciences in ways that only the greatest theater ever can."A drama of emotional power and impact" —New York Post]]> 99 Arthur Miller Randy 0 to-read 3.99 1953 The Crucible
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<![CDATA[Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)]]> 53543063 From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Resistance Reborn comes a new epic fantasy of the great matriarchal clans of a prosperous cliff-city and its fight for survival against invasion, political intrigue, and dark celestial prophecies.]]> 461 Rebecca Roanhorse 153443769X Randy 0 currently-reading 4.31 2020 Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)
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<![CDATA[Traitor's Blade (Greatcoats, #1)]]> 20887238
Now Tristia is on the verge of collapse and the barbarians are sniffing at the borders. The Dukes bring chaos to the land, while the Greatcoats are scattered far and wide, reviled as traitors, their legendary coats in tatters. All they have left are the promises they made to King Paelis, to carry out one final mission.

But if they have any hope of fulfilling the King’s dream, the divided Greatcoats must reunite, or they will also have to stand aside as they watch their world burn…]]>
325 Sebastien de Castell Randy 0 to-read 4.02 2014 Traitor's Blade (Greatcoats, #1)
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Exhalation 41160292
In "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate," a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and second chances. In "Exhalation," an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications that are literally universal. In "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom," the ability to glimpse into alternate universes necessitates a radically new examination of the concepts of choice and free will.

Including stories being published for the first time as well as some of his rare and classic uncollected work, Exhalation is Ted Chiang at his best: profound, sympathetic—revelatory.]]>
368 Ted Chiang Randy 0 to-read 4.27 2019 Exhalation
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<![CDATA[A Little Hatred (The Age of Madness, #1)]]> 36452010
On the blood-soaked borders of Angland, Leo dan Brock struggles to win fame on the battlefield, and defeat the marauding armies of Stour Nightfall. He hopes for help from the crown. But King Jezal’s son, the feckless Prince Orso, is a man who specialises in disappointments.

Savine dan Glokta � socialite, investor, and daughter of the most feared man in the Union � plans to claw her way to the top of the slag-heap of society by any means necessary. But the slums boil over with a rage that all the money in the world cannot control.

The age of the machine dawns, but the age of magic refuses to die. With the help of the mad hillwoman Isern-i-Phail, Rikke struggles to control the blessing, or the curse, of the Long Eye. Glimpsing the future is one thing, but with the guiding hand of the First of the Magi still pulling the strings, changing it will be quite another…]]>
480 Joe Abercrombie 0575095873 Randy 0 to-read 4.52 2019 A Little Hatred (The Age of Madness, #1)
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<![CDATA[The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, #2)]]> 40701777 Peace is just another kind of battlefield...

Savine dan Glokta, once Adua’s most powerful investor, finds her judgement, fortune and reputation in tatters. But she still has all her ambitions, and no scruple will be permitted to stand in her way.

For heroes like Leo dan Brock and Stour Nightfall, only happy with swords drawn, peace is an ordeal to end as soon as possible. But grievances must be nursed, power seized and allies gathered first, while Rikke must master the power of the Long Eye... before it kills her.

The Breakers still lurk in the shadows, plotting to free the common man from his shackles, while noblemen bicker for their own advantage. Orso struggles to find a safe path through the maze of knives that is politics, only for his enemies, and his debts, to multiply.

The old ways are swept aside, and the old leaders with them, but those who would seize the reins of power will find no alliance, no friendship, and no peace, lasts forever.]]>
506 Joe Abercrombie 0575095911 Randy 0 to-read 4.59 2020 The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, #2)
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<![CDATA[The Reckless Way of Love: Notes on Following Jesus (Plough Spiritual Guides: Backpack Classics)]]> 31147372 In this guidebook Dorothy Day offers hard-earned wisdom and practical advice gained through decades of seeking to know Jesus and to follow his example and teachings in her own life.
Unlike larger collections and biographies, which cover her radical views, exceptional deeds, and amazing life story, this book focuses on a more personal dimension of her life: Where did she receive strength to stay true to her God-given calling despite her own doubts and inadequacies and the demands of an activist life? What was the unquenchable wellspring of her deep faith and her love for humanity?]]>
128 Dorothy Day 0874867924 Randy 0 to-read 4.21 The Reckless Way of Love: Notes on Following Jesus (Plough Spiritual Guides: Backpack Classics)
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