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Richard Wakefield Author Of Terminal Park: Poems

From Richard's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

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Richard's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Richard Wakefield Why Richard loves this book

The writing evokes a world in which people are respected for thinking long and hard about our relation to God, no matter whether their thoughts lead them to accepted creeds.

By Marilynne Robinson ,

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8 authors picked Gilead as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD

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In 1956, towards the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son: 'I told you last night that I might be gone sometime . . . You reached up and put your fingers on my lips and gave me that look I never in my life saw on any other face besides your mother's. It's a kind of furious pride, very passionate and stern. I'm always a little surprised to find my eyebrows unsinged after…


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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

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Richard Wakefield Author Of Terminal Park: Poems

From Richard's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

Why am I passionate about this?

Author Open Empathetic Hopeful

Richard's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Richard Wakefield Why Richard loves this book

The story of a seemingly unremarkable man who sees the eternal in the temporal, and who has the breadth and depth of language to communicate his insight to us.

By Wendell Berry ,

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3 authors picked Jayber Crow as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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“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 town's barber.

Orphaned at age ten, Jayber Crow’s acquaintance with loneliness and want have made him a patient observer of the human animal, in both its goodness and frailty.

He began his search as a "pre-ministerial student" at Pigeonville College. There, freedom met with new burdens and a young man…


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