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10 best books like Brother to a Dragonfly (Will D. Campbell): A Year Down Yonder, Wench, The Stories of John Cheever, Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London, The Cost of Discipleship, Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy, Strength to Love, Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century

A Year Down Yonder
AuthorRichard Peck
ISBN0142300705
Mary Alice remembers childhood summers packed with drama. At fifteen, she faces a whole long year with Grandma Dowdel, well known for shaking up her neighbors-and everyone else. All Mary Alice can know for certain is this: when trying to predict how life with Grandma might turn out . . . better not.



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Wench
AuthorDolen Perkins-Valdez
An ambitious and startling debut novel that follows the lives of four women at a resort popular among slaveholders who bring their enslaved mistresses

wench \'wench\ n. from Middle English "wenchel," 1 a: a girl, maid, young woman; a female child.

Tawawa House in many respects is...
The Stories of John Cheever
AuthorJohn Cheever
ISBN0375724427
Here are sixty-one stories that chronicle the lives of what has been called "the greatest generation." From the early wonder and disillusionment of city life in "The Enormous Radio" to the surprising discoveries and common mysteries of suburbia in "The Housebreaker of Shady Hill" and "The Swimmer,"...
Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
AuthorJoshua Wolf Shenk
ISBN0618773444
A thoughtful, nuanced portrait of Abraham Lincoln that finds his legendary political strengths rooted in his most personal struggles.

 

Giving shape to the deep depression that pervaded Lincoln's adult life, Joshua Wolf Shenk's Lincoln's Melancholy reveals how this illness...
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
AuthorEric Foner
ISBN0393066185
From a master historian, the story of Lincoln's—and the nation's—transformation through the crucible of slavery and emancipation.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Lincoln Prize

In this landmark work of deep scholarship and insight, Eric Foner gives...
The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London
AuthorJudith Flanders
ISBN1848877951
From the critically acclaimed author of The Invention of Murder, an extraordinary, revelatory portrait of everyday life on the streets of Dickens' London.

The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented change, and nowhere was this more apparent than London. In only a few decades, the...
The Cost of Discipleship
AuthorDietrich Bonhoeffer
ISBN0684815001
One of the most important theologians of the twentieth century illuminates the relationship between ourselves and the teachings of Jesus in this classic text on ethics, humanism, and civic duty.

What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of Jesus, mean today to the businessman,...
Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy
AuthorDonald B. Kraybill
ISBN0787997617
On Monday morning, October 2, 2006, a gunman entered a one-room Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. In front of twenty-five horrified pupils, thirty-two-year-old Charles Roberts ordered the boys and the teacher to leave. After tying the legs of the ten remaining girls, Roberts prepared...
Strength to Love
AuthorMartin Luther King Jr.
ISBN0800614410
Martin Luther King Jr. may be seen by many people, unfortunately, as a cliche historical figure. Everybody feels as though they know a lot about him, but in reality most people know nothing about him besides the fact that he was a civil rights leader who got assassinated. I personally have always wanted...
Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century
AuthorJames Howard Kunstler
ISBN0684837374
In his landmark book The Geography of Nowhere James Howard Kunstler visited the "tragic sprawlscape of cartoon architecture, junked cities, and ravaged countryside" America had become and declared that the deteriorating environment was not merely a symptom of a troubled culture, but one of the...
Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
AuthorAnne Moody
ISBN0385337817
Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till's lynching. Before then, she had "known the fear of hunger, hell,...
Dog Soldiers
AuthorRobert Stone
ISBN0395860253
In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of America...
No Death, No Fear
AuthorThich Nhat Hanh
ISBN1573223336
With hard-won wisdom and refreshing insight, Thich Nhat Hanh confronts a subject that has been contemplated by Buddhist monks and nuns for twenty-five-hundred years—and a question that has been pondered by almost anyone who has ever lived: What is death? In No Death, No Fear, the acclaimed teacher...
Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation
AuthorMiroslav Volf
ISBN0687002826
Life at the end of the twentieth century presents us with a disturbing reality. Otherness, the simple fact of being different in some way, has come to be defined as in and of itself evil. Miroslav Volf contends that if the healing word of the gospel is to be heard today, Christian theology must find ways...
How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical and Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants
AuthorDavid Rees
ISBN1612190405
A hilarious guide to the lost art of artisanal pencil sharpening

"...I am so thrilled David Rees is picking up the reins of the forgotten art of manual graphite-encased-in-wood point-crafting. I love my pencil!"
—AMY SEDARIS

"You may think that sharpening a pencil is easy,...
Zoom
AuthorIstvan Banyai
ISBN0140557741
As seen on the SERIAL podcast, season 2, episode 1 ("Dustwun")!

Open this wordless book and zoom from a farm to a ship to a city street to a desert island. But if you think you know where you are, guess again. For nothing is ever as it seems in Istvan Banyai's sleek, mysterious landscapes of pictures...
Breakfast with Buddha
AuthorRoland Merullo
ISBN1565125525
The only thing certain about a journey is that it has a beginning and an end—for you never know what may happen along the way. And so it is with this journey into the minds and souls of two very different men—one of them in search of the truth, the other a man who may have already found it.

When...
If Grace Is True: Why God Will Save Every Person
AuthorPhilip Gulley
ISBN0062517058
This is a terribly confused and confusing book. Let me say plainly: I am interested in reading arguments for a specifically Christian universalism.

This, however, is a pick-and-choose theology that is illogical, poorly argued, and based on the simple belief that "God whispered to" the author...
Falconer
AuthorJohn Cheever
ISBN0679737863
Falconer Correctional Facility certainly sounds dreary and no place I’d want to spend any time, but it doesn’t seem nearly as bad as many fictional prisons. In fact, it seems pretty dull. There weren’t any beatings from brutal guards. There’s no racial tension evident. No one gets shivved...
Vatican Waltz
AuthorRoland Merullo
ISBN0307452956
This book is for those who want a journey of the soul.
What were your feelings about God, the Divine, your own soul when
you were growing up? Did you go to the church of your parents?
Being in that building, where your family said their prayers, did
it inspire you also?
This book is about...
With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman
AuthorHoward Thurman
The Autobiography Of Howard Thurman

I became interested in Howard Thurman (1899 -- 1981) through studying Martin Luther King, Jr; and, in particular, from reading about Thurman in Gary Dorrien's 2018 book, "Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Black Social Gospel."...
Zen and the Birds of Appetite
AuthorThomas Merton
"Zen enriches no one," Thomas Merton provocatively writes in his opening statement to Zen and the Birds of Appetite—one of the last books to be published before his death in 1968. "There is no body to be found. The birds may come and circle for a while... but they soon go elsewhere. When they are gone,...
On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
AuthorJames K.A. Smith
ISBN1587433893
This is not a book about Saint Augustine. In a way, it's a book Augustine has written about each of us. Popular speaker and award-winning author James K. A. Smith has spent time on the road with Augustine, and he invites us to take this journey too, for this ancient African thinker knows far more about us...
Music of the Ghosts
AuthorVaddey Ratner
ISBN1476795789
Leaving the safety of America, Teera returns to Cambodia for the first time since her harrowing escape as a child refugee. She carries a letter from a man who mysteriously signs himself as “the Old Musician” and claims to have known her father in the Khmer Rouge prison where he disappeared twenty-five...
Pure Slaughter Value: Stories
AuthorRobert Bingham
In his extraordinary debut collection, Pure Slaughter Value, Robert Bingham tracks the conscience of a generation that grew up educated, privileged, and starved for meaning. Bingham's strange sense of morbid fancy collides with a gutsy realism; the result is splendid wreckage: a young man is seduced...
The Areas of My Expertise
AuthorJohn Hodgman
ISBN1594482225
Hot on the heels of the #1 bestsellers The Onion's Our Dumb Century and Jon Stewart's America comes The Areas of My Expertise, the brilliant and uproarious #15 bestseller (i.e., a runaway phenomenon in its own right-no, seriously) - a lavish compendium of handy reference tables, fascinating trivia,...
Get Your War On: The Definitive Account of the War on Terror 2001-2008
AuthorDavid Rees
ISBN1593762135
Since October 9, 2001, when David Rees posted eight comic strips on his website and called it Get Your War On, tens of millions of people have been entertained and horrified by his clip-arty office workers and their vociferous and profane commentary on the so-called War on Terror. From the first few days...
Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category
AuthorDave Eggers
ISBN1400076854
Now more than ever, Americans are troubled by questions. As sweaty modernity thrusts itself upon us, the veil of ignorance that cloaked our nation hangs in tatters, tattered tatters. Our "funny bones" are neither fun nor bony. Glum is the new giddy, and the old giddy wasn't too giddy to begin with.

 

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The Magnetic Girl
AuthorJessica Handler
ISBN1938235487
Gorgeously envisioned, and based on a true story, The Magnetic Girl is set at a time when the emerging presence of electricity raised suspicions about the other-worldly gospel of Spiritualism, and when women’s desire for political, cultural, and sexual presence electrified the country. Squarely...
The Apple Tree
AuthorKayla Rose
Meet me in the meadow in twelve years.

Drew Caldwell’s life plan begins to spiral when her best friend, River Mahlon, tells her he won’t be attending college in the fall. The last time her world was shaken up like this was back in fourth grade, when River moved from Hawaii to her sleepy town...
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