Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder
Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who watch or work or weep this night, and give your angels charge over...
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Under the Storm by Christoffer Carlsson
Life is complicated and a part of being human is that we may not be able to manage it all perfectly, but we keep trying. We keep obsessively driving for flawlessness...
We Loved It All: A Memory of Life by Lydia Millet
“In the beginning,” Lydia Millet writes in We Loved It All: A Memory of Life, “we gave names to every creature that we found … home was a garden, then—a garden...
And Then? And Then? What Else? by Daniel Handler
Daniel Handler is best known for A Series of Unfortunate Events and All The Wrong Questions, published under the pen name Lemony Snicket. In “And Then? And Then? What Else?” he...
The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
“Ada! Get back from that window!” Mam’s voice, shouting. Mam’s arm, grabbing mine, yanking me so I toppled off my chair and fell hard to the floor. “I was only saying...
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
“Night, District Three of the Ho Chi Minh Autonomous Trade Zone. The plastic awning of the café streamed with rain. Under its shelter, wreathed in kitchen steam and human chatter, waiters...
Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
I start my day before sunrise, throwing on running clothes and laying a pinch of semaa at the eastern base of a tree, where sunlight will touch the tobacco first. Prayers...
The Busy Body by Kemper Donovan
I was on the prowl for a light detective story and after reading the summary of “The Busy Body” in January, 2024 “Library Reads,” I decided this new mystery sounded perfect!...
The Warsaw Orphan by Kelly Rimmer
The Warsaw Orphan by Kelly Rimmer “Let the world read and know” I am in awe of how much information Kelly Rimmer poured through to write this book and the incredible...
Nettle & Bone by Ursula Vernon writing as T. Kingfisher
T. Kingfisher is the pen name of Ursula Vernon, a prolific author with a body of work that runs the gamut from horror to romance by way of comics, short fiction,...
