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"And if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday." Isaiah 58:10
"Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance." James 1:2,3
- In the Time of Butterflies, Julia Alvarez
- The Shack, William P. Young
- Why the Cocks Fight, Michele Wucker
- The Road, Cormac McCarthy
- 100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez (only read half)
- Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder
- Body Surfing, Anita Shreve
- Saving Fish from Drowning, Amy Tan
- Fall on Your Knees, Ann-Marie McDonald
- Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
- All Souls' Rising, Madison Smart Bell
- Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson
- Naked, David Sedaris
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
- Ragamuffin Gospel, Brennan Manning
- Native Son, Richard Wright
- Listening is an Act of Love, StoryCorps
- Life of Pi,Yann Martel
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz
- Without Feathers, Woody Allen
- The Blind Assasin, Margaret Atwood
- The Beach, Alex Garland
- Irresistible Revolution, Shane Claiborne
- When You are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris
- Does it Look and Sound Like Jesus? Sermons from Big Canoe Chapel, James R. McCormick
- The End of Poverty, Jeffery Sachs
- The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith
- Beast of No Nation, Uzodinma Iweala
- The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
- The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It, Paul Collier
- Traveling Light, Max Lucado
- The Kennedy Curse, Edward Klein
- A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
- When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor ... and Yourself, Steve Corbett & Brian Fikkert
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larson
- The Girl who Played with Fire, Stieg Larson
- Currently: The Dream Manager, Matthew Kelly
... Suggestions are welcome!
I can now cross off “going to south” and “going to see Ruth.” Progress, ladies and gents. That’s what it’s all about.