Category: Non-Fiction
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In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Human rights activist Park, who fled North Korea with her mother in 2007 at age 13 and eventually made it to South Korea two years later after a harrowing ordeal, recognized that in order to be “completely free,” she had to confront the truth of her past. It is…
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A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Vanauken chronicles the birth of a powerful pagan love borne out of the relationship he shares with his wife, Davy, and describes the growth of their relationship and the dreams that they share. A beloved, profoundly moving account of the author’s marriage, the couple’s search for faith and friendship…
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The Great Good Thing by Andrew Klavan: Content Warnings
Synopsis: No one was more surprised than Andrew Klavan when, at the age of fifty, he found himself about to be baptized. Best known for his hard-boiled, white-knuckle thrillers and for the movies made from them–among them True Crime (directed by Clint Eastwood) and Don’t Say a Word (starring Michael Douglas)–Klavan was born in…
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Hope Heals by Katherine and Jay Wolff: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Katherine and Jay Wolf married right after college and sought adventure far from home in Los Angeles, CA. As they pursued their dreams–she as a model and he as a lawyer–they planted their lives in the city and their church community. Their son, James, came along unexpectedly in the…
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The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown: Content Warnings
Synopsis: For readers/listeners of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times – the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in…