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Carole Duff is an award-winning veteran teacher, accomplished presenter, serious flutist, avid naturalist, and writer of narrative nonfiction. She posts weekly to her long-standing blog Notes from Vanaprastha, and has written for Brevity blog, Huffington Post, Mockingbird, Streetlight Magazine, The Perennial Gen now The Sage Forum (for which she is a regular con- tributor) and other publications. Carole lives in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains with her husband, writer K.A. Kenny, and two, large overly-friendly dogs.

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At the Corner of Past and Future by Pamela Carter Joern
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A solid essay collection, my favorites being those about geography, about the narrator’s growing up years in the panhandle of Nebraska—and her 96-year-old mother’s “Flying Leap.” Well written, well pondered, well loved.
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How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
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A twentieth-century classic set in the Wales of by-gone days, a story about coal and slag, family and coming of age, mountains and valleys, all voices Welsh. An enthralling tale.
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The Big Relief by David Zahl
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Another important book from pastor David Zahl. We wear ourselves out trying to earn love, keep up, and be productive. We struggle with forgiveness, anxiety, rejection, guilt, our need for control. We are captives in this strange land called modern li ...more
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Theo of Golden
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A delightful read, the story masterfully told, a mystery, an unforgettable spiritual journey.
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Docile by Hyeseung Song
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When I heard the author read from her book at Hippocampus Magazine’s debut author night, I was hooked. A well written story about how a Korean-American girl finds her true self. Both despite and with the help of family and friends. A memoir well wort ...more
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The Spirituality of the Cross by Gene Edward Veith Jr.
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My husband and I married in our fifties, he a lifelong Lutheran, I an atheist for forty years followed by a journey in faith. Like Veith, I was led to embrace Lutheran Spirituality. Veith’s explanations of the fundamentals—justification, the means of ...more
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The Genius of Trees by Harriet Rix
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Fabulously interesting, detailed, and engaging. The relationships and connections of trees with the natural world is a complex mosaic, which Rix carefully explains to educated lay people. “We share one world with trees and one need for survival.” Ame ...more
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The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
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A masterpiece set in place and time, populated by the protagonist Han Castorp and a cast of characters living disease (tuberculosis) and surrounded by death in a sanitarium in Davos—the magic mountain. What kind of fantasy life does one weave in such ...more
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Who I Always Was by Theresa Okokon
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Okokon is a storyteller and honest about who she is: “Telling someone how I feel is always more about me than it is about them.” And yet, as a child of two West African-born parents, growing up in predominantly White neighborhoods, Okokon tried fit i ...more
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Never Alone by Sue  Donaldson
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Sue Donaldson has many gifts: hospitality, wit, and storytelling to name a few. Each chapter of her book is framed by a personal story with biblical and scriptural connections woven in between. Never Alone means inviting people to coffee, a meal, for ...more
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