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Joan’s favorite books

Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening by Cynthia Bourgeault Plan B by Anne Lamott Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott The Color of Water by James McBride Let Your Life Speak by Parker J. Palmer Leaving Church by Barbara Brown Taylor The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Being There by Jerzy Kosiński
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Varina by Charles Frazier
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V has never made any claim of personal high ground. She grew up where and when she did. From earliest memory, owning other people was a given. But she began feeling the strangeness of it at about nine or ten—not the wrongness or the sin of ...more
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