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Classic books have inspired countless readers and continue to captivate and entertain. They offer a glimpse into different eras and cultures, and provide insights into the human experience that are still relevant today. Here are 20 classic books that are worth rereading as an adult: “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee: This classic novel explores themes of racial injustice and moral courage…

Nonfiction

Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America, The Hidden Wound, “Standing by Words,” and The Art of Loading Brush

Chris Arnade, Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America

Grace Olmstead, Uprooted: Recovering the Legacy of the Places We've Left Behind

Patrick Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed

Roger Scruton, Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life and Notes from Somewhere: On Settling

Carolyn Forché, What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance

Thomas Chatterton Williams, Self Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race

C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism

Joshua Gibbs, How to Be Unlucky: Reflections on the Pursuit of Virtue

Robert Cardinal Sarah, with Nicolas Diat, God or Nothing and The Day Is Now Far Spent

The Solzhenitzyn Reader

Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope

Alan Jacobs, How to Think and Breaking Bread with the Dead

Eve Tushnet, Gay and Catholic: Accepting My Sexuality, Finding Community, Living My Faith

Ivan Illich, Gender

Wilfred McClay, Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story

Leah Penniman, Farming While Black

Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

James Rebanks, English Pastoral

Novels

Marly Youmans, Charis in the World of Wonders

Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter

Chaim Potok, The Chosen

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

Shusakū Endo, The Samurai

Eugene Vodolazkin, Laurus

Poetry

B.H. Fairchild, The Art of the Lathe and Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest

Jennifer Reeser, Indigenous

Sally Thomas, Motherland

Jane Greer, Love Like a Conflagration

Claude Wilkinson, Marvelous Light and World Without End

The Harp of the Spirit: Eighteen Poems of Saint Ephrem

Top 10 U.S. Wines of 2020

🍷 We found the top 10 wines of 2020 that you should be drinking.

Whether you need a last minute gift, or are looking for a new wine to try - we compiled a list of the Top 10 U.S. Wines. There are so many of top wine lists each year, but most include wines from around the world.

So we wanted to show some love to the wines made in the United States.The wines we found are some of the highest rated in the country right now, and as you'll see they're also focused on their branding.

#1 “Contact” by Carl Sagan Pages 432 Published 1985 Official Synopsis: In December of 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who—or what—is out there? In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future—and our own.   #2 “An Instance of the Fingerpost” by Ian Pears Pages 692 Published…

February 21 was first established as International Mother Language Day by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1999. It was organized as a celebration of linguistic and cultural diversity. It is part of a larger initiative to revive many communities’ linguistic heritage as many ethnic languages may become extinct in the decades to come. Since most of…

No partner? No problem! Hopefully, you’re not sad about not having a significant other on Valentine’s Day, but if you are here are ten books about self-love to read: #1 “Untamed” by Glennon Doyle: A memoir that explores the author’s journey of self-discovery and liberation, as she reclaims her true identity and becomes more authentic to herself. #2 “The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of…

January 31st is National Backwards Day. Backwards day was created by Sarah Nichole Miller and Megan Emily Scott while they were working on a farm. They came up with the rules on January 29th, 1961 and word spread around town with the community doing things backward. The women made the day on January 31st and it has remained such ever since. In celebration of National Backwards Day, here is a…