Books to Feed the Soul John McManus, Main Point Books
THERE ARE TIMES WHEN A GREAT BOOK IS THE BEST TYPE OF NOURISHMENT.
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books are needed now more than ever. The chance to escape into new worlds and gain insight into the world we live in always make reading a wonderful adventure. Here are some recommendations for deeply engaging stories— whether you crave fantasy, fiction, politics or biography. Plus there’s a local author to support. Be transported by a good book! Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft Thomas Senlin is a recently married teacher in a village of fishmongers. For his honeymoon, he brings his wife to the Tower of Babel—the renowned center of arts and culture—and loses her. People disappear from the Tower all the time. Horrified by the prospect of returning home alone, and pessimistic that his wife
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will return on her own, Thomas journeys into the Tower, facing the rules and challenges that each level offers. He ultimately arrives at the realization that the Tower grinds away everyone’s will for its own purpose. A simple story set inside a massive, evocative world, written by a local author. Deacon King Kong by James McBride This is a wonderfully brash American novel. Set in the tenements of South Brooklyn in 1969 when an aging church deacon, Sportcoat, shoots the housing project’s drug dealer in front of a crowd of witnesses. Written in a Dickensian style, the book sketches the inhabitants of the
