Every Moment Holy
Douglas Kaine McKelvey
A collection of prayers for ordinary moments, inviting us to notice the sacredness woven through everyday life.
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The Correspondent
Virginia Evans
A life revealed in letters, one exchange at a time. Quiet, observant, and deeply human, this is a story about the relationships we carry, the things we leave unsaid, and how an ordinary life can hold far more than it first appears.
Reader note · Contains occasional strong language and mature themes.
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Lady Tremaine
Rachel Hochhauser
A familiar fairy tale reconsidered through the eyes of the woman history decided was the villain — a story about motherhood, reputation, family, and the choices women make.
Reader note · Contains some strong language, violence and references to sexual assault.
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Theo of Golden
Allen Levi
A gentle story about what can happen when one person begins paying attention to the people around him. Full of small kindnesses and unexpected connection, it is a reminder that being seen can quietly change a life.
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Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt
Tender, surprising, and wonderfully unusual. Beneath its unlikely friendship is a story about grief, loneliness, second chances, and the unexpected ways we find our way back to one another.
Reader note · Contains some strong language and mature references.
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The One-in-a-Million Boy
Monica Wood
An unlikely friendship between a 104-year-old woman and an unusual young boy becomes a story about memory, grief, second chances, and the ways one life can quietly change another.
Reader note · Includes the death of a child and themes of grief and loss.
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Faith, classics, culture, and slower-life stories chosen for the way they stay with us.
The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry
John Mark Comer
A thoughtful invitation to slow down, live with intention, and reconsider what a hurried life is costing us.
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The Hiding Place
Corrie ten Boom
A remarkable true story of courage, faith, suffering, forgiveness, and hope in the midst of unimaginable hardship.
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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
A timeless story of family, sisterhood, character, work, sacrifice, and the quiet formation of women through ordinary life.
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All Creatures Great and Small
James Herriot
Stories of animals, work, community, compassion, and the beauty found in an ordinary rural life.
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The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
A story of friendship, renewal, nature, and the possibility of beginning again.
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The Boys in the Boat
Daniel James Brown
A story of perseverance, discipline, teamwork, community, and the determination to become something greater together.
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Hannah Coulter
Wendell Berry
A quiet account of one woman's life, told through work, marriage, loss, family, land, and belonging. Nothing here needs to shout. Its beauty is in the accumulation of ordinary days and the realization that they were never ordinary at all.
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Book ClubOne book. One question. One conversation worth having.
We choose books that leave something behind — a question, a conversation, or a different way of seeing the lives we thought we understood.
This month’s book · October 2026
Lady Tremaine
Rachel Hochhauser
Fiction / MotherhoodWe are beginning with a familiar story told from the side history chose not to hear. Lady Tremaine asks what we assume about the women cast as villains — and what motherhood, reputation, and survival look like when no one is watching kindly.
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