First, my newest spiritual mentor, Wayne Muller:
---Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in our Busy Lives
---Learning to Pray: How we Find Heaven on Earth
---How, then, Shall we Live?
Next, a wonderful writer of historical fiction, Gwendolyn Brooks
---People of the Book
---The Year of Wonders
Thomas Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Don Allender, Sabbath
Albert Race Sample, Racehoss (a true story of the transformation of an imprisoned man)
David McCullough, Brave Companions (true stories of key persons in history whom we rarely hear about)
James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me (the problem with high school history texts)
Patterson et al, Crucial Confrontations