
Cal Morris
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Cal Morris is up before the sun, getting the store ready to open. Behind the counter, he’s likely to talk like a pirate, dance to his own rhythm (literally), and wax poetic (or something like poetic) about how much he loves his job and his family (which includes our baker, Heather, and their three kids, all named after Wendell Berry or Wendell Berry characters). Cal’s a co-owner at Church Street, and he’s our General Manager, so he’s the go-to guy for questions about coffee or books. Books: Plainsong. The Moviegoer. Telegraph Avenue. Anything by Wendell Berry.
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Jayber Crow
By: Wendell Berry
Jayber Crow, born in Goforth, Kentucky, orphaned at age ten, began his search as a "pre-ministerial student" at Pigeonville College. There, freedom met with new burdens and a young man needed more than a mirror to find himself. But the beginning of that finding was a short conversation with "Old Grit," his profound professor of New Testament Greek. "You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out-perhaps a little at a time.""And how long is that going to take?"
"I don't know. As long as you live, perhaps."
"That could be a long time."
"I will tell you a further mystery," he said. "It may take longer."Buy Now on

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
By: Annie Dillard
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Blue Ridge valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing incidents of "mystery, death, beauty, violence."Buy Now on
The Painter
By: Peter Heller
Jim Stegner has seen his share of violence and loss. Years ago he shot a man in a bar. His marriage disintegrated. He grieved the one thing he loved. In the wake of tragedy, Jim, a well-known expressionist painter, abandoned the art scene of Santa Fe to start fresh in the valleys of rural Colorado. Now he spends his days painting and fly-fishing, trying to find a way to live with the dark impulses that sometimes overtake him. He works with a lovely model. His paintings fetch excellent prices. But one afternoon, on a dirt road, Jim comes across a man beating a small horse, and a brutal encounter rips his quiet life wide open. Fleeing Colorado, chased by men set on retribution, Jim returns to New Mexico, tormented by his own relentless conscience.Buy Now on