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No staff is entirely static, staying exactly the same for years with no additions or subtractions. We realize that, but we're also pretty proud of our current personnel, and the many ways they've helped shape Exodus Books and point it in some unforeseen and wonderful directions. So, in 2011 we started asking each individual to share their favorite books, curricula, games, etc., and these pages are the result.

Because sharing favorites is fairly personal, we thought you should get to know each of these peculiar persons and asked them all to write a main bio, as well as section-specific bios. These are partly to show why they selected the titles and products in their lists, and partly just to show you that Exodus Books is inhabited by real people who do real things.

One of our biggest in-store services is making recommendations and helping people find what works best for them. These lists aren't as customer-specific, but they serve the same purpose—we're not just trying to parade our excellent taste or prove that we're literate, we're trying to help you discover things you may never have found otherwise, and maybe to rediscover some old favorites.

It's probably a fact universally true of book-lovers: given the chance, they'll talk your ear off about the books they love, the books they hate, and all the books you'll never read but that are really much better than the well-known books you will read. This isn't pretension. It's simply what happens to those who love words and want to share them. We've tried to cut the talk down here, though we'll gladly answer any pertinent questions.

With that, we present Staff Favorites. You'll find some overlap (lots of people seem to like The Chronicles of Narnia), but rarely if ever will you find complete consensus on a single title, product, or curriculum line. That's why we let everyone make their own lists: you know the official Exodus stance by reading our reviews, but the individuality that makes our store unique and awesome is what's on display here. Enjoy, and don't judge too harshly.

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1984
by George Orwell
from Harcourt
for 10th-Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$17.00 $11.00 (1 in stock)
ABC's and All Their Tricks
by Margaret M. Bishop
from Mott Media
for Adult
in Reading Reference (Location: REF-READ)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies
Hornblower Series #11
by C. S. Forester
from Little, Brown & Company
Nautical fiction for 8th-Adult
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$16.14 $8.00 (1 in stock)
Always Ready
by Greg Bahnsen
from Covenant Media Foundation
for 10th-Adult
in Christian Apologetics (Location: XAP-GEN)
$14.95 $10.00 (3 in stock)
American Childhood
by Annie Dillard
from Harper & Row
for 10th-Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Anno's Journey
by Mitsumasa Anno
from Puffin Books
for 2nd-Adult
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Art and Craft of Poetry
by Michael J. Bugeja
from Writer's Digest
for 11th-Adult
in Poetry Curriculum & Resources (Location: LIR-POET)
$11.00 (2 in stock)
Art of Fiction
by John Gardner
from Vintage Classics
for 9th-Adult
in Writing Reference (Location: REF-WRI)
$12.71 $9.00 (1 in stock)
Assumptions That Affect Our Lives
by Christian Overman
4th edition from Worldview Academy
for 9th-12th grade
in Worldview Resources (Location: XWV-RES)
$17.00 $9.50 (1 in stock)
Back To Basics
by David Hagopian, editor
from P&R Publishing
for 10th-Adult
in Reformed Theology (Location: XTH-REF)
$16.00 $10.00 (2 in stock)
Beat to Quarters
Hornblower Series #6
by C. S. Forester
from Little, Brown & Company
Nautical fiction for 10th-Adult
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$16.14 $7.20 (1 in stock)
Beginning of the Republic
A Basic History of the United States Volume 2
by Clarence B. Carson
from American Textbook Committee
American History Reference for 9th-Adult
in Basic History of the United States (Location: HISCUR-BHUS)
$17.00 $10.00 (1 in stock)
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
from Vintage Classics
for Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$3.00 (1 in stock)
Best Things in Life
by Peter Kreeft
from InterVarsity Press
for 9th-Adult
in Philosophy (Location: XWV-PHI)
$19.54 $6.80 (1 in stock)
Big What Now Book of Learning Styles
by Carol Barnier
from Emerald Books
for Adult
in Clearance: Home School Resources (Location: ZCLE-HSR)
$15.39 $8.00 (1 in stock)
Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories
by Herman Melville
from Bantam Books
Realistic Nautical Fiction for 10th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
$4.21 $2.00 (1 in stock)
Blue Like Jazz
by Donald Miller
from Thomas Nelson Publishers
for 10th-Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$3.00 (3 in stock)
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
from HarperCollins
Dystopian Literature for 10th-Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$17.99 $7.00 (8 in stock)
Bringing Heaven Down to Earth
by Nathan L. K. Bierma
from P&R Publishing
for 11th-Adult
in Clearance: Christian Books (Location: XCLE)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer (edited by Kolve V.A. & Glending Olson)
2nd edition from W. W. Norton and Co.
for 10th-Adult
in Medieval Literature (Location: LIT2-MED)
$11.20 (1 in stock)
Charlotte Mason Education
by Catherine Levison
from Champion Press
in Charlotte Mason Education (Location: HSR-METCM)
$12.74 $6.00 (1 in stock)
Children of the Promise
by Robert Booth
from P&R Publishing
for 11th-Adult
in Baptism (Location: XWO-SAC1)
$12.74 $6.40 (1 in stock)
Chosen
by Chaim Potok
from Simon and Schuster
Realistic Fiction for 9th-Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$17.99 $9.00 (1 in stock)
Christian History Made Easy
Rose Bible Basics
by Timothy Paul Jones
from Rose Publishing
for 9th-Adult
in Church History Overviews (Location: XCH-OVE)
$14.99 $10.50 (1 in stock)
Christianity and the Constitution
by John Eidsmoe
from Baker Academics
for Adult
in Christianity and the State (Location: XWV-STA)
$15.00 (1 in stock)
Church in History
by B. K. Kuiper
2nd edition from Eerdmans
Church History Reference for 9th-Adult
in Church History Overviews (Location: XCH-OVE)
$28.89 $12.00 (2 in stock)
Classical Education Made Approachable
from Classical Conversations
for Adult
in Classical Education (Location: HSR-METCE)
$10.29 $6.00 (4 in stock)
Colonial Experience
A Basic History of the United States Volume 1
by Clarence B. Carson
from American Textbook Committee
American History Reference for 9th-Adult
in Basic History of the United States (Location: HISCUR-BHUS)
$17.00 $10.00 (1 in stock)
Commodore Hornblower
Hornblower Series #9
by C. S. Forester
from Little, Brown & Company
Nautical fiction for 10th-Adult
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$16.14 $7.20 (1 in stock)
Community
Re:Lit Books
by Brad House
from Crossway Books
for Adult
in Church Ministry & Service (Location: XWO-MIN)
$13.59 $4.80 (3 in stock)
Damsels in Distress
from P&R Publishing
in Biblical Womanhood (Location: XFA-WOM)
$12.00 $8.00 (1 in stock)
Delight Directed Learning
The HomeScholar Coffee Break Books
by Lee Binz
from The HomeScholar
for Adult
in Practical Home Schooling (Location: HSR-PRAC)
$3.20 (2 in stock)
Diary of a Napoleanic Foot Soldier
by Jakob Walter
from Penguin Putnam
for 10th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
$5.20 (1 in stock)
Don't Waste Your Life
by John Piper
from Crossway Books
for 9th-Adult
in Practical Christian Living (Location: XCL-PRAC)
$11.89 $5.20 (1 in stock)
Don't Waste Your Life
by John Piper
2018 Reprint from Crossway Books
for 9th-Adult
in Practical Christian Living (Location: XCL-PRAC)
$6.80 (1 in stock)
Don't Waste Your Life - Gift Edition w/DVD
by John Piper
Gift Edition from Crossway Books
for 9th-Adult
in Practical Christian Living (Location: XCL-PRAC)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Dubliners
Dover Thrift Editions
by James Joyce
from Dover Publications
for 10th-Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$7.00 $4.00 (1 in stock)
Easy Chairs, Hard Words
by Doug Wilson
from Canon Press
for 9th-Adult
in Reformed Theology (Location: XTH-REF)
$10.20 $5.60 (6 in stock)
Echo in Celebration
by Leigh A Bortins
1st edition from Classical Conversations
for Adult
in Classical Education (Location: HSR-METCE)
$9.00 (2 in stock)
Economics in One Lesson
by Henry Hazlitt
from Laissez Faire Books
for 9th-Adult
in Economics Resources (Location: ECON-REF)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Eighteenth Century Europe
by Isser Woloch
from W. W. Norton and Co.
for 10th-Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Emotionally Destructive Marriage
by Leslie Vernick
from WaterBrook Press
for Adult
in Christian Counseling (Location: XCL-COU)
$7.20 (1 in stock)
Endangered Minds
by Jane M. Healy
1st edition from Simon and Schuster
for Adult
in Clearance: Home School Resources (Location: ZCLE-HSR)
$11.20 $8.00 (2 in stock)
Essential Arabic
Com/Pap Bl from Living Language
for 10th grade-adult
in Arabic (Location: FL-GEN)
$22.99 $16.00 (1 in stock)
Extravagant Grace
by Barbara Duguid
from P&R Publishing
for 10th-Adult
in The Gospel (Location: XTH-GOS)
$11.04 $6.00 (1 in stock)
Failure to Connect
by Jane M. Healy
1st edition from Simon and Schuster
for Adult
in Clearance: Home School Resources (Location: ZCLE-HSR)
$16.00 $10.00 (1 in stock)
Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
from Charles Scribner's Sons
for 11th-Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$15.00 $10.00 (1 in stock)
Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die
by John Piper
from Crossway Books
for 9th-Adult
in The Gospel (Location: XTH-GOS)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
For the Children's Sake
by Susan Macaulay
from Crossway Books
for Adult
in Practical Home Schooling (Location: HSR-PRAC)
$7.20 (1 in stock)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
from Charles Scribner's Sons
Realistic Fiction for 10th-Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$18.99 $10.00 (1 in stock)
Future of Home Schooling
by Michael Farris
from Regnery Publishing, Inc.
for Adult
in Practical Home Schooling (Location: HSR-PRAC)
$1.60 (1 in stock)
Girl Talk
by Carolyn Mahaney
from Crossway Books
for 9th-Adult
in Raising Daughters (Location: XFA-DAU)
$11.04 $6.40 (2 in stock)
Give Them Grace
by Elyse M. Fitzpatrick, Jessica Thompson
from Crossway Books
for Adult
in Parenting (Location: XFA-PAR)
$12.74 $6.00 (1 in stock)
Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
5th edition from New Directions
for 10th-Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$12.95 $7.00 (1 in stock)
Growing Up Christian
by Karl Graustein
from P&R Publishing
for 9th-Adult
in Growing Up Christian (Location: XCL-GROW)
$14.44 $7.20 (1 in stock)
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
from Dover Publications
for 7th-Adult
in 18th Century Literature (Location: LIT5-18)
$5.10 $3.20 (1 in stock)
Handy Dad
by Todd Davis
from Chronicle Books
for Adult
in Dangerous Books for Kids (Location: SS-DAN)
$24.95 $12.50 (1 in stock)
History of the American People
by Paul Johnson
from HarperCollins
for 11th-Adult
in American History Reference (Location: HISA-REF)
$19.54 $11.20 (1 in stock)
Home Schooling: The Right Choice!
by Christopher Klicka
Revised and Updated from Broadman & Holman
in Practical Home Schooling (Location: HSR-PRAC)
$12.74 $3.20 (4 in stock)
HomeScholar Guide to College Admission and Scholarships
by Lee Binz
from The HomeScholar
for 11th-Adult
in High School & College Prep (Location: HSR-HSC)
$10.40 (2 in stock)
Homeschool Answer Book
by Ruth Beechick
from Arrow Press
for Adult
in Clearance: Home School Resources (Location: ZCLE-HSR)
$8.40 $6.00 (1 in stock)
Homeschool Journey
by Michael & Susan Card
from Harvest House
in Practical Home Schooling (Location: HSR-PRAC)
$3.00 (6 in stock)
Homeschooling for Excellence
by David & Micki Colfax
from Warner Books
for Adult
in Practical Home Schooling (Location: HSR-PRAC)
$16.99 $3.20 (1 in stock)
How to Read a Poem
by Burton Raffel
from Meridian Book
for 11th-Adult
in Poetry Curriculum & Resources (Location: LIR-POET)
$17.00 $9.00 (1 in stock)
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
by Susanna Clarke
from Bloomsbury Publishing
for 9th-Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Just Around the Corner Volume 1
by Steven & Teri Maxwell
from Communication Concepts
for Adult
in Practical Home Schooling (Location: HSR-PRAC)
$6.80 (2 in stock)
Know Why You Believe
by Paul E. Little
4th edition from InterVarsity Press
for 9th-Adult
in Christian Apologetics (Location: XAP-GEN)
$17.00 $8.00 (1 in stock)
Language Wars
by Ruth Beechick
from Arrow Press
for Adult
in Practical Home Schooling (Location: HSR-PRAC)
$10.20 $6.40 (2 in stock)
Let My Children Go
by E. Ray Moore, Jr.
from Ambassador Emerald International
for Adult
in Clearance: Home School Resources (Location: ZCLE-HSR)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Lord Hornblower
Hornblower Series #10
by C. S. Forester
from Little, Brown & Company
Nautical fiction for 10th-Adult
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$16.14 $7.20 (2 in stock)
Meaning of Marriage
by Tim Keller, Kathy Keller
Reprint from Riverhead Books
for 11th-Adult
in Covenant Marriage (Location: XFA-MAR)
$18.70 $7.60 (1 in stock)
More Charlotte Mason Education
by Catherine Levison
from Champion Press
for Adult
in Charlotte Mason Education (Location: HSR-METCM)
$14.99 $9.00 (2 in stock)
NEA
by Samuel Blumenfeld
from Paradigm Publishing
for Adult
in Clearance: Home School Resources (Location: ZCLE-HSR)
$2.00 (2 in stock)
Norms & Nobility
by David V. Hicks
from University Press of America
for 11th-Adult
in Classical Education (Location: HSR-METCE)
$38.00 (1 in stock)
Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
from Charles Scribner's Sons
Realistic Fiction for 9th-Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$12.75 $6.40 (2 in stock)
One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
Thursday Next Book 6
by Jasper Fforde
from Penguin Putnam
for 10th-Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$17.00 $8.00 (1 in stock)
Original Intent
by David Barton
3rd from WallBuilder Press
for 11th-Adult
in Law & Political Theory (Location: GOV-LAW)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Orthodoxy
by C. K. Chesterton
from Moody Press
for 10th-Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$8.49 $4.00 (1 in stock)
Our Town
by Thornton Wilder
from HarperCollins
for 10th-Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$14.99 $7.50 (3 in stock)
Passion of Jesus Christ
by John Piper
from Crossway Books
for 10th-Adult
in General Theology (Location: XTH-GEN)
$2.00 (5 in stock)
Peacemaker
by Ken Sande
3rd edition from Baker Books
for 11th-Adult
in Christian Counseling (Location: XCL-COU)
$16.14 $9.60 (2 in stock)
Pleasures of God
by John Piper
from Multnomah Books
for 11th-Adult
in Theology Proper: The Study of God (Location: XTH-GOD)
$7.00 (1 in stock)
Popologetics
by Ted Turnau
from P&R Publishing
for 11th-Adult
in Christian Apologetics (Location: XAP-GEN)
$16.99 $8.00 (1 in stock)
Praying through the 100 Gateway Cities of the 10/40 Window
2nd edition from YWAM Publishing
for 4th-Adult
in Spiritual Disciplines (Location: XCL-SPDI)
$8.49 $3.60 (2 in stock)
Radical
by David Platt
1st edition from Multnomah Books
for 11th-Adult
in Practical Christian Living (Location: XCL-PRAC)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Radical Together
by David Platt
1st edition from Multnomah Books
for Adult
in Practical Christian Living (Location: XCL-PRAC)
$14.99 $8.00 (2 in stock)
Reaping the Harvest
by Diana Waring
from Diana Waring Presents
History Curriculum for Adult
in Clearance: Home School Resources (Location: ZCLE-HSR)
$10.00 $4.00 (1 in stock)
Reverberation
by Jonathan Leeman
from Moody Press
for 11th-Adult
in Scripture & Hermeneutics (Location: XBI-HERM)
$4.80 (1 in stock)
Roar on the Other Side
by Suzanne U. Rhodes
2nd edition from Canon Press
for 7th-Adult
in Poetry Curriculum & Resources (Location: LIR-POET)
$15.29 $10.00 (1 in stock)
Running Scared
by Edward T. Welch
from New Growth Press
for 11th-Adult
in Christian Counseling (Location: XCL-COU)
$16.00 $11.00 (1 in stock)
Sacred Foundation
by Michael Farris & L. Reed Elam
from Loyal Publishing
for Adult
in Clearance: Home School Resources (Location: ZCLE-HSR)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Seasons of a Mother's Heart
by Sally Clarkson
from Whole Heart Ministries
for Adult
in Practical Home Schooling (Location: HSR-PRAC)
$5.60 (1 in stock)
Secrets of Great Communicators - Teacher Kit
by Jeff Myers
from Broadman & Holman
for 10th-Adult
in Speech & Debate (Location: SPEECH)
$45.00 (2 in stock)
Sergeant York and the Great War
by Alvin C. York
from My Father's World
Autobiography for 7th-Adult
in World War I (1914-1919) (Location: HISA-20WW1)
$18.70 $8.00 (2 in stock)
Shakespeare: The World As Stage
by Bill Bryson
for 10th-Adult
in Shakespeare Materials (Location: LIR-SHA)
$15.99 $8.00 (1 in stock)
Shipping News
by E. Annie Proulx
1st edition from Charles Scribner's Sons
for Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Silas Marner
by George Eliot
from Dover Publications
for 9th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
$5.10 $2.40 (1 in stock)
So You're Thinking About Homeschooling
by Lisa Whelchel
from Focus on the Family
for Adult
in Clearance: Home School Resources (Location: ZCLE-HSR)
$4.50 (1 in stock)
Soul of Science
Turning Point Christian Worldview
by Nancy Pearcey & Charles Thaxton
from Crossway Books
for 10th-Adult
in Faith & Science (Location: XAP-SCI)
$24.99 $12.50 (2 in stock)
Speaking Truth in Love
by David Powlison
from New Growth Press
in Communication & Conflict Resolution (Location: XCL-COM)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
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