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Book ReviewsBaseball saved us
by Ken Mochizuki 1993 / 32 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give This is the story of a chapter of World War II that I didn’t know anything about…
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Book ReviewsBluffton
My summer with Buster Keaton by Matt Phelan 2013 / 240 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Gift Before there were silent films, there was vaudeville. Pay your nickel and…
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Book ReviewsThe Hobgoblins: a novel on John Bunyan
by Douglas Bond 2020 / 268 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give There are people who carry out such heinous acts and live such immoral lives that we’d think,…
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Book ReviewsWe Hereby Refuse: Japanese American resistance to wartime incarceration
by Frank Abe and Tamiko Nimura 2021 / 160 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Gift After the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, tens of thousands of Americans of Japanese…
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Adult fictionOnce Upon a Wardrobe
by Patti Callahan 2021 / 285 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT The year is 1950, and an eight-year-old George Henry Devonshire has finished a book, just published,…
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Adult biographiesSteal Away Home: Charles Spurgeon and Thomas Johnson
by Matt Carter and Aaron Ivey 290 pages / 2017 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give This is two biographies in one, about the little know relationship between the “Prince of Preachers”…
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Book lists5 books to help us never forget
Next week will mark Remembrance Day, and to help us remember these men and women – many in uniform, and also many who were not –…
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Book lists3 great Christian novels
If the fiction section in your local Christian bookstore is all-Amish all the time, then here are 4 recommendations of a very different sort: a…
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Book listsLearning about Luther: 10 titles your family will enjoy
Five hundred years ago a learned monk drew up 95 pointed arguments and asked for a debate. What he got was a revolution. Fast forward…
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Adult non-fictionThe Thunder: A novel on John Knox
by Douglas Bond 2012 / 400 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT John Knox turns five hundred this year and I can’t think of a better way to…