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Book ReviewsOn the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness: the Graphic Novel
by Andrew Peterson2026 / 224 pagesRating: Great The Wingfeather Saga is getting the graphic novel treatment and the first in the series is both more…
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Adult biographiesThe Cost of My Faith
by Jack Phillips 2021 / 199 pages RATING: Great Twenty seconds. And one decision. That’s all it took to change my life forever. So begins…
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Adult biographiesSeeking Allah, Finding Jesus
by Nabeel Qureshi 2014 / 384 pages RATING: Great Nabeel Qureshi (1983-2017) was a Pakistani-American who was raised as a devout follower of the peaceful…
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Book excerptsEdith Cavell: a brave guide
Some 150 years ago, on December 4, 1865, English woman Edith Cavell was born. And 100 years ago, on October 12, 1915, during the First…
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Book ReviewsThe barber who wanted to pray
by R.C. Sproul 2012 / 33 pages Rating: GREAT R.C. Sproul has written a half dozen picture books to date, all of them great instructional…
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Book ReviewsFrog’s rainy-day story and other fables
by Michael James Dowling illustrated by Sarah Buell Dowling 2023 / 76 pages WORLD magazine touted this as “one of the six best Christian picture…
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Book ReviewsThe Good Shepherd and the Stubborn Sheep
by Hannah E. Harrison 2025 / 32 pages Rating: Great George wants us to know that he, and the other sheep in his flock, are…
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Book ReviewsThe Unlikely Intrusion of Adams Klein
by John Greco 2025 / 288 pages Rating: good/GREAT/gift Adams Klein is a pretty ordinary 14-year-old, except, maybe for that “s” at the end of…
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Adult fictionTime will run back
by Henry Hazlitt 368 pages / 1951 Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift As novels go, this is intriguing. As economics textbooks go it is downright amazing. Like 1984……
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Book ReviewsBruno the Bear
by W.G. Van de Hulst 47 pages / 1978 & 2014 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Little Rosie is sick so Mother takes her off to bed. But…
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Book ReviewsAkimbo and the Lions
by Alexander McCall Smith 1992 / 66 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Alexander McCall Smith is best known as the author of the The No. 1 Ladies’…
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Book ReviewsDon’t trust fish
by Neil Sharpson and Dan Santat 2025 / 40 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Can you look at this title and not open the cover? And it…
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Book ReviewsThe Little Riders
by Margaretha Shemin illustrated by Peter Spier 1963 / 76 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give This is a Dutch World War II story with a difference: one…
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Book ReviewsThe God Proofs: How Science Points to YOUR Creator
by Douglas Ell 2024 / 207 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift A blue square with legs, arms eyeballs and mouth, wants to prove to his red rectangle…
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Book ReviewsBeautiful oops!
by Barney Saltzberg 2010 / 28 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give I play a “scribble game” with my girls. One person makes a quick jot on a…
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Book ReviewsKodi
by Jared Cullum 2020 / 176 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift Katya is spending the summer in a cottage in the woods of Alaska with her “Meema”…
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Book ReviewsPollyanna
by Eleanor H. Porter 1913 / 198 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Pollyanna’s father and mother were poor missionaries, and when they died she was sent to…
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Book ReviewsWire Mothers: Harry Harlow and the Science of Love
by Jim Ottaviani and Dylan Meconis 2007 / 84 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift Many horrors have been done in the name of science. Wire Mothers is…
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Book ReviewsSaint George and the Dragon
retold by Margaret Hodges illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman 1990 / 32 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give There are a lot of “powder-puff” stories for the pre-K…
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Book ReviewsSkip College: Launch your career without debt, distractions, or a degree
edited by Connor Boyack 2019 / 250 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give This is the case against college, but not because any of the 9 contributors here…
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Book ReviewsMarley’s Ghost
by Charles Dickens adapted by Harvey Kurtzman, Josh O’Neill, and Shannon Wheeler illustrated by Gideon Kendall 2017 / 129 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift This is a…
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Book ReviewsThe Great Brain
by John D. Fitzgerald 1972 / 175 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give The Great Brain is the story of Tom Fitzgerald, a ten-year-old boy living in frontier…
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Book ReviewsJourney
by Aaron Becker 2013 / 40 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give If your children loved Crockett Johnson’s Harold and the Purple Crayon you’ll want to check this…
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Book ReviewsTeam Burger Shed
by Tavin Dillard 2024 / 188 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Tavin Dillard is of an indeterminate age (he looks mid-30s, but gets around on a bike,…
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Book ReviewsLet’s Make Bread! (3 books)
by Ken Forkish and Sarah Becan 2024 / 158 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift This is the comic I never knew I wanted: a how-to for baking…
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Book ReviewsSecret Coders (6 books)
by Gene Luen Yang & Mike Holmes 2015-2018 / 92-110 pages each x 6 volumes Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift Hopper is at a new school and gets…
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Book ReviewsDire Dragons: Untold Secrets of Planet Earth
by Vance Nelson 2018 / 180 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give The old adage “never trust a book by its cover” certainly doesn’t apply to this beautiful…
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Book ReviewsThe Farm at the Center of the Universe
by Guillermo Gonzalez and Jonathan Witt 2024 / 167 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give An astrobiologist has written a young adult novel with an Intelligent Design agenda,…
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Book lists10 comics on cartooning
If you have a young artist in the house, or if you’re looking to inspire someone to try their hand at art, here’s a collection…
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Book ReviewsLost & Found
Based on a True Story by Mei Yu 2024 / 124 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift Cartoonist and Chinese-Canadian Mei Yu shares the mostly true story of…
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Book ReviewsPeter and Ernesto: A tale of two sloths (3 books)
by Graham Annable 2018 / 128 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift As this tale begins, two sloth friends are “cloud picturing” looking up in the sky for…
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Book ReviewsMaker Comics: Survive in the Outdoors
by Mike Lawrence 2021 / 123 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift When mom and dad go off on a trip on their ownsome, Sophia and Alonso are…
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Book ReviewsStealing Home
by J. Torres and David Namisato 2021 / 112 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift During World War II, after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Canada rounded up Japanese…
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Book ReviewsShackleton: Antarctic Odyssey
by Nick Bertozzi 2014 / 125 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton was obsessed with reaching the South Pole. He tried to be the…
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Book ReviewsLittle Robot
by Ben Hatke 136 pages / 2015 Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift This is one of those little-girl-meets-little-robot, little-girl-loses-little-robot, little-girl-kicks-some-big-robot-tushy-to-save-little-robot stories. What sets it apart from all the…
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Book ReviewsFern and Otto
by Stephanie Graegin 40 pages / 2020 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Fern is a bear, an author, an illustrator, and a best friend to Otto, the adventurous…
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Book ReviewsScience Comics: a quality quartet
Comics that are hilarious and instructive? That’s impressive! What’s less impressive about this “Science Comics” series, is that quite a few of the titles give…
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Book ReviewsThe Miracle Seed
by Martin Lemelman 2023 / 80 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift In 70 AD, after besieging Roman forces destroyed Jerusalem and the Jewish Temple, they went on…
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Adult fictionShoofly Pie
by Tim Downs 2003 / 371 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Did you know that insects have been known to help solve murder investigations? One of the…
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Book ReviewsLittle Red Riding Hood
by Trina Schart Hyman 28 pages / 1983 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give This is about a little girl and the big wolf that gobbles her up. If…
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Book ReviewsThe Adventures of Lancelot the Great
by Gerald Morris 92 pages / 2008 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give This has all the adventure you’d expect from an Arthurian tale, but way more humor. And…
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Book ReviewsThe Gardener
by Sarah Stewart and David Small 38 pages / 1997 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Lydia Grace Finch’s family has fallen on hard times. So their little girl…
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Book ReviewsWhat’s Darwin got to do with it? A friendly conversation about Evolution
by Robert C. Newman & John L. Wiester 146 pages / 2000 Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift A graphic novel about evolution vs. intelligent design? Now that’s got…
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Book ReviewsThe Mysterious Benedict Society
by Trenton Lee Stewart 512 pages / 2008 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Reynie Muldoon is an 11-year-old orphan who knows he is smart – he certainly reads…
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Book ReviewsThe Illiad
by Homer and adapted by Gareth Hinds 2019 / 272 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift The Illiad is a Greek epic that depicts just a part of…
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Adult biographiesGospel Patrons: people whose generosity changed the world
by John Rinehart 2013 / 170 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Are you a giant? Church history is full of such people. William Tyndale translated the Bible…
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Book ReviewsHostage Lands
by Douglas Bond 2006 / 235 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give “When am I ever going to use this?” It’s a question that comes up frequently in…
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Adult fictionWinterflight
by Joseph Bayly 1981 / 216 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give In this dystopian novel, Joseph Bayly takes us to a not-so-distant future in which abortion for…
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Adult non-fictionNotes from the Tilt-a-Whirl
Wide-Eyed Wonder in God’s Spoken World by N. D. Wilson 2009 / 203 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift The world is a wild ride, isn’t it? The…
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Book ReviewsUrchin of the Riding Stars
by M.I. McAllister 2021 / 299 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give This was so good I just had to read bits of it out loud to my…
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Book ReviewsAllergic
by Megan Wagner Lloyd illustrated by Michelle Mee Nutter 240 pages / 2021 Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift It’s Maggie’s 10th birthday and she’s finally going to get…
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Book ReviewsThe Strongest Man in the World: Louis Cyr
by Nicolas Debon 2007 / 27 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift This is a fun bit of Canadian history: Louis Cyr was a Quebec circus performer who, in…
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Adult biographiesA Promise Kept: the Story of an Unforgettable Love
by Robertson McQuilkin 2006 / 90 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Robertson McQuilkin served as president of Columbia Bible College and Seminary in Columbia, South Carolina (now…
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Book ReviewsDon’t let the Pigeon drive the bus!
by Mo Willems 2003 / 40 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Pigeon desperately wants to drive the bus. But the bus driver, who has to leave for…
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Adult fictionThe Gospel Blimp (And Other Parables)
by Joe Bayly 2013 / 155 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give We all have people in our lives that we should share the Gospel with but we…
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Book ReviewsThe Great Escape
by Christine Farenhorst 2002 / 182 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Christine Farenhorst is a superb storyteller. The Great Escape is a collection of forty short stories…
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Book ReviewsThe Comic Book Lesson (2 books)
A graphic novel that shows you how to make comics by Mark Crilley 2022 / 156 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift Emily is a young artist with…
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Book ReviewsFuzzy Baseball: Triple Play
by John Steven Gurney 2022 / 176 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift This is, as the title references, three stories in one, each involving the Fernwood Valley…
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Book ReviewsDo Hard Things: A teenage rebellion against low expectations
by Alex and Brett Harris 2008/ 241 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Did you know that the term “teenager” has been around less than 100 years? It’s…
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Book ReviewsThe Charlatan’s Boy
by Jonathan Rogers 2010/ 305 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give I love love loved Jonathan Rogers’ Wilderking Trilogy, a children’s fantasy series that echoes the story of David…
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Book ReviewsNero
by Jacob Abbott 2009, 202 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give How do you make history come alive for teens? Sometimes it means turning to an author long…
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Adult fictionThe Journey
A Spiritual Roadmap for Modern Pilgrims by Peter Kreeft 1996 / 128 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give This is an allegorical journey, reminiscent of John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s…
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Book ReviewsThe New Has Come
by Christine Farenhorst 2022 / 262 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give I’ve seen another reviewer suggest that this might be Christine Farenhorst’s best book yet, and I…
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Adult biographiesOnly When It’s Dark Can We See the Stars: a father’s journal as his son battles cancer
by John van Popta 2022, 194 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Why Lord? That’s the question 12-year-old Julian van Popta, his parents, and his siblings had to…
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Book ReviewsThe Arrival
by Shaun Tan 2007 / 128 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift I am an immigrant of sorts, having moved across the border to the US, and while…
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Book ReviewsThe Revolt: a novel in Wycliffe’s England
by Douglas Bond 269 pages / 2016 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give I was never a fan of Church history in school, but I’ve come to realize that…
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Book ReviewsNobody knows how to make a pizza
by Julie Borowski 2019 / 30 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give The picture book’s title makes a claim that my daughter just couldn’t believe: “Come on Dad, you know…
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Book ReviewsIn the Hall of the Dragon King
by Stephen Lawhead 1982 / 370 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give This is an old-fashioned fantasy tale, with a loosely Christian underpinning. Quentin is a young man…
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Book ReviewsEncyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective
by Donald J. Sobol 1963 / 88 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Idaville is a small town with an impressive record – no one, absolutely no one,…
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Adult fictionThe Last Disciple
by Sigmund Brouwer and Hank Hanegraaff 2004 / 428 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give It’s the year 65 AD, and Gallus Sergius Vitas is one of the…
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Adult biographiesListen! Six Men You Should Know
by Christine Farenhorst 161 pages / 2021 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give The six men we get introduced to here are given 25-30 pages each which is enough…
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Book ReviewsLindbergh: The Tale of a Flying Mouse (2 books)
by Torben Kuhlmann 96 pages / 2014 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give How did man first learn to fly? It seems we had a little help. This is…
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Book ReviewsScout: The Mystery of the Abandoned Mill
by Piet Prins 1982 / 127 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Piet Prins’ Scout: The Mystery of the Abandoned Mill is a book for all ages. It’s the…
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Book ReviewsFinding Winnie
by Lindsay Mattick 56 pages / 2015 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give It turns out that Winnie the Pooh, a teddy bear who had fantastic and entirely fanciful…
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Book ReviewsDon’t let the pigeon stay up late!
by Mo Willems 2006, 34 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give My kids and I love this for two very different reasons. They love it because they get…
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Book ReviewsLuther: Echoes of the Hammer
by Susan K. Leigh illustrated by Dave Hill 2011 / 144 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give I think this is the perfect complement to Luther: the graphic novel,…
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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 ReviewsNathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales (3 books)
Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales are a growing series of fast-paced, thoroughly researched, historical graphic novels. The best of these making learning easy, with humor and history intermixed…
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Adult biographiesThe Wright Brothers
by David McCullough 320 pages / 2015 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Match an astonishing story with a superb storyteller and what more could we ask for? David…
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Adult biographiesR.C. Sproul: A Life
by Stephen J. Nichols 2021 / 400 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Stephen J. Nichols has produced the first biography of Sproul since his death in December…
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Book ReviewsGod’s Big Book of Animals
Edited by Shirley Rash 248 pages / 2019 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Did you know that baby elephants drink three gallons of milk each day? Or that…
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Book ReviewsThe old house
by Pamela Duncan Edwards 2009 / 32 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give This is a sweet picture book about a self-absorbed house who learns to think about…
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Book ReviewsDown to the sea with Mr. Magee
by Chris Van Dusen 2006 / 36 PAGES Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Mr. Magee and his little dog Dee love camping, skiing, and sailing the sea They…
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Adult biographiesThe hardest peace
Expecting grace in the midst of life’s hard by Kara Tippetts 2014 / 189 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give In this part biography, part devotional Kara wants…
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Adult biographiesSaving my assassin
by Virginia Prodan 2016 pages / 336 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give How would you respond if you were staring down the barrel of a gun held…
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Adult fictionThe Auschwitz Escape
by Joel C. Rosenberg 2014 / 461 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Joel Rosenberg is a fantastic writer, a New York Times best-seller, but his political thrillers…
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Book ReviewsThe Ology: Ancient Truths, Ever New
by Marty Machowski 224 pages / 2015 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give I am always on the lookout for good books for our Church library, local Christian school…
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Book ReviewsThe Biggest Story
How the Snake Crusher brings us back to the garden by Kevin De Young 120 pages / 2015 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give I read this over three…
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Adult fictionRide Sally, Ride
by Douglas Wilson 294 pages / 2020 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give This might be the weirdest bit of fiction I’ve read, but the author’s point is that…
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Book ReviewsPro-life kids!
by Bethany Bomberger 48 pages / 2019 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give What I most liked about this book is that my kids just picked it up and…
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Book ReviewsNoah: A wordless picture book
by Mark Ludy 60 pages / 2014 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Mark Ludy’s wordless account of Noah’s life will fascinate young and old. There’s so much to…
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Book ReviewsYellow & Pink
by William Steig 1984 / 32 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Sometimes one encounters a work of art, a poem, piece of music, figurine or painting which is…
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Book ReviewsThe Green Ember
by S.D. Smith 365 pages / 2015 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give “Rabbits with swords” – it’s an irresistible combination, and all I had to say to get…
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Book ReviewsPrince Martin wins his sword
by Brandon Hale 52 pages / 2018 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give At bedtime, my dad reads a lot of books to us – me and my two…
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Book ReviewsThe Great Cake Mystery
by Alexander McCall Smith 73 pages / 2012 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Precious Ramotswe must rank up there with some of the best-loved fictional detectives of all…
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Book ReviewsBrave Ollie Possum
by Ethan Nicolle 373 pages / 2019 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give If you were ever a scaredy-cat, or if you might have one in your family, this…
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Adult fictionThe Winter King
by Christine Cohen 351 pages / 2019 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give 15-year-old Cora lives in a time of horses, and swords, and meat pies. It’s also a…
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Adult fictionThe Seraph’s Path
by Neil Dykstra 2019 / 475 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Maybe I should have gotten someone else to review this, what with me sharing the same…
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Adult fictionGreg Dawson and the psychology class
by Jay Adams 2008 / 149 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give This is a novel, but it’d be more accurate to call it a textbook masquerading as…
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Adult biographiesThe Faith of Christopher Hitchens
by Larry Taunton Biography 181 pages / 2016 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give The late Christopher Hitchens is best known for his book god is not Great: How…