By the Great Horn Spoon! by Sid Fleischman; 1963; 193 pages; Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA; 0-316-28577-3; 5/19/09-5/19/09 This was made into a movie in 1967, with Roddy McDowall, Suzanne Pleshette, Karl Malden and Mike Mazurki. I read the movie adaption back before I was 12 or 13 and have always remembered the book [...]
The Ugly American by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick; 1958; 285 pages; W.W. Norton & Company, New York, NY; 5/12/09-5/15/09 In the days when the French where still fighting in Vietnam and Americans thought it could never happen to them, Lederer and Burdick wrote a scathing book about diplomacy among Americans. Most of the [...]
Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris; 2006; 96 pages; Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY; 0-307-26577-3; 5/11/09-5/12/09 After writing The End of Faith, Sam Harris received many letters from Christians condemning him and telling him he was going to Hell. They were highly critical of him and told him in no certain terms [...]
Tuck, King Raven Trilogy, The Legend Triumphs by Stephen R. Lawhead; 2009; 452 pages; Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville, TN; 9781595540874; 5/7/09-5/11/09 Finally Lawheads’ retelling of the Robin Hood trilogy is completed. Epic battles, guerrilla warfare, headstrong women and the restoration of a kingdom. I would like to have seen another volume featuring Allen O’Dale, who [...]
Boneman’s Daughter by Ted Dekker; 2009; 401 pages; Hachette Book Group, New York, NY; 978-1-59995-195-9; 5/7/09-5/8/09 Something a little different from Ted Dekker, pretty much a straight ahead mystery without so many spiritual overtones. They are there, but they are a lot more obvious and and less integral to the plot than in previous books. [...]
