Heart of A Shepherd by Rosanne Parry; 2009; 161 pages; Random House, New York, NY; 978-0-375-84802-5; 10/29-10/30 6 years ago as I read Garden of Dreams by Leslie Gould I cried uncontrollably at the climax of the story. Today as I read Heart of a Shepherd on the MAX and the bus I cried multiple [...]
Doubleback by Libby Fischer Hellman; 2009; 344 pages; Bleak House Books, Madison, WI; 978-1-60648-052-6; 10/26-10/29 This book was provided by the publisher in exchange for a review. A youngster is kidnapped and released three days later unharmed with no ransom having been paid. A couple of days later her mother is killed in a car [...]
Advent Conspiracy, Can Christmas Still Change the World by Rick McKinley, Chris Seay and Greg Holder; 2009; 151 pages; Zondervan, Grand Rapids, MN; 978-0-310-32425-2; 10/25-10/26 This book was provided by the Advent Conspiracy in exchange for a review. When I was first reading this book I was going to title the review, Pack your bags [...]
State by State, A Panoramic Portrait of American, 50 States, 50 Writers Edited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey; 2008; 572 pages; ecco, New York, NY; 978-0-06-147090-5; 10/14-10/24 Back during the Great Depression, the federal government commissioned 48 writers to write a profile of each of the states, each was published as a guide to [...]
You Gotta Have Wa*, When Two Cultures Collide on the Baseball Diamond, *From the Japanese, meaning team spirit, unity, the ball club always comes first by Robert Whiting; 1989; 339 pages; Macmillian and Company, New York, NY; 0-02-627-661-5 10/9-10/14 In the days before Ichiro joined the major leagues the movement of baseball players was only [...]
