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September 1999

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published September 1999.

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Good News for a Change!

by Cari Noga

While directed toward Christians, Good News will resonate with Jews, Muslims and other faiths. In short essays, Crim, a veteran broadcaster who spent nearly twenty years editing and anchoring television news in Detroit, tells readers to... Read More

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Women of Courage

by Patricia Voice

“My mother thinks that I behaved very courageously, but I was scared and in pain all the time. And I did what I had to do because there was no way out,” writes Isabel Allende, a woman caught in political upheaval in Chile, who saved... Read More

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A Pocketful of Stars

by Linda Salisbury

Once bedtime stories and rituals, e.g., one last drink of water, are over and lights are turned off, children are left to face the dark. Night can be scary or filled with wonder. “Darkness is at once fascinating and frightening,”... Read More

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The Mediterranean

by Peter Skinner

“Eclectic encyclopedia” best defines this wonderfully informative, digressive and evocative cultural history. Matvejevic, a Croat and university lecturer in Zagreb, Paris and Rome, is a cartographer of cultures; an analyst of... Read More

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The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity

by Peter Skinner

This first complete English translation of thirty-two of Aby Warburg’s essays, papers and notes is much needed. Fully illustrated, extensively annotated and indexed, this finely designed and well-printed volume will earn both... Read More

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Henry of Atlantic City

by Brandon M. Stickney

The children of the heavenly man are more numerous than those of the earthly man. He who understands, let him understand. No creation is so completely flawed that no good can come out of it. Know yourself by not being taken captive by a... Read More

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