1. Book Reviews
  2. Books Published February 2012

February 2012

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published February 2012.

Return to Most Recent

Book Review

Ghost Train to Freedom

Join teen psychic friends Jinx and Max on their adventure aiding in the Undergound Railroad effort. This capable duo of white children venture from their homes in the present-day North to the Antebellum South and back, to rescue a... Read More

Book Review

Quest for Justice

by Courtney Sorrell

Murder in the first degree: a chilling and terrifying charge for anyone. For Richard Jaffe, however, it’s the very first step in one of the American legal system’s most important causes. Having spent almost his entire legal career as... Read More

Book Review

Scapegoat

by Edward Morris

“Essentially we are incapable of accepting that much of life is inexplicable. And so we use myth, art and religion as devices to explain and cope with reality.” Thus does English writer Charlie Campbell set the stage for his survey... Read More

Book Review

Delirium

by Elissa Mugianis

For those perplexed by how American politics are so profoundly manipulated by Moral-Majority types, historian Nancy L. Cohen’s latest book has many of the answers. Well-researched and coolly incisive on the hot-button social... Read More

Book Review

Attack of the Theocrats!

by Edward Morris

On December 19, 2011, a Nashville newspaper carried a story about the construction of an all-faiths chapel at the nearby Fort Campbell military base that will cost taxpayers $8.4 million. A smaller article in the same issue noted that a... Read More

Book Review

What the Animals Taught Me

by Kristen Rabe

In this engaging, enlightening, personal collection of stories, Stephanie Marohn demonstrates the power of connecting with animals—in this case, a menagerie of farm denizens including a miniature horse, donkey, sheep, and chickens. An... Read More

Load More