Book Review
Fear of Paradise
Tiny San Nidro, nestled between forest and sea in southern Italy’s Puglia region, is a forgotten place, locked in the past and graced with wild beauty. Many of its young people have left to seek their fortunes elsewhere; the few...
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The Physics of Sorrow
The mythical Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull creature condemned to wander a labyrinth until killed, serves as an organizing image for Georgi Gospodinov’s time-traveling, labyrinthine stories about himself and his family—tales of...
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The Glory of Life
In July of 1923, Franz Kafka, forty years old, is ill with tuberculosis and convalescing near the Baltic Sea, when he meets twenty-five-year-old Dora Diamant, a remarkable woman fifteen years his junior who seems to him the essence of...
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For the Love of Rivers
Fausch conveys elegantly his reverence of rivers in this clarion call for conservation. In For the Love of Rivers: A Scientist’s Journey, Kurt D. Fausch weaves stories and insights from a career immersed in the ecology of rivers with...
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Between These Walls
This heartbreaking but ultimately inspiring love story reveals the power of love as a way to overcome fear of acceptance. Hunter Carlisle seems to have it all—a bright future in sales, a beautiful girlfriend, and a strong Christian...
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Christianity and Cosmic Consciousness
Hoen’s interpretation of Jesus’s teachings weaves in discussions from philosophers and academics to clarify and convince. Alexis Georg Hoen’s Christianity and Cosmic Consciousness: A Commentary on the Words of Jesus bridges the gap...
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From God to DNA
Stokes makes strong arguments for a “bottom up” approach to truth based in natural law and scientific method. Rem Stokes’s From God to DNA: A Provocative Journey provides strong arguments to support and validate the many formerly...
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A Story Worth Telling
Stories enhance our experience of life. We love to see how others respond to challenges and triumph over difficulties, and we pretend that we are doing the same. But what if we didn’t have to “borrow” someone else’s adventure?...
