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November 2008

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published November 2008.

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The Turkey Feather Cape

by Laurie Sullivan

Here is a how-to book that may well be the only one of its kind: it teaches readers how to make a turkey feather cape. This majestic full-length garment was once worn by tribal leaders and its construction is now a vanishing Native... Read More

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Planet Backpacker

Planet Backpacker: Across Europe on a Mountain Bike & Backpacking on Through Egypt, India & Southeast Asia-Around the World (The Wandering Press, 978-0-9821344-0-5) details the four-continent, twenty-country, five-month-long... Read More

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A Hard-Water World

by Lee Gooden

Two middle-aged guys decide to go ice fishing; they set up their jigs and wait, and wait, but have no luck. Not even ten feet away from them a boy catches fish after fish from his hole. One of the men asks the boy his secret. The boy... Read More

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Ace

“I am hardtop ironclad crash-tested / and only need someplace safe to sleep / or sleep it off / or sit up sleepless” Richard Carr writes. "Ace" a novel in verse interweaves four lives separated through hurt longing and rebellion in a... Read More

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The Economist Book of Obituaries

by Peyton Moss

For generations, obituary notices in newspapers and magazines soberly noted the passing of the newsworthy—statesmen, plutocrats, and other pillars of the community, along with famous entertainers, artists, socialites and the... Read More

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Into the Fire

by M. Wayne Cunningham

During the 2007 US Naval Academy’s football season Presbyterian minister John Owen served as the team’s chaplain—a position he sometimes found ambiguous and challenging but always memorable and rewarding. His concisely written book... Read More

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God Alone is the Truth and the Way

by Carter Jefferson

Prayers for earthly salvation and pleas for our homes and declining fortunes probably increase markedly in hard times like these but Frederick Mahan has a higher goal—he wants each of us to listen to the God inside us not to the devil... Read More

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The Accidental Christian

by Joyce Rice

Protestant churches all over the world organize “mission trips” for members of their congregations in the hope that their eyes will be opened to need beyond their own doors. Some of these trips take place close to home; some of them... Read More

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