Book Review
America's Best Colleges! Really?
John A. Howard is an astute, learned man. A decorated World War II soldier, one-time president of a California college, and later president for seventeen years of Illinois’s Rockford College, Dr. Howard has accumulated a lifetime of...
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The Adventures of Bunzy
Tina Eshed has drawn on her now-adult son’s love of a special childhood toy in writing The Adventures of Bunzy: The Beginning, the first of what she promises will be several children’s stories about a delightful stuffed rabbit....
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Just How Far from the Apple Tree?
Distinguished professor John S. Peale is the son of the late Norman Vincent Peale, whom many consider one of the most influential clergymen of the twentieth century. The elder Peale was an esteemed minister and a best-selling author...
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A King James Christmas
In their new book, "A King James Christmas", artist and translator Catherine Schuon and award-winning author and editor Michael Fitzgerald have collaborated as coeditors to present an exquisite, very traditional holiday volume suitable...
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The War Around Us
Born in Germany during World War II, Wolfgang Peter May experienced the horrors of war even before he could walk. Later, as a naturalized American citizen, he served as an officer in the US Army, first in Germany and then in Vietnam. In...
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My Dad the Runner
The title of Raymond A. Ramirez’s memoir, "My Dad the Runner", has nothing to do with track and field, marathons, or anything else relating to sports. Ramirez’s father was a runner of another kind—the kind forever running from the...
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Pets at the White House
In "Pets at the White House", Jennifer Boswell Pickens offers a delightful series of anecdotes and photographs of our nation’s First Pets, creating an endearing volume that will appeal to animal lovers and presidential theorists alike....
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Are You Lonesome Tonight?
English author Michael J. Clark’s "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" is a contrived—albeit zany and entertaining—tale, but it may miss its mark with American audiences. The main story is about two men, born and raised in New York state,...