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The Wonder Worker (Ballantine Reader's Circle) 23 reviews
Susan Howatch
Ballantine Books, 1998
Fiction for the Thinking Christian
+ A great read
+ The Wonder Worker
Most of the action in this novel occurs in a healing center, where two priests, a physician, social worker, counselor and several volunteers work. This is an unusual and intriguing setting.
Howatch, through the crises of the various characters, is able to portray the connection between body ...
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A Passage to India 99 reviews
E.M. Forster
Harvest Books, 1965
East and West Can Never Meet
+ There is beauty here.
Almost a century after the book's publication the most crucial problems it discussed are as current as they were during Forster's life. The impossibility of communicating across the divide of culture, religion, and race, seems to be even more alive then when he saw it. The value of the novel lies ...
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The Dark Room: A Novel 16 reviews
Rachel Seiffert
Pantheon, 2001
Amazing!
+ Memories of war - simply told
+ A national portrait
+ top ten of past year
+ Three German perspectives of the Second World War
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Master and Commander264 reviews
Patrick O'Brian
W. W. Norton & Company, 1990
Addicted to Aubrey - Maturin
+ Captain Jack Aubrey is a warts-and-all hero
+ Master and Commander
+ Fantastic read
+ Worthy of reading again and again ...
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The Hiding Place196 reviews
Corrie Ten Boom, John Scherrill, ...
Bantam Books, 1974
An opinion on The Hiding Place
+ Re-read every so often for fresh insight, Timeless
+ The Hiding Place
I would recommend this book to everyone especially in todays' political climiate. This book is a definite keeper for the family library.
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A Guide to Prayer for All God's People 23 reviews
Rueben P. Job, Norman Shawchuck
Upper Room Books, 1990
Great devotional guide!!!
+ A Guide to Prayer for Ministers and other Servants
+ Great Structure and Guidance
+ Great variety and very nice schedule
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Scandal7 reviews
Shusaku Endo
Vintage, 1989
deep and thought-provoking
+ a touch of post modernism
+ Darkly Surprising
+ Worth a lifetime of rereading
+ Good and Evil
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The Poisonwood Bible (Oprah's Book Club)1419 reviews
Barbara Kingsolver
Harper Perennial, 1999
A Gem of Postcolonial Literature
+ An Eye Opener
+ A book for the Colonialists, not the colonised: for Westerners, not Africans
+ The Poisonwood bible
+ A Retrospective
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Embers98 reviews
Sandor Marai
Knopf, 2001
The candle burns to its stub!
+ Great novel
+ A still life of passion
+ Closest to perfection this side of heaven
+ Passion v. reason
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Miss Garnet's Angel: A Novel31 reviews
Salley Vickers
Carroll & Graf, 2001
Importance for me...
+ Gorgeously Subtle
+ Towards an epiphany in Venice
+ well told story
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The Sovereignty of God37 reviews
Arthur W. Pink
Banner of Truth, 1961
This is the best theological book I've ever read
+ This is a keeper
+ Magnificent!!! Reminds us of who's in control!!!
If you want to read one book on theology this is THE book. This is clearly written so that all may understand it and is presented in a very straight-forward, logical manner. This is the book that helped push me over the edge on particular atonement. Mr. Pink uses a ton of scripture verses to ...
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Evangelism in the Early Church3 reviews
Michael Green
Eerdmans Pub Co, 1970
an enthusiastic book about evangalism in the early church
+ Great book
+ quite exhaustive and exhausting!
"Evangelism in the Early Church" by Michael Green has just been reissued, and no wonder. In a field that is usually as dry as sticks, Green is quite enthusiastic about his subject.
Green makes many of the usuual points: "that probably no period in the history of the world was better suited to ...
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Midnight's Children181 reviews
Salman Rushdie
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1991
Wicked Sense of Humor
+ A Magic Carpet Ride of Indian History
Oh, my goodness. What do I say about this? It's such a rich, excellently written story with lots of interesting action and characters. Bonus: Rushdie has a wicked wicked WICKED sense of humor. And, did I say that the writing is to die for? Envy the size of an elephant inhabited my body as I was ...
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Blueback: A Contemporary Fable7 reviews
Tim Winton
Scribner, 1998
A captivating read !
+ A Beautiful Fable
+ a spiritual journey
+ Perfect
+ It was a grand story about fish.
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A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman126 reviews
Joan Anderson
Broadway, 2000
A good read if you're in transition
+ Beautiful!
+ Take time for yourself
Joan Anderson wrote this book to help herself out of a tough life transition. Along the way, she learned, and she teaches us, so much about what we seek in life, how to live with ourselves before trying to live to please others. She shares so much, "A Year by the Sea" is a good example of ...
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek216 reviews
Annie Dillard
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1998
The result of relentless observation
+ Loved it!
I first read this book in High School. I was impressed but 8 years later re-read the book to my younger sister for a class she was taking. She wasn't getting much from the book. But as I read it to her, I realized how supreme this book is among American Lit.
Dillard's book is the result of ...
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The Smoke Jumper112 reviews
Nicholas Evans
Delacorte Press, 2001
Awesome Book! Nicholas Evans Can Write! A++++
+ really like Nicholas Evans
+ Compelled to write a review A +
+ Hearts of Fire
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Deep River23 reviews
Shusaku Endo
New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1995
Searching for Peace in an Expanded Horizon
+ reflecting at the ganges
+ Tremendous
+ A global odysey originating in Japan, culminates in India
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You Are Special (Max Lucado's Wemmicks)173 reviews
Max Lucado
Crossway Books, 1997
Great book!
+ I read this to my children every night
+ Note
+ great story
+ Touching story, not just for children.
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An Instance of the Fingerpost323 reviews
Iain Pears
Berkley, 1999
You must read this book in order to appreciate Master Pears' genius
+ Absolute Genius
+ Very smart mystery!
+ well written historical mystery
+ An Interesting and Complex Book
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