by Site Owner | Aug 1, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller
By Michael Crichton and Richard Preston Harper, $28.99, 430 pages When representatives of an innovative company showed up at Cambridge to recruit grad student scientists, the students had no way of knowing the dangerous adventure they were facing. The company,...
by Site Owner | Aug 1, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction
By Lindsey Davis St. Martin’s Press, $25.99, 464 pages Lindsey Davis’ Master and God tells the story of two people, Lucilla Flavia and Gauis Clodianus, living in the Roman Empire under the reign of the tyrant Domitian. Although both of these characters are...
by Site Owner | Aug 1, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs
By Otto Willi Gail Apogee Books, $12.95, 216 pages Otto Willi Gail’s book By Rocket to the Moon (1931) harkens back to the days of Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and C.S. Lewis’s Out of the Silent Planet. Gail was a science journalist and writer who studied...
by Site Owner | Aug 1, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
By Anthony J. Sestric Reedy Press, $19.95, 216 pages It takes many small steps to achieve freedom. 57 Years: A History of the Freedom Suits in the Missouri Courts examines suits slaves filed against their owners in order to gain freedom. Although most of the book...
by Site Owner | Aug 1, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Religion
By Gabe Lyons WaterBrook Multnomah, $14.99, 272 pages The author and evangelical leader Gabe Lyons – the founder of Q, a learning community that mobilizes Christians to advance the common good in society – sets out to review our misconceptions about Christians in his...