by Site Owner | Jul 18, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs
By Don Brophy BlueBridge, $14.95, 296 pages Catherine of Siena lived in the latter half of the fourteenth century, when Europe was stricken with famine, the bubonic plague, and the Hundred Years War. Although the political divisions of Italy were in disarray, the...
by Site Owner | Apr 13, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
By David Marquand Princeton University Press, $24.95, 205 pages According to author David Marquand, a former member of the British Parliament, the Rudyard Kipling-inspired world division of East versus West is archaic and offensive. Marquand believes it must be...
by Site Owner | Apr 2, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs
By Joan Didion Knopf, $25.00, 188 pages In Blue Nights, acclaimed author Joan Didion writes a powerful contemplation of what it is to lose a daughter. True to her previous books, Didion writes with candor, lyrical precision, and a masterful understanding of the...
by Site Owner | Feb 17, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
by David Schmahmann Permanent Press, $28.00, 198 pages In his second novel, The Double Life of Alfred Buber, David Schmahmann writes an eminently human character study of a suburban attorney considering political office who has a penchant for books, for late-night...
by Site Owner | Feb 10, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Religion
by Brennan Manning David C. Cook, $22.99, 232 pages Brennan Manning, a former-Franciscan-priest-turned-evangelical who has written such contemporary spiritual classics as The Ragamuffin Gospel and Abba’s Child, presents his own life as a quintessential longing...
