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Mark Twain |
June 2004 |
I thoroughly
enjoyed this book. Twain was a real student of Joan of Arc and weaves historical
fact with his remarkable storytelling and characterization to wonderfully
recreate this legendary saint. |
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Patrick O’Brian |
April 2004 |
Review |
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Penelope Fitzgerald |
March 2004 |
Review |
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Paulo Coelho |
March 2004 |
Review |
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Ron Chernow |
January 2004 |
Review |
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Caroline Alexander |
December 2003 |
Review |
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Lance
Armstrong |
August
2003 |
Review |
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Dining
Tables: Outstanding Projects from America's Best Craftsmen |
Kim Carleton Graves, Masha Zager |
July
2003 |
Review |
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J. K.
Rowling |
June
2003 |
Review |
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Arturo
Perez-Riverte |
April
2003 |
Review |
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The
Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler’s German
1941-1945 |
Michael
Beschloss |
April
2003 |
Review |
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Sister
Sophia Michalenko |
March
2003 |
Review |
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Mark
Helperin |
January
2003 |
Review |
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John
Steinbeck |
December
2002 |
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Ari
Goldman |
November
2002 |
Review |
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Nathaniel
Philbrick |
November
2002 |
Review |
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Ian
Davis |
October
2002 |
Review |
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Scott
Hahn |
October
2002 |
Review |
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C. S.
Lewis |
October
2002 |
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Georges
Bernanos |
September
2002 |
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Jefferson’s
Pillow: A Black Patriot Confronts the Myths of the Founding Fathers |
Roger
Wilkins |
August
2002 |
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Stephen
L. Carter |
August
2002 |
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Alexandre
Dumas |
July
2002 |
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Robert
Ludlum |
July
2002 |
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Graham
Greene |
June
2002 |
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Chin-Ning
Chu |
January
2002 |
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Fr.
Walter Ciszek |
December
2001 |
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J. R. R.
Tolkien |
December
2001 |
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Jared Diamond |
November 2001 |
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Thomas Merton |
July 2001 |
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Gereon Goldmann, O.F.M. |
July 2001 |
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More than Houses: How Habitat for Humanity is Transforming Lives and Neighborhoods |
Millard Fuller |
July 2001 |
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Dead Man Walking : An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States |
Sr. Helen Prejean |
July 2001 |
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Katherine Neville |
July 2001 |
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Guy Gaucher |
June 2001 |
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David L. Fleming, S. J. |
June 2001 |
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The Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of Saint Therese of Lisieux |
St. Therese of Lisieux |
June 2001 |
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Courtenay Batholomew |
June 2001 |
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster |
Jon Krakauer |
May 2001 |
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Upton Sinclair |
April 2001 |
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One Day, All Children...: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach for America and What I Learned Along the Way |
Wendy Kopp |
April 2001 |
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J. K. Rowling |
April 2001 |
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Geoffrey Moore |
April 2001 |
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Willa Cather |
March 2001 |
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Randall Stross |
March 2001 |
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Patrick Lencioni |
February 2001 |
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Jim Corbett |
February 2001 |
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Touching the Void: The Harrowing First-Person Account of One Man's Miraculous Survival |
Joe Simpson |
January 2001 |
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Neale Donald Walsh |
January 2001 |
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J. K. Rowling |
December 2000 |
A great read, arguably even better than the previous two. (respond) |
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J. K. Rowling |
October 2000 |
Another imaginative installment of Rowling's children's stories, this one teaching the very valuable lesson that it is not our abilities which determine who we are or what we become, but our choices. (respond) |
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Kahlil Gibran |
September 2000 |
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Janet O. Hagberg |
September 2000 |
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Monsignor Virgilio Levi and Christine Allison |
July 2000 |
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Sabin Willett |
June 2000 |
I had a little trouble with the verisimilitude of the plot, but Willett's characterization, pacing and the fact that he resists explaining characters' motivations -- letting readers draw their own conclusions -- make this a particularly worthwhile legal thriller. (respond) |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald |
June 2000 |
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Bill Bonanno |
June 2000 |
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Patrick Lencioni |
June 2000 |
This is a great read, with some very good (and challenging) advice: focus on results, hold people accountable, be decisive, don't shy away from conflict and don't be afraid to trust others. I could definitely improve! (respond) |
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Michael Lewis |
May 2000 |
An interesting but ultimately sad description of Jim Clark, the creative force behind Silicon Graphics, Netscape and Healtheon. (respond) |
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Frank Schaeffer |
April 2000 |
Schaeffer's Portofino is a lyrical, light-hearted work. I enjoyed his lush descriptions of the Mediterranean scenery, though it is secondary to the wonderful and guilty pleasure of feeling as though you're eavesdropping on someone's vacation, and seeing a curious mix of the love, hypocrisy, competition, uncomfortableness and delight of growing up. (respond) |
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John Steinbeck |
April 2000 |
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David McCullough |
April 2000 |
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Roy Abraham Varghese |
April 2000 |
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Mollie Hunter |
March 2000 |
A fun young adult novel in the vein of Harry Potter, but with a more interesting historical basis and a great portrait of leadership in Robert the Bruce. (respond) |
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Homer H. Hickam, Jr. |
March 2000 |
A Horatio Alger-like narrative about Sputnik-inspired West Virginia coal miners' sons who teach themselves rocket science. The most interesting aspect of the story has to be the way the boys and their rockets affect and are affected by the events of the time. Hickam has a great, readable style and an almost too perfect story (hard to believe that it all worked out as it did) that I didn't want to put down. (respond) |
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C. S. Lewis |
March 2000 |
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Paulo Coelho |
March 2000 |
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Sebastian Junger |
March 2000 |
Proof that truth is more interesting than fiction, this is a page-turner despite the reams of technical detail on weather, fishing, rescue swimming, etc. Junger weaves this copious detail into a gripping story that firmly establishes that nature is far more powerful than we are. (respond) |
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Shusaku Endo |
February 2000 |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald |
February 2000 |
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J. K. Rowling |
December 1999 |
A wonderful children's story with a few good lessons about life, particularly about the power of love: "to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever." I couldn't agree more: the confidence that comes from having been loved and being loved is the seed of Harry Potter's greatness, and ours, too. (respond) |
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Mikhail Bulgakov |
December 1999 |
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Caroline Alexander |
December 1999 |
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Ernest J. Gaines |
December 1999 |
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Elaine Pagels |
November 1999 |
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Ed Ransom |
November 1999 |
This is a good resource -- it provides a page or two covering each of the major Catholic saints, arranged in calendar order. I didn't find it to be inspiring, though. Perhaps a page is not enough to inspire, but certainly some of the lives of these saints should have been...whether addressed in a paragraph, a page or a tome. (respond) |
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William Manchester |
October 1999 |
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
September 1999 |
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Tom Robbins |
August 1999 |
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The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence |
Ray Kurzweil |
July 1999 |
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr |
July 1999 |
I found this to be a rather thin and uncompelling allegory -- though well-crafted and creative. Bokonon and his religion are a fanciful creation, but fail as allegory. Real-world religion is far more complex: it is a struggle between doubt and belief with both free will and divine inspiration. Without such depth and complexity, of course religion can be made to seem destructive and empty -- though I think most readers would see through this lack of verisimilitude and find Cat's Cradle to be a rather trite exercise. (respond) |
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Anna Dostoevsky |
July 1999 |
A very personal memoir of Anna Dostoevsky's life with Fyodor. Having written my thesis on Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov, I was excited to stumble across this (now out-of-print) biography in a used bookstore. It did not disappoint, providing an intimate (and at times touchingly self-effacing) portrait of this great philosopher and author. (respond) |
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Adeline Yen Mah |
June 1999 |
Extremely well-written. It was difficult to put the book down -- though I didn't really feel sorry for Yen Mah. At some point, one has to recognize the futility of winning a person's love...and move on. (respond) |
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Geoffrey Ashe |
June 1999 |
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Leo Tolstoy |
March 1999 |
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Stephen B. Oates |
March 1999 |
Lincoln was a remarkable man. In these pages you can feel him torn apart by the war which divided the country. (respond) |
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James Thomas Flexner |
February 1999 |
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David Fromkin |
January 1999 |
A fascinating series of portraits of the people that fundamentally affected the course of American and world history. (respond) |
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Leadership Moment: 9 True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All |
Michael Useem |
December 1998 |
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Frederick Douglass |
November 1998 |