20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Author: Jules Verne Publishing Date: Original 1869 Publisher: Pages: 420 Good read.  I’ve got to watch the Disney movie now.  Gets a little scientific, but not enough to spoil the drama and story line.

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A Christmas Carol

Author: Charles Dickens Publishing Date: Original 1843 Publisher: Pages: 110 I’ve seen many TV & movies about the book, and finally read it.  Great!  Couldn’t help compare with the media, but it was an enjoyable read.  Not a long read, but had some events not depicted in movies (that I can remember).

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The Language of God

Author: Francis S. Collins Publishing Date: 2006 Publisher: Free Press – Simon & Schuster Pages: 305 Not what I expected. Much of it was biographical – author grew up agnostic and convinced of existence of God by several key arguments. Author still believes in evolution but God caused the evolutionary process. He is one of [...]

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The Templar Legacy

Author: Steve Berry Publishing Date: 2006 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pages: 528 After the success of Dan Brown’s DaVinci Code, many writers have tried to copy him.  This is one.  I got this book free on my Kindle and it really was a good read.  The Knights Templar is a small monastic military order that was [...]

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An American Tragedy

Author: Theodore Dreiser Publishing Date: 1925 Publisher: Horace Liveright, Inc. Pages:828 It took me a couple of years to read this book.  A few pages at a time at night.  It was a slow read, but it was a great adventure.  We followed the path of a preacher’s kid through some rebellion and searching for [...]

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Orthodoxy

Author: G. K. Chesterton Publishing Date: 1908 Publisher: Pages: 128 I’ve read a lot of one-liners from Chesterton and thought this would be a good book to read.  However, I found it hard to follow and a little too philosophical for me.  Maybe part of the reason is he uses current events to illustrate much [...]

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The Christmas Bus

Author: Melody Carlson Publishing Date: 2006 Publisher: Revell Pages: 176 Got this book free on my Kindle.  It was a nice little Christmas story.  It is set in a little town called Christmas Valley. The mayor plays Santa, every business is holiday themed, and there’s a nativity for the kids each Christmas Eve. This story [...]

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Sunday School in HD

Author: Allan Taylor Publishing Date: 2009 Publisher: B & H Publishing Pages: 193 Picked this book up some time ago and it was just sitting on my shelf.  I went to a pastor’s meeting and heard Bill Monroe (Florence Baptist – S. Carolina) talk about Sunday School and he referenced Allan Taylor often.  (Allan Taylor [...]

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She Did What She Could

Author: Elisa Morgan Publishing Date: 2009 Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pages: 115 I picked this book up while I was in Columbus and knew I would be sitting around for a short time and needed a short book.  The title intrigued me.  I enjoyed the book and it left me with a positive outlook on [...]

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Who Stole My Church?

Author: Gordon MacDonald Publishing Date: 2007 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Pages: 248 The title fooled me.  I thought it would be an attack against changing church.  But actually the book is designed to help churches enter change.  It is a fictional account that has been drawn from MacDonald’s vast experience as church leader.  It presents a [...]

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