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[Dec. 16, 2006] Twining, who combines the best elements of novels by Steve Berry and Ken Follett, offers up an entertaining and exciting tale of a search for the missing Amber Room, reportedly destroyed by the Nazis at the end of the war.
Books by Nancy: November '06
[Nov. 17, 2006] Roman Catholics venerate Mary, the mother of God, and her spouse, St. Joseph. In fact, next to the Eucharist, the Rosary, the beautiful meditative prayer to Mary, is one of the church’s most beloved and powerful practices. In this tenderly written fictionalization of the nativity of Jesus Christ, the author portrays Mary and Joseph as two young people in love who are confronting a religious and social dilemma. Mary conceives Jesus by the grace of the Holy Spirit. By Jewish law, penalties for an out of wedlock birth were severe. Joseph, a man of great faith, required a visit from an angel to quell his fears and reassure him, but here, Berg has Joseph doubting the divinity of Jesus even to his death.
Books by Nancy: October '06
[Oct. 27, 2006] It’s almost exclusively non-fiction this month with something for everyone, and each is a winner.
Books by Nancy: September '06
[Sep. 22, 2006] Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back... The Goodmans are independent journalists, and that’s a rarity in these troubled times, but because no corporate sponsor is pulling their strings, they are able to expose what our government is doing without fear of economic reprisals.
Selections From the Bookshelf - August '06
[Aug. 18, 2006] This month I dug into the new installments in series that I either hadn’t read before or hadn’t read in a long time, and the good news is you can start right in with any of these books and feel right at home. It’s female writers this month and they’re great.
Books by Nancy -July 2006
[Jul. 20, 2006] The Foreign Correspondent by Alan Furst
While Europe awaits Hitler’s madness, hundreds of Italian émigrés in Paris work to produce underground newspapers denouncing fascism and bringing political news to its victims. This was dangerous work. Carlo Weisz, half Italian and half Slav, becomes one group’s leader after the murder of the editor of the underground paper, La Liberazione. Weisz is a middle-aged man, in love with a married German aristocrat, and working as a newsman for Reuters when he is asked to assume responsibility for expanding the reach of La Liberazione and also to ghost write the wartime exploits of one Colonel Ferrara.
June 2006 Book Reviews
[Jun. 23, 2006] There's something for everyone this month from soul searching to business, the life of a great pig, some charming whodunits, and each one is a winner.
Books by Nancy: May '06
[May 19, 2006] It's all 'whodunits' this month, and there's something for everyone including a spy thriller that is unique and timely.
Books by Nancy: April '06
[Apr. 14, 2006] Isn’t it ironic that while our society becomes more secularized, we send to the bestseller lists any book dealing with mysteries surrounding the life and death of Jesus Christ. But do we come to praise Jesus or to bury Him? The value of the Da Vinci genre books, I think, is that they put forth intriguing historical events which ideally should lead to further investigation by readers. No one’s faith will be shaken or destroyed. These are just fanciful theories that tickle the mind but are unlikely to alter anyone’s beliefs.
March '06 Book Reviews
[Mar. 17, 2006] Robbie Brownlaw is a man without ambition. He's happy with his detective's job, the small house he grew up in, and his wife, whom he loves deeply. Gina wants more. Robbie is young for a detective, 29, but he rose through the ranks after he was thrown from the sixth story of a burning building while trying to save some lives. Robbie came away from the experience a changed man. He acquired the gift of synesthesia, a neurological condition which allows him to see spoken words in color, indicating emotion, and therefore truth. He's a human lie detector. That being the case, how come he can't see his own wife's pain?
February '06 Book Reviews
[Feb. 18, 2006] Sample: Opus Dei - Opus Dei, a society within the Catholic Church, has been demonized, having been portrayed by Brown as mad figures dressed in monk’s garb and wearing a self-mutilating device called a cilice. This book exhaustively examines Opus Dei (God’s Work) as an international organization of men and women who engage in the practice of their faith intensely, having a proscribed schedule of prayer and practices which do include devices used to mortify the flesh...
January '06 Book Reviews
[Jan. 20, 2006] The Last Templar : In the tenth century, nine knights offered their services to protect pilgrims to the Hold Land. The knights were celebrated, and they became very wealthy resulting from gifts of land and other treasure. But 200 years later, the king of France and the pope joined forces to eliminate the group. To this end the knights were tortured and burned at the stake, taking their secrets with them. The question is were the knights blackmailing the Roman Catholic Church? And if so, what could be so threatening to the institution that virtually governed the world for over a thousand years?
Nancy's Books for December 2005
[Dec. 20, 2005] Mary Magdalene: You needn't be a biblical scholar to read this book about a woman who has come to symbolize the depravity of sin and the glory of redemption. According to Chilton, an Episcopal priest and professor of religion at Bard College in New York, Mary Magdalene was marginalized in the gospels for various reasons, not the least of which was political as Christians tried to assimilate within the Roman culture whose priority was family values. Mary was an unmarried female, and long past the age for marriage when she encountered Jesus. She was possessed by demons and underwent exorcism by Jesus and then became who many have called 'the thirteenth disciple'.
Nancy's Books - November 2005
[Nov. 18, 2005] The Power of Miracles by Joan Wester Anderson, Loyola Press, Faith, 247 pp., $14.95, paperback
This is another lovely book from the author who put angels on the book-buying map. This is a collection of stories about people of different religious affiliations who have experienced the direct power of God in their lives, from a minister who couldn’t speak, to parents who didn’t know their child was missing until someone returned her to them. This is a book about having faith even when circumstances seem their bleakest.
Nancy's Book Reviews - October '05
[Oct. 20, 2005] Love, Work, Children by Cheryl Mendelson, Random House, Fiction, 371 pp., $25.95 -- This is an old-fashioned story, told elegantly, and with great grace and insight about a family with problems which are left ignored until tragedy strikes. Peter Frankl lives on the upper west side of New York near Columbia University. He is a successful lawyer who has been married for 30 years to his wife, Lesley, a woman who likes to decorate and who wears high heels with jeans.
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