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Keyword(s): lewis schiff
Total Records: 15
Date Range: 09/15/2007
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12/14/2007
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RESISTANCE
British author Sheers's sensitive fiction debut pits the harsh, lyrical beauty of the natural world against the unnatural, ultimately unavoidable cruelties of war. As his story opens in the fall of 1944, the Germans are spreading across southern
Nov 15, 2007
- Kirkus Reviews
- Sheers, Owen
THE MIDDLE-CLASS MILLIONAIRE
There are currently some 8.4 million American households with a net worth between one and ten million dollars. They are, largely, the self-made, working rich, drawn from the middle class and expressing many middle-class values and concerns, with
Nov 15, 2007
- Kirkus Reviews
- Prince, Russ Alan
CHARLATAN
Easily outfitted with a diploma from the "Bennett Eclectic Medical College," Brinkley had more than a decade of quackery behind him when he was forced by poverty to settle down temporarily with a desultory practice in Milford, Kan. Then one day an
Nov 15, 2007
- Kirkus Reviews
- Brock, Pope
NIGHT RUNNING
Based on a true story the author came across while writing the historical-fiction novel Stealing Freedom (1998), this beautifully illustrated picture book tells of the attempt of a young slave boy to escape his situation and go north. James tells
Nov 15, 2007
- Kirkus Reviews
- Carbone, Elisa
REASONS TO BELIEVE
The author logged a few intense teenage years as an evangelical before reading Enlightenment philosophy and moving on. Taking another look as an adult, he spotlights popular evangelical writers like Brennan Manning, sits through an endless sermon
Nov 01, 2007
- Kirkus Reviews
- Marks, John
A PERSON OF INTEREST
Lee is an aging tenured math professor at an undistinguished state university in the Midwest. The adjoining office belongs to Rick Hendley, a much younger man with a much bigger reputation, a hotshot computer scientist loved by his students and
Nov 01, 2007
- Kirkus Reviews
- Choi, Susan
THE GREAT ADVENTURE
An assassin's bullet killed William McKinley and made Theodore Roosevelt the 26th president of the United States, the youngest in American history. It was a new era in America and the world, with the rise of technology and industry and an expanding
Nov 01, 2007
- Kirkus Reviews
- Marrin, Albert
FAITH, REASON AND THE WAR AGAINST JIHADISM
So says Weigel (God's Choice: Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the Catholic Church, 2005, etc.), who finds America besieged from the outside by terrorists looking to take over the country and from within by secularists seemingly content to let
Oct 15, 2007
- Kirkus Reviews
- Weigel, George
ELLINGTON BOULEVARD
After an extended trip home (the south side of Chicago) to deal with the death of his mother, funk clarinetist Ike Morphy returns to find his apartment in the Roberto Clemente Condominium Building on Ellington Boulevard for sale. The problem is that
Oct 15, 2007
- Kirkus Reviews
- Langer, Adam
GOD'S CRUCIBLE
While the Roman Empire was crumbling, writes Pulitzer Prize–winner Lewis (History/New York Univ.; W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919–1963, 2000, etc.), Muhammad was taking up the sword for Allah. "The Arab jihad
Oct 15, 2007
- Kirkus Reviews
- Lewis, David Levering
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January 15, 2010 - I still remember the first time I heard Spenser's voice ring out in the opening chapter of The Godwulf Manuscript (1973), as he razzes the college president who's trying to hire him. What's this guy's problem? I thought. Why does he have such an attitude? The attitude, I soon learned, had deep roots...Part of it was a temperamental similarity to Spenser's creator, Robert B. Parker, who died on Jan. 18th at age 77.
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