17-year old Kristen Jane Anderson had had enough. Life just wasn’t what she planned. Losing a family member and a friend, then being raped by someone she knew and trusted had all taken their toll. One cold winter night, Kristen decided to end her life. She lay across railroad tracks near her home and waited…
Category Archives: Biography
Books on Screen: Molly Ringwald movies
In Molly Ringwald’s new book Getting the Pretty Back: Friendship, Family, and Finding the Perfect Lipstick, she looks back on her teen years that she spent on the big screen. Molly Ringwald is about my age, and so I grew up watching her, and the John Hughes movies that she starred in are so typically…
Same Kind of Different as Me
I’m not sure what rock I’ve been living under, but I just heard about Same Kind of Different As Me a couple of months ago. I’d read such rave reviews, I decided I had to put this book on the top of my “To Read” list. I’m unbelievably glad I did. Two days after finishing…
Jane Austen (Christian Encounters)
I recently finished reading Jane Austen which is part of Thomas Nelson‘s new Christian Encounters biography series. A relatively short read on the life of Jane Austen, I was curious to know how Christianity was going to be tied into her story. This one hundred and fifty three page biography was written by Peter Leithart,…
Bonhoeffer: A Biography
Bonhoeffer: A Biography is a hefty six hundred page read. However, when you close the book, you know Bonhoeffer in a way you’ve never quite understood him before. I saw this book coming down the pike from Thomas Nelson and I knew it would be one that I would absolutely want to read. Despite its…
Claudette Colvin
I was curious to read the Cybils Nonfiction Finalist Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice because it’s gotten so much buzz, and also because unlike some, I had heard of Claudette Colvin — from, in fact, the Cybils MG/YA Nonfiction winner from 2006 that I was also privileged to help select — Russell Freedman’s Freedom Walkers…
Healing Hearts
In writing Healing Hearts: A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon Kathy Magliato, MD has two purposes: to share what is it like to be one of the few heart surgeons who happens to be female, and to raise awareness about the impact of heart disease on women. Anyone who has aspirations to be a…
Short Takes: Non-Fiction
Here are some bite-sized reviews or previews of books that our team has recently taken a look at: My (Jennifer’s) husband is a huge sports nut. Right now he’s all about football — college football, professional football — and he even tried to talk our daughter into going to a high school football game with…
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