Now I'm getting the chance to read books I didn't have time for before. Think of me whenever you see the slogan "So many books, so little time!" Now I've got the time.  Cheers, Fred.

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LED BY FAITH: Rising from the Ashes of the Rwandan Genocide

Posted Fri, 11/20/2009 - 4:42pm by fred
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Book Number: 
329
Date Fred Read: 
November 2009
Fred's Rating: 
4
Author: 
Immaculée Ilibagiza
Total Pages: 
200
Publisher: 
Hay House; Ill edition
Year: 
2009

Immaculée Ilibagiza lost most of her family during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. The story of her survival and escape from the horror to work at the UN in New York is both exceptionally moving and a powerful testament to the inner strength from her faith in God. This gift book was written with Steve Erwin.  Read more

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The House at Otowi Bridge: The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos

Posted Fri, 11/20/2009 - 4:29pm by fred
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Book Number: 
328
Date Fred Read: 
November 2009
Fred's Rating: 
3
Author: 
Peggy Pond Church
Total Pages: 
149
Publisher: 
University of New Mexico Press; Trade edition
Year: 
1973

Peggy Pond Church is a renowned New Mexican poet and author. She lived at Los Alamos for 20 years. Amazon.com lists other works by her, some with coauthors, about this beautiful region surrounding Los Alamos and about the Los Alamos Ranch School.  Read more

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Red, White, and Muslim: My Story of Belief

Posted Tue, 09/08/2009 - 4:46pm by fred
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Book Number: 
319
Date Fred Read: 
August 2009
Fred's Rating: 
4
Author: 
Asma Gull Hasan
Total Pages: 
165
Publisher: 
HarperOne; Reprint edition
Year: 
2009

Asma Gull Hasan, born in Chicago to Pakistani immigrants and raised in Pueblo, CO, she is a self-described Muslim feminist cowgirl and an award-winning writer. Author of 3 books, she’s written for newspapers and has been interviewed frequently on cable news, including FOX and MSNBC.  Read more

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God’s Beloved: A Spiritual Biography of Henri Nouwen

Posted Sat, 07/04/2009 - 3:54pm by fred
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Book Number: 
309
Date Fred Read: 
June 2009
Fred's Rating: 
5
Author: 
Michael O’Laughlin
Total Pages: 
187
Publisher: 
Orbis Books
Year: 
2004

Michael O’Laughlin is a spiritual director at the Healing Center in Arlington, MA and editor of Henri Nouwen’s award-winning Jesus: A Gospel. See also book 310, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming, by Henri Nouwen (1932-1996).  Read more

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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Posted Thu, 05/28/2009 - 2:03pm by fred
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Book Number: 
306
Date Fred Read: 
May 2009
Fred's Rating: 
5
Author: 
Barbara Kingsolver
Author: 
Steven Hopp
Author: 
Camille Kingsolver
Total Pages: 
354
Publisher: 
Harper Perennial
Year: 
2008

Barbara Kingsolver is a well-known author of fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction. She’s won many awards, including the National Humanities Medal. (For her books I’ve read, click on her name.) Steven Hopp (her husband) wrote fact-filled sidebars and Camille Kingsolver (her daughter) wrote food-filled chapter endings.  Read more

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Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time

Posted Thu, 04/30/2009 - 4:04pm by fred
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Book Number: 
302
Date Fred Read: 
April 2009
Fred's Rating: 
5
Author: 
Greg Mortenson
Author: 
David Oliver Relin
Total Pages: 
331
Publisher: 
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Year: 
2007

Greg Mortenson, a mountaineer and military veteran, became a builder of schools in the remote Northern Areas of Pakistan. He now heads the CAI (Central Asia Institute). David Oliver Relin, a globe-trotting journalist, tracked down Mortenson to see him in action and to get this remarkable story written.  Read more

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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (The Western Frontier Library, 14)

Posted Mon, 03/23/2009 - 9:09am by fred
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Book Number: 
280
Date Fred Read: 
November 2008
Fred's Rating: 
4
Author: 
Isabella Lucy Bird
Total Pages: 
276
Publisher: 
University of Oklahoma Press; Revised edition
Year: 
1999

Isabella Lucy Bird (1831-1904) was a Victorian adventurer, world-wide traveler and natural historian. Her later travel memoirs included India, Tibet, China, Japan, Korea and Canada. She wrote eight popular books about her adventures. Amazon.com lists more than 20 books either by or about her.  Read more

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Learning to Breath: One Woman’s Journey of Spirit and Survival

Posted Sun, 03/22/2009 - 4:05pm by fred
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Book Number: 
265
Date Fred Read: 
August 2008
Fred's Rating: 
3
Author: 
Alison Wright
Total Pages: 
222
Publisher: 
Plume
Year: 
2009

Alison Wright, a photojournalist who documented traditions of endangered cultures, wrote books of photography and published many magazine articles. She won the Dorothea Lange Award in Documentary Photography, the North American Travel Journalism Award, and twice the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award.  Read more

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The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

Posted Sun, 03/22/2009 - 3:53pm by fred
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Book Number: 
264
Date Fred Read: 
August 2008
Fred's Rating: 
4
Author: 
A.J. Jacobs
Total Pages: 
332
Publisher: 
Simon & Schuster; 1 edition
Year: 
2007

A.J. Jacobs is the editor-at-large of Esquire. He has written articles for Esquire and the NYT. His best-seller The Know-It-All resulted from his reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica. In book 264 he learns very different things, while maintaining his sense of humor.  Read more

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Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Posted Fri, 03/20/2009 - 3:43pm by fred
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Book Number: 
246
Date Fred Read: 
April 2008
Fred's Rating: 
2
Author: 
Edward Abbey
Author: 
David Peterson, editor
Total Pages: 
266
Publisher: 
Milkweed Editions
Year: 
2007

Edward Abbey (1927-1989) was a prolific American author of fiction and essays who strongly advocated preserving nature, especially our Western wilderness areas. This collection has a Foreword by Terry Tempest Williams and an Introduction by David Peterson.  Read more

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