Her Brazil has moral bandits and hard choices
McClatchy Newspapers
9/10/2008, by Connie Ogle
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - "The Seamstress," by Frances de Pontes Peebles (HarperCollins, $25.95) MIAMI _ Frances de Pontes Peebles would like us all to understand something about Brazil, where she was born: "It's not just samba and soccer and the Amazon."
Peebles, who grew up in Surfside and ...
In fall, a publisher's fancy turns to politics
McClatchy Newspapers
9/10/2008, by Diane Evans
Delmio.com (MCT) - If "summer reading" implies light and breezy, it follows that fall reading, especially in a presidential election, would be heavy at times and windy. Here are a few of this season's election books:
_A new paperback edition: "Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics," by ...
A reporter's own horrific story: his past was even worse than he had remembered.
McClatchy Newspapers
9/10/2008, by David Hiltbrand
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) - "The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own," by David Carr (Simon & Schuster. $26) F. Scott Fitzgerald maintained that there are no second acts in American lives. He never met David Carr.
In his shocking, often ...
Fulfilled promise brings grandma's secrets to light
McClatchy Newspapers
9/10/2008, by Connie Ogle
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Sadia Shepard grew up just outside Boston with a Muslim mother and a Christian father in a household that celebrated Christmas and Ramadan. But at 13, she learned just how multicultural her family was. She discovered that her mother's mother, who "wore saris and cooked ...
Parish's Stray Puppy Provides Fodder for Spiritual Messages
Catholic Online
7/17/2008
LONGWOOD, FL — Vinnie came to St. Vincent Church in Akron, Ohio, and into the ownership of Rev. Joseph Kraker as a six-week-old puppy. He had been thrown from a car and rescued by an observant driver who turned him over to a pet rescue organization. When the school secretary first called Kraker ...
Anne Rice's newest novel follows Jesus to Cana "Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana," by Anne Rice
Catholic News Service
5/5/2008, by Charlotte Miller
As with her first novel about Christ, Anne Rice has used careful research and scholarship to re-create the first century world of Yeshua (the Hebrew name for Jesus) in "Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana." This novel begins not long before Jesus' first miracle, the changing of water into wine at a ...
Book argues that 'unnecessary secrecy' hurts everyone in church
Catholic News Service
4/25/2008, by David Gibson
"Nothing to Hide" is a book about "unnecessary secrecy in the conduct of church affairs," written by Russell Shaw, a longtime Catholic writer and church social-communications expert. Shaw believes that, with the exception of the seal of the confessional, "the presumption in the church's day-in, ...
Excellent though biased account of Europe and Islam in the Dark Ages
Catholic News Service
4/18/2008, by Brian Welter
Christendom ceased to exist centuries ago, as Europe, once united under pope and emperor, proceeded in the Reformation, Enlightenment and thereafter to reject its religious heritage while trying to retain a sense of European identity and unity. The European Union currently incarnates the latest ...
Professor explains how Ireland adapted to modern world
Catholic News Service
4/4/2008, by John H. Carroll
This new study on the emergence of the "Celtic Tiger" should be read by Irish-Americans with an interest in the "Ould Sod." Roy Foster, a history professor at Hertford College at Oxford University, brings readers up-to-date on the momentous and sudden changes that have transformed Ireland from a ...
Engaging overview of Christianity leaves reader hungry for more
Catholic News Service
3/28/2008, by Christian Brother Jeffrey Gros
"The Christian World: A Global History" is an engaging, amazingly brief overview of Christianity through time, cultures and ideas by the Rev. Martin Marty, the leading voice among American Protestant historians. It is also a great contribution for the general reader and a fine resource for those ...
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