Led By Faith
Catholic Media Review
3/14/2009, by Leticia Velasquez
WASHINGTON (Catholic Media Review) - Those who read Immaculee Ilibagiza’s bestselling book, “Left to Tell” about how she survived the Rwandan genocide, were riveted by the emotional strength she displayed, cowering in the tiny bathroom clutching her father’s red and white rosary, while homicidal ...
Our Lady of Kabeho
Catholic Media Review
3/14/2009, by Leticia Velasquez
WASHINGTON (Catholic Media Review) - Anyone of the millions of readers of Immaculee Ilibagiza’s New York Times bestselling book, “Left to Tell” in which she relates the terrifying ordeal she endured, hiding in a tiny bathroom with 7 women, while the Rwandan genocide raged outside, is left with a ...
Harry Potter books head to Kyrgyzstan with love
McClatchy Newspapers
3/9/2009, by Geeta Sharma-Jensen
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT) - Paula Kiely, director of the Milwaukee Public Library, never imagined that one day she would need to find a Russian translator to create a bookplate. But it's all in a day's work for her now. And it should make some children in Kyrgyzstan very happy. This story ...
Author Chris Bohjalian puts spotlight on WWII Germans
McClatchy Newspapers
2/20/2009, by Connie Ogle
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - His latest novel is not his first inspired by real life, but Chris Bohjalian knows it's a huge departure from his 10 other books. "It's the first novel that isn't largely set in northern New England or nearby. That was more liberating than you can imagine," Bohjalian ...
Childhood fueled poet's imagination
McClatchy Newspapers
2/20/2009, by Geeta Sharma-Jensen
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT) - Kimmasaccalottamely was likely where it began. That was the first fruit of Matthea Harvey's poetic imagination. She was in third grade in Whitefish Bay, Wis., at the time and had been asked to write a poem or a story about "a place you would go to if you could go ...
Coming together around a book: The meals of ‘Mockingbird'
McClatchy Newspapers
2/11/2009, by Kathleen Purvis
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - When I was 13 years old, my mother put something special in my Easter basket. It was a paperback copy of "To Kill a Mockingbird." Mother was a librarian, and she had her own notions about the best way to nourish children.
She was certainly right on this one. Malted ...
Detroiter's book tells how slaves changed their lives
McClatchy Newspapers
2/11/2009, by Cassandra Spratling
Detroit Free Press (MCT) - Although chattel slavery was among America's most despicable periods in history, there were moments of promise and pride amid the pain, says Detroit author Betty DeRamus. She captures examples of it in her latest book, "Freedom by Any Means" (Atria, $25), released this ...
Author-father recalls teen daughter's psychosis in ‘Hurry Down Sunshine'
McClatchy Newspapers
2/11/2009, by Kristin Tillotson
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) - James Joyce once took his beloved, mentally ill daughter Lucia to see Carl Jung. The famed psychoanalyst compared father and child to two people going to the bottom of a river _ one falling, the other diving. Michael Greenberg is as close to knowing how Joyce felt ...
Kids book tells Abe tale
McClatchy Newspapers
2/11/2009, by Javan Kienzle
Detroit Free Press (MCT) - As an introduction to Abraham Lincoln's love of words, Jen Bryant's "Abe's Fish: A Boyhood Tale of Abraham Lincoln," illustrated by Amy June Bates, tells of an actual incident in Lincoln's boyhood during the War of 1812. With his hungry family waiting at the cabin, young ...
His own words: Whence came Lincoln's eloquence
McClatchy Newspapers
2/11/2009, by Javan Kienzle
Detroit Free Press (MCT) - Who in history has been the subject of the most books? According to one cataloguer, Jesus leads the list, followed by Shakespeare and then the Virgin Mary, with Abraham Lincoln (at more than 10,000 volumes) in fourth place. With the bicentennial of the martyred ...
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