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    <updated_at>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:22:35 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Another challenging book from Shane Claiborne, with Chris Haw. This is the book I would have written if I had been more ambitious. It is divided into four sections. The first section looks at the role Israel was to play in God's plan for the earth. How they were set aside as a peculiar people whose ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78294112">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:43:12 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I just want to know when these guys were privy to my life! Okay, I am not a high-powered executive on the fast track to corporate superstar, but the life experiences and situations described could easily be mine. This was a powerful look, in non-threatening novel form, at the role of grace and how i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78964699">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:43:45 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This was not what I thought it was. And that is a good thing! It is a memoir as well as various ramblings about what it means to be a Christian without getting caught up in the modern religious posturing that passes for spirituality. Miller's style is breezy, rambling from the time he spent at Reed ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77083409">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:18:23 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A slightly bawdy tale of a woman who finds herself at the center of a manhunt for two escaped German POWs toward the end of World War II. Elmore Leonard certainly knows how to spin a tale that keeps the reader engaged. The cast of characters here is eccentric and the situation largely implausible, b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76348648">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:52:34 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[An excellent book that will challenge, provoke, and convict those of us who claim to be followers of Jesus. Shane Claibourne, an Eastern University graduate, actively lives his faith and suggests that we have become complacent, allowing the world to influence our response to it, rather than confront...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75452021">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:57:35 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[An excellent murder mystery, set in an alternate universe where the nation of Israel was stillborn in 1948 and the Jews were given a temporary refuge in Alaska. The current set of affairs is about to change radically as the temporary situation is scheduled to end, with no alternative living arrangem...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73619222">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:00:52 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Sounds like my kind of book. I'll have to look for it!]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:58:25 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[If I may jump in on this conversation, My problem regarding books to read, is that I usually wind up buying another armload before I finish the last armload (or two, or ten)! So many books, so little time!]]></body>
        
    
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