Jeffrey Rasley
Goodreads Author
Born
Ft. Leonard Wood, MO, The United States
Website
Twitter
Genre
Influences
Member Since
October 2010
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Bringing Progress to Paradise: What I Got from Giving to a Mountain Village in Nepal
10 editions
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2010
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False Prophet: A Legal Thriller
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2011
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Godless-- Living a Valuable Life Beyond Beliefs (Memoirs of a Thoughtful Traveler Book 6)
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2014
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Anarchist, Republican... Assassin
2 editions
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2020
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Island Adventures: Disconnecting in the Caribbean and South Pacific
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2011
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Monsters of the Midway
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2012
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Pilgrimage: Sturgis to Wounded Knee and Back Home Again, a Memoir
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2013
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Light in the Mountains -- A Hoosier Quaker Finds Communal Enlightenment in Nepal (Himalayas Philanthropy Trekking, 3)
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2012
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America’s Existential Crisis: Our Inherited Obligation to Native Nations
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2021
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Polarized! The Case for Civility in the Time of Trump: An experiment in civil discourse on Facebook
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2017
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Jeffrey Rasley
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Bob Henry's review
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A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them:
"Just maybe one of the most important books I have read on Indiana history. This is a well researched, and a well told story of the reign and demise of D.C. Stephenson, Grand Dragon of the KKK and the ghost of a woman, Madge Oberholtzer, who took him "
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If reading about the miserable life of a poverty-stricken redneck living in Oxy country sounds appealing, then this is the book for you. You can skip the middle third of the book and, instead, watch "Sid and Nancy" - same horrifying scenes of drug ad ...more | |
"Lessons in Chemistry
I was born in 1960, and my mother was a scientist. She got her Masters in Biochemistry and her PhD in Food and Nutrition, while having 8 children, so I enjoyed that aspect of this book. A woman trying to make it in a man's world. " Read more of this review » |
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Maggie describes how the Kopila Valley Children’s Home became her home, and how her efforts led to the creation of the BlinkNow Foundation. But what is most important about her story is the involvement of the local people in Nepal, who became her fri ...more | |
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Gilman is a find story-teller, and his characters are brought to life, including the secondary ones. He has a talent for, and delights in, describing the gory details of bloody murders, torture scenes, battles, and individual combat. If you don't car ...more | |
"4.5 stars. This lives up to the hype. Heartbreaking and beautifully written. Incredible storytelling. It’s long, but I was always itching to get back to the book - it was so engaging.
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It's Beowulf, so of course it gets 5 stars, even though it is outrageously bloody and contravenes contemporary moral codes. I recently reread the Old English epic for our UChicago Indy Book Club. It was fun to re-experience this cultural classic with ...more |
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This is a delightful little tale that leaves the reader wanting more. It reads like a middle-English epic tinged with magical realism, Beowulf edited by Marquez. Come on, Mr. Edwards, finish the tale. | |
Jeffrey Rasley
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Curtis's review
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The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914:
"It’s no wonder so few people know much about the Great War - it defies simplification. But the effort to understand it better is rewarded here. Given the complexity of the subject matter, this is an extremely engaging, thoroughly researched and well-"
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“Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.”
― Bringing Progress to Paradise: What I Got from Giving to a Mountain Village in Nepal
― Bringing Progress to Paradise: What I Got from Giving to a Mountain Village in Nepal
“curling leaves and twining branches outside my bay window look like a Van Gogh in the starlight - there is a river out there somewhere”
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“He wasn't a great man, but he had a great life.”
― Light in the Mountains -- A Hoosier Quaker Finds Communal Enlightenment in Nepal
― Light in the Mountains -- A Hoosier Quaker Finds Communal Enlightenment in Nepal
“Pickleball got me through the Pandemic. I mean, is getting me through it.”
― A Pickleball Soap Opera: Love, Murder, and Pickleball
― A Pickleball Soap Opera: Love, Murder, and Pickleball
“Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.”
― Bringing Progress to Paradise: What I Got from Giving to a Mountain Village in Nepal
― Bringing Progress to Paradise: What I Got from Giving to a Mountain Village in Nepal
“You have to get lost before you can be found.”
― Light in the Mountains -- A Hoosier Quaker Finds Communal Enlightenment in Nepal
― Light in the Mountains -- A Hoosier Quaker Finds Communal Enlightenment in Nepal
“To prepare for the mountains develop mind, body, will and spirit as strong as a sword, soft as a pillow and fluid as water.”
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