A Gamble on Faith In Here’s A Faith For You
Margaretta Austin reviews Roy M. Pearson’s Here’s A Faith For You from Abingdon Cokesbury Press 155 pages priced 2.00. The book urges readers to gamble with faith as a life choice offering peace happiness security and hope to those who plant prune and wait for fruit, while noting devotionals can hinder the Christian path.
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Roy M. Pearson
New York
Abingdon
Cokesbury Press
Margaretta Austin
Caravan to Xanadu brings Marco Polo to vivid life
Edison Marshall’s Caravan to Xanadu turns the Marco Polo tale into a fairy tale like adventure. The reviewer lauds the book for transforming a flat historical portrait into a vigorous, full-blooded story with dramatic scenes including Marco’s pursuit of the King of the Snows and his encounter with a slave girl.
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Marco Polo
Xanadu
Edison Marshall
Farrar, Straus and Young
Mr. Marshall
Ted
Ablai Khan
Marco
Venice
Kublai Khan
Harandin
Golden Admiral: Drake Novel by Van Wyck Mason
The historical adventure follows Sir Francis Drake and companions Henry Wyatt Peter Hopton and Hubert Coffyn through 1585 to the Armada clash. The swashbuckling tale blends murder intrigue and battles from San Domingo to Carenes with dramatic depictions of politics and piracy.
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F. van Wyck Mason
Garden City
Doubleday and Company, Inc
Francis Drake
Peter Hopton
Hubert Coffyn
Wyatt
Spain
Mediterranean
Bay of Biscay
England
Philip II
Castile
Aragon
Drake
Atlantic
San Domingo
America
Careens
South Amerca
Peter
Mason
Roanoke
van Wyck Mason
Library Additions Nonfiction and Fiction Highlights
A catalog of new titles across nonfiction and fiction. Nonfiction includes Snips and Snails by Louise Baker, Ambassador's Wife Elisabetta Cerruti, The New Barbarian a poetry collection by Winthrop Palmer, The Lost and the ceethe story of Eva and Laszlo by Robert Collis, Getting Things Done in Business edited by Edward C. Bur, All About House Plants by Montague Free, Lone and Level Lands by Cornelius Whitney, and other works. Fiction features Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, Reputation For a Song by Edward Grierson, Stephania by Ilona Karmel, The Rifleman by John Brick, First Vice-President by Joan Transue, Stay Away Joe by Dan Cushman, and more.
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Louise Baker
Elisabetta, Cerruti
Winthrop Palmer
Eva
Laszlo
Robert Collis
Ing
Four Money
J. K Lasser
Sylvia F. Porter
Joseph Stalin
Budu
Overseas Press Club
Dickson Hartwellidze
Andrew A. Rooney
Montague Free
Korea
W. L.ante
Cornelius Me Bilt Whitney
Ralph Ellison
Edward Grierson
Stephania
Ilona Karmel
John Brick
Joan Transue
Stay Away
Joe
Dan Cushman
Voices in the House Vermont setting novel by Sedges
A dignified Vermont house harbors William Archer and his wife Elinor as tensions rise from Bertha the long serving cook and her daughter Jessica and their menfolk. Family friction, marriage, and gender clashes unfold amid a violent crisis and a dog gift at Christmas.
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John Sedges
New York
John Day Company
Vermont
William Archer
Elinor
Bertha
Jessica
Herbert
Susan
Pete
William
O. ‘Overby
Book Banter Night Victory Over Daylight Preferences
The author extols night as superior to day for work, focus, and mood, noting quieter surroundings, clearer skies, better reading conditions, and a perceived increased attractiveness of women at night. He prefers night over day and finds evenings best for personal enjoyment and productivity.
One Name Two Preachers Tale From Rocky Ford to Los Angeles
Rocky Fords Rev. Charles S Mundell and his Los Angeles guest share a name and clergy roots. The Rocky Ford minister is Methodist a father of five while the Los Angeles preacher is Congregational a father of seven. Their friendship began after Mundell read of Charles Samuel Mundell once known as the boy preacher. The piece also notes the 1946 artificial precipitation experiment and a 1951 census listing Canada Eskimos at 8 646.
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Rocky Ford
Colo
Charles S. Mundell
Los Angeles
Charles Simeon Mundell
Methodist Church
Charles Samuel Mundell
Mundell
Colorado
Charles Simeon
Illinois
Charles Samuel
Texas
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N. Wrenn
Leonard Cleaners
Cheanse
aNet Nada
Revlon
Eplus
Sir Francis Drake
el Draque
Henry Wyatt
George Covington
High Point
Tinue
Council
Guilford County Board of Health
Covington
By Leon Burnett
Iee
Canada
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