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An innocent girl exposes racial bias
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Boldly perceptive, eight-year-old Jean Louise Finch, aka Scout, reveals the shameful racism of a small town in Alabama in the early ’30s.
How refreshing to read a compact, no nonsense book in which the great Bible teacher/apologist – I remember him well from my student days in London – “considers eight characteristics of Christian discipleship which are often neglected and yet deserve to be taken seriously.” John Stott makes no attempt to be sensational and refrains from embellishing…
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Boldly perceptive, eight-year-old Jean Louise Finch, aka Scout, reveals the shameful racism of a small town in Alabama in the early ’30s.
Another brilliantly researched and well-told story of desperately strained relationships. Two overlapping plots lead us on, as we explore the ethics of mercy killing as well as the torment a respected public figure goes through when he falls in love with another woman and his wife disposes of all his possessions.
This is an amazing book, the first of the Century Trilogy. It is superbly researched and masterly written. We follow the events leading up to WWI through the eyes of several interrelated characters, from America, Great Britain, Germany and Russia.
“Call of Freedom” by Paul C. Monk continues the saga of the Huguenot family Delpech. Having fled the oppressive dragonnade in France to find refuge in Ireland, in 1699 the family decides to brave a dangerous sea crossing and seek a new life in New York.
Or: One day of a summer project in Moldova Creeping between my sleeping comrades to the door, I slip into my sandals and enjoy the fresh air in the overgrown garden. In the farthest corner of the house we were lent stands the privy, decorated with cardboard and spider webs.