Kbook Reviews

Recommended Age : 12+ 217 pages Description :   As the fight for women's suffrage heats up, Kathleen"Kat" Bowen gets to participate as her mother and her sister, and many others close to her organize and act to win the right to vote. January 19, 1917 The picket line has been going on for over a week! And people said they would not last a day and the weather still has not broken. What's more is news of the picket is spreading and more and more women are coming from other parts of the district and some from as far away as Maryland and Virginia. President Wilson felt so sorry for them in the cold that he invited them in for coffee but they refused. They said they would only come in to talk about a federal amendment for the women's right to vote. No coffee! This made me think of Sojourner Truth's words about men who help lift women into carriages and over mud puddles--that of course is the easy part, just like giving them coffee. Giving them the vote is the hard p...

 Recommended Age : 17+ 303 pages Description :  Is there credible proof that Jesus of Nazareth really is the Son of God? In The Case for Christ , Lee Strobel, former legal editor of the Chicago Tribune and New York Times bestselling author, retraces his own spiritual journey from atheism to faith and builds a cap tivating case for Christ's divinity. In this revised and updated edition of The Case for Christ , Strobel cross-examines a dozen experts with doctorates from schools such as Cambridge, Princeton, and Brandeis, asking hard-hitting questions--and taking a deeper look at the evidence from the fields of science, philosophy, and history. In his comprehensive investigation, Strobel doesn't shy away from challenging questions, including: How reliable is the New Testament? Does evidence for Jesus exist outside the Bible? Is Jesus who he said he was? Is there any reason to believe the resurrection was an actual event? What does all of the evidence point to--and what does ...

  Recommended Age : 18+ 229 pages Description :  Write to Learn 7/e by Donald Murray is rhetoric written for the beginning composition/writing student. Donald Murray - a pioneer of the process writing approach - takes students step by step through the writing process with the goal of helping them find their own process and style of writing. With his supportive writer to writer voice, Donald Murray creates a unique relationship between author and beginning writer that helps instill confidence in the novice writer as he or she shares struggles and successes. The text includes numerous writing examples from which to model and learn.      My Rating: 3/5 This book was pretty good. I will admit, it is a little outdated. There were some good concepts and tips, but I was not enthralled with the majority of the delivery. (-1 star) I did, however, enjoy his discussion on "code words" in chapter 3 (page 66) and leads in chapter 4 (pages 91-96). He talks of how our ...