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2019
November 2019 Books
Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America
By George Yancy. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 180 pages. $19.95/hardcover; $18.99/eBook.
Reviewed by Pamela Haines
November 2019 Books
Start Here: A Road Map to Reducing Mass Incarceration
By Greg Berman and Julian Adler. The New Press, 2018. 224 pages. $24.99/hardcover or eBook.
Reviewed by David P. Austin
November 2019 Books
The Pentecost Paradigm: Ten Strategies for Becoming a Multiracial Congregation
By Jacqueline J. Lewis and John Janka. Westminster John Knox Press, 2018. 114 pages. $13/paperback; $10/eBook.
Reviewed by David Etheridge
November 2019 Books
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
By Bill McKibben. Henry Holt and Company, 2019. 304 pages. $28/hardcover; $17/paperback (available January 2020); $2.99/eBook.
Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt
November 2019 Books
Losing Earth: A Recent History
By Nathaniel Rich. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. 224 pages. $25/hardcover; $11.99/eBook.
Reviewed by Phil Favero
November 2019 Books
Forgotten Occupation: Life in the Syrian Golan after 50 Years of Israeli Occupation
Edited and published by Al-Marsad Arab Human Rights Centre in Golan Heights, 2018. 144 pages. Free PDF download at golan-marsad.org/publications.
Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee
November 2019 Books
The Tiny Journalist
By Naomi Shihab Nye. BOA Editions, Ltd., 2019. 128 pages. $24/hardcover; $17/paperback; $9.99/eBook.
Reviewed by Michael S. Glaser
November 2019 Books
What Is Justice?: A Personal Exploration
By Bill Denham. Fernwood Press, 2019. 70 pages. $14/paperback.
Reviewed by Tom Paxson
Thomas Marvin Applegate
Applegate—Thomas Marvin Applegate, 82, on October 31, 2018, peacefully, in Dayton, Ohio, with family and a few Dayton Friends present,…
Robert C. Atchley
Atchley—Robert C. Atchley, 79, on November 13, 2018, in Boulder, Colo. Bob was born on September 18, 1939, in San…
Kenneth Conrow
Conrow—Kenneth Conrow, 86, on March 18, 2019, at Leonardville Nursing Home in Leonardville, Kans., from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. Ken…
Renate Frey
Frey—Renate Frey, 77, on May 5, 2019, in Doylestown, Pa., peacefully, after enduring three years of Alzheimer’s disease with grace.…
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