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William Penn: A Life

By Andrew R. Murphy. Oxford University Press, 2018. 488 pages. $34.95/hardcover; $23.99/eBook. The name William Penn evokes an image of…

Reviewed by Cameron McWhirter

Bluffing Is Murder (Books in Brief)

By Tace Baker. Barking Rain Press, 2014. 177 pages. $12.95/paperback; $5.95/eBook. Sleuth Lauren Rousseau is back in this sequel to…

Reviewed by Karie Firoozmand

Wishtree

By Katherine Applegate, illustrated by Charles Santoso. Feiwel and Friends, 2017. 224 pages. $16.99/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 8–12. How…

Reviewed by Judith Favor

Faces of Addiction

By Eric K. Hatch. Barclay Press, 2019. 113 pages. $24.95/paperback. Order at facesofaddiction.net.

Reviewed by Carl Blumenthal

Everyday Prophets

By Margery Post Abbott. James Backhouse Lecture, 2016. 52 pages. $14/pamphlet; $8/eBook. The two words in this title seem so…

Reviewed by Laura Jackson

Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968

By Alice Faye Duncan, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie. Calkins Creek, 2018. 40 pages. $17.95/hardcover. Recommended for ages 9–12. The…

Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

My Name Is Truth: The Life of Sojourner Truth

By Ann Turner, illustrated by James Ransome. HarperCollins, 2015. 40 pages. $17.99/hardcover. Recommended for ages 8 and up. It is…

Reviewed by Alison James

This Child of Faith: Raising a Spiritual Child in a Secular World

By Sophfronia Scott and Tain Gregory. Paraclete Press, 2017. 196 pages. $16.99/paperback; $11.99/eBook. How timely that this deeply personal memoir…

Reviewed by Claire J. Salkowski

Todos Iguales/All Equal: Un Corrido de Lemon Grove/A Ballad of Lemon Grove

By Christy Hale. Children’s Book Press, 2019. 40 pages. $19.95/hardcover. Recommended for ages 8–11.

Reviewed by Ken Jacobsen

Spreading the Fire: Challenging and Encouraging Friends through Travel in the Ministry

By Debbie Humphries. Pendle Hill Pamphlets #436, 2015. 32 pages. $7/pamphlet. I travel in ministry quite a bit. And, for…

Reviewed by Brent Bill