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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

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

Resurrecting Easter: How the West Lost and the East Kept the Original Easter Vision

By John Dominic Crossan and Sarah Sexton Crossan. HarperOne, 2018. 224 pages. $39.99/hardcover; $19.99/eBook. ohn Dominic Crossan, author of numerous…

Reviewed by Ken Jacobsen

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

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

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

Sacred Liberty: America’s Long, Bloody, and Ongoing Struggle for Religious Freedom

By Steven Waldman. HarperOne, 2019. 416 pages. $28.99/hardcover; $12.99/eBook.

Reviewed by Cameron McWhirter

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

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

How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning

By George Lakey. Melville House, 2018. 224 pages. $16.99/paperback; $13.99/eBook (title available December 2018). In June 1934 Quaker biblical scholar…

Reviewed by Steve Chase