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And What are YOUR Children Reading?
by R. Z. Halleson

Pick up the books that your children are reading and spend some time reading them yourself. It can be exceptionally enlightening to learn what else is filling their mind other than the values that you would like them to know.
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Book Review:
McMafia, A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
by Misha Glenny

The resulting chaos where the old rules no longer applied gave existing local criminal organizations new opportunities, and enticed otherwise decent people whose livelihood had disappeared under sanctions against their country by the United States and other countries into making a radical change in how they earned a living to support themselves and their families.
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Harnessing the Roots of Rage
by Dr. Andria Glasser Das

 Where does rage go when it cannot be unleashed on its rightful recipient?  Even if it could be expressed to the right person, would it then disappear?  Or would its roots remain, so that each time it was cut down, through therapy, introspection, or insightful epiphanies, it would merely grow back?
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Abraham and Other Sinners
by Dr. Michael Youngblood

...our faith is for imperfect people, doubting people, questioning people, flawed people, people who sometimes say and do hurtful and irresponsible things at inappropriate times.  It is for people with loud-mouthed clergy, and it is, perhaps especially, for loud-mouthed clergy. Read more --


Book Review:
A Biography of the Continent Africa
by John Reader

There is nothing even remotely "Western"-like in the way that Africa functions, and there are indigenous reasons why this is so. If all one has done is to fly in and out of an African city or an African game park, one has not seen Africa at all.
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