As Appearing in The Herald Journal Cache Magazine
April 2008
Buckingham Palace Gardens by Anne Perry - MYSTERY PERRY
Santa Fe Dead by Stuart Woods - FICTION WOODS
Whole Truth by David Baldacci - FICTION BALDACCI
Compulsion by Jonathan Kellerman - FICTION KELLERMAN
Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner - FICTION WEINER
Death Dealer by Heather Graham - FICTION GRAHAM
Lost Souls by Lisa Jackson - FICTION JACKSON
Miracle at Speedy Motors by Alexander McCall Smith - MYSTERY MCCALL SMITH
Third Cycle by Amanda Quick - FICTION QUICK
Unaccustomed : Earth by Jhuma Lahiri - FICTION LAHIRI
Reconciliation : Islam, democracy, and the West by Benazir Bhutto; published by Harper, 2008.
Writing a few months prior to her assassination, Bhutto explores the complicated history between the Middle East and the West. She traces the roots of international terrorism across the world, including American support for Pakistani general Zia-ul-Haq, who destroyed political parties, eliminated an independent judiciary, marginalized NGOs, suspended the protection of human rights, and aligned Pakistani intelligence agencies with the most radical elements of the Afghan mujahideen. She speaks out not just to the West, but to the Muslims across the globe who are at a crossroads between the past and the future, between education and ignorance, between peace and terrorism, and between dictatorship and democracy. Democracy and Islam are not incompatible, and the clash between Islam and the West is not inevitable.
Charlatan : America's most dangerous huckster, the man who pursued him, and the age of flimflam by Pope Brock; published by Crown Publishers, 2008.
Tells the story of the little-known Dr. John Brinkley and his unquenchable thirst for fame and fortune and Morris Fishbein, a quackbuster extraordinaire who relentlessly pursued the greatest charlatan of the 1920s and 1930s.
The speed of trust : the one thing that changes everything by Stephen M. R. Covey; published by Free Press, 2008.
This book challenges our age-old assumption that trust is merely a soft, social virtue, and instead demonstrates that it is a hard-edged, economic driver--a learnable and measurable skill that makes organizations more profitable, people more promotable, and relationships more energizing.
God's problem : how the Bible fails to answer our most important question--why we suffer by Bart D. Ehrman; published by HarperOne, 2008.
Renowned Bible scholar Bart Ehrman discusses the contradictory explanations for suffering put forth by various biblical writers and invites all people of faith--or no faith--to confront their deepest questions about how God engages the world and each of us.
This republic of suffering : death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust; published by Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
An illuminating study of the American struggle to comprehend the meaning and practicalities of death in the face of the unprecedented carnage of the Civil War. During the war, approximately 620,000 soldiers lost their lives. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be six million. This book explores the impact of this enormous death toll from every angle: material, political, intellectual, and spiritual. Historian Faust delineates the ways death changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation and its understanding of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. She describes how survivors mourned and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the slaughter with its belief in a benevolent God, and reconceived its understanding of life after death.--From publisher description.
Finding Jefferson : a lost letter, a remarkable discovery, and the First Amendment in an age of terrorism by Alan M. Dershowitz; published by John Wiley & Sons, 2008.
The #1 New York Times bestselling author, Harvard Law School professor, and tireless defender of civil liberties unearths a little-known letter by his hero, Thomas Jefferson, and shares its secrets. The letter illuminates Jeffersons views on freedom of speech in a way that has important implications for the country today, particularly in the struggle against terrorism. This book is about the remarkable letter Dershowitz found, how he found it, and why it matters not only to him, but to us today.