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Daily Archives: June 10, 2015
Book Write-Up: Harvest of Gold, by Tessa Afshar
Tessa Afshar. Harvest of Gold. Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2013. See here to buy the book. Harvest of Gold is the sequel to Harvest of Rubies. Both books are about Sarah, a Jewish scribe in Persia, who is the cousin of … Continue reading
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Tagged Harvest of Gold, Harvest of Rubies, Moody Publishers, Nehemiah, Persia, Tessa Afshar
Review: Silent Spring
Originally posted on Bob on Books:
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (50th Anniversary edition). New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1962, 2002. Summary: This classic of environmental writing made the case that pesticides were rendering harm to just about everything in the…
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