Rick's bookshelf: all en-US Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:07:42 -0800 60 Rick's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg A Killer in the Wind 15811125
Now Champion is a small town detective, chasing burglars and juvenile delinquents, hanging out at the local tavern where he is romancing a waitress. The ghosts and hallucinations are finally behind him as he begins to rebuild his life. Then one night Champion is called to examine the body of a woman who has washed ashore. Yet when he looks at her face, he sees that it’s Samantha, the woman he dreamed about long ago...a woman who doesn’t exist.

Suddenly, Champion is haunted again, only this time it’s by a team of expert killers who want to make sure he never finds the the truth about the dead child who wanders through his imagination; the truth about the lover who inhabits his dreams; and the truth about a killer who has been on the run � in the wind � for a lifetime. The ghosts of the dead are all around him, and Champion has to find out who murdered them, fast, or he could become one of them himself.]]> 304 Andrew Klavan 0802120679 Rick 5 3.74 2013 A Killer in the Wind
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]]> <![CDATA[Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)]]> 9460487 9781594744761

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow-impossible though it seems-they may still be alive. A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.]]> 352 Ransom Riggs 1594744769 Rick 4 3.92 2011 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
author: Ransom Riggs
name: Rick
average rating: 3.92
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rating: 4
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What a delightfully quirky book with an original premise. I enjoyed it immensely.
]]> Flashback 9432902
The United States is near total collapse. But 87% of the population doesn't they're addicted to flashback, a drug that allows its users to re-experience the best moments of their lives. After ex-detective Nick Bottom's wife died in a car accident, he went under the flash to be with her; he's lost his job, his teenage son, and his livelihood as a result.

Nick may be a lost soul but he's still a good cop, so he is hired to investigate the murder of a top governmental advisor's son. This flashback-addict becomes the one man who may be able to change the course of an entire nation turning away from the future to live in the past.]]> 554 Dan Simmons 0316006963 Rick 4 3.26 2011 Flashback
author: Dan Simmons
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average rating: 3.26
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rating: 4
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Want to see what the US will look like in 25 years if we continue down the course we are currently following? Read this book...
]]> <![CDATA[Taken (Elvis Cole, #15; Joe Pike, #4)]]> 11889938 But Nita is wrong. The girl and her boyfriend have been taken by bajadores � bandits who prey on other bandits, border professionals who prey not only on innocent victims, but on each other. They steal drugs, guns, and people � buying and selling victims like commodities, and killing the ones they can’t get a price for.

Elvis Cole and Joe Pike find the spot where they were taken. There are tire tracks, bullet casings, and bloodstains. They know things look as bad as possible. But they are wrong, too. It is about to get worse. Going undercover to find the two young people and buy them back, Cole himself is taken, and now it is up to Joe Pike to retrace Cole’s steps, burning through the hard and murderous world of human traffickers to find his friend.

But he may already be too late..

]]> 341 Robert Crais 0399158278 Rick 5 4.18 2012 Taken (Elvis Cole, #15; Joe Pike, #4)
author: Robert Crais
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average rating: 4.18
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While I like all of Crais' books, this ones an earth scorcher! Crais keeps getting better and better, unlike some successful authors who just churn out the same old thing. If I'm ever in a gun fight, I want Crais covering my back.
]]> <![CDATA[Shut Your Eyes Tight (Dave Gurney, #2)]]> 9696745 super detective. He was simply a man who, when faced with a puzzle, wanted to know. He was called to the investigative hunt by the presumptuous arrogance of murderers � by their smug belief that they could kill without leaving a trace. There was always a trace, Gurney believed.

Except what if one day there wasn’t?

Dave Gurney, a few months past the Mellery case that pulled him out of retirement and then nearly killed him, is trying once again to adjust to his country house’s bucolic rhythms when he receives a call about a case so seductively bewildering that the thought of not looking into it seems unimaginable—even if his beloved wife, Madeleine, would rather he do anything but.

The facts of what has occurred are horrible: a blushing bride, newly wed to an eminent psychiatrist and just minutes from hearing her congratulatory toast, is found decapitated, her head apparently severed by a machete. Though police investigators believe that a Mexican gardener killed the young woman in a fit of jealous fury, the victim’s mother—a chilly high-society beauty—is having none of it. Reluctantly drawn in, Dave is quickly buffeted by a series of revelations that transform the bizarrely monstrous into the monstrously bizarre.  

Underneath it all may exist one of the darkest criminal schemes imaginable. And as Gurney begins deciphering its grotesque outlines, some of his most cherished assumptions about himself are challenged, causing him to stare into an abyss so deep that it threatens to swallow not just him but Madeleine, too.
Desperate to protect Madeleine and bring an end to the madness, Gurney ultimately discovers that the killer has left a trace after all. Unfortunately, the revelation may come too late to save his own life.

With Shut Your Eyes Tight, John Verdon delivers on the promise of his internationally bestselling debut, Think of a Number, creating a portrait of evil let loose across generations that is as rife with moments of touching humanity as it is with spellbinding images of perversity.]]> 509 John Verdon 0307717895 Rick 5 4.03 2011 Shut Your Eyes Tight (Dave Gurney, #2)
author: John Verdon
name: Rick
average rating: 4.03
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rating: 5
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This guy rocks! Great new writer.
]]> How Women Help Men Find God 2448071 245 David Murrow 078522632X Rick 4 3.87 2008 How Women Help Men Find God
author: David Murrow
name: Rick
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2008
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Devil's Punchbowl (Penn Cage #3)]]> 2967316 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles comes his most electrifying thriller yet. The Devil's Punchbowl reveals a world of depravity, sex, violence, and the corruption of a Southern town. As a prosecuting attorney in Houston, Penn Cage sent hardened killers to death row. But it is as mayor of his hometown -- Natchez, Mississippi -- that Penn will face his most dangerous threat. Urged by old friends to try to restore this fading jewel of the Old South, Penn has ridden into office on a tide of support for change. But in its quest for new jobs and fresh money, Natchez, like other Mississippi towns, has turned to casino gambling, and now five fantastical steamboats float on the river beside the old slave market at Natchez like props from Gone With the Wind.

But one boat isn't like the others.

Rumor has it that the Magnolia Queen has found a way to pull the big players from Las Vegas to its Mississippi backwater. And with them -- on sleek private jets that slip in and out of town like whispers in the night -- come pro football players, rap stars, and international gamblers, all sharing an unquenchable taste for one thing: blood sport -- and the dark vices that go with it. When a childhood friend of Penn's who brings him evidence of these crimes is brutally murdered, the full weight of Penn's failure to protect his city hits home. So begins his quest to find the men responsible. But it's a hunt he begins alone, for the local authorities have been corrupted by the money and power of his hidden enemy. With his family's lives at stake, Penn realizes his only allies in his one-man war are those bound to him by blood or honor: Caitlin Masters, the lover Penn found in The Quiet Can Game and lost in Turning Angel Danny McDavitt, the heroic helicopter pilot from Tom Cage, Penn's father and legendary local family physician Walt Garrity, a retired Texas Ranger who served with Penn's father during the Korean War.

Together they must defeat a sophisticated killer who has an almost preternatural ability to anticipate -- and counter -- their every move. Ultimately, victory will depend on a bold stroke that will leave one of Penn's allies dead -- and Natchez changed forever.

After appearing in two of Iles's most popular novels, Penn Cage makes his triumphant return as a brilliant, honorable, and courageous hero. Rich with Southern atmosphere and marked by one jaw-dropping plot turn after another, The Devil's Punchbowl confirms that Greg Iles is America's master of suspense.]]> 580 Greg Iles 0743292510 Rick 5 4.08 2009 The Devil's Punchbowl (Penn Cage #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference]]> 2612 The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed bestseller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas.]]> 301 Malcolm Gladwell 0316346624 Rick 4 4.01 2002 The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
author: Malcolm Gladwell
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average rating: 4.01
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]]> <![CDATA[Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking]]> 40102 The Tipping Point a classic, Blink changes the way you'll understand every decision you make. Never again will you think about thinking the same way.

Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant - in the blink of an eye - that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? How do our brains really work - in the office, in the classroom, in the kitchen, and in the bedroom? And why are the best decisions often those that are impossible to explain to others?

In Blink we meet the psychologist who has learned to predict whether a marriage will last, based on a few minutes of observing a couple; the tennis coach who knows when a player will double-fault before the racket even makes contact with the ball; the antiquities experts who recognize a fake at a glance. Here, too, are great failures of "blink": the election of Warren Harding; "New Coke"; and the shooting of Amadou Diallo by police. Blink reveals that great decision makers aren't those who process the most information or spend the most time deliberating, but those who have perfected the art of "thin-slicing" - filtering the very few factors that matter from an overwhelming number of variables.]]> 296 Malcolm Gladwell 0316010669 Rick 4 Very interesting... 3.97 2005 Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
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]]> <![CDATA[Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know]]> 136959 mistakes" � Why girls need God—and how your faith, or lack thereof, will influence her � How to communicate with your daughter—and how not to � True stories of "prodigal daughters"—and how their fathers helped bring them back Dads, you are far more powerful than you think you are. Your daughters need the support that only fathers can provide—and if you are willing to follow Dr. Meeker’s advice on how to guide your daughter, to stand between her and a toxic culture, your rewards will be unmatched
]]> 267 Meg Meeker 1596980125 Rick 5 Great book. 4.10 2006 Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know
author: Meg Meeker
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Great book.
]]> <![CDATA[Empire of Lies (Weiss and Bishop)]]> 3165106
Returning to New York City, Jason finds himself entangled in a murderous conspiracy only he can see and only he can stop a plot that bizarrely links his private passions to the turmoil of a world at war. Hunted by terrorists and by the police, Jason has only hours to unravel an ex-lover s lies and face the unbearable truth: In order to prevent a savage attack on his country, he s going to have to risk his decency, his sanity, and his life.

Praise for ANDREW KLAVAN

The most original American novelist of crime and suspense since Cornell Woolrich. Stephen King

Klavan does tough-guy heroes and sexual tension better than anyone writing today. Janet Evanovich

Klavan, who has a perfect sense of timing, delivers all the cliffhangers and hairpin turns that you want from a beat-the-clock suspense thriller. "The New York Times Book Review"

Klavan writes with an artisan s eye, a pro s assurance, and a poet s touch. [He] is one of my drop-everything-and-read authors. Gregg Hurwitz

Klavan winds his tale tighter and tighter until the reader is hopelessly spellbound. Clive Cussler

Klavan s confidently wry style keeps things punched up throughout. "The Atlantic Monthly"

"]]> 0 Andrew Klavan 1423312880 Rick 4 3.55 2008 Empire of Lies (Weiss and Bishop)
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As always Klavan delivers the goods. This book portrayed a Christian man in a realistic way--not as a jerk like secular media typically portrays them. Some Christians will be upset, but those that are honest will appreciate Klavan's open and realistic portrait of a man under pressure.
]]> <![CDATA[Unleashing Courageous Faith: The Hidden Power of a Man's Soul]]> 5650539 288 Paul Coughlin 0764205773 Rick 5 4.06 2009 Unleashing Courageous Faith: The Hidden Power of a Man's Soul
author: Paul Coughlin
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average rating: 4.06
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]]> Jesus Out to Sea 218729 240 James Lee Burke 1416548564 Rick 3 3.93 2007 Jesus Out to Sea
author: James Lee Burke
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average rating: 3.93
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rating: 3
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I'm a huge fan of Burke, but this collection of short stories was so so. His prose is still poetic and powerful, I just didn't "get" some of the stories.
]]> The Book of Lies 3202905
In Chapter Four of the Bible, Cain kills Abel. It is the world's most famous murder. But the Bible is silent about one key detail: the weapon Cain used to kill his brother. That weapon is still lost to history.
In 1932, Mitchell Siegel was killed by three gunshots to his chest. While mourning, his son dreamed of a bulletproof man and created the world's greatest hero: Superman. And like Cain's murder weapon, the gun used in this unsolved murder has never been found.

Today in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Cal Harper comes face-to-face with his own family tragedy: his long-missing father has been shot with a gun that traces back to Mitchell Siegel's 1932 murder. But soon after their surprising reunion, Cal and his father are attacked by a ruthless killer tattooed with the ancient markings of Cain.

So begins the chase for the world's first murder weapon. It is a race that will pull Cal back into his own past even as it propels him forward through the true story of Cain and Abel, an eighty-year-old unsolvable puzzle, and the deadly organization known for the past century as the Leadership.

What does Cain, history's greatest villain, have to do with Superman, the world's greatest hero? And what do two murders, committed thousands of years apart, have in common? This is the mystery at the heart of Brad Meltzer's new thriller.

]]> 334 Brad Meltzer 044657788X Rick 4 Interesting premise... 3.63 2008 The Book of Lies
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Interesting premise...
]]> <![CDATA[Better Dads, Stronger Sons: How Fathers Can Guide Boys to Become Men of Character]]> 19120
Rick Johnson can show them how. In this insightful and practical book, Johnson shows how fathers can be equipped and inspired to be positive role models for their sons. He stresses the significance of male bonding, discipline, and spiritual leadership; discusses important topics such as sexual purity, respect, and self-discipline; and reveals the top ten mistakes to avoid as a father.

From commitment and courage to honesty and humility, Better Dads, Stronger Sons helps men strive to be the dads God designed them to be--so their sons can grow to be everything they are meant to be.]]> 240 Rick Johnson 0800730984 Rick 5 3.96 2006 Better Dads, Stronger Sons: How Fathers Can Guide Boys to Become Men of Character
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]]> Epitaph 314395 319 James Siegel 0446678708 Rick 4 3.19 2001 Epitaph
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]]> <![CDATA[unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity... and Why It Matters]]> 1054736 David Kinnaman is president of The Barna Group, which provides research and resources that facilitate spiritual transformation in people's lives. Since joining Barna in 1995, David has designed and analyzed nearly five hundred studies for a variety of churches, nonprofits, and corporations. He and George Barna write a free research report published online at . David and his wife Jill have three children and live in Ventura, California.

Gabe Lyons founded Fermi Project, a broad collective of innovators, social entrepreneurs, and church and society leaders working together to make positive contributions to culture (). Prior to Fermi Project, Gabe cofounded Catalyst, a national gathering of young leaders, while serving as vice president for John Maxwell's INJOY organization. Gabe, his wife Rebekah, and their three children reside in Atlanta, Georgia.

To meet the contributors and learn more about this book and the conversations it is creating, visit .


This work was commissioned by Fermi Project.


The New Testament writer Paul told the first-century Christians: "You yourselves are our letter . . . known and read by everybody."

When a person "reads" your life, what does it say? What does your faith look like to outsiders?

A major new research project, unveiled for the first time in this book, describes the increasingly negative reputation of Christians, especially among young Americans.

The research shows that Christians are best known for what they are against. They are perceived as being judgmental, antihomosexual, and too political. And young people are quick to point out they believe that Christianity is no longer as Jesus intended. It is unChristian.

It shouldn't be this way.

What Christians believe may not be popular, but Paul also advised the first believers to "live wisely among those who are not Christians" and to "let your conversation be gracious and effective."

In this eye-opening book, David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons--along with more than two dozen leading voices within Christianity--unpack the major criticisms leveled against Christians. Understand why those negative images exist and how you can best represent Jesus to your friends, neighbors, and co-workers.

Your life is an open book. Is it unChristian?

]]> 255 David Kinnaman 0801013003 Rick 4 3.85 2007 unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity... and Why It Matters
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average rating: 3.85
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Broken Window (Lincoln Rhyme, #8)]]> 3264385 SOON TO BE A MAJOR TELEVISION EVENT FROM NBC, STARRING RUSSELL HORNSBY, ARIELLE KEBBEL, AND MICHAEL IMPERIOLI.

Lincoln Rhyme faces “an Orwellian nightmare� (The New York Times) as a twisted techno-genius destroys lives with impunity by stealing personal information from behind the impenetrable walls of cyberspace.

Rhyme’s cousin Arthur has been arrested on murder charges, and the evidence against the estranged relative Lincoln hasn’t seen in years is perfect�too perfect. Lincoln and his partner Amelia Sachs piece together a deadly pattern of similarly vicious frame-ups that leads them to the imposing Strategic Systems Datacorp—and a master of identity theft and manipulation known only as �522.� But cracking this ingenious killer’s realm places Rhyme and Sachs exactly where �522� wants them—in line to be the next victims.]]> 14 Jeffery Deaver 0743570537 Rick 4 4.00 2008 The Broken Window (Lincoln Rhyme, #8)
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]]> Skin 125958 395 Ted Dekker 1595542779 Rick 3 3.78 2006 Skin
author: Ted Dekker
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average rating: 3.78
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rating: 3
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The first third to half of the book was really good--well written. The second half wavered and was too complicated.
]]> My Losing Season: A Memoir 119216 “I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one. . . .There was a time in my life when I walked through the world known to myself and others as an athlete. It was part of my own definition of who I was and certainly the part I most respected. When I was a young man, I was well-built and agile and ready for the rough and tumble of games, and athletics provided the single outlet for a repressed and preternaturally shy boy to express himself in public....I lost myself in the beauty of sport and made my family proud while passing through the silent eye of the storm that was my childhood.�

So begins Pat Conroy’s journey back to 1967 and his startling realization “that this season had been seminal and easily the most consequential of my life.� The place is the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina, that now famous military college, and in memory Conroy gathers around him his team to relive their few triumphs and humiliating defeats. In a narrative that moves seamlessly between the action of the season and flashbacks into his childhood, we see the author’s love of basketball and how crucial the role of athlete is to all these young men who are struggling to find their own identity and their place in the world.

In fast-paced exhilarating games, readers will laugh in delight and cry in disappointment. But as the story continues, we gradually see the self-professed “mediocre� athlete merge into the point guard whose spirit drives the team. He rallies them to play their best while closing off the shouts of “Don’t shoot, Conroy� that come from the coach on the sidelines. For Coach Mel Thompson is to Conroy the undermining presence that his father had been throughout his childhood. And in these pages finally, heartbreakingly, we learn the truth about the Great Santini.

In My Losing Season Pat Conroy has written an American classic about young men and the bonds they form, about losing and the lessons it imparts, about finding one’s voice and one’s self in the midst of defeat. And in his trademark language, we see the young Conroy walk from his life as an athlete to the writer the world knows him to be.]]> 402 Pat Conroy 0553381903 Rick 4 3.89 2002 My Losing Season: A Memoir
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]]> <![CDATA[Tender Warrior: God's Intention for a Man]]> 1440203
God made you to be each of these…and much more. Stu Weber ’s bestseller, now revised throughout and refreshed with an attractive new look, paints a dramatic and compelling picture of balanced manhood according to God’s vision. Written in a warm, personal style, Weber presents the characteristics of tender warriors—including learning to speak the language of women, watching out for what lies ahead, and keeping commitments—in an upfront, straightforward style that challenges readers to realize God’s plan for men.

{BANNER ACROSS }



More than 365,000 copies sold!

Some Things Are Worth Fighting For

Young men aspire to it. Women admire it. Yet the definition of manhood itself is obscured by a culture in moral free fall. This book cuts through the fog and defines a powerful blueprint for being the man—the Tender Warrior —that God desires for you and your family. You’ll discover that a Tender watches out for what lies ahead—like a wagon train scout; keeps his commitments, no matter how painful; has a tender heart beating beneath his armor; understands his responsibility to his wife, children, and friends; recognizes that he is “under orders from higher headquarters.�

Stu Weber ’s now classic teaching on a man’s vigilance, staying power, and consideration for the women in his life will move you to pursue the man you were created to be.

Real Men Are Tender Warriors

“I drank Budweiser, smoked Marlboros, and chased women�. Tender Warrior sent me deeper into my heart and soul. When I finished it, I passed it on to a friend, who was supposed to give it back but passed it on to someone else. This book changed his life. It knocked down the walls around his heart. His ‘The most important thing that has happened in my life started when you sent me that book.’�

—A reader

Story Behind the Book

((no story behind. Instead, endorsements)):

� Tender Warrior provides hope for men by challenging their assumptions and shaping their convictions. Read it. Devour it. Then live it. This is the time for real men to emerge.�

—Dennis Rainey, executive director, FamilyLife

“In a day when our culture is at once confused and concerned over gender identity, men everywhere would to do well to recalibrate their personal compasses by the biblical benchmarks found in Tender Warrior . I highly recommend this book!�

—Dr. Bruce Wilkinson , New York Times bestselling author]]> 264 Stu Weber 1576733068 Rick 4 4.20 1993 Tender Warrior: God's Intention for a Man
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]]> <![CDATA[Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America]]> 554905 256 Wesley J. Smith 189355449X Rick 4 Very eye-opening. 3.79 2000 Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America
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Very eye-opening.
]]> <![CDATA[Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News]]> 18474 Excellent Book 238 Bernard Goldberg 0060520841 Rick 4 3.69 2001 Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News
author: Bernard Goldberg
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average rating: 3.69
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]]> How Now Shall We Live? 5667389 592 Charles W. Colson Rick 4 4.19 1999 How Now Shall We Live?
author: Charles W. Colson
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]]> How Now Shall We Live? 49269 Christianity is more than a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. It is also a worldview that not only answers life's basic questions―Where did we come from, and who are we? What has gone wrong with the world? What can we do to fix it?―but also shows us how we should live as a result of those answers. How Now Shall We Live? gives Christians the understanding, the confidence, and the tools to confront the world's bankrupt worldviews and to restore and redeem every aspect of contemporary family, education, ethics, work, law, politics, science, art, music. This book will change every Christian who reads it. It will change the church in the new millennium.]]> 656 Charles W. Colson 084235588X Rick 4 4.12 1999 How Now Shall We Live?
author: Charles W. Colson
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average rating: 4.12
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]]> Why Men Are the Way They Are 1023569 448 Warren Farrell 042511094X Rick 4 3.90 Why Men Are the Way They Are
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Good, but probably politically incorrect to some.
]]> <![CDATA[A Fine Young Man: What Parents, Mentors, and Educators Can Do to Shape Adolescent Boys into Exceptional Men]]> 616564
Puberty encourages guilty alienation and fear. The result is that other boys often have a good deal of influence in the lives of younger adolescent friends, for better or for worse. A number of medical conditions have become almost common among adolescent boys, at least in part because of a lack of support. These range from simple depression, to trauma, to the elaborately named attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD). Experimentation with drugs and alcohol has become almost common, and these contribute to delinquency and sometimes even to suicide.
In A FINE YOUNG MAN Gurian establishes three major stages in a boy’s progress to transformation (the metabolic changes from ages nine to thirteen), determination (characterized by alternate aggression and withdrawal), and consolidation (indicated by determining and testing definitions of adult male behavior). He concludes by offering what he considers indications that the process of individuation has begun. He returns often to the worthwhile observation that what boys need at every stage of the process of maturing is consistent support from a variety of sources both within and outside of the family. It is this support that is too often lacking.]]> 320 Michael Gurian 0874779693 Rick 4 3.90 1990 A Fine Young Man: What Parents, Mentors, and Educators Can Do to Shape Adolescent Boys into Exceptional Men
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All of Gurian's books are good.
]]> <![CDATA[Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality (Paperback)]]> 7214 Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN 0785263705 here.

"I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened." ―Donald Miller

In Donald Miller's early years, he was vaguely familiar with a distant God. But when he came to know Jesus Christ, he pursued the Christian life with great zeal. Within a few years he had a successful ministry that ultimately left him feeling empty, burned out, and, once again, far away from God. In this intimate, soul-searching account, Miller describes his remarkable journey back to a culturally relevant, infinitely loving God.

For anyone wondering if the Christian faith is still relevant in a postmodern culture.

For anyone thirsting for a genuine encounter with a God who is real.

For anyone yearning for a renewed sense of passion in  life.

Blue Like Jazz is a fresh and original perspective on life, love, and redemption.

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]]> WHY MEN HATE GOING TO CHURCH 291418 256 David Murrow 0785260382 Rick 5 3.83 2005 WHY MEN HATE GOING TO CHURCH
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]]> <![CDATA[The 21 Most Powerful Minutes In A Leader's Day: Revitalize Your Spirit And Empower Your Leadership]]> 1001623 369 John C. Maxwell 0785274324 Rick 4 4.08 2000 The 21 Most Powerful Minutes In A Leader's Day: Revitalize Your Spirit And Empower Your Leadership
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]]> <![CDATA[What a Difference a Daddy Makes: The Indelible Imprint a Dad Leaves on His Daughter's Life]]> 65383 256 Kevin Leman 0785266046 Rick 4 4.16 2000 What a Difference a Daddy Makes: The Indelible Imprint a Dad Leaves on His Daughter's Life
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]]> The Art of Loving 14142
Most people are unable to love on the only level that truly matters: love that is compounded of maturity, self-knowledge, and courage. As with every art, love demands practice and concentration, as well as genuine insight and understanding.

In his classic work, The Art of Loving, renowned psychoanalyst and social philosopher Erich Fromm explores love in all its aspects—not only romantic love, steeped in false conceptions and lofty expectations, but also brotherly love, erotic love, self-love, the love of God, and the love of parents for their children.]]> 180 Erich Fromm 0061129739 Rick 4 4.05 1956 The Art of Loving
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]]> The Shack 1812457
In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant The Shack wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. You'll want everyone you know to read this book!]]> 248 William Paul Young 0964729237 Rick 5 3.73 2007 The Shack
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]]> <![CDATA[Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul]]> 1846 224 John Eldredge 0785268839 Rick 5 Excellent! 3.91 2001 Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
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Excellent!
]]> <![CDATA[Fatherless America: Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem]]> 871717 328 David Blankenhorn 006092683X Rick 4 Frightening, but eye-opening. 4.01 1995 Fatherless America: Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem
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Frightening, but eye-opening.
]]> <![CDATA[For Women Only: What You Need to Know about the Inner Lives of Men]]> 49158 - Why your respect means more to him than your love.
- How he feels deep inside about his role as provider.
- What it means for a man to be so visually "wired."
- Why sex for him is primarily emotional, not physical.
- What he most wishes he could say to you.]]> 189 Shaunti Feldhahn 1590523172 Rick 5 4.02 2004 For Women Only: What You Need to Know about the Inner Lives of Men
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This is the best book about men I've ever read, and it's written by a woman. Go figure!
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