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Adam Shields
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I read a lot. I blog my reading at http://bookwi.se My spiritual direction website is at http://aspiritualdirector.com
Nov 23 Sale Kindle Books:

Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush by Jon Meacham $1.99 amzn.to/3X9RK3A

Beautiful Ruins: A Novel by Jess Walter $1.99 amzn.to/3LU1RXP

An American Marriage: A Novel by Tayari Jones $2.99 amzn.to/4rmbLBW
Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
“The more time passes, the more the dust settles, the clearer it becomes that George H. W. Bush and the strengths of character he brought to his long service to this country deserve more attention and...
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November 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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I was compelled to look that performance up. The introduction of Yoyo Ma by the speaker is very poignant given where we are as a nation now. May we return to a country whose government values the contributions of immigrants again.

youtu.be/wiwkBFR6rW0?...
7-Year-Old Cellist Prodigy Yo-Yo Ma's Debut Performance for President JFK | The Kennedy Center
YouTube video by The Kennedy Center
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November 23, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Sale Kindle books Nov 21, 2025

Every Riven Thing: Poems by Christian Wiman $2.99 amzn.to/3LMh2lY

The Spirit of American Liberal Theology: A History by Gary Dorrien $5.99 amzn.to/4id9Awl
The Spirit of American Liberal Theology: A History
The Spirit of American Liberal Theology: A History - Kindle edition by Dorrien, Gary. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Spirit of American Liberal Theology: A History.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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If ICE will threaten to smash the windows of a Superior Court Judge's car, they will do it to anyone and everyone.

Straight madness.
“ICE agents then surrounded (Superior Court Judge McBurney’s) car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply.”
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
November 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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JUST IN: A federal judge says one of the Venezuelan men — illegally deported to El Salvador in March before he was swapped back to Venezuela in a prisoner exchange — is now missing, possibly a victim of the violence he was seeking asylum from. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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In the very early days of Nazi rule local law enforcement would sometimes intervene if a local was being threatened by Nazis acting unlawfully. There was still an idea that the law mattered. That didn’t last long.

Not saying things will get that bad here but we seem to be in a similar stage.
First of all, this judge is a hero.

Secondly, my god this is egregious conduct. Imagine being this judge, driving this poor kid home, only to have ICE threaten to smash your car windows on your way out of the lot??
November 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I just posted my 1750 book review post on my blog.
I have been leading a zoom book group for about five years. Most recently we read The Gospel According to James Baldwin by Greg Garrett

The group chose the book from about five that I suggested, but I didn't realize until the first session that no one else in the group had ever read Baldwin.
November 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I have been leading a zoom book group for about five years. Most recently we read The Gospel According to James Baldwin by Greg Garrett

The group chose the book from about five that I suggested, but I didn't realize until the first session that no one else in the group had ever read Baldwin.
November 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Nov 20 Sale Kindle books:

Desmond Tutu: A Spiritual Biography of South Africa's Confessor by Michael Battle $5.99 amzn.to/4idUUgk

Beguiled by Beauty: Cultivating a Life of Contemplation and Compassion by Wendy Farley $5.99 amzn.to/4ra3hxn
Desmond Tutu: A Spiritual Biography of South Africa's Confessor
Desmond Tutu: A Spiritual Biography of South Africa's Confessor - Kindle edition by Battle, Michael. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Desmond Tutu: A Spiritual Biography of South Africa's Confessor.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Nov 19

Westminster John Knox Press ebook sale:

Tokens of Trust: An Introduction to Christian Belief by Rowan Williams $5.99 amzn.to/3XAHEJ1

Womanist Midrash (Vol 1 or 2) by Wil Gafney $5.99 amzn.to/483bNWj or amzn.to/4pjDt0f
Tokens of Trust: An Introduction to Christian Belief
Tokens of Trust: An Introduction to Christian Belief - Kindle edition by Williams, Rowan. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Tokens of Trust: An Introduction to Christian Belief.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Nov 15 - Sale Kindle books

Matrix: A Novel by Lauren Groff $1.99 amzn.to/3JELYE1

Conclave: A novel by Robert Harris $1.99 amzn.to/3WZe1Rt (this is the novel the movie is based on)

Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World by Eric Foner $2.99 amzn.to/4r7wB80
Matrix: A Novel
Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an i...
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November 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Nov 11 Sale Kindle Books

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett $1.99 amzn.to/47StoAn

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Perennial Classics) by Betty Smith $1.99 amzn.to/4p9rzpM

Animal Farm by George Orwell $1.99 amzn.to/4hXMfhZ
Bel Canto
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November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
One of the books groups I particpate in read Richard Rohr's The Tears of Things. I am pretty ambivilent toward Rohr and I wouldn't have chosen to read it without the group. But I do think that it was worth reading and one of Rohr's better books.
November 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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WHOA. Via @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social, it looks like Democrats just flipped BOTH *statewide* Public Service Commissioner seats in Georgia.

That seems...significant.
November 5, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Nov 4: Sale Kindle books:

King: A Life by Jonathan Eig $3.99 amzn.to/493FIjl

How to Fight Racism Young Reader's Edition: A Guide to Standing Up for Racial Justice by Jemar Tisby $1.99 amzn.to/4qNTZHw

Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 50th Anniversary Edition by Paulo Freire $4.99 amzn.to/49lmRR9
King: A Life
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November 5, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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November 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work.

Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.

She was later released with NO CHARGE.

A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.

You decide…
November 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I am a long term fan of the Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny. I have read most of the books more than once. But I continue to be disappointed that the series has shifted from a cozy mystery series to a conspiracy theory based thriller series.
The Black Wolf by Louise Penny (Inspector Gamache #20) – Bookwi.se
I am a long term fan of the series. Most of the books I have read more than once. But starting at about the eighth book there has been a shift from a mystery series to a thriller series. There are some books in the last dozen that have had more mystery elements than thriller elements, but most of those books have shifted from mysteries where Gamache and those around him follow clues and psychologically gain an understanding of the perpetrator, to thriller elements where the point is unfolding tension. Along with that thriller element, a natrual shift has been to make Gamache more and more of a traditional hero.
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November 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Nov 2 Sale Kindle books:

The Fishermen: A Novel by Chigozie Obioma $1.99 amzn.to/3JHBN1g

Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit: Growing in Christlikeness by Christopher J. H. Wright $3.99 amzn.to/4omNp9b

The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn $1.99 amzn.to/49vxO2f
The Fishermen: A Novel
In this striking novel about an unforgettable childhood, four Nigerian brothers encounter a madman whose mystic prophecy of violence threatens the core of their close-knit family Told by nine-year-old...
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November 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Nov 1 Sale Kindle books:

W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868–1919: Biography of a Race by David Levering Lewis $2.99 amzn.to/3JsbvA8 (Pulitzer Prize winner)

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach $4.99 amzn.to/3X5rLdk
Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury $3.99 amzn.to/4nDxrGy
W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868–1919: Biography of a Race
This monumental biography by David Levering Lewis--eight years in the research and writing--treats the early and middle phases of a long and intense career: a crucial fifty-year period that demonstrat...
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November 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Oct 30 Sale Kindle Books:

Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami $4.99 amzn.to/47xSGmY

The Bible Is Not Enough: Imagination and Making Peace in the Modern World by Scot McKnight $3.46 amzn.to/4qqx2d0

Binti: The Complete Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor $4.99 amzn.to/4odAxBY
The Bible Is Not Enough: Imagination and Making Peace in the Modern World
The Bible Is Not Enough: Imagination and Making Peace in the Modern World - Kindle edition by McKnight, Scot. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Bible Is Not Enough: Imagination and Making Peace in the Modern World.
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October 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Oct 26 Sale Kindle books:

The Eyes of the Heart: A Memoir of the Lost and Found by Frederick Buechner $1.99 amzn.to/4hr6gNv

Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett $1.99 amzn.to/47qaDnk

Poster Girl by Veronica Roth $1.99 amzn.to/4qk9ztY

Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth $1.99 amzn.to/3JtxcQg
The Eyes of the Heart: A Memoir of the Lost and Found
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October 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
We had to replace our dishwasher a couple weeks ago. We got a Samsung one because it has a feature that opens the door five inches at the end of the cycle to allow it to air dry.

And it really works well. Such a simple solution.
October 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Oct 24 Sale Kindle Books:

Discipleship in a World Full of Nazis: Recovering the True Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Mark Nation $2.99 amzn.to/49kWWZv

The Lines Between Us: Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore's Racial Divide by Lawrence Lanahan $2.99 amzn.to/43xYwn6
October 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM