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James C. Schaap

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Gall, Warrior

Gall was no giant, but he had to have been built like grand piano, broad chest, sturdy muscular arms, and impressively toned body. George Armstrong

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Thy Will Be Done

She holds this single dream. She remembers life in Amherst, before her husband caught a madman’s urge to go west and start a new life

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Stories, really

Yesterday afternoon I sat with a old man who, once upon a time, shot at surfacing German subs in the North Atlantic, tried to pick

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A Museum of Swastikas

Two weeks or so after Normandy, he and the team of motorheads crossed the English channel after endless waiting weeks in Great Britain, a couple

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Holy Fool

There has never been a great movie about John Brown. Seriously, hard as it is to believe, no one has ever done a blockbuster about

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Fathomless mysteries all

The title and not the author first caught my eye–Prairie, by someone named Muilenburg, not an unfamiliar name in the neighborhood. I found a copy

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