Peace Like a River384 reviews Leif Enger Atlantic Monthly Press, 2002 A gem on every page + different voices of characters + Among best books + Great Read! + One of my favorite novels ever             Peder Victorious: A Tale of the Pioneers Twenty Years Later4 reviews O. E. Rolvaag Bison Books, 1982 Out of the Old World, into the New + Review - Peder Victorious + Sequel to Giants in the Earth: A Worthy Successor + Great Follow up to "Giant's in the Earth"             The Crying for a Vision: A Novel3 reviews Walter Wangerin Jr. Paraclete Press (MA), 2003 Okay, that was different. + Extraordinary and Original + Excellent Read This powerful novel makes you feel like you are in a different culture. I'm no Lakota, and cannot speak to the authenticity of culture portrayed by this Lutheran pastor. All the characters, including the "villain", are multi-dimensional. It made me think about the meaning of success, relationships, ...             The Book of the Dun Cow35 reviews Walter Wangerin HarperOne, 2003 Amazing Allegory + A compelling story where animals are the gatekeepers to hell. + Simply outstanding + It's Different... + Astonishingly Beautiful             Vipers' Tangle (The Loyola Classics Series)7 reviews Francois Mauriac, Gerard Hopkins Loyola Press, 2005 A Lost Masterpiece + A Christian novel unafraid of psychological realism + Great Book + A razor-cutting literary analysis that gets to the heart of the matter. + memorable, if rare, work             Cry, the Beloved Country (Oprah's Book Club)246 reviews Alan Paton, 2003 It's on my Top 10 + Heart wrenching, sad, uplifting, moving, inspiring ...... + Still Relevant + Another MLA 100 oversight... + very good *^^*             Velma Still Cooks in Leeway: A Novel16 reviews Vinita Hampton Wright B&H Publishing Group, 2000 Is Vinita still cooking? + Strong, enjoyable characters in Christian novel + WONDERFUL!!! + Complete Serendipity + read it now             Paternity James C. Schaap Quiddity Pr, 2001 James Schaap has created powerful stories about fathers and their “kids” — big kids, even grown-up ones. Sometimes it's from the father's viewpoint, sometimes that of the son or daughter. Always it's a “reality check,” a yardstick to measure what we know — or don't know — about our own critical relationships. These vignettes are life lived out in all its joy ...             Romey's Place: A Novel3 reviews James Calvin Schaap Revell, 2007 Romey's Place ..... or was it? + Brings readers to wonder about the shaping experiences that they may not know about in the minds and hearts of loved ones + Excellent work by a strong new fiction voice This book made me wonder if Schaap was secretly writing about me and my childhood friend. Same type of small town. Same type of fathers and families and churches. Same type of childhood experiences and thoughts in many ways. But moreover, it was thought provoking in the way it looked at how we ...             Leaving Ruin6 reviews Jeff Berryman Leafwood Publishers, 2001 Finally, an honest, beautiful novel about faith + The life of a small church pastor + The First of Its Kind...LITERARY Christian Fiction! + Don't leave "Ruin" unread! + This is a wonderful book!             Book of Sorrows, The13 reviews Walter Wangerin Jr. Zondervan, 1996 Like a mirror in which we see our selves + An epic fable you won't put down + awesome + The title is an understatement + The Book of Sin             A Bearer of Divine Revelation: New and Selected Stories5 reviews Lawrence Dorr Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2003 Stories Reveal Journey Of Faith + A collection of short stories in which grace prevails + Brilliant, Intense + Beauty From Ashes + Lawrence Dorr             Everything That Rises Must Converge18 reviews Flannery O'Connor Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965 "Floundering around in the thoughts of various unsavory characters." + Devastingly Brilliant + "Strangers" + You Must Read Flannery O'Connor             Adam Bede: 150th Anniversary Edition (Signet Classics)30 reviews George Eliot Signet Classics, 2004 A love story as sophisticated as the author + Unqualified + Wonderful Storytelling + Adam is Good: Hetty Is A Flirt: They Have No Choice + The Worst of the Best             Leaving Ruin6 reviews Jeff Berryman Leafwood Publishers, 2001 Finally, an honest, beautiful novel about faith + The life of a small church pastor + The First of Its Kind...LITERARY Christian Fiction! + Don't leave "Ruin" unread! + This is a wonderful book!             Adam Bede: 150th Anniversary Edition (Signet Classics)30 reviews George Eliot Signet Classics, 2004 A love story as sophisticated as the author + Unqualified + Wonderful Storytelling + Adam is Good: Hetty Is A Flirt: They Have No Choice + The Worst of the Best             Romey's Place: A Novel3 reviews James Calvin Schaap Revell, 2007 Romey's Place ..... or was it? + Brings readers to wonder about the shaping experiences that they may not know about in the minds and hearts of loved ones + Excellent work by a strong new fiction voice This book made me wonder if Schaap was secretly writing about me and my childhood friend. Same type of small town. Same type of fathers and families and churches. Same type of childhood experiences and thoughts in many ways. But moreover, it was thought provoking in the way it looked at how we ...             Book of Sorrows, The13 reviews Walter Wangerin Jr. Zondervan, 1996 Like a mirror in which we see our selves + An epic fable you won't put down + awesome + The title is an understatement + The Book of Sin             Peace Like a River384 reviews Leif Enger Atlantic Monthly Press, 2002 A gem on every page + different voices of characters + Among best books + Great Read! + One of my favorite novels ever             Paternity James C. Schaap Quiddity Pr, 2001 James Schaap has created powerful stories about fathers and their “kids” — big kids, even grown-up ones. Sometimes it's from the father's viewpoint, sometimes that of the son or daughter. Always it's a “reality check,” a yardstick to measure what we know — or don't know — about our own critical relationships. These vignettes are life lived out in all its joy ...