Reviews

I like to hear about good resources to teach and encourage me, and I'm glad to hear if I should avoid a certain item, too. I hope these reviews will be of assistance to you. A "*" by an item indicates that I recommened it.

Books

Fiction

• Captains Courageous* (Rudyard Kipling)
  
• Cœlebs in Search of a Wife* (Hannah More)
  
• Gods and Generals (Jeff Shaara)
  
• The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)
  
• Robinson Crusoe* (Daniel Defoe)
  
• Utopia (Thomas More)
  

Non-Fiction

Faith and Practice

• After Life* (F. LaGard Smith)
  
• From Medicine to Jesus* (David Devenish)
  
• One Thing You Can't Do In Heaven* (Mark Cahill)
  

History and Politics

• The 9/11 Commission Report*
  
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee* (Dee Brown)
  
• Co. Aytch* (Sam Watkins)
  
• Life and Letters of "Stonewall" Jackson* (Mary Anna Jackson)
  
• Origins of the Common Law (Arthur R. Hogue)
  
• The Real Lincoln* (Thomas DiLorenzo)
  
• The Tempting of America (Robert Bork)
  

Society and Culture

• Amusing Ourselves to Death (Neil Postman)
  
• Back to the Drawing Board* (Teresa Wagner, editor)
  
• Does the Birth Control Pill Cause Abortions?* (Randy Alcorn)
  
• The Tipping Point (Malcom Gladwell)
  
• When Choice Becomes God* (F. LaGard Smith)
  

Movies

• Gods and Generals* (2003)
  
• Finding Nemo (2003)
  
• The Passion of the Christ (2004)
  
• The Shop Around the Corner* (1940)
  

I haven't gotten around to reviewing all of these (and I doubt I will), but you can ask me about them if you wish. As with the reviews above, a "*" by an item indicates that I recommend it. Though I may not endorse all the content provided or conclusions drawn in these recommended books, I found them to be valuable reading.

2005

• None of These Diseases* - McMillen
• Origins of the Common Law - Arthur Hogue
• The 9/11 Commission Report
• The Puzzle of Ancient Man* - Donald Chittick
• Bryson City Seasons - Walt Larimore
• Overdosed America* - John Abramson
• First Among Equals* - Kenneth Starr
• World War I* - Richard Maybury
• World War II* - Richard Maybury
• Ten P's in a Pod* - Arnold Pent
• The Longest Day* - Cornelius Ryan
• The Dragon and the Raven* - G.A. Henty
• December 7, 1941 (abridged audio) - Prange, Goldstein, and Dillon
• The Four Loves (audio)* - C.S. Lewis
• Becoming a World Changing Family* - Donna Thomas
• Five Children and It (audio) - Edith Nesbit
• So Help Me God* - Roy Moore
• The Thinking Toolbox* - Nathaniel Bluedorn and Hans Bluedorn
• Are You Liberal, Conservative, or Confused? - Richard Maybury
• Homeschooling From a Biblical Worldview* - Israel Wayne
• God & Caesar - John Eidsmoe
• Discipling the Nations - Dennis Woods

2004

• From Medicine to Jesus* - David Devenish
• With Wolfe in Canada* - G.A. Henty
• Time for Truth - Os Guiness
• The Armada* - Garrett Mattingly
• Cœlebs in Search of a Wife* - Hannah More
• A Door in the Wall - Marguerite D'Angeli
• John Glenn: A Memoir (abridged audio) - John Glenn and Nick Taylor
• Facing Death - G.A. Henty
• Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman
• The Giver (audio)* - Lois Lowry
• Rifles for Watie - Harold Keith
• Barbara Bush: A Memoir (abridged audio) - Barbara Bush
• Lindbergh (abridged audio) - A. Scott Berg
• Preacher's Kids - Grace Nies Fletcher
• How to Run for Local Office* - Robert Thomas
• The Self-Publishing Manual* - Dan Poynter
• The System of Things - Luis Sweeney
• In Freedom's Cause (audio) - G.A. Henty
• For the Temple (audio)* - G.A. Henty
• With Lee in Virginia (audio)* - G.A. Henty
• America's Right Turn* - Viguerie and Franke
• One Thing You Can't Do in Heaven* - Mark Cahill
• The Real Lincoln* - Thomas DiLorenzo
• Charlotte's Web (audio)* - E.B. White
• Publish a Book in 30 Days - Fern Reiss
• Both Sides of 100 Public Questions - Shurter and Taylor

2003

• Darwin on Trial* - Philip Johnson
• St. Bartholomew's Eve* - G.A. Henty
• Swiss Family Robinson* - Wyss
• Spiritual Politics - Silk
• Knight of the White Cross* - G.A. Henty
• Alice in Wonderland* - Lewis Carroll
• A Father's Stew - Stephen Beck
• Wulf the Saxon (abridged audio) - G.A. Henty
• Creature From Jekyll Island* - G. Edward Griffin
• Captains Courageous* - Rudyard Kipling
• Gods and Generals - Jeff Shaara
• A March on London - G.A. Henty
• Mr. Popper's Penguins* - Atwater and Atwater
• Life and Letters of Stonewall Jackson* - Anna Jackson
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee* - Dee Brown
• The Tempting of America - Robert Bork

2002

• Roe v. Wade* - Marian Faux
• Federalist Papers* - Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
• The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkein
• Hiroshima in America - Lifton and Mitchell
• Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis
• Tortured for Christ* - Richard Wurmbrand
• Under Drake's Flag* - G.A. Henty
• War for What? - Francis Springer
• Conscience of a Conservative - Barry Goldwater
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
• The Autobiography of George Müller* - George Müller
• The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkein
• The Fallacy Detective* - Nathaniel Bluedorn and Hans Bluedorn

2001

• Starlight and Time* - D. Russell Humphreys
• Our Homeschool Story - Castleberry
• In the Heart of the Rockies* - G.A. Henty
• The E-Myth Revisited - Michael Gerber
• Beowulf* - Anonymous
• Wulf the Saxon* - G.A. Henty
• Call of Duty* - J. Steven Wilkins
• Winter Danger* - William Steele
• Carry a Big Stick - George Grant
• Dash for Khartoum* - G.A. Henty
• Pickett's Charge* - George Stewart
• Never Give In - Stephen Mansfield
• Sgt. York* - John Perry
• Anti-Federalist Papers* - Ralph Ketchum (editor)
• Original Intent* - David Barton
• Co. Aytch* - Sam Watkins
• The Ruling Class - Eric Felten
• The Life of General Stonewall Jackson - Williamson
• Bonnie Prince Charlie* - G.A. Henty
• Double Dip - Cohen and Greenfield
• The Cat of Bubastes* - G.A. Henty
• Boy Meets Girl - Joshua Harris
• The Yearling* - Marjorie Kinnon Rawlings
• Robert E. Lee the Christian - William Johnson
• The Young Carthaginian* - G.A. Henty
• Radical Restoration* - LaGard Smith