Tara Westover grew up in a fundamentalist Mormon family in Idaho. She and six her siblings were homeschooled, in the very loosest sense of the word. Her parents operated small businesses and didn’t...
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This list is broken into three parts, each focusing on different elements of the Hatchet story that I find compelling. First of all, it’s a survival story. If the popularity of the reality TV...
It’s hard to pick books like Project Hail Mary, because it really lives in a class by itself. The books most like it are the other books by Andy Weir, The Martian and Artemis. But what...
I analyzed why Peace Like a River tops my list of all time favorites and scoured other favorites for similar qualities. This list is divided up into three categories: young protagonists,...
Sarah Young wrote her daily devotional as if Jesus were speaking to her, addressing her directly. It reads almost like a personal letter from Jesus Himself. A common theme in Jesus Calling...
Corrie ten Boom lived with her father and sister in Holland during the German occupation of World War II. The ten Boom family took their Christian faith seriously. They believed the Jews were...