Travel related books
The Covenant with Black America is the brainchild of Tavis Smiley. For the past seven years, the talk show host has had his own "State of the Black Union" symposium. Seeing that simply exchanging opinions with the nation's top black leaders was not sufficient, he decided to chart a course for the
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First published in the early twentieth century shortly after the Russian Revolution of 1917, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin has been translated by Natasha Randall and republished in 2006. We is considered a precursor to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Fourand has a feeling similar to Ray Bradbury's Fa
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First and Foremost, the Harlem Reader should be a must read for anyone who would like to acquire more knowledge about Harlem, New York. This book gives a sense of the issues impacting residents of Harlem. It brings about a revelation of the struggles African-Americans went through during the "H
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In Review: Road Trip USA, by Jamie Jensen "Road Trip USA...takes you as close to the real America as you are ever likely to get." Here's a question for you. If you had the time and the money to undertake just one extensive trip by road on any continent on the planet, which one would you choose,
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In Review: Road Trip USA, by Jamie Jensen "Road Trip USA...takes you as close to the real America as you are ever likely to get." Here's a question for you. If you had the time and the money to undertake just one extensive trip by road on any continent on the planet, which one would you choose,
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The Bible is the Word of God. It contains 27 books in the New Testament and 39 in the Old Testament. It is one of the most selling books in the 21st Century and the more you read it, the more you will love it. It was written by several authors from different backgrounds, varied professions and fr
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It seemed very far fetched to me that a country or a person would try to subvert an entire religion. It seemed even less possible to me that anyone could hate the thought that a God exists, so much that he would devote his entire life to subverting the Catholic Church. Surely this book must be a
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On October 13, 1917 in Fatima, Portugal the Sun literally danced in the sky. Many of the seventy thousand who came to witness the event that had been announced to occur by the Queen of Heaven on that day were cured of their maladies as the sun appeared to fall from the sky and incredibly in an ins
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This is a wonderful book by Thich Nhat Hanh. His perception of Buddhism and Christianity is right on point. I really like his philosophy regarding, religion, recognition of faiths, and integration of faiths. Living Buddha, Living Christ, comes alive while reading these excellent words on its page
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