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Daniel Silliman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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News editor for Christianity Today, author of Reading Evangelicals, and writing a religious bio of Nixon. Doctorate from Uni Heidelberg. I tweet religion news.

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Book Cover for: Of Fire and Ash: Volume 1, Gillian Bronte Adams

Of Fire and Ash: Volume 1

Gillian Bronte Adams
Daniel SillimanDaniel Silliman

The Realm Awards, for the best Christian fantasy fiction, were awarded this weekend. Book of the year: Of Fire and Ash by Gillian Bronte Adams Readers choice: Shadow by Kara Swanson https://t.co/l8cKVP4nHV

Paperback, 2022

$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom

The Hiding Place

Corrie Ten Boom
Daniel SillimanDaniel Silliman

“I think true stories are just more exciting and more usual and more amazing,” said Elizabeth Sherrill, who coauthored “The Hiding Place" and “The Cross and the Switchblade” She has died at 95. And the true story of her life is definitely all those things https://t.co/iuz7o87BWj

Paperback, 2006

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Book Cover for: The Cross and the Switchblade: The True Story of One Man's Fearless Faith, David Wilkerson

The Cross and the Switchblade: The True Story of One Man's Fearless Faith

David Wilkerson
Daniel SillimanDaniel Silliman

“I think true stories are just more exciting and more usual and more amazing,” said Elizabeth Sherrill, who coauthored “The Hiding Place" and “The Cross and the Switchblade” She has died at 95. And the true story of her life is definitely all those things https://t.co/iuz7o87BWj

Paperback, 2018

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Book Cover for: My Big TOE - Awakening S: Book 1 of a Trilogy Unifying of Philosophy, Physics, and Metaphysics, Thomas Campbell

My Big TOE - Awakening S: Book 1 of a Trilogy Unifying of Philosophy, Physics, and Metaphysics

Thomas Campbell
Daniel SillimanDaniel Silliman

The only publicly viewable display of Thomas Campbell's Declaration and Address, a pivotal Second Great Awakening document that proclaimed everyone equal before the Bible, goes on display in Texas https://t.co/RukpbUUjZL

Paperback, 2003

$24.50$12.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, John Milton Cooper

Woodrow Wilson: A Biography

John Milton Cooper
Daniel SillimanDaniel Silliman

John Milton Cooper, Jr., _Woodrow Wilson: A Biography_, page 57

Paperback, 2011

$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, Tim Weiner

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

Tim Weiner
Daniel SillimanDaniel Silliman

@Mepaynl The Frank Church Committee was the closest to something like this. Check out Tim Weiner's Legacy of Ashes.

Paperback, 2008

$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Cotton Mather's Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas, Kirsten Silva Gruesz

Cotton Mather's Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas

Kirsten Silva Gruesz
Daniel SillimanDaniel Silliman

@paulrfoth @BrantleyGasaway A few I liked recently: A History of Contemporary Praise & Worship, by Lester Ruth and Lim Swee Hong; Cotton Mather's Spanish Lessons, by Kristen Silva Gruez; An Odd Cross to Bear, by Ann Blue Willis. I want to read Uta Balbier's Atlar Call in Europe, too.

Hardcover, 2022

$36.00$18.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The book of martyrs: or, the history of the Church, from the beginning of Christianity, to the conclusion of the reign of Q. Mary I. Extrac, John Foxe

The book of martyrs: or, the history of the Church, from the beginning of Christianity, to the conclusion of the reign of Q. Mary I. Extrac

John Foxe
Daniel SillimanDaniel Silliman

@RyanNDanker Colleague of mine wrote a fascinating dissertation on the publishing history of the Book of Martyrs in America: _John Foxe in America_ by Heike Jablonski.

Paperback, 2010

$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: A History of Contemporary Praise & Worship: Understanding the Ideas That Reshaped the Protestant Church, Lester Ruth

A History of Contemporary Praise & Worship: Understanding the Ideas That Reshaped the Protestant Church

Lester Ruth
Daniel SillimanDaniel Silliman

@paulrfoth @BrantleyGasaway A few I liked recently: A History of Contemporary Praise & Worship, by Lester Ruth and Lim Swee Hong; Cotton Mather's Spanish Lessons, by Kristen Silva Gruez; An Odd Cross to Bear, by Ann Blue Willis. I want to read Uta Balbier's Atlar Call in Europe, too.

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Book Cover for: All Too Human: A Political Education, George Stephanopoulos

All Too Human: A Political Education

George Stephanopoulos
Daniel SillimanDaniel Silliman

@ChrisSchaef Just checked: In All Too Human, by George Stephanopoulos, he says that when he moved into his WH office it had four TVs as part of the office furniture. p. 199

Paperback, 2007

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