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In Caddy for Life: The Bruce Edwards Story, all-world sportswriter John Feinstein offers a tribute to pro caddy Bruce Edwards. Completed before Edwards’ recent death from Lou Gehrig’s disease, the book captures his easy persona and lifelong love of the game, focusing in particular on his 25-year association with Tom Watson, who, through the late ’70s and early ’80s, was probably golf’s finest player.

In Caddy for Life: The Bruce Edwards Story, all-world sportswriter John Feinstein offers a tribute to pro caddy Bruce Edwards. Completed before Edwards' recent death from Lou Gehrig's disease, the book captures his easy persona and lifelong love of the game, focusing in particular…
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The frenzied pace of this harried world is the disease which Out of Control: Finding Peace for the Physically Exhausted and Spiritually Strung Out seeks to treat. A pastor and clinical psychologist, respectively, Ben Young and Dr. Samuel Adams offer relief to anyone who feels overwhelmed by modern life. In many ways, this book could be a companion piece to The Rest of God, as it touches on similar themes, including a call for a return to a personal Sabbath. Out of Control suggests ways to bring each day out of the rushing current of the world and into the peaceful presence of God. The style of the book is friendly and straightforward, making Young and Adams’ advice easily accessible to everyone. There is no preaching or condemnation, but solid, practical advice on dealing with anxiety, stress, worry and the demands of a mile-a-minute, information-overloading world. If you find yourself barely hanging on to your last thin thread, this book is for you.

A writer in Franklin, Tennessee, Howard Shirley is the author of Acts for God: 38 Dramatic Sketches for Contemporary Services, as well as Christian video and devotional materials.

The frenzied pace of this harried world is the disease which Out of Control: Finding Peace for the Physically Exhausted and Spiritually Strung Out seeks to treat. A pastor and clinical psychologist, respectively, Ben Young and Dr. Samuel Adams offer relief to anyone who feels…
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This book takes a look at one of the oldest religious traditions: the Sabbath the day of rest. In his book, The Rest of God: Restoring Your Soul by Restoring Sabbath, Mark Buchanan challenges us to go back to the original intent of the Sabbath, as expressed at its inception, commanded in the Torah and pointed to by Christ: a rest from one’s labors, blessed by God. The Sabbath was created for man, not man for the Sabbath, Christ said, and the implications of this truth are what Buchanan examines. Buchanan is not calling for a return to blue laws and suit-and-tie Sundays, but a recognition that God calls us indeed created us to rest from our work, one day each week. Sabbath rest means recognizing God, restoring ourselves and enjoying the life he has given us.

Buchanan writes with skill and beauty, using phrases, images and stories that are a delight to read and a joy to the soul. Regardless of your background, The Rest of God is a healing treasure in a far too harried world.

A writer in Franklin, Tennessee, Howard Shirley is the author of Acts for God: 38 Dramatic Sketches for Contemporary Services, as well as Christian video and devotional materials.

This book takes a look at one of the oldest religious traditions: the Sabbath the day of rest. In his book, The Rest of God: Restoring Your Soul by Restoring Sabbath, Mark Buchanan challenges us to go back to the original intent of the Sabbath,…
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Bob Knight is the subject of a fine biography by Steve Delsohn and Mark Heisler, Bob Knight: An Unauthorized Biography. Knight has won three national championships and an Olympic gold medal during a stormy career that’s taken him from Army to Indiana to Texas Tech, making friends and enemies by the bushel along the way. The central question about him always has been whether the ends (championship teams, a clean program) justify the means (intimidation, verbal abuse, etc.). The authors don’t come out with a direct answer; they are too busy interviewing as many people as they can find to comment on the events in Knight’s career. The resulting book is a balanced look at a life that almost forces people to choose sides.

It’s easy to conclude after reading this biography that Knight would have benefited from a little discipline from his bosses early in his coaching career. Maybe then he could have controlled his behavior and remained just as good a coach. In any case, Knight remains a fascinating character, and Delsohn and Heisler deserve credit for this fascinating portrait. Budd Bailey works in the sports department of the Buffalo News.

Bob Knight is the subject of a fine biography by Steve Delsohn and Mark Heisler, Bob Knight: An Unauthorized Biography. Knight has won three national championships and an Olympic gold medal during a stormy career that's taken him from Army to Indiana to Texas Tech,…
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Essentially, Voices of Valor was born in 1983, when the then director of the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans, historian Stephen E. Ambrose, started interviewing D-Day veterans for an oral history project. Realizing how extraordinary it would have been to have had the technology to tape-record the soldiers of Gettysburg or Vicksburg during the U.S. Civil War, Ambrose and his associate, Captain Ron Drez, USMC a decorated rifle company commander in Vietnam in 1968 embarked on a mission. For over a decade they canvassed America, attending veterans’ reunions and tracking down forgotten men. The Eisenhower Center collection grew to more than 2,000 accounts of D-Day experiences. “This is the most extensive first-person, I-was-there collection of memoirs of a single battle in existence,” Ambrose wrote in the acknowledgments to his best-selling book D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II.

D-Day was the turning point of World War II. British prime minister Winston Churchill summed it up best when he deemed it “the most difficult and most complicated operation ever to take place.” That is saying a lot, for it was a rare day during the war when something crucial didn’t transpire somewhere in the Pacific, Burma-India-China, the Middle East, North Africa, the Soviet Union, the North Atlantic or Europe. On June 4, 1944, for example, the Americans marched triumphantly into Rome, headquarters of Fascist Italy and the first major capital to be liberated by the Allies. But the D-Day invasion in northern France two days later was a turning point of a different sort: land conquered by the Nazis was taken back for freedom. It was only a narrow strip of sea-sprayed beach, but it was land, hard-fought for, and it was the beginning of the end for Adolf Hitler.

Everything about D-Day was large the overarching strategy, the vast mobilization, the sheer number of troops. But it is the daring boldness and intrepid courage of the men America’s 1st, 4th, and 29th Infantry Divisions, and its 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions, along with the British 3rd and 50th Infantry Divisions, the Canadian 3rd Infantry Division, and the British 6th Airborne Division plus the incredible job of the U.S. Navy and Air Corps, that stand out. One can read biographies of Dwight Eisenhower or watch footage of John Ford, but the only way to understand D-Day fully is as a battle at its smallest: that is, one soldier and one reminiscence at a time. Collectively, these fighting men were the Voices of Valor the title of this book.

Infantryman Al Littke of the 16th Regiment Combat Team, for example, watched the naval bombardment of Omaha Beach as he waited in a boat to join the landing. “With all this fire power, it should be a cinch,” he recalled saying to himself, “I thought I was untouchable.” Leonard Griffing was a paratrooper with the 101st Airborne Division, preparing to drop onto French soil from a low-flying airplane. “As I stood there with my hands on the edge of the doorway ready to push out,” he recalled, “it seemed that we took some kind of a burst under the left wing because the plane went in a sharp roll and I couldn’t push myself out because it was uphill, so I just hung on.” D-Day was not one day, but a composite of many days, experienced by each of those individuals who played a part on the Allied side from the 120,000 men who landed during the initial action to the millions of personnel who supported them. In this volume, the story of D-Day is told through the impressions of those who were there. None of the people who lend their voices here saw the grand sweep of the battle, but rather only one small snapshot of it. Assembled in this book, Voices of Valor, are those memories some tragic, some humorous, and all of them imbued with human drama. They comprise the big picture of the largest invasion force ever assembled. Voices of Valor: D-Day June 6, 1944 includes two audio CDs of D-Day participants’ accounts introduced by Douglas Brinkley. Brinkley is a professor of history at the University of New Orleans, director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Center for American Studies and author of several books. Co-author Ronald J. Drez is writing a children’s book on D-Day for National Geographic.

Essentially, Voices of Valor was born in 1983, when the then director of the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans, historian Stephen E. Ambrose, started interviewing D-Day veterans for an oral history project. Realizing how extraordinary it would have been to have had…
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Guidance for a boyish soul can also be found in Hugh Downs’ Letter to a Great Grandson: A Message of Love, Advice, and Hopes for the Future. Shortly after the birth of his great-grandson, Downs began writing a collection of ruminations and advice, spread across 17 “ages” his young descendant could hope to reach. The book is a wonderful mix of biographical tidbits, life experiences and wisdom on everything from family relationships to love. This is not a tale for children, but a man’s philosophy on what it means to live, grow and learn, at every stage of life. Howard Shirley is a writer and father in Nashville.

Guidance for a boyish soul can also be found in Hugh Downs' Letter to a Great Grandson: A Message of Love, Advice, and Hopes for the Future. Shortly after the birth of his great-grandson, Downs began writing a collection of ruminations and advice, spread across…

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