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Summer Books 2005

FRONTIERS AND GHETTOS:
STATE VIOLENCE IN SERBIA AND ISRAEL
By James Ron
University of California Press, 253 pages, $19.95



Reviewed by Neve Gordon
GOOD CATHOLIC GIRLS:
HOW WOMEN ARE LEADING THE FIGHT TO CHANGE THE CHURCH
By Angela Bonavoglia
HarperCollins (Regan Imprint),
352 pages, $25.95


Reviewed by Sally Cunneen
MR. BLUE
By Myles Connolly
Loyola Press, 126 pages, $11.95




Reviewed by Rachelle Linner
WINDOWS TO HEAVEN: INTRODUCING ICONS TO PROTESTANTS AND CATHOLICS
By Elizabeth Zelensky and Lela Gilbert
Brazos Press, 142 pages, $10.39



Reviewed by Jerry Ryan
PARCHED: A MEMOIR
By Heather King
Penguin Group, 276 pages, $19.95




Reviewed by Arlene Helderman
STEALING HISTORY: TOMB RAIDERS, SMUGGLERS, AND THE LOOTING OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
By Roger Atwood
St. Martin’s Press, 337 pages, $25.95



Reviewed by Francis Deblauwe
PRIESTS IN LOVE: ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY AND THEIR INTIMATE FRIENDSHIPS
By Jane Anderson
The Continuum International Publishing Group,

215 pages, $24.95


Reviewed by Andrew P. Connolly
PEARL
By Mary Gordon
Pantheon Books, 368 pages, $24.95




Reviewed by Charlene Spretnak
FORGOTTEN AMONG THE LILIES:
LEARNING TO LOVE BEYOND OUR FEARS
By Ronald Rolheiser
Doubleday, 315 pages, $19.95



Reviewed by Rich Heffern
AMERICA’S SECRET WAR:
INSIDE THE HIDDEN WORLDWIDE STRUGGLE BETWEEN AMERICA AND ITS ENEMIES
By George Friedman
Doubleday, 341 pages, $25.95


Reviewed by Richard Thieme
AFRICAN FILM: RE-IMAGINING A CONTINENT
By Josef Gugler
Indiana University Press,
202 pages, $24.95


Reviewed by Joseph Cunneen
   

MORAL WISDOM:
LESSONS AND TEXTS FROM THE CATHOLIC TRADITION
By James F. Keenan
Sheed and Ward, 190 pages, $17.95




THE WORKS OF MERCY:
THE HEART OF CATHOLICISM
By James F. Keenan
Sheed and Ward, 128 pages, $14.95




Reviewed by Nathan Kollar

REAL SEX: THE NAKED TRUTH ABOUT CHASTITY
By Lauren F. Winner
Brazos Press, 175 pages, $17.99






RECLAIMING THE BODY IN CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY
Edited by Thomas Ryan
Paulist Press, 179 pages, $16.95





Reviewed by Wayne A. Holst

National Catholic Reporter, May 20, 2005

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