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Blue Star Rapture
While attending a high-profile basketball camp, T.J. begins to re-think both his motivations and his actions in guiding his learning-disabled but athletically-gifted friend through the college recruitment process.
Loopey to Beau
In this brutally honest memoir, renowned author James W. Bennett takes the reader through his forty-plus-year struggle with a relentless mental illness. Along the way, he provides fully developed profiles of the many dogs who shared the journey, bringing support and comfort. "A moving and well-told story, reminding us of the profound, life-saving role dogs can play in our lives."--Rochelle Hartman, ALA "Highly recommended"-- Keran Johnson, ALA. Critical acclaim for James W. Bennett's Books: The Squared Circle "The finest basketball novel ever written." I Can Hear the Mourning Dove "Few novels for young adults have dared to probe as deeply into mental illness as this one." Dakota Dream "A unique and stunning coming-of-age novel." Blue Star Rapture "Bennett scores again from beyond the arc in this introspective tale." Faith Wish "A disturbing and troubling account of the predatory religious fringe."
The Squared Circle
Sonny, a university freshman and star basketball player, finds that the pressures of college life, NCAA competition, and an unsettling relationship with his feminist cousin bring up painful memories that he must face before he can decide what is important in his life.
I Can Hear the Mourning Dove
Portraying emotional complexities that many teenage readers can relate to, Bennett presents this intense and moving novel. Grace attempts to cope with the recent death of her father and her own suicidal despair. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults.
Faith Wish
When Anne-Marie first meets Brother Jackson at tabernacle, she feels the change come over her instantly. She's tired of being labeled an underachiever, of bad grades that won't let her graduate from high school on time, of fooling around with creepy Richard Boe. With the preacher's guidance, she can throw off the old Anne-Marie and redeem herself.And life does change fast for Anne-Marie once she finds herself pregnant with Brother Jackson's child, then transported three hundred miles to Camp Shaddai for "spiritual redemption." Isolated from home, she empties herself of everything she's ever cherished--her family and freinds, her body, even her name. Sister Ruth-Anne is a whole new person now, ready to surrender.
How the Bible was Built
Filling this knowledge gap, How the Bible Was Built clearly tells the story of how the Bible came to be."--BOOK JACKET.
Dakota Dream
After being shuttled between foster homes and institutions for most of his life, fifteen-year-old Floyd Rayfield escapes from a mental institution to a Sioux reservation, desperately seeking a family and a home.
Old Hoss
Charles Radbourn won 59 games in 1884, enjoying a season that was the stuff of legend. In 11 years he racked up over 300 wins and 4500 innings. Yet his life off the field made for even more incredible reading, with tales of drunken brawling and womanizing. This is a fictionalized account.
When the Press Fails
A sobering look at the intimate relationship between political power and the news media, When the Press Fails argues the dependence of reporters on official sources disastrously thwarts coverage of dissenting voices from outside the Beltway. The result is both an indictment of official spin and an urgent call to action that questions why the mainstream press failed to challenge the Bush administration’s arguments for an invasion of Iraq or to illuminate administration policies underlying the Abu Ghraib controversy. Drawing on revealing interviews with Washington insiders and analysis of content from major news outlets, the authors illustrate the media’s unilateral surrender to White Hous...
