Oliver Twist (2005) Directed by Roman Polanski, this gritty feature film stars Ben Kingsley as Fagin and Barney Clark as Oliver. It is available for online purchase at retailers like Barnes & Noble ($11.36) and Walmart (6.49) The screen [...]
You Should Be Grateful: Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption by Angela Tucker. Beacon Press, Boston, Massachusetts. 2022. Paperback, 194 pages $17.95. Angela Tucker is the founder of the Adoptee Mentoring Society and the CEO of the Adopted [...]
Keep Faith Alive: Grandparents and a Godly Legacy by Dudley Chancey. Abilene Christian University Press, 2025. Paperback, Barnes and Noble $17.99, Amazon $15.78. 238 pages. Dudley Chancey leads the Intergenerational Faith Center at Oklahoma Christian University. He served as [...]
ROUGH SLEEPERS: Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People, by Tracy Kidder. Random House, New York. 2023. Hardback, 298 pages. $30.00. Tracy Kidder has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the Robert [...]
The Lost and the Found: A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family, and Second Chances by Kevin Fagan. One Signal Publishers, 2025, 251 pages. $28.99 at Barnes and Noble. Kevin Fagan is a longtime award-winning reporter, having spent over [...]
Garbage Bag Girl, by Celeste L. Edmunds and Richard Paul Evans, Ascendt Publishing 2023, 135 pages. Paperback, $14.95 At age 7, Celeste Edmunds entered the state’s foster care system. She spent the next nine years moving from family to [...]
A Voice Out of Poverty: the Power to Achieve Through Adversity by Jillian Haslam. Top Reads Publishing, LLC, Vista, California. 2022. 223 pages, paperback. $25.53 from Amazon, $8.99 from Barnes and Noble. This is one of the most moving [...]
A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust, by Albert Marrin. Alfred A. Knopf, publisher. New York. 388 pages. Hardback, $19.99 Janusz Korczak’s dedication to orphaned children during World War II serves as a reminder [...]
One Life by Barbara Winton. Pegasus Books, Ltd. 2024. 282 pages Hardback $14.95 Barbara Winton is the daughter of Nicholas and Grete Winton. She is devoted to carrying on her father’s legacy. She does this with the writing of [...]
Boys In the Boat by Daniel James Brown. Viking publishers. Hardback 221 pages. $20.99. Daniel James Brown is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Boys in the Boat. He has two previous nonfiction books, The Indifferent [...]