If you know me, you know I like to read and 2012 was a good reading year. Here are my top reads from last year.
1.
N.T.
Wright, When God Became King: The
Forgotten Story of the Gospels.
Wright reminds us that the Gospel is a much bigger story than just our
personal salvation. Jesus ushered in the
Kingdom of God and we join with Him in Kingdom work right now.
2.
Shusaku Endo, Silence. A novel about the martyrdom of the Japanese
Christians in the 16th century as Japan sought to remove
Christianity from their culture.
3.
James Ballanca and Ron Brandt, 21st Century
Skills: Rethinking How Students Learn. A collection of articles by the
leading reformers in education. This
book encapsulates many of the current strategies we are working toward at
Shannon Forest Christian School.
4.
Linda Sue Parker, When My Name was Keoko. The story of a young Korean girl growing up
under Japanese occupation and forced to have a Japanese name.
5.
Daniel Kahneman.
Thinking, fast and slow.
We understand so little of how our brain works. Kahneman, a Nobel laureate, presents a reader
friendly synopsis of the best research on cognition.
In no order of significance, here the rest of my 2012
reading list.
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Alcorn
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Randy
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The Grace and Truth Paradox
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Bascomb
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Neal
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The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal,
and Less than Four Minutes to Achieve It
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Blevins
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Win
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Stone Song: A Novel of the life of Crazy Horse
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Bridges
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Jerry
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The Discipline of Grace
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Child
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Lee
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Tripwire
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Child
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Lee
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Running Blind
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Child
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Lee
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Echo Burning
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Child
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Lee
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Without Fail
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Child
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Lee
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Persuader
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Child
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Lee
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Enemy
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Child
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Lee
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One Shot
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Child
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Lee
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The Affair
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Child
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Lee
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The Hard Way
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Child
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Lee
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Nothing to Lose
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Child
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Lee
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Gone Tomorrow
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Child
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Lee
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Worth Dying For
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Collins
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Suzanne
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The Hunger Games
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Collins
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Suzanne
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Girl on Fire
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Collins
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Suzanne
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Mockingjay
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Connelly
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Michael
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The Drop
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David
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Howarth
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We Die Alone
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Donovan
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James
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A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little
Bighorn
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Fin
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Adharanand
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Running With The Kenyans
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Flynn
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Vince
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Kill Shot
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French
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Thomas
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Zoo Story
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Friedman
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Edwin
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Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the
Quick Fix
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Gambetta
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Vern
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Athletic Development
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Gordon
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Noah
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The Physician
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Keller
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Timothy
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The Meaning of Marriage
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Kinnaman
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David
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You Lost Me:
Why Young Christians are Leaving Church and Rethinking Faith
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Kyle
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Chris
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American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most
Lethal Sniper in US Military History
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Lewis
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CS
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Mere Christianity
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Lyons
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Gabe
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The Next Christians
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Marzluff
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John
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Gifts of the Crow
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Mills
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Kyle
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The Immortalists
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Mistry
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Rohinton
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A Fine Balance
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Parker
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John
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Again to Carthage
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Pierce
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Bill
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Run Less, Run Faster
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Prescott
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Michael
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Dangerous Games
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Prescott
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Michael
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Mortal Fault
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Richardson
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Don
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Peace Child
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Robertson
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David
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Once They Moved like the Wind
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Rollins
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James
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Altar of Eden
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Stone
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Irving
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Men to Match My Mountains
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Tribelhorn
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Thomas
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My Professor Says the Bible is a Myth
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Tucker
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Ross
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The Runner's Body
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Vigil
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Joe
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Road to the Top
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