5.5.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel

Pastor Tracy Reads | Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, the Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Iain MacGregor

Here is the backstory: After World War II, Berlin was a divided city that lay...

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4.25.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel

Pastor Tracy Reads | The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

For three hundred years, the Romanov Dynasty ruled the Russian Empire. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa traces the...

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3.25.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel

Pastor Tracy Reads | The Narnia Code: C.S. Lewis and the Secret of the Seven Heavens by Michael Ward

If you have never read C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia please stop reading this review...

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3.17.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel

Pastor Tracy Reads | Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution By Simon Schama

One of the reasons to read history is to help us place our present situation...

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3.3.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel

Pastor Tracy Reads | Parkland by Vincent Bugliosi

My father told me often that 1963 marked the serious decline of the United States...

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2.24.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel

Pastor Tracy Reads | The Wide, Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact, and the Fateful Final Voyage or Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides

Some may not want to read a book that chronicles more examples of imperial overreach,...

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2.12.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel

Pastor Tracy Reads | The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark

We are familiar with how World War II began. Germany invaded Poland in 1939. The...

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2.3.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel

Pastor Tracy Reads | Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought The Air War Against Nazi Germany by Donald L. Miller

My grandfathers served in the military during World War II. So, I grew up listening...

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1.27.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel

Pastor Tracy Reads | Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah by Charles King.

I know what you think: Pastor Tracy spends most of his free time watching sports....

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6.17.2024 | Laura Matthews

Why Read Crime and Punishment?

Stone Hill Arts Book Club: Crime and Punishment |  July 15 @ 6:30 p.m. Discussion led...

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10.5.2021 | Tracy Troxel

Tracy Reads: Facing the Mountain

Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II by Daniel...

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2.19.2021 | Tracy Troxel

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Reader Review of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (Broadway Books, 2011) Note:...

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