2.11.2026 | Pastor Tracy Troxel

Pastor Tracy Reads | The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel

The sub-title of the book is, A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous...

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1.30.2026 | Pastor Tracy Troxel

Pastor Tracy Reads |The Six Conversations: Pathways to Connecting in an Age of Isolation and Incivility by Heather Holleman

I have three fears in reviewing this book. My first fear is that you will...

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1.2.2026 | Pastor Tracy Troxel

Pastor Tracy Reads | King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: a Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation by Scott Anderson

It is hard to believe that from 1953 until the Islamic Revolution in 1979 the...

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12.18.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel

Pastor Tracy Reads | Notes to John by Joan Didion

I am not recommending this book to everyone, per se. This book would be most...

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11.17.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel

Pastor Tracy Reads | Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan by Del Quentin Wilber

I remember well the moment I heard that President Ronald Reagan had been shot in...

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11.11.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel

Pastor Tracy Reads | 1983: Reagan, Andropov, and a World on the Brink by Taylor Downing

This is a true story of how the world escaped nuclear devastation in 1983. I...

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7.7.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel

Pastor Tracy Reads | The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans

One significant question concerning the rise of Adolph Hitler is how did the Nazi’s rise...

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6.30.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel

Pastor Tracy Reads | Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden From the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll

This is not a read for the faint of heart. Why read a book like...

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5.21.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel

Pastor Tracy Reads | King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild & Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Let me encourage you to read both books together. King Leopold’s Ghost is a non-fiction...

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5.12.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel

Pastor Tracy Reads | Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans

Over the past decades, I have heard politicians compare their opponents to other despots, authoritarian...

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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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