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I have three books to review this week. Each is quite different from the other. Two are non-fiction, and one is fiction. I hope many of you will choose one or more and enjoy them at least as much as I did.

Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality, by Dean Radin, is a book that I hope every single person will choose to read. Whether you are a

Books 12 Aug 2009
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Every so often I read a book that I consider to be so remarkable and wonderful that it makes me “high” and which I truly believe everyone would enjoy and benefit from reading. I recently had the pleasure of reading such a book that I would recommend to young and old, male and female, rich and poor, healthy and infirm. The Brain that changes Itself: Stories of Personal

Books 15 Jul 2009
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There is only one word to describe spring and early summer here in Iowa this year, “Wet”. Wet weather is not good for the golf game or for picnics, but it does provide a good excuse to spend more time reading. Thanks to Tony I read two excellent novels which I would like to highly recommend to readers of all tastes.

The first, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,

Books 15 Jul 2009
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There is only one word to describe spring and early summer here in Iowa this year, “Wet”. Wet weather is not good for the golf game or for picnics, but it does provide a good excuse to spend more time reading. Thanks to Tony I read two excellent novels which I would like to highly recommend to readers of all tastes.

The first, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,

Books 11 Jun 2009
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In our May newsletter I listed a number of books that had an important influence on me as I matured. I noted that There Is A River, by Thomas Sugrue, the first authorized biography of Edgar Cayce, was a book that “completely altered my life”. I doubt if I will ever know whether it was fate, chance, or part of some universal plan that exposed me to people, books, and