The Northern Ireland band Rend Collective offers an antidote to all the negative news in the world with its sixth studio album, Good ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½.
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When Liza Jessie Peterson began teaching full days at Island Academy, the high school for inmates on Rikers Island, she encountered teenage boys who were ...
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Have you ever tried something new and failed? This is the situation Humpty Dumpty faces in After the Fall.
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How did urban sprawl get its start? What do walkable neighborhoods and mixed-use zoning have to do with loving our neighbor?
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Daniel Day-Lewis delivers an astonishing performance in this twisting, twisted cinematic creation.
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Reading Andy Crouch’s The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place could well be the best gift you ever give your family.
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All Set: En la mesa de Dios/At God’s Table is a bilingual picture book from the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship that explains communion;
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As the music industry amps up anticipation for the Grammy awards on Sunday night (CBS/City), you can check out some of our music reviews from the last year to see what Banner reviewers thought.
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A. A. Milne returned from the First World War traumatized by what he’d seen. He wanted to help people see the truth of war so that it would never happen again.
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“For me, for all of us, water is a matter of life.â€
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Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the plethora of personality types and their corresponding measurements?
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It’s 1971 and all is not well at The Washington Post. Publisher Katherine Graham (Meryl Streep) wonders if she should allow the family-owned paper to go public.
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When a massive snowstorm shuts down Brooklyn for several days, the lives of three people intersect in life-altering ways.
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Author Maja Lunde weaves together the stories of three families who live in different places and historical periods, their narratives linked by an unlikely source: bees.
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Soul of a Woman, the final album from Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, reflects on the joys, pains, challenges, and triumphs of her life before she passed away from cancer...
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Christopher Meehan’s book Growing Pains: How Racial Struggles Changed a Church and School documents the impact of a group of African-American parents from Lawndale CRC...
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As the Nazis continued to conquer Europe in 1940, it became obvious that England was the next target.
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We asked our reviewers to offer the top five titles they enjoyed most in 2017 in a number of categories.
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Ninety years after it was first published, a computer-animated, feature-length film has been released based on the classic children’s book The Story of Ferdinand.
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We asked Phil Christman, who teaches English at the University of Michigan and attends St. Clare's Episcopal Church in Ann Arbor, Mich., to offer the top five essays he enjoyed most in 2017.
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We asked our reviewers to offer the top five titles they enjoyed most in 2017 in a number of categories.
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In the summer of 1959, 12-year-old Cammie, nicknamed Cannonball, lives above the Hancock County Prison with her father, the warden.
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We asked our reviewers to offer the top five titles they enjoyed most in 2017 in a number of categories.
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We asked our reviewers to offer the top five titles they enjoyed most in 2017 in a number of categories.