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A Delightful Read with Educational Value

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All Creatures Great and Small is the first book in a series of reminiscences by James Herriot, a veterinarian in the Yorkshire Dales region of England in the 1930s and 40s (James Herriot is his pen-name; his real name was James “Alf” Wight. Throughout the book, pseudonyms are used for various persons and localities). He is 23 and fresh out of vet school when he lands a job with Siegfried Farnon, a practicing vet in a small town in rural Yorkshire. The chapters take us episode by episode as he not…

An Inspiring Piece of Literature that Raises Deep Philosophical Questions

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With God in Russia is the first of two books written by Rev. Walter J. Ciszek, a Jesuit whose cause for canonization is currently wending its way through the necessary channels in Rome. Written under obedience to his superiors, and first published in 1964, it details his experiences in Russia from 1939 to 1963. Lest this sound like a normal account of a Catholic priest doing mission work in another country, his stay in Russia consisted largely of imprisonment in the notorious Soviet Gulag, the system of prison and work…