The first book nominated (by two different people) for November's book club is Mission at Nuremburg by Tim Townsend.  This history tells  of Lutheran pastor and Army chaplain Henry Gerecke, who was tasked wtih ministering to the Nazi war criminals after WWII.  Before ministering to the men who had planned and executed the holocaust and war that wracked the world, Gerecke visited Dachau.  He was horrified at what he saw.  Nevertheless, he believed Jesus had died for even those Nazis.  When Gerecke's assignment was ended, the prisoners wrote letters to Gerecke's wife begging he be allowed to continue his ministry to them.  The Bible speaks of "overcoming evil with good."  How would some of the men harboring the greatest evil history has recorded respond to the good of Christ's call to repent and find life in Him?

Mission at Nuremburg is available in hardback, paperback, and ebook.

The second book nominated (again by two different people) is the classic Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis.  An Oxford don, Lewis (1898-1963) came to faith late in life, but once he believed, he wrote one Christian classic after another.  The Screwtape Letters imagines a series of letters written from one demonic tempter to another.  How do the tempters try and break our faith, pulling us away from God?  That's the funny and imaginative story Lewis spins.

Screwtape Letters is available in any format books can be found.  KY libraries offer both the ebook and the audiobook. 

The third book nominated (one of last month's nominations, now renominated) is Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death, available thrugh KY libraries as an ebook.  One of our members says, "This book from the middle of the 1980s warned how television was degrading the way we thought about religion, politics, and education.  Postman's book hasn't only been vindicated in the past decades, it becomes even more relevant in the smart-phone age.  If warnings about having a television in the living room were true, how much more is it true when so many people carry a TV in our pockets?"

The fourth book nominated is Andy Andrews' The Noticer.  This book is available in every format, but not through our libraries.  The Noticer is part fiction, part allegory, part inspiration.  This book is about perspective, imagining a mysterious old man wearing jeans, a t-shirt, and leather sandals who shows up in people's lives when everything seems to be going wrong.  The old man offers a little perspective, noticing things that might just change some lives.