Stinque Book Club

BYO teabags.Title: The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed the World

Author: W. Cleon Skousen

Rank: 10

Blurb: “After the American election of 1980, Skousen was appointed to the Council for National Policy, a think tank of influential politicians, scholars and academics that lent support and advice to President Ronald Reagan’s administration. Among the many solutions Skousen proposed included suggested programs to convert the Social Security system to private retirement accounts and a plan to completely wipe out the national debt.”

Review: “Every conscious citizen needs to understand these principles so that we do not loose the freedoms and prosperity we now enjoy.”

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Red Yawn.Title: Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse

Author: James Wesley Rawles

Rank: 49

Blurb: “Part novel, part survivalist-handbook, Patriots tells of a small group of friends facing every American’s worst nightmare — the total collapse of society. The stock market plummets and hyperinflation cripples commerce and then a seemingly isolated financial crisis passes the tipping point when an unprepared government fails to act. Practically overnight, the fragile institutions of democracy fall apart and every American is forced to survive on their own.”

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Next week: Zombies!Title: Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don’t Know About Them)

Author: Bart D. Ehrman

Rank: 53

Blurb: “Picking up where Bible expert Bart Ehrman’s New York Times bestseller Misquoting Jesus left off, Jesus, Interrupted addresses the larger issue of what the New Testament actually teaches — and it’s not what most people think.”

Review: “It’s like reading the CNN version of the news — you get only one side.”

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We can't wait for the Bollywood version.Title: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Authors: Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith

Rank: 23

Blurb:Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features the original text of Jane Austen’s beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action. As our story opens a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace but she’s soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy.”

Excerpt: “[Mr. Darcy] cut the two zombies with savage yet dignified movements. He then made quick work of beheading the slaughtered staff, upon which Mr. Bingley politely vomited into his hands.”

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Among the numerous advantages promised by a well constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction.Title: The Federalist Papers

Authors: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay

Rank: 82

Blurb: “Three of the founding fathers brilliantly defend their revolutionary charter: the Constitution of the United States, a milestone in political science and a classic of American history.”

Review: “We need to wake up before we destroy the greatest country known to man. Don’t let liberal greed for power win!”

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What happened to the question mark?Title: Chariots of the Gods

Author: Erich von Daniken

Rank: 61

Blurb: “Includes remarkable photos that document mankind’s first contact with aliens at the dawn of civilization.”

Review: “By turning the gods into mysterious and high-tech aliens, Däniken makes it possible for modern man to re-enchant the world, while still being firmly rooted in the space age.”

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Hypocrisy is so adorable.Title: Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

Author: Mark R. Levin

Rank: 50

Blurb: “In the face of the modern liberal assault on Constitution-based values, an attack that has steadily snowballed since President Roosevelt’s New Deal of the 1930s and resulted in a federal government that is a massive, unaccountable conglomerate, the time for re-enforcing the intellectual and practical case for conservatism is now.”

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