In each issue of the Ann-a-Gram, I briefly review a book I've been reading. Here's a look back, giving complete bibliographic details. For the full text of each "Shelf Life," see the Ann-a-Gram Archive. — Ann

2006

April

Laura A. Jana and Jennifer Shu, Heading Home with Your Newborn: From Birth to Reality (American Academy of Pediatrics, 2005).

January

Adele Ahberg Calhoun, Spiritual Disciplines Handbook (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2005).

2005

November

Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish, How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk (1980; reprint, New York: Avon, 1999).

September

Madeleine L'Engle, Meet the Austins (New York: Vanguard, 1960).

July

Alexander McCall Smith, In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (Edinburgh: Polygon, 2004).

April

Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005).

2004

November

Parker J. Palmer, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000).

September

David G. Benner, The Gift of Being Yourself: The Sacred Call to Self-Discovery, foreword by M. Basil Pennington (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2004).

June

Ken Bain, What the Best College Teachers Do (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004).

February

David G. Benner, Surrender to Love: Discovering the Heart of Christian Spirituality (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2003).

2003

November

Manuel Ortiz, The Hispanic Challenge: Opportunies Confronting the Church (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1993).

September

Keith and Gladys Hunt, For Christ and the University: The Story of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship of the U.S.A., 1940-1990, with a foreword by John R. W. Stott (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1991).

July

Margaret Guenther, Holy Listening: The Art of Spiritual Direction (Cambridge, Mass.: Cowley Publications, 1992).

May

Debra Rienstra, Great with Child: Reflections on Faith, Fullness, and Becoming a Mother (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 2002).

February

David G. Benner, Sacred Companions: The Gift of Spiritual Friendship & Direction, with a foreword by Larry Crabb (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2002).

2002

December

Claire S. Chow, Leaving Deep Water: The Lives of Asian American Women at the Crossroads of Two Cultures (New York: Penguin Putnam, Dutton, 1998).

September

Phyllis Tickle (ed.), The Divine Hours, 3 vols. (New York: Doubleday, 2000).

June

None (can you believe it?!)

April

M. Robert Mulholland Jr., Invitation to a Journey: A Road Map for Spiritual Formation (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1993).

2001

December

Tim Ladwig (illus.), Psalm Twenty-Three (New York: African American Family Press, 1993; reprint, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 1997).

October

Gabriele Lusser Rico, Pain and Possibility: Writing Your Way through Personal Crisis (Los Angeles: J.P. Tarcher; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991).

September

Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith, Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).