Mehnaz Afridi

Muslim Journeys: Let’s talk about it … again

Islam | Mehnaz Afridi, professor of religious studies at Manhattan College in New York, is one of the many librarians and humanities council directors preparing to promote the pro-Islam “Muslim Journeys bookshelf” from…

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Notable Books

Books |  Four Christian novels

TINKERING: Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark.
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A bit rusty

Movies |  Iron Man 3 will hold viewers’ attention, but it’s no Avengers

Oblivion
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Oblivion

Movies |  Life on post-apocalyptic Earth is a mixed bag for Jack Harper (Tom Cruise). By day, he’s a fighter pilot/mechanic designated with protecting a fleet of…

Duck Dynasty

Duck Dynasty

Television |  Deep in the duck blinds of Louisiana, there lives a clan of burly men and their devoted wives and children. Should you stumble upon them Wednesdays 10 p.m.

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Notable Books

Books |  Four books spotlighting new beginnings

Oz the Great and Powerful
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Oz the Great and Powerful

Movies |  It’s turn-of-the-20th-century Kansas, and Oz The Great and Powerful (James Franco), the Harry Houdini of middle America, is up to his usual…

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Notable Books

Books |  Four nonfiction books

Britton (left) and Panettiere
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Nashville

Television |  Now in its second season, ABC’s romantic comedy Nashville (Wednesdays, 10 p.m. Eastern) may not be burning up the charts, but it is turning heads. In many ways…

The Impossible
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The Impossible

Movies |  Chasing beach balls across the sand, sipping bubbly drinks by a sparkling pool—suddenly the power goes out in your hotel, and a distant rumble turns to a…

Surrender the Secret
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Surrender the Secret

Television |  Vanessa, a wife and mother of four, seems guarded and nervous as she sits in the driver’s seat, her eyes focused ahead as she merges into traffic. The…

Anna Karenina
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Anna Karenina

Movies |  Two lovers lie in blooming grass and sunlight, in the springtime of their adulterous affair. It is hours before nightfall, before the violent grasping for fig…

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