What to Read

If You Want Something Done: Leadership Lessons from Bold Women
Nikki Haley
St. Martin’s Press, 256 pages

Nikki Haley is presently a long shot to win the GOP nomination for U.S. president, but if she should happen to be elected to the nation’s highest office in 2024 she would become not only the first woman president, but also the first president of Indian descent. How she triumphed over these demographic obstacles and rode her conservative ideals to the governorship of South Carolina and to her appointment as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations required the leadership characteristics of several powerful women who inspired her — including the likes of Margaret Thatcher and Golda Meir, as well as less prominent leaders such as Claudette Colvin — that she describes in this captivating book.
 
America’s Mary: The Story of Our Lady of Good Help
Marge Steinhage Fenelon
Our Sunday Visitor, 190 pages

A small Marian shrine in Wisconsin is rapidly growing in popularity, and for good reason: it marks the site of the only approved apparition of the Virgin Mary in the United States. Our Lady appeared there to young Adele Brise three times in 1859, calling herself the Queen of Heaven and encouraging Adele in her teaching apostolate and her life of piety. Here’s the story of the apparitions and the miraculous healings pilgrims have experienced at Our Lady of Good Help Shrine in the town of Champion, WI. Get to know this remarkable story and consider a pilgrimage to this holy site.

Bible Study for Those Who Don’t Read the Bible, Part 2
Myra Kahn Adams
Xulon Press, 292 pages

Myra Kahn Adams, a member of Legatus’ Fort Lauderdale Chapter, is back with a second volume of her unique Bible study series. Known more for her insightful political op-eds, Adams’ book is a collection of her weekly online Bible column essays that approach Scripture from her own background: as one born into a nominally Jewish family whose faith journey led her to the Catholic Church. (She also is executive director of signfromgod.org, which leads an initiative to establish a permanent Shroud of Turin exhibit in Washington, D.C.) Even those who read the Bible regularly will appreciate her simple analysis of scriptural passages and the food for thought and meditation she provides.