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These eight biographies have little in common, but each is the tale of a life worth examining.
How do you measure love? By its intensity, its capacity to change the world? This fall’s indie romances ask readers to see differently, appreciate the unfamiliar, and fall in love with what’s new and dazzling.
This collection of books touches on all those possibilities and beyond, from a look at the esoteric roots of 1960s music to a call for more diversity in Western Buddhism.
It’s time we took care of our planet and encouraged others to do the same. For information on how to do that, read one of the six books reviewed in our September/October 2017 issue.
To a book lover, gift books may be a term too specifically applied to one subset of literature; all books are gifts. These eight books reviewed in our September/October 2017 issue are especially gifty.
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by Joe Taylor
Alan Watts? You know it’s an important name in spiritual circles but you can’t quite place him. Let us fill in some blanks. Foremost, he may be the guy most responsible for turning the West on to Zen Buddhism and the gamut of Eastern... Read More
Book Review
Homero Aridjis’s "News of the Earth", translated and edited by Betty Ferber, showcases the range of talent of the Mexican poet and environmental activist. Billed as “a biography of Aridjis’s relationship with the natural world,”... Read More
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Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei earned international renown for being the first woman to climb Mount Everest and to complete the Seven Summits. People were always surprised when they met her; at five feet tall and weighing just over a... Read More
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by Matt Sutherland
The fifth annual China Children’s Book Fair was recently held in dynamic, tidy, and architecturally stunning Shanghai. With several of the world’s tallest buildings, an amazing riverfront, and futuristic ambiance, it is truly a... Read More
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by Constance Augusta Zaber
What’s Foreword Face Off? Glad you asked. Here at Foreword, we’ve long craved to know more about the authors of some of our favorite indie books but the pace of magazine publishing always kept us moving on to the next book, next... Read More
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by Letitia Montgomery-Rogers
A fascinating blend of bona fide history alongside historical fiction, these books peel back the past and insist on... Read More
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by Mya Alexice
We find ourselves at a time of great political uncertainty, when ideologies once thought distant are again clashing for power. At first glance, so much progress blossomed in the last decade. America saw its first black president.... Read More
Book Review
"Wizard for Hire"’s irresistible pages celebrate the irrepressible magic of being authentic and unique. Incidental misfits and intrepid survivors gather for a singularly important quest in Obert Skye’s "Wizard for Hire", a... Read More
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