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Words

by Michelle Anne Schingler

"Words" is an empathetic picture book that celebrates language’s ability to illuminate people’s lives. Beckoning to nascent logophiles with empathy and humor, Katherine Davis-Gibbon’s picture book "Words" is about trusting language... Read More

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The Lotus Eater

by Michele Sharpe

Original wordplay and quirky rhymes vivify the illuminating poetry collection The Lotus Eaters. Peter Dabbene’s musical poetry collection The Lotus Eaters clothes its sly cultural allusions in traditional literary techniques.... Read More

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Shadows on the Moon

by Katelynn Watkins

In the musing novel "Shadows on the Moon", a veteran searches for his place in the world after surviving the personal and collective trauma of war. Peter Freeman Vantu’s spiritual novel "Shadows on the Moon" seeks to understand the... Read More

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The Art of Greed

by Leah Block

A complicated opportunist talks through the circumstances of his fraudulent financial activities in the thrilling novel "The Art of Greed". In Hans Peter Brunner’s suspenseful novel "The Art of Greed", a young, hubristic businessman... Read More

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Saving Vincent

by Meg Nola

A climate of progressive change backdrops a determined widow’s efforts in the male-dominated art world in the lovely historical novel "Saving Vincent". In Joan Fernandez’s engrossing historical novel "Saving Vincent", Vincent van... Read More

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After

by Katherine Woods

Dark but not hopeless, "After" is a postapocalyptic thriller about highs and lows of the human will to hope and survive. Two couples try to survive when nuclear war breaks out in Paul Meloche’s novel "After", about the struggle to... Read More

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