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Where Magic Dwells

by Jill Allen

Andrea Archer’s novel "Where Magic Dwells" puts a refreshing twist on timeless fairy-tale conventions. Twenty-year-old Jason VanLord should be happy about his impending wedding to Princess Mia, but instead he feels trapped. After all,... Read More

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Reality and Dreams

by Heather Talty

In this novel aimed at young adults, twelve-year-old Dylan learns that his dreams may be more than just dreams, and that he himself is not who he thinks he is. Dylan’s dream world is strange and full of adventures. In one dream, he... Read More

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Just Like Us

by Mark McLaughlin

“It all seemed such a good idea at first,” explains Judas Iscariot of his betrayal of Christ. Judas’s tortured musings make up one of the twenty-one “snapshots” of life with Jesus found in David Gurney’s book, Just Like Us... Read More

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Full Circle

by Elizabeth Millard

From his childhood in a town known as the “Garden of England” to his days as a race car driver, Patrick Shortle shares his memories spanning a sixty-year period. "Full Circle" is an autobiography with a great deal of detail about... Read More

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The Expression Garden

by Camille-Yvette Welsch

Afghan poet M. S. Adam-Zad’s "The Expression Garden" embraces a series of poetic clichés—rainbows, love poems, and flowers. Certainly, poets have made these topics new in any number of ways, but that is not the case in Adam-Zad’s... Read More

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Un-rested Spirit

by Christopher Soden

Some people write poetry as an enjoyable pastime or hobby, others use it as a more creative form of journaling or a path to spiritual healing. Some find pleasure in engaging language as music and medium, some find the discipline is a... Read More

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The Red Meadows

by Donna Russo Morin

When under duress, the mind wanders, traveling with little logic and searching for something to anchor itself upon. Such is the journey related in the English translation of "The Red Meadows", originally published in 1945 in Denmark.... Read More

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Laughter Is the Best Medicine

by Lia Skalkos

“Architects cover their mistakes with vines; doctors with soil.” This is just one of the many pithy jokes that appear in the book Laughter Is the Best Medicine: Medical Epigrams of J.H. Goldfuss. Packaged in a canary-yellow cover... Read More

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