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Don't Sit on the Baby

by Heather Seggel

If every job had a guidebook as easy to read yet informative as Don’t Sit on the Baby, we would all be choosing our careers more wisely. Author Halley Bondy helps readers decide whether child care is the right path for them, then... Read More

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Knock and I Will Dine with You

by Diane Taylor

"Knock and I Will Dine with You" is long on religious fervor and short on literary merit. No doubt Clara E. Garcia means well when she states that, “the words just come, as if it’s not even me saying it but that some force of good is... Read More

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The Ephemeris

by Emily Adams

"The Ephemeris" by William Jay is a unique and artistic work with aspects modeled on the styles of the Renaissance and the classical Greek era. With a plot line that seems to be modeled on Homer’s Odyssey, it opens as a merchant... Read More

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The Parallax from Hell

by Mark McLaughlin

“You should not judge harshly the poor, unfortunate soul I chose to pen this manuscript,” cautions Satan, the supposed author-behind-the-author of The Parallax From Hell. “Thomas Aquinas he is not,” adds the Lord of the... Read More

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The Rainforest

by Barry Silverstein

Every once in a while, a business book with a big idea that defines a way of thinking comes along. Such books as Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore and Jim Collins’s Good to Great come to mind. "The Rainforest" feels like one of... Read More

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Blue Earth

by Elizabeth Breau

Dreamlike retrospection begins a slow motion version of the tornado with which this novel opens, spiraling down through seemingly bottomless layers of memory to alter psychological terrain as relentlessly as wind and rain reshape the... Read More

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Detox Your World

by Julie Eakin

Okay, so the book’s cover may look like a scene out of a Pink Panther movie from the ‘70s—a curvy blonde offering us a cocktail (which happens to be green)—but there’s nothing funny about the content of "Detox Your World". In... Read More

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