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Cultured Food for Life

by Sara Budzik

Dig into this fun, easy, and smart cookbook and guide to discover how you can grow your health by growing beneficial bacteria-enhanced food. A rainbow of inviting food photographs and a title that looks like a cartoon marquee advertise... Read More

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Eastward in Eden

by Gary Presley

A truly good, cozy mystery, if one doesn’t mind death by machete, crafted by a maestro of character, setting, and narrative. Owen Keane, failed seminarian and amateur detective, initially rejects a suggestion from a former teacher,... Read More

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Sailing to Alluvium

by J. G. Stinson

Pritchard has brought the Mississippi Delta to life in the character of Junior Ray with a masterful, fluid, and experienced hand. William Faulkner would be proud. John Pritchard’s third novel again features Junior Ray Loveblood, who... Read More

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Atchison Blue

by Thomas H. Brennan

Judith Valente’s story is reminiscent of the Japanese proverb that encourages us to “fall seven times, stand up eight.” What is it about the mystery of monasteries that draws men and women with a suitcase full of questions to their... Read More

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Brother and the Dancer

by Amy O'Loughlin

Norris’s writing is meticulous and incisive. His convincing passages convey philosophic truths about the consequence of choice and the quest for self-awareness. Keenan Norris’s debut novel is an engaging, eloquent, and insightful... Read More

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The Strength of Bone

by Michelle Anne Schingler

This is a book honest in its brutality, though brightened by hopeful sparks. The debut novel from seasoned physician Lucie Wilk is the stark tale of a doctor’s search for personal redemption abroad; one which examines, in tones both... Read More

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