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You Must DANCE

“First it was a mother pushing a baby carriage” the author writes. “then it was the eastern European speed walker now it was the postman…” Passing years and physical inactivity do cruel things to a former athlete like put him... Read More

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Forgotten Promises

Love lost love regained; a psychotic spurned female cute kids and slapstick matchmakers all come together in Denise Skelton’s third multi-ethnic romance "Forgotten Promises". The characters’ only ethnic or racial influences stop at... Read More

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A Kaleidoscope for June

“I got this diary for my birthday today and I’m so happy because now I can write and tell you things I can’t tell anyone else.” Wilhelmina (so named in honor of the Dutch Queen) Velthuizen is a young girl who while still a baby... Read More

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The Love Scrolls

By day Edward Theodore Hayes of New Jersey works as a retail manager in a national department store. Otherwise he toils diligently as a poet having authored four books in the Love Scroll series. This slim volume The Unsearchable Title is... Read More

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The Life I Was Born to Live

In October 2006 Norwegian author Bj&248;rn Dimmen began writing about his life. He wanted his three children Alexander Andrea and Vanessa to know “who their father really is” and his friends and family to “understand why [he]... Read More

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Playing With Fire

"Playing With Fire" is an informal comedic look at the very serious condition of sex addiction definitely too explicit for the youngsters. This chronicle of successive passions owes a debt to the venerable Penthouse letters—those... Read More

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Fraudulent Fertilisation

"Fraudulent Fertilisation" is a strikingly realistic paternity struggle set in Mar del Plata Argentina during the 1980s. It comments critically on laws which cause innocent women to lack choices and on the broad vulnerability to... Read More

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In the Fringe

"In the Fringe" by Eleanor Summers purports to be a novel. But with its mix of fictionalization exposition and reliance on the twelve-step program of Alcoholics Anonymous for its structural backbone the book resonates more as a work of... Read More

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