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Book Review
by Karen Rigby
In the folksy mystery novel "The Wandering Quilt", a quilt that’s touched by the supernatural inspires a woman’s awakening. An exquisite, handmade southern quilt rattles a woman and her family in Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander and Renée...
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Edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua, the essays of "Not Too Late" work to transform climate change-based concerns into activism. Noting that climate change is wreaking havoc via catastrophes around the globe, and that...
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A woman’s attempt to avenge her sister leads to a fantastical adventure in Jeremy C. Shipp’s novel "The Merry Dredgers". Seraphina is a birthday party princess, a pet feeder, and the only person left who cares about her spirited,...
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In his pensive memoir, Matthew Vollmer investigates the blinking lights that appeared in the woods soon after his mother’s death. In 2019, Vollmer’s mother died of complications of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Months later, his...
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Maureen Dunphy’s memoir-in-essays, "Divining", conveys a lifelong love of trees and the feelings of sanctuary that they provide. Throughout Dunphy’s lifetime, trees have inspired her, comforted her, and connected her to the natural...
Book Review
by Aleena Ortiz
Sheri Brenden’s "Break Point" covers the politics and legal moves involved in the creation of women’s athletics programs. Peggy Brenden and Toni St. Pierre were raised in an era when people believed that girls neither had the...
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In Zein El-Amine’s short story collection "Is This How You Eat a Watermelon?", the Lebanese civil war leads to disrupted lives and ghost sightings. Herein, war is more complicated than mere acts of violence. Enemy drones hover above...
Book Review
by Karen Rigby
A historic Michigan wildfire inspires Linda Gruenberg’s sensitive novel Blazes & Brimstone, in which a boy teams up with his family during a crisis. In October of 1871, a forest fire encroaches upon eleven-year-old Lyle’s...