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Book Review

O My Darling

“ ’There is no “world,” said Charlotte, wiping her face with her wrist. ‘There’s just a bunch of separate people.’” Coming from a woman who has recently married, and therefore has tied herself, in the very least legally,... Read More

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How Like an Angel

“Look. It’s empty out there, & cold. / Cold enough to reconcile / Even a father, even a son.” This epigraph from the poet Larry Levis launches this novel, set in northern Michigan. With prose at once lyrical and plainspoken,... Read More

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Phillis Wheatley

by Linda Salisbury

One of the most astonishing stories from the American Revolution is that of Phillis Wheatley, a young slave in Boston, who became a famed poet, popular for her often political writings. Her poems were heralded by both a king and a future... Read More

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Emotional Comfort

by E. James Lieberman

What fusion does for cuisine, and crossover for musicians, the author does for self-help in this remarkable book. A Chicago psychoanalyst, Davis developed her theory of mind by combining ideas of Sigmund Freud and Ivan Pavlov. She builds... Read More

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Popular Witchcraft

by Carol Lynn Stewart

This book opens with an interview with Anton LaVey, notorious high priest of the Church of Satan. An ex-policeman, LaVey professed to be against both the use of drugs and bringing harm to the human body, yet was, in his own words, an... Read More

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Leaving Riverton

by Laurie Sullivan

Four young women meet the Wild West when they leave home in Louisiana and travel by wagon to Texas where their grandfather has purchased land. Stalwart Liz lively Megan and their cousins head towards Fort Worth in 1856 when the threat of... Read More

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Into the Okavango

by Christine Thomas

For Westerners, Africa remains a place of mystery, with shades of rich wildlife and open land the world once had in abundance. Burgoyne’s book of poems and photographs about her dream trip to Africa, originally postponed due to her... Read More

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