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October 2006

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published October 2006.

Book Review

The Girl from Over There

Yvette O’Leary, the self-assured heroine of "The Girl from Over There" is driven by a focus and desire for just one thing: freedom. For Yvette, freedom in the early 1960s means financial independence, and fortunately for her, she’s... Read More

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In Bed with God and the Devil

The King James Holy Bible Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s Faust Dante’s Divine Comedy John Milton’s Paradise Lost Mark Twains’ Letters of The Earth and Stephen Vincent Benet’s The Devil and Daniel Webster are a small sample of the... Read More

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Nonetheless, God Retrieves Us

“It felt good to have my doggy companion and good to enjoy the liberty of mutual trust and our unspoken covenant to stay together. All went well, this soul warming moment, until an aroma struck Jocko’s nostrils…activating urges,... Read More

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Old Age is a Terminal Illness

For over thirty-five years Alma Bond thrived in her successful practice as a psychoanalyst in New York. When a speeding yellow cab hit her one afternoon in Central Park tossing her in the air like a rag doll and sending her into a coma... Read More

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The Science Was Fun

The “fun” in the science that 89-year-old retired physicist George Baldwin refers to in the title of his selectively culled memoir comes alive in most parts of his book. But while he admits that he “enjoyed a challenging satisfying... Read More

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Held in Heaven's Hand

“…joy and sorrow are inseparable… together they come and when one sits alone with you … remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.” —Kahlil Gibran The Prophet Hannah Grace aims to provide solace for children grieving... Read More

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Founding Father

One must go to Jesus and the eleven to find a group of men who have more impacted the world for good. Alexander Hamilton, with the help of James Madison and John Jay, penned a series of persuasive essays supporting ratification of the... Read More

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Come Out of Her, My People

That’s great it starts with an earthquake / birds and snakes an aeroplane / and Lenny Bruce is not afraid. —REM - It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) The mark of The Beast isn’t so abstract or farfetched to... Read More

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