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Book Review

Strongholds of the Samurai

The samurai—the ancient warriors of Japan—were renowned for their battlefield skills of horsemanship archery and sword fighting. Yet they often waged war from or against fortified positions in anything from basic wooden stockades to... Read More

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The End of Fear

The plaintive cry, “Is this all there is?” may come, according to authors Richard and Bon-ney Schaub, when the uneasy realization that “we live on borrowed time” brings with it the aching reminder that something that was... Read More

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Self-Portrait with Crayon

The poems of "Self-Portrait with Crayon" are haunted. There are no ghosts or goblins lurking, but rather an absent mother and Edgar Degas. The two apparitions seem unconnected until Allison Benis White skillfully commingles them. The... Read More

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TOC

“The only subject of fiction is time,” author Stuart Dybek once noted; Steve Tomasula’s latest novel, "TOC", a “new-media” novel available only on DVD, takes this idea literally, and presents it in a cutting-edge medium... Read More

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Profound Vers-a-Tales

by Lisa Bower

This poetry collection by Kamil Ali examines the human experience: the moral complications and decisions we make every single day. Nearly every piece deals with questions and ideas about humanity and morality. The poems’ familiar... Read More

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In the Trees, Honeybees!

by Heather Shaw

Cris Arbo used a wild hive in her Virginia backyard as the model for these illustrations. In her imagination, says the biography, she climbed right inside the hive to offer a bees-eye view of the world. Arbo succeeded utterly, and... Read More

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We All Sleep

by Heather Shaw

Part of the We Both Read series, We All Sleep invites adults and children to read aloud together. The left-hand page is for adults, and highlighted in the simple text is the word the child will use on his right-hand page. Two phrases are... Read More

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Crocodiles Play!

by Heather Shaw

Theres everything to like about this book: the simple, expressive, and colorful illustrations; the great use of white space; the snappy. rhyming textand the fabulous tension that grows and grows as kids anticipate the terrible mistakes.... Read More

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