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December 15, 2009

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published December 15, 2009. You can also view all of the books we've reviewed that were published anytime in December 2009.

Book Review

Cloud

by Lisa Romeo

Even without having seen her PBS Nature documentaries chronicling the wild horses of Montana’s Arrowhead Mountains, readers will appreciate Ginger Kathrens’ heartfelt book, Cloud: Challenge of the Stallions. The oversized book is... Read More

Book Review

Swallow

Many of us know what it’s like to have a mouthful of angry words you’d like to let fly, but few of us bite back those words quite as harshly as Sophie Hegel, poor Arizonian turned (almost) sophisticated New York City lawyer.... Read More

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Feisengrad

by Lee Goodens

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.—Kurt Vonnegut Satire has been used by some of literary history’s finest authors to expose... Read More

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The Draconean

by Gary Klinga

Three companions lead the Resistance against the evil forces of Gorillian, a warlord who is amassing his huge armies to impose his dark rule over the once peaceful realms of Elënthiá. What ensues is a brotherhood’s urgent quest to... Read More

Book Review

The Black Ancestor

Leodine, a young girl growing up in the posh suburb of Elisabethville in 1950s occupied Africa, is shocked when she learns of her African lineage. Unable to reconcile her white identity with the existence of a black ancestor, she... Read More

Book Review

Alice in Verse

by Janelle Adsit

Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and J.T. Holden’s Alice in Verse both begin with an ending: “And now the tale is done.” Penned over a century ago, these words were never true and perhaps never will be: perhaps... Read More

Book Review

Prescription or Poison?

by Barry Silverstein

Even as the use of prescription drugs grows in the United States, the sale of herbal remedies, vitamins, and minerals is skyrocketing. Ironically, while some herbal remedies are thousands of years old, it is only now that modern science... Read More

Book Review

The Aquarians

There is a lot of buzz lately about December 21, 2012. This is the date the ancient Mayan calendar ends—and to some observers, it portends the possibility of the literal end of time and, with it, the destruction of the world. In "The... Read More

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