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The Eyes of Wonder

by Mark G. McLaughlin

In "The Eyes of Wonder", poet Tina Emiliani offers much more than mere words: her pages are bursting with emotion, authenticity bleeds from the heart, soul, and memory of seventy years of life in her native Italy. The seventy-two poems... Read More

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The Tribe of Tsulib

by Mary Popham

The fiction shelves burgeon with end-of-the-world scenarios, with stories of what happens when humanity must begin anew. The Tribe of Tsulib: A Story of Survival, by Helen Quinn, is one such story. “We are all destined for... Read More

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They'll Pay

by Julia Ann Charpentier

Novels that capitalize on the human instinct for revenge crowd bookstore shelves, filling both classic and commercial fiction with crimes of passion and hatred. David S. Wolff develops such a theme in his first novel, They’ll Pay.... Read More

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Nuclear Silk Road

by Mark G. McLaughlin

It takes an odd sort of courage to state that the tragic Chernobyl accident of 1986 “turned out to be a blessing for Korea.” But that is what nuclear engineer and author Dr. Kim Byung-koo does in this book about his country’s rise... Read More

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Escape or Die

by Mark G. McLaughlin

Every immigrant has a story to tell, but few have had a journey to freedom as fraught with difficulty, danger, and heartbreak as that of Faruk B. Sabet. Born in Afghanistan, the author spent most of the first thirty years of his hard... Read More

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César

by Lee Gooden

Julian M. Coleman’s "César" is a supernatural tale in the same vein as Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles and Lives of the Mayfair Witches series. Both authors make forays into the vampire and witch (voodoo priestess) mythology and... Read More

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