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Rational Polemics

by Kristine Morris

Devens challenges readers to avoid the typical knee-jerk reactions that characterize so much of human thought and behavior. Richard Todd Devens, in "Rational Polemics", tackles what he finds irksome and senseless in the current cultural... Read More

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The Wishbone Express

by Jason Henninger

Take two parts humor, one part physics, add a dash of faster-than-light travel, and shake well. The galaxy envisioned in "The Wishbone Express" is full of nonhuman life, peril, laughs, and surprisingly plausible science. With a fast pace... Read More

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The Hero Experience

by Gary Presley

Ample humor and spot-on character descriptions create a fun read about the summer four high schoolers decide to become superheroes. It’s summer, in 1967, and Brad Jones ends his junior year of high school with nothing to do until... Read More

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Other People's Phobias

by Karen Rigby

These well-executed, surprising stories succeed best when fears gradually intensify, and when the cold, unsparing nature of the characters’ conditions bloom with frightful implications. Flaminia Ocampo returns with her latest... Read More

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Happy Endings

by Beth VanHouten

Did you hear the one about the joke book that was actually funny? "Happy Endings" is a book of jokes collected over the years by Gerald Downey. Written in short story form, this enjoyable paperback will leave readers snickering and... Read More

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The Mourning After

by John Senger

Full, realistic characters advance the themes of death and love in this meaningful story. In the novel "The Mourning After", Edward Fahey thoroughly and artfully explores his Irish family’s approach to death, as expressed in the... Read More

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