Book Review
Unstoppable
by Aimee Jodoin
This businessman’s rags-to-riches tale, filled with adventure, is an entertaining read. Entrepreneur—and now author and actor—Tariku Bogale has lived a remarkable life and has enjoyed extraordinary success. His memoir, Unstoppable...
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Beltway Upheaval
by Aimee Jodoin
"Beltway Upheaval", while fiction, is politically insightful and even educational. Ken Gorman’s "Beltway Upheaval" is a story full of intrigue and insight that follows the unraveling of Washington, DC, in a fictional America that is...
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Return to Tiffany's
by Aimee Jodoin
The settings in these stories are charmingly imagined; they delight even as they entertain. With the four true short stories in Return to Tiffany’s, Jerome Mark Antil offers delightful and often emotionally compelling scenes from his...
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The Professor and the Suicide Girl
by Aimee Jodoin
The novel offers doses of thrills, intrigue, oddball characters, and a splash of romance for those who like their fiction weird. An ironic moment of serendipity brings two strange people together in "The Professor and the Suicide Girl",...
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The Belle of Two Arbors
by Aimee Jodoin
Locals can take pride in Dimond’s depictions of Michigan’s natural beauty. Alternating between Glen Arbor and Ann Arbor in the early to mid-1900s, Paul Dimond’s atmospheric fictional biography relates the life of a poet, Belle...
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The Moment of Truth
by Aimee Jodoin
Bullfighting’s place in the world of performative art, as well as its morality, are discussed intelligently. A young woman with a passion for bullfighting navigates the prejudiced world of the 1950s in this novel of growing up....
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The Absence of Evelyn
by Aimee Jodoin
Four individuals come of age across the globe in this inspiring novel of family, personal ambition, and finding one’s place in the world. This family drama with international appeal explores the parent-child relationship in step- and...
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Scrap City
by Aimee Jodoin
The safety of two worlds—both equally complex and populated by equally interesting characters—is at stake in this exciting story that will pique the curiosity of mechanically minded kids. Clunky robots, centuries-old mysteries, and...