Book Review
Measures
The poems of "Measures" embrace lyrical tendencies as they move through the seasons of a troubled relationship. Both absence and presence haunt the pages of b. l. bruce’s poetry collection, "Measures". A one time lover and longed for...
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Chessboxer
Burdened by unresolved grief and hounded by her coach and her mother, Leah, otherwise known as Chessgirl, finds herself losing chess match after chess match. Suddenly, the very game that used to excite her brings only exhaustion. Eager...
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Who's Your Daddy
In an imagined letter to her father, Arisa White writes, “Do you remember, I bear the name you conjured, its attention turned to your shorelines, to the father missing in us both?” Though he never answers, White travels to Guyana,...
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Name Your Mountain
"Name Your Mountain" continues the story of a Choctaw teenager and his tight-knit basketball team; they help each other through tough games and tougher issues, including parents with alcohol problems and vengeful criminals. Full of...
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Sudden Widow
With advice to others who are going through similar losses, "Sudden Widow" is a rounded memoir about confronting an unimagined future. Bella Lynn Thompson’s humorous and direct memoir-cum-self-help-guide "Sudden Widow" follows the...
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The Nutritionist's Kitchen
While living in a remote village in Peru, Carly Knowles observed that many villagers had gone or were going blind due to a lack of vitamin A in their very limited diets. This led to a realization that changed her life: food is medicine....
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Brave Anna and the Star Compass
Jennifer Garrett’s adventure novel includes dragons, swords, and a grand quest; as Anna’s fate threads across two worlds, it includes an unexpected, moving twist. Just before her mother fights off shadow men and urges Anna into the...
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Last Dance
Hanna Schroy’s graphic novel begins as principal dancer Miriam spins in the arms of her handsome partner, living the life she has dreamed of since her girlhood. The dream turns into a potentially career ending injury when she falls and...