Book Review
Sometimes I Sing
Via expansive ruminations and inventive metaphors, this memoir explores the slow, somewhat painful evolution toward the self. Following in the tradition of writers who encounter their truest selves via new settings, "Sometimes I Sing" by...
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Bygones
Fans of contemporary romance mixed with a mystery subplot will be happily sated. "Bygones", by Lisa K. Nielsen, entices with sympathetic characters and a series of mysterious break-ins. Suspense and romance are braided together through...
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Soul of a Crow
Williams populates her historical fiction with people nearly broken by their experiences. Set in the aftermath of the American Civil War, "Soul of a Crow", the second book in the award winning Dove series, traces the harrowing journey of...
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Martin John
This dark novel enters the realm of the forbidden and feared with humor and empathy. Anakana Schofield takes readers into the strange world of Martin John, flasher, public masturbator, and mentally ill security guard. Like Francine...
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The Backyard Homestead Book of Kitchen Know-How
Straightforward and matter-of-fact, Chesman communicates the joy and satisfaction to be experienced in a homestead kitchen. “There is always something going on in the homestead kitchen,” claims Andrea Chesman. From fermented kimchee...
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The Boy Meets Girl Massacre
This grisly and bizarre murder mystery is the perfect YA stepping stone to Stephen King. A washed-up detective contacts a movie producer for a meeting. He asks for money and presents the producer not with a script, but with the diary of...
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Playing Custer
With historical insight and the voices of numerous imagined personalities, Little Bighorn’s cultural legacy comes to light. With multiple players, diverse voices, and characters living over a century apart, Gerald Duff brings life to...
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Meant to Be
Two tough, career-driven people fall in love in this novel of nerve-wracking suspense. Sometimes, in romance, twenty-four hours is enough. In that time, love sparks bright and strong enough to sustain the rest of a novel that immediately...