Book Review
Our Place
In the sensitive, informative picture book "Our Place", blind twins embark on their first day of school. Written in print and Braille, Hyacinth Grey’s charming picture book "Our Place" follows the excitement of a first day at school....
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Shadows We Carry
"Shadows We Carry" is an insightful novel that probes the complex, painful question of what it means to be Jewish in a post-Holocaust world. In Meryl Ain’s ravishing historical novel "Shadows We Carry", twin sisters in a Jewish...
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The Queering
"The Queering" is a riveting novel in which an older lesbian makes a delayed choice to shout out the truth, no matter the consequences. A seventy-year-old closeted lesbian writer faces her past in Brooke Skipstone’s intense,...
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Love and Kisses, Charlie
"Love and Kisses, Charlie" is a moving scrapbook of a family’s World War II correspondence. Compiled by Joshua Gerstein, the letters, postcards, and telegrams collected in "Love and Kisses, Charlie" were a source of family comfort that...
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Praying through Pain
"Praying through Pain" is a religious self-help text that draws on narratives, biblical passages, and Ignatian spirituality to comfort suffering people with the promise of God’s love. Drawing on Ignatian spirituality, Barbara Lee’s...
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Seven Clues
"Seven Clues" is an engaging picture book that makes learning about the Catholic Mass fun. In Scott Hahn and Maura Roan McKeegan’s picture book "Seven Clues", two children go on a quest to achieve deeper understanding of their Catholic...
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Farmer Arnold's Barnyard
The stories collected in Farmer Arnold’s Barnyard: Book Four reveal both the fun and the frustrations of life on the farm. M. E. Hulme’s Farmer Arnold’s Barnyard: Book Four is a charming collection of vignettes about life on a...
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Our Dream in His Hands
"Our Dream in His Hands" is a warm memoir in picture book format that conveys parental love and faith to a child conceived via IVF. Tara Bushby’s warm, personal picture book "Our Dream in His Hands" uses biblical passages, loving...
