Book Review
The Girl Who Grew Up Saving Animals
In this book about animal rescues, basic guidelines for acquiring puppies or adult dogs come alongside accounts of the joys of giving rescued animals a second chance. "The Girl Who Grew Up Saving Animals" is Karen Burnett’s heartfelt...
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Mama Gaia
"Mama Gaia" is a sensitive, instructive early reader that covers spiritual concepts, among which love takes the prime position. Sahara Mirpuri’s lovely early reader "Mama Gaia" imparts profound spiritual principles in a gentle manner....
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Can You See If I'm a Bee?
Learning about pollinators is fun in the picture book Can You See If I’m a Bee? Melissa Garrick Edwards’s colorful and informative picture book Can You See If I’m a Bee? distinguishes between bees and other pollinating insects,...
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The Million Dollar Difference
Touting the services of trusted financial planners, "The Million Dollar Difference" is a retirement guide in which narrative examples lead the way. Anna Knight’s financial planning guide "The Million Dollar Difference" explains how to...
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Extreme North
About the history, fantasies, projections, and outright lies that have formed Western civilization’s concepts of what’s good, true, and beautiful, Bernd Brunner’s panoramic cultural text "Extreme North" shows that the vast, frozen...
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The Spanish Daughter
In Lorena Hughes’s panoramic novel "The Spanish Daughter", World War I left Spain devastated. Puri, a chocolatier, and her novelist husband leave their Seville home for lush, tropical Ecuador, hoping to claim the inheritance left to...
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Breaking the Maafa Chain
Based on the true story of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, Anni Domingo’s epic historical novel honors the unbreakable bond between two sisters who are captured by slavers in a vicious raid on their African village, sold, and sent to two...
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Steel
"Steel" is an intimate coming-of-age story set in a gritty northern Minnesota mining town in the 1920s. The town, made up of poor immigrant families—mainly Italians, Croatians, and Scandinavians—has as its sustenance the world’s...