Book Review
Evie and the Bushfire
"Evie and the Bushfire" is a picture book about understanding and dealing with the Australian Black Summer fires. Becky Westbrook’s comforting picture book, "Evie and the Bushfire", addresses Australia’s devastating recent fires with...
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Don't Say a Word
Don’t Say a Word is a lively, honest, and wickedly humorous memoir about the minefields of parent-child relationships. Elizabeth Roper Marcus’s memoir Don’t Say a Word witnesses as her octogenarian parents struggle against their...
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How to Help Yourself to Be Who You Want to Be
"How to Help Yourself to Be Who You Want to Be" is an insightful self-help book that encourages taking small steps, and making courageous decisions, to lead to a happy, fulfilled life. Pam Grewall’s self-help guide "How to Help...
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A Mother's Choice
A Mother’s Choice is a memoir about a personal conflict between ingrained religious beliefs and maternal instincts that suggests that both can be relied upon. Ann Houston-Sago’s timely and moving Christian memoir A Mother’s Choice...
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The Lotus and the Bud
Christopher Kilham’s "The Lotus and the Bud" is an enlightening guide to the ancient practice of cannabis-infused yoga and its profound benefits for the body, mind, and spirit. Kilham reveals that, according to Hindu legend, the god...
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To Calais, In Ordinary Time
"To Calais, In Ordinary Time" is a brilliant novel set in medieval times. In it, a group of travelers races against the Black Death on a journey that leads each to an unexpected destination. In 1348, as the Black Death sweeps into...
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Bride of the Buddha
"Bride of the Buddha" is a luminous, imaginative story of love, courage, and devotion that brings the turbulent times around the birth of Buddhism to life as they were lived by the wife whom Siddhartha abandoned to follow his spiritual...
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The Sky Worshipers
"The Sky Worshipers" is an epic novel that pulls back the veil on the tumultuous life and times of Genghis Khan, the Mongol leader who was intent upon becoming the ruler of the world. In 1209 CE, at the celebration of her father’s...
