Book Review
Boarding Passes to Faraway Places
Conversational in tone and thoroughly engaging, this travel narrative expresses joy at seeing just how many good, kind people there are in the world. In "Boarding Passes to Faraway Places", seasoned adventurer and travel writer Guy A....
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Crash Boom Splash
"Crash Boom Splash" is an engaging story of family love and friendship that shows what can happen when that love and caring are extended to the wider world. In Paul Sutherland’s beautifully illustrated children’s book, "Crash Boom...
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Wake Up and Roar
Papaji’s teachings shine a light on barriers to enlightenment and encourage leaping beyond them. "Wake Up and Roar" is Eli Jaxon-Bear’s compilation of the teachings of Sri H. W. L. Poonja instructions on shattering illusions,...
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The Real Life of the Parthenon
Patricia Vigderman’s "The Real Life of the Parthenon" uses Grecian sites as vehicles to explore the meaning that historical artifacts bring to their nations of origin and to the foreign lands that lay claim to them. Growing up in...
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Unmedicated
Taylor makes alternative approaches to personal well-being seem easy, interesting, and fun. A traumatic childhood with a father who went into rages and denigrated her; teen years self-medicating with drugs, alcohol, pills, and risky...
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Swell
A series of serendipitous events, a generous mentor, and lots of hard work made it possible for young Liz Clark to fulfill her childhood dream of sailing and surfing around the world. But sailing "Swell" out of San Diego and watching her...
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To Lose the Madness
Browning’s essay explores the confluence of natural and interior landscapes in a manner both beautiful and searing. Two years of medical procedures, bouts of pneumonia, surgery to mend an unstable fracture followed by a year of...
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Niagara Falls for Everybody
In her guidebook "Niagara Falls for Everybody", photographer Barbara A. Lynch-Johnt, a Niagara Falls native, brings an artist’s eye, heartfelt love, and contagious curiosity to her story of the iconic natural phenomenon. Folding time...
