Book Review
Blue Diamond Journey
“Cancer is merely a wake-up call,” says Esther Supernault. “Change…or die and learn on the Other Side what you could have changed here. The choice, as always, is yours…I believe we will one day look back in horror for treating...
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Ancient Wisdom
Elizabeth “Rainbow Dancer,” the founder of Ancient Wisdom, LLC, is a shaman and spiritual healer in the Inca tradition of the Q’ero Indians of the Peruvian Andes. Her wide-ranging interests led her to study veterinary medicine,...
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Old, Gay & Fabulous
In Old, Gay & Fabulous, first-time author Ken Sofronski begins by describing his early life growing up in a working-class, single-parent Philadelphia home with a closeted lesbian mother, employing a combination of wry humor,...
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Working South: Paintings and Sketches by Mary Whyte
For ten years, watercolorist Mary Whyte painted the Gullah people, descendants of coastal Carolina slaves and members of a church community near her adopted home on Seabrook Island near Charleston, South Carolina. The result of that work...
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Past Twilight
In "Past Twilight", author Richard C. Hemingway offers a fast-paced tale of obsession, greed, and murder in a small town on the Jersey shore. In it, Jack Turner, a washed-up, drunken 59-year-old ex-hospital security officer who’s just...
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The Secret of Your Life Script
“Memes,” or “units of cultural ideas,” are passed on to children by their parents, and form the basis of one’s “family script,” according to author Ken Renshaw. As a child grows and ventures out into the larger world,...
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Strategic Volunteering
While it is obvious that volunteering with nonprofit organizations meets a real need in the world, it may be less obvious why it is so good for the volunteer’s own life and career path. Mark McCurdy’s "Strategic Volunteering", a...
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Peas and Carrots
"Peas and Carrots" uses clever rhymes and colorful drawings to make learning good manners and healthful mealtime habits fun. Designed to be read to children from three to five years of age, the book introduces socially and culturally...
