Book Review
Pages and Leaflets of North Oxfordshire
An admirable amateur genealogical survey, "Pages and Leaflets of North Oxfordshire" illustrates the historical record with personal details. Angela Fortnum’s "Pages and Leaflets of North Oxfordshire" is a personal family and religious...
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Pandora's Box
A teaching tale based on personal experience, Pandora’s Box is a sprawling novel that works to cover humanity’s major physical and spiritual developments. Alan Davis’s Pandora’s Box is a fantastical bildungsroman that elevates...
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A Woman's Guide to Cannabis
Aimed at demystifying cannabis for new users, Nikki Furrer’s A Woman’s Guide to Cannabis promises beauty, well-being, and better health through regular cannabis use and offers advice for those willing to self-experiment. A cannabis...
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How to Fracture a Fairy Tale
Jane Yolen’s "How to Fracture a Fairy Tale" collects eighteen new and previously published short stories that twist traditional fairy tales. Largely rooted in familiar European stories, the collection also plays with various elements...
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The Music of Trees
“When we look through the eye of the camera, hidden things sometimes appear that we might not otherwise notice,” writes photographer Ryan J. Bush. After twenty-one years as a fine art photographer, he positions the natural world as a...
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Ciao Italia
Mary Ann Esposito is the host of PBS’s "Ciao Italia". Her latest cookbook is the capstone of twenty-eight years of Italian travel and food broadcasting. An engaging cultural translator, Esposito emphasizes regional recipes and distinct...
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An Imperfect Rapture
In the Foursquare Pentecostal Church in the 1960s, Kelly J. Beard’s mother saw demons, though those demons ended up being nothing like Beard’s childhood self imagined: “Instead, they will appear in fires and floods, in her...
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The Museum of Modern Love
“This is not a story of potential. It is a story of convergence. Such things are rarer than you might think,” explains the mysterious, omniscient narrator of Heather Rose’s "The Museum of Modern Love". It’s spring 2010, and...