Book Review
The Complete Diabetes Lifestyle
Life as a diabetic holds unique challenges that can seem overwhelming. Authors Kay and Stephens tell the story of how Kay adapted to her own diagnosis and learned to make modifications in diet lifestyle and even thought patterns. Kay now...
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Child Secrets
Coming in after the beginning of a soap opera is confusing; one doesn’t quite know who’s who—something even the characters can have trouble figuring out. "Child Secrets" is a soap opera in print the third installment in novel form...
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Trina Wants to be a Duck
Being a duck seems a highly unlikely ambition for a talented alien and member of Chrontos a group of entities that roam the universe and step in to assist other beings in solving problems. But that’s what Trina wants and no amount of...
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I Am My Own Dragon
Lucy March has made mistakes; she tells readers so on the first page of this fictional memoir. But it’s all too easy to see how she came to make them. In conversational style (the reader is addressed as “you” in asides that wax...
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Green Chic
Everyone talks about the environment these days, but all the doom-and-gloomsayers seem to demoralize people who would like to do something but feel that the problem is too big to solve. Enter Matheson and her new book, written in a very...
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Blue War
Biotechnology has run amok, and cloned human remains have been found in an otherwise empty city. An uneasy political situation threatens to erupt into violence, perhaps even another war, over a precious source of fuel. Over all this...
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Mechademia 1
Anime and manga began as a world apart. Removed from Western culture and the “real world,” saturated with Japanese exotisme, they were, nonetheless, often part of American science fiction conventions, where fans garbed as their...
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Xirca
The planet Xirca is a curious place—one side always turned toward the sun and the other always dark. Some of its people live on the dark side in caverns heated by volcanic activity and use the flaps of skin that stretch between their...