Book Review
Grappling with Ghosts
Told from a child émigré’s perspective, "Grappling with Ghosts" is a timely memoir about international displacement. James Harvey’s insightful memoir "Grappling with Ghosts" is about his nomadic, chaotic childhood and the...
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USA: Where Dogs Have More Rights Than You Do
What dogs and their people can expect in particular states is made clear in the lively travel guide USA: Where Dogs Have More Rights Than You Do. USA: Where Dogs Have More Rights Than You Do, American immigrant Robert Okine’s humorous...
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The Site
Boundaries are blurred between realities, dreams, and memory in the portentous science fiction novel "The Site". In Carlos Valrand’s tense science fiction novel "The Site", a woman’s perceptions of reality are challenged in the midst...
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Proud Gods and Commodores
Rooted in twentieth-century American history, Greek mythology, and human anatomy, the prose and poems collected in "Proud Gods and Commodores" are connected by riotous linguistic flourishes. James McMillan’s personal anthology "Proud...
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Maya Blue
"Maya Blue" is a startling memoir about the long road to recovery from trauma. Brenda Coffee’s gripping memoir "Maya Blue" is about being the wife of an addict and a survivor of kidnapping and sexual assault. Though the book is divided...
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The Lotus Eater
Original wordplay and quirky rhymes vivify the illuminating poetry collection The Lotus Eaters. Peter Dabbene’s musical poetry collection The Lotus Eaters clothes its sly cultural allusions in traditional literary techniques....
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Holy Ground
The lyrical, hard-hitting essays in Catherine Coleman Flowers’s collection "Holy Ground" synthesize history, science, and faith. The recipient of a MacArthur “Genius Grant” for her environmental activism, Flowers spent decades...
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An Absence of Fear
A lyrical poetry collection, "An Absence of Fear" denies death’s finality even as it mourns great human losses. Holly Peppe’s precise poetry collection "An Absence of Fear" confronts the emotions surrounding death, from astonishment...