Book Review
Thirty-Two Words for Field
Manchán Magan’s profound yet playful book "Thirty-Two Words for Field" is part memoir, part history, and part ecology. Drawing on primary research, scholarly texts, and his family’s personal history, Magan documents the ongoing...
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The Community Solution
Encouraging the industry-wide embrace of collaboration, "The Community Solution" is an illustrative higher-education guide. Leading by example, Michael Horowitz’s educator’s guide "The Community Solution" analyzes a strategic...
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Quinto’s Challenge
A neurodivergent scientist takes up the challenge to defy death in the intricate science fiction novel "Quinto’s Challenge". In Peter McChesney’s sweeping science fiction novel "Quinto’s Challenge", a brilliant young outsider’s...
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The Thorn Key
Romance and intimacy are not pathways to anyone’s happily-ever-after in the poems of "The Thorn Key", whose entries are seamless in reimagining fairy tales in the context of feminist values. Folklorist Jeana Jorgensen’s muscular...
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Feel Me
"Feel Me" is a quite personal collection of poetry and art that records steps toward healing from trauma. In Aily Carranza’s exuberant poetry collection "Feel Me", poems and artwork are therapeutic modalities for healing. Using poetry...
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What Was Forbidden
In Jonathan Bockian’s captivating historical novel "What Was Forbidden", a skeptic is murdered, his sister tries to bring his killer to justice, and a community is changed forever. In seventeenth-century Venice in the Jewish ghetto,...
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Daughter of the Otherworld
Mythical beings plot long-awaited revenge against each other in Shauna Lawless’s atmospheric fantasy novel "Daughter of the Otherworld". The mythical Tuatha Dé Danann and their descendants have waited over one hundred years for their...
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Divergent Realms
Neurodivergence helps when it comes to exploring liminal places in the diverse, wondrous short story anthology "Divergent Realms". The innovative works in the dazzling short story anthology "Divergent Realms", edited by Riley Odell,...
