Book Review
Stride
An activist’s enlightening memoir, "Stride" is about navigating life with a new disability. Avra Wing’s affecting memoir "Stride" is about the pain, shame, and self-awareness that followed from losing her leg. In 1990, a few months...
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Collateral Dreams
Financial industry insiders experience personal tumult in the wake of the Great Recession in the illuminating historical novel "Collateral Dreams". Set during the Great Recession, Jeff Ingber’s historical novel "Collateral Dreams" is...
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New to the Game
Modern men search for personal meaning in the musing short story collection "New to the Game". In Mark Schoedel’s quirky, ambitious short story collection "New to the Game", men talk about their injuries, their families, and baseball....
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From Dumpster to Doctor
Extending empathy to others who have been through trauma and addiction, "From Dumpster to Doctor" is a testimonial memoir about recovery. Keith L. Marshall’s poignant memoir "From Dumpster to Doctor" is about recovering from childhood...
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Making My Way
A story about maintaining personal integrity in strange and hostile surroundings in order to succeed, "Making My Way" is a compelling memoir. In Damaris Melo-Gyasi’s powerful memoir "Making My Way" is about how her girlhood dream of...
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A Soft, Stunned Silence
Sound’s absence is lauded as powerful in the musing poetry collection "A Soft, Stunned Silence". David Moore’s contemplative poetry collection "A Soft, Stunned Silence" is about the relationships between sounds and shadows. Logical...
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Purgatoire
Family secrets have an outsized spiritual influence in Liz Prato’s virtuoso historical novel "Purgatoire". Near the Purgatoire River in Colorado at the turn of the century, mining industries start up, attracting European immigrants....
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Bloodletting a Butterfly
"Bloodletting a Butterfly" is an intricate narrative poetry collection that speaks to the trauma of witnessing human pain. Alec B. Hood’s gothic poetry collection "Bloodletting a Butterfly" probes experiences of trauma. In striking...
