Book Review
Little Boy, I Know Your Name
Rejecting a family tradition of silence to catalog inherited and individual wounds, "Little Boy, I Know Your Name" is a powerful memoir. Mitchell Raff’s forthright memoir "Little Boy, I Know Your Name" centers on his relationships with...
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The Book of Daniel
"The Book of Daniel" is a unique coming-of-age story that’s steeped in the paranormal. Sean Ian’s imaginative novel "The Book of Daniel" incorporates Gothic horror and the paranormal into an old soul’s coming-of-age story. A New...
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Look toward the Rising Sun
"Look toward the Rising Sun" is a striking historical novel about growing up Black and middle class in the Jim Crow era. In Sarah Smith Ducksworth’s historical novel "Look toward the Rising Sun", a Black girl comes of age in Jackson,...
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Connections
Friendly and wise, the poems collected in "Connections" muse through heady contemporary topics. Pairing text with photographs, Ian Stott’s poetry collection "Connections" distills wisdom from lived experiences. Written in a friendly,...
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Traveling Solo
Empathetic and persuasive, the memoir "Traveling Solo" shares an end-of-life story alongside a cautionary tale about avoiding the false promise of phony cures. Written in anticipation of her planned death, Diana E. Williams’s memoir...
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The Murmurs
In Michael J. Malone’s supernatural thriller "The Murmurs", a hidden family history in the Scottish Highlands carries a terrible cost. A drowning and a suicide shatter the childhoods of Annie and her twin brother Lewis. Annie loses...
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Penny Bloods
Edited by Nicole C. Dittmer, "Penny Bloods" collects sensational tales of “monstrous women” from the penny newspapers of the nineteenth century. The stories are arranged in chronological order and are complemented with historical...
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Summerday
In the reverential poetry collection "Summerday", each word serves the purpose of illuminating faith. Andy Chiveto’s thoughtful poetry collection "Summerday" traces a personal spiritual evolution. "Summerday" is a collection of poems...