Book Review
Presence
In Brenda Iijima’s multilayered science fiction novel "Presence", interspecies and interdimensional communication is transcendent. On toxic Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay, people from different chronological dimensions coexist,...
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Moving Forward through His Love and Grace
"Moving Forward through His Love and Grace" is a collection of Christian poetry demonstrating unshakable belief. Joan E. Gettry’s faith-based poetry collection "Moving Forward through His Love and Grace" celebrates a personal...
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Shattered but Not Broken
Knowing that grief changes but doesn’t go away, "Shattered but Not Broken" mines personal experiences for lessons on healing. Betty Major-Rose’s memoir "Shattered but Not Broken" has self-help components; it recalls her tremendous...
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Mattie, Milo, and Me
Raw, vulnerable, and introspective, the memoir "Mattie, Milo, and Me" covers a woman’s transformative relationships with two dogs. Anne Abel’s loving memoir "Mattie, Milo, and Me" covers her care for an aggressive dog, which...
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Roads to the Interior
The musical poems collected in "Roads to the Interior" honor truth and beauty while reflecting on the self and nature. In W. Hans Miller’s poetry collection "Roads to the Interior", nature is the fulcrum between reflecting on the self...
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Arcadia and Other Poems
Each gentle poem of the artful collection "Arcadia and Other Poems" resembles an intimate, personal missive. More than a poetry collection, Robert Brooks’s "Arcadia and Other Poems" is an artifact. Bound in hardcover, hand-lettered,...
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Poetic Beauty
The prose-poetic pieces collected in "Poetic Beauty" struggle with love, honor, and eternal questions about the nature of reality and time. The poems and micronarratives of John Thomas Qua’s literary collection "Poetic Beauty" are...
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Man Eating Plants
"Man Eating Plants" is an ambitious survey of human dietary history that proposes a vegan solution to contemporary ills. Using an ambitious combination of history, archaeology, and science, Jonathan Spitz’s "Man Eating Plants" argues...