Book Review
God's Sustaining Hand
A woman praises God for the good in her life despite the challenges she’s faced in the testimonial memoir God’s Sustaining Hand. A brief, earnest testimonial pamphlet, Reverend Diane Rodriguez-Burton’s God’s Sustaining Hand...
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Valter of Salt Lake City
"Valter of Salt Lake City", a chef’s lush memoir, shares a generous philosophy of food. A decadent chef’s memoir, Valter Nassi’s "Valter of Salt Lake City" celebrates the culinary and philosophical grounding that led to his lasting...
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Wise Women
A triumphant antidote to the falsities spread about women’s aging, "Wise Women" is a solace- and life-giving collection of fairy and folk tales. Knowing that older women in beloved tales are too often crones and villains, inculcating...
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Masquerade
An enigmatic discovery is the impetus for a faltering man to rethink an old friendship and a recent, raw breakup in the sinuous, surprising novel "Masquerade". Once, Meadow planned to become a doctor in the humanities; now, he works at a...
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Yoke & Feather
Jessie van Eerden’s glittering essay collection Yoke & Feather is a work of exquisite longing marked by keen reflections on biblical tales. Beginning after van Eerden’s divorce, these intimate essays trouble through relationship...
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The Trial of Anna Thalberg
Misogyny and religious conviction are vicious bedfellows in Eduardo Sangarcía’s horrifying, humbling literary novel "The Trial of Anna Thalberg", based on the Würzburg witch trials that tore through poor populations with their...
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Necrology
In Meg Ripley’s subversive, thrilling novel "Necrology", a wise girl raised on the wonders of the wilds is forced to contend with those who would see her kind extinguished. In an alternate version of America, magic pulses through the...
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The Forbidden Book
A girl resists the limits imposed by her class and gender, daring to seek a new kind of life (with some supernatural help), in Sacha Lamb’s wonder-filled historical novel "The Forbidden Book". In a shtetl whose rabbi possesses a text...