Book Review
A Foggy Sunrise
This powerful memoir of wartime Romania brings back the horrors of war mixed with the resilience of childhood. In his beautifully crafted memoir, "A Foggy Sunrise", David Kimel describes his childhood growing up in Bucharest, including...
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Cattle Kate
By narrating the tale in the first person, an evocative and powerful writing choice, Bommersbach brings her real-life subject to life. An ambitious young woman who defied the limitations of the time in which she lived and paid the...
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Last Words
The tenacity of the main character will resonate as he overcomes barriers and reclaims his former life. Fighting for his professional reputation, reporter Coleridge Samuel Taylor attempts to solve the death of a young homeless boy, the...
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Two Kids
This delightful debut novel traces the relationship of two preteens through the awkwardness of middle school. A pair of middle school students slowly become friends over a year’s time, experiencing the highs and lows that life brings...
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Out of the Darkness and into the Blue
After facing near death on the job, a rookie policeman changes tactics and goes on to a distinguished career in law enforcement. From a young age, Robert T. Christensen planned for a long career as a police officer, but those plans were...
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Cold Spell
The Alaskan wilderness described richly in this novel is as layered and emotive as Vanasse’s flawed yet sympathetic characters. Voiced alternately between daughter and mother, "Cold Spell" is a beautifully written work detailing what...
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The Little Faucet That Never Stopped Dripping
Readers will have fun making the sounds of animals as they discover a lonely and forgotten outdoor faucet. Although beautiful flowers surround him in a quiet spot in the woods, a forgotten slow-dripping faucet is alone and lonely. One...
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Here By Mistake
Three teens must find their way home after being sucked back in time in this suspenseful page-turner. Three upstate New York teens in 2005 accidentally pass through a portal and find themselves forty years in the past in New Orleans....