Book Review
Happy AF
Marked by sass and salty language, Beth Romero’s "Happy AF" is an experiential, science-backed guidebook to being happy, no matter what. For Romero, the events of 2018 to 2020 could have been backed by “the soundtrack from a...
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Book Review
Marked by sass and salty language, Beth Romero’s "Happy AF" is an experiential, science-backed guidebook to being happy, no matter what. For Romero, the events of 2018 to 2020 could have been backed by “the soundtrack from a...
Book Review
by N.T. McQueen
In the emotive, empathetic memoir "We Used to Dance", a family has to let go of one of its beloved members. Debbie Chein Morris’s loving memoir We Used To Dance is about the emotional and relational difficulties of caring for a...
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by Wendy Hinman
A layered scholar’s memoir, Susan J. Godwin’s "Rain Dodging" details and personalizes her research into the late seventeenth-century Stuart court of Queen Mary of Modena, consort to James II. While studying at Oxford, Godwin became...
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by Meg Nola
The historical novel "A Tale of Two Maidens" covers the last days of Joan of Arc’s campaign with spirited flourishes. In Anne Echols’s rousing historical novel "A Tale of Two Maidens", a girl escapes an arranged marriage by joining...
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by Elaine Chiew
Céline Keating’s lush, elegiac novel "The Stark Beauty of Last Things" limns Montauk in stunning prose and highlights loss, the transience of home, and the impermanence of human affections. Revolving around a prized land parcel...
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by Karen Rigby
"In Pursuit of Radio Mom" is a candid memoir covering a woman’s early family troubles and her long road to personal recovery. Psychologist Terry Crylen’s introspective memoir "In Pursuit of Radio Mom" is about healing from childhood...
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A lively memoir that captures the happiness and confusion of being part of two cultures at once, "Dancing into the Light" is celebratory and affecting. Kathryn K. Abdul-Baki’s powerful memoir "Dancing into the Light" is about the joy...
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"Late Bloomer" is a heartfelt memoir about leaving a marriage to find healing and wholeness in coming out. Melissa Giberson’s heartfelt memoir "Late Bloomer" is about the midlife coming-out of a risk-averse married mother of two. When...
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