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Voices
“Mosca no entra en boca cerrada.” (Flies don’t enter a closed mouth.) Everyone who grows up in Spain starts out conscious life with a collection of such dichos (sayings)-pithy aphorisms that make use of a kind of mild irony to...
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Book Review
“Mosca no entra en boca cerrada.” (Flies don’t enter a closed mouth.) Everyone who grows up in Spain starts out conscious life with a collection of such dichos (sayings)-pithy aphorisms that make use of a kind of mild irony to...
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This simple yet profound collection of children’s poetry celebrates the seasonal joys of wintertime. With an ear for the classical nuances of poetic form, the editor has diligently researched the best of the best and successfully...
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by Linda Cooley
Perfectionism, greed, child abuse, and deception are sad realities of modern America. Teens who know these realities seek ways of escape. Fifteen-year-old Ian and his only friend, Teddy, seek to take the perfect photo of a California...
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Starting off with a cliffhanger to get the reader’s attention can be a great way to open a book. This book does so in the prologue, opening in November, 1962, with two French teenagers aloft over Washington, D.C. in a restored World...
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Imagine beautiful poinsettias growing like weeds! The author noticed that they grow profusely in Mexico. Where did these flowers come from? According to Mexican legend, a miracle produced the first poinsettias. In Oppenheim’s version,...
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Vampires. Demons. Werewolves. None are a match for mighty Buffy, the Vampire Slayer! Beginning while she was a high school cheerleader living in a small town (unfortunately located over the very gateway to Hell), Buffy Summers saved the...
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“How are you? My name is Xochitl. Do you like flowers?” As Xochitl adjusts to the new language and culture of San Francisco she remembers El Salvador and the beautiful flowers that surrounded her there. After all, her name means...
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“ ‘New Age’ is a convenient term,“ writes the author, “to describe the rapid growth of mystical and psychic awareness that spread around the world in the late 1960s and has continued to grow, expand, and develop ever since.”...
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