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Book Review

Hope in the Age of Anxiety

“Hope is…an essential element of our spiritual lifeblood. And it is the best medicine for overcoming feelings of helplessness, alienation, and fear. Individuals who are hopeful…achieve a different way of being in the world,”... Read More

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The Inner Sky

In The Inner Sky: Poems, Notes, Dreams, even a Rilke scholar will find new work within this collection of the Ger-man writer’s notebooks and less-published writings. A mix of poems, prose, and unstructured musings, "The Inner Sky"... Read More

Book Review

Stand by Her

by Harold Cordry

This is essentially a how-to book for men—more specifically, a what-to-do, how-to-do-it, and why-it’s-important book, with a lot of emphasis on the importance of empathy and understanding. The author, John W. Anderson, a writer and... Read More

Book Review

Favor Johnson

by Heather Shaw

The story opens with a man in a red-checked coat delivering, door-to-door, dozens of homemade fruitcakes. He bakes them at home inside tin cans, “for two people, it was a soup can. For small families, a vegetable can. For large... Read More

Book Review

Visionaries In Our Midst

by Andi Diehn

Judging from recent economic history, charity won’t soon be rendered obsolete. Too many people who’ve made the United States their home suffer from hunger, disease, loneliness, or neglect. Some are lucky enough to cross paths with... Read More

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The Barbaric Heart

Curtis White believes that it’s a mistake to blame the global environmental crisis on greedy corporations or self-interested polluters. In his provocative and intellectually acrobatic new book The Barbarian Heart, White—an essayist,... Read More

Book Review

Exposure

by Patty Comeau

Carnegie Medal-winner Mal Peet has accomplished something amazing with his latest novel "Exposure"; inspired by Shakespeare’s bleak classic, Othello, he reveals the humanity that lies beneath two-dimensional celebrity. In the rise and... Read More

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DownTown USA

by Karl Kunkel

If a single picture says a thousand words, then a book of carefully crafted photographs accompanied by written testimonials and personal accounts can convey a tremendous story. Susan Lankford, author and professional photographer, rented... Read More

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