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Traces of Enayat
by Meg Nola
Iman Mersal’s biography explores the troubled, unfulfilled life of Egyptian writer Enayat al-Zayyat. In 1963, twenty-six-year-old Enayat al-Zayyat committed suicide using sleeping pills. Enayat had finished one novel and was working on...
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Creation's Assortments
Written with warm intentions toward fellow human beings, the poems of Creation’s Assortments work to bridge the space between one person’s inner life and the inner lives of others. Timothy R. Race’s poetry collection Creation’s...
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The Ordeal
"The Ordeal" is a thoughtful memoir about coming to terms with problematic relationships and finding the courage to stand up when wronged. In her intriguing memoir "The Ordeal", Josephine Walden reveals often uncomfortable truths about...
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The Worst Villain Ever
In Amy Bearce’s exciting novel "The Worst Villain Ever", a boy is on a quest to discover his true self, though he has to battle internal and external pressures to do so. George is a gifted child, but he struggles to balance and meet...
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Tallstone and the City
by Aimee Jodoin
The etiological historical novel "Tallstone and the City" re-imagines the emergence of human civilization via four ambitious young hunter-gatherers. A tribe of hunter-gatherers starts an agricultural civilization in Dennis Wammack’s...
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Finding Moon Rabbit
by Karen Rigby
Heart Mountain, an internment camp in Wyoming, is brought to heartbreaking life in "Finding Moon Rabbit", J. C. Kato and JC²’s sensitive historical novel about surviving injustice with hope. Because of Executive Order 9066, Koko and...
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Small Marvels
Midwestern magic abounds in Scott Russell Sanders’s fairy tale short story collection "Small Marvels". In Limestone, Indiana, Gordon Mills is a jack of all trades whose big family lives in a dilapidated house that only remains standing...