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Daddy Hall
Daddy Hall’s richly lived life is captured in linocuts that are both brutal and poignant. Tony Miller’s Daddy Hall: A Biography in 80 Linocuts is a potent visual storytelling project that captures the outsized life of the...
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Daddy Hall’s richly lived life is captured in linocuts that are both brutal and poignant. Tony Miller’s Daddy Hall: A Biography in 80 Linocuts is a potent visual storytelling project that captures the outsized life of the...
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Harris’s poems zero in on poignant moments with vibrant attention to detail. In his poem “Killing the Beast,” Michael Harris writes, “I wanted to slow it all down enough to look at.” That urge to look closely, to relate every...
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"The Rising Tide" builds to a farcical crescendo of complications and crises. “Like good Christians everywhere, the Venetians had a strain of the apocalyptic running in their veins,” writes Mark Frutkin in his novel, "The Rising...
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This creatively structured, memorable memoir includes a mix of humorous anecdotes and classical music trivia. An accomplished cellist, Ian Hampton has played with the London Symphony Orchestra and numerous prominent string quartets. He...
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by Mari Carlson
"A Life without End" is a future-set novel that faces morbid issues in an ultimately loving way. Garland DeNelsky’s insightful, buoyant novel "A Life without End" probes questions about life after death. Stan Miller has been...
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by Carol Davala
"A Fish Called Bad Eyes" is an entertaining story for young readers that imparts important ocean knowledge. In Larry Golicz’s imaginative tale "A Fish Called Bad Eyes", a bespectacled fish reveals his curiosity and caution as he...
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"The War in Southern Africa" is an excellent overview of the Republic of South Africa during a time when it received massive global attention. In "The War in Southern Africa", General Miguel Júnior sets out to process why apartheid-era...
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"Dying for a Drink" is an addiction and recovery memoir that functions as a cautionary tale. In her brutally honest, disjointed memoir, "Dying for a Drink", Amelia Baker works to make sense of her slide into alcoholism and prescription...
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