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December 1998

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published December 1998.

Book Review

The Common Cold Cure

by Patricia Voice

Who better to turn to for help fighting the common cold than a physician? A best-selling author, Sahelian (Creatine; Melatonin; DHEA; among other books) teams up with Toews, editor of Nutrition Alert newsletter and contributing columnist... Read More

Book Review

Poetry for Young People

by Sharon Flesher

The attempt to inspire a love of poetry in children is a noble educational pursuit, and there is perhaps no easier poet with which to start than Longfellow. His easily accessible work is the stuff of legend and history, of forest and... Read More

Book Review

Jane Austen

by Sharon Flesher

Such a predicament Jane Austen created for her future biographers! When illness took her from this world at age forty-one, she left no husband, no children, no memoirs and no contemporary press coverage. Aside from her literary... Read More

Book Review

Public Monuments 1870-1997

A nation’s public monuments are at bottom permanent and revealing political propaganda-witness the Statue of Liberty or the St. Louis Arch. Michalski, an art historian at the University of Braunschweig, Germany, powerfully demonstrates... Read More

Book Review

Polonaise

by Rebecca Maksel

These twelve stories are narrated by the human detritus that forms the Polish American community in Superior, Wisconsin. In this small community, the characters make cameo appearances in each other’s lives. This is a dying community,... Read More

Book Review

Disconnected

by Linda Salisbury

Many young people wonder if they are adopted, or perhaps half of a set of twins separated at birth. Hrdlitschka capitalizes on this dual fascination in her new novel for teens. Disconnected is about twin brothers, Tanner and Alex, who... Read More

Book Review

The Haunting of Drang Island

by Linda Salisbury

If you are looking for a book to give you the shivers on a warm night, try "The Haunting of Drang Island". Slade’s first book in the Northern Frights series, Draugr was a finalist for the Small Press Book Award for young adult fiction... Read More

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