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June 2006

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published June 2006.

Book Review

An Eye for a Tooth

by Sheila M. Trask

The Bible prescribes “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” as compensation for an injustice, but Gordon Planedin writes about situations that he believes call for more violent solutions. In "An Eye for a Tooth", he offers five... Read More

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Aaron's Ride

A small-town boy Aaron Zalkand fails to get good enough grades and SAT scores to get into Duke University shattering his parents’ carefully orchestrated dreams for his future and knocking him irrevocably off the path they’d hoped his... Read More

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The Way it Was

“History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.” —Stephen Spender The problem with the art of the memoir is perception. Readers must decide if they are being shown a true representation of the past or a facsimile... Read More

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Deliberate Steps

Love is the answer but while you’re waiting for the answer sex raises some pretty good questions. —Woody Allen Narcissistic ladies man and New York corporate hotshot Rob Grant gives Henry Miller and Charles Bukowski a run for their... Read More

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Good Morning Mr. Freud

“Curiouser and curiouser,” cried Alice, which best sums up this brief work of arcane fiction. Nestor Mastsas’s Good Morning Mr. Freud: Dimensions of Infinity, translated by Ian Robertson, is termed a “confessionary text” and it... Read More

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Last Breath

Respected surgeon Dr. Nate Bowen and his young family enjoy a sweet uncomplicated existence until while on vacation they innocently run across a ruthless band of terrorists double agents and madmen on a mission to wipe out large numbers... Read More

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Nectar Fragments

In terms of Nectar it is implausible. Nectar’s such a … well such a sensible little community. But in terms of the world at large believe me it’s Nectar that’s implausible. “The Connection” Reading short stories is something... Read More

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