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April 2007

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published April 2007.

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One with the Herd

“We are all on a journey to discover our dreams, or life’s dream for us. The only way we can know if the fit is right is to try it on,” writes the author. Nationally acclaimed wildlife painter, writer, and horse breeder/trainer Liz... Read More

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The Temptation of the Impossible

by Tim Davis

Warning: Do not trust fiction that offers “the temptation of the impossible.” That was critic Alphonse de Lamartine’s 1862 reaction to Victor Hugo’s gargantuan novel, Les Misérables. Now readers of Mario Vargas Llosa’s... Read More

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Inside a Haunted Mind

“My skin crawls even to write about it,” says Malone’s protagonist, Terry Chagford. These words will ring true for all who delve into the mentally unhinging world of small town police chief Chagford in K. Patrick Malone’s... Read More

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The Unknown Gulag

by Peter Skinner

Lynne Viola, professor of history at Toronto University and a highly respected historian of the Soviet Union of the 1930s, has written a searing book on an immense and all too neglected human tragedy. It will leave no reader unshocked or... Read More

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The Life of Meaning

“The fundamental obligation of a funeral is to provide an opportunity for the living to confront their dead and to dispose of them in a way that’s other than the way we dispose of a rock or a rhododendron,” writes Thomas Lynch, a... Read More

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Palm Island--Paradise Lost

by Laurie Sullivan

Divorce has been described as the psychological equivalent of a coronary by-pass; Teddy Tarr would likely agree. She tells a sadly familiar tale describing a comfortable life as a successful psychologist and complacent wife that was... Read More

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A Treasure in My Garden

by Naomi Millán

Vigneault, a member of the Canadian Songwriter Hall of Fame, is hailed as one of Canada’s most important music figures of the twentieth century, especially as a champion Québécois folksinger. Here he collaborates with various other... Read More

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Adventures of Riley

by Mary Cary Crawford

Riley is one lucky kid, with a scientist-uncle who invites him along on trips around the world to learn about animals and the environment. The Adventures of Riley is a series of books focused on raising awareness among young readers... Read More

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