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June 2008

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published June 2008.

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Believing the Unbelievable

by Liam Brennan

The cruel and inhumane tactics employed by the infamous Christian Brothers in Ireland are recounted in this gripping and emotional firsthand account from one of the victims. Author Benjamin Franklin relates his harrowing life story... Read More

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All of Scandanavian Cooking

by Nicole Mitchell

One of only a few books on the subject Sofie Michelsen’s All of Scandinavian Cooking is a self-published collection of Scandinavian recipes. The author who studies business and economics at Sweden’s Lund University begins with a... Read More

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The Testari Scrolls

by Todd Mercer

Lindy Guilles is a European-raised American Egyptologist in her mid-twenties languishing in a failed marriage to a deceitful CIA agent. The daughter of an emotionally distant archeologist Lindy suffers successive shocks when he passes... Read More

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Madame President, 1901-1905

by Andi Diehn

Hilary Clinton came within reach of the U.S. presidency this year less than one hundred years after women secured the right to vote. Though women have yet to leap over this major threshold they can be found working hard in the Senate the... Read More

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God is in the Details

by Kristine Morris

A diagnosis of life-threatening illness can be devastating. When Diane Pretty’s husband George was found to have mantle cell lymphoma a form of cancer said to be incurable life as they had known it came to an end. Faced with the... Read More

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Buck & Jed

by Todd Mercer

The Old West as seen in the Arizona Territory was becoming more like the settled East in the 1890s as the Reservation system took hold. Gunslingers heroic marshals and footloose cowboys were increasingly outnumbered by the... Read More

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My Champion

by Joyce Rice

Tess is in love with horses and dreams. On the days that she is allowed to ride one of the work horses from her family’s farm Tess rides out to her special place by the sea. With her faithful companion Star she gathers driftwood and... Read More

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Meditations on Violence

by Lawrence Kane

This exceptional book opens with a black and white photograph of a bathroom with a swirl of sticky-looking muck on the floor and a few droplets splattered across the side of the toilet. Since there is no color, it takes a moment to... Read More

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