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October 2008

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

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Hit the Skies

by Joyce Rice

This is a big day for twelve-year-old Ruby and somehow she knew that it would start all wrong. Not only is she late for her test but as she finishes her quick shower she remembers that all of her clothes have been removed the night... Read More

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The Southern Swamp Explorer

by Todd Mercer

From the bayous of Louisiana to subtropical Florida, the Deep South is vitally alive and full of surprises for the unprepared, some of them potentially deadly. Irene Brady, the writer and illustrator behind "The Southern Swamp Explorer"... Read More

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Full Contact Warfare

by Lawrence Kane

While the self-publishing industry has created opportunities for aspiring writers to share their creative visions with the world some works simply do not belong in the public arena. This book is an example of not-ready-for-prime-time... Read More

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Augusta's Journal

by Camille-Yvette Welsch

The siblings Crump began transcribing their great-grandmother’s journals some 150 years after Augusta Chase lived through the tumultuous settling of the Kansas Territory. In many ways that settling was a precursor to the Civil War.... Read More

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by Lee Gooden

Sexual relations have always been a popular subject for humanity to document—from the Neanderthal cave paintings to Etruscan erotic artwork on the walls of Pompeii; from the pornography empires of Larry Flynt and Hugh Hefner to the... Read More

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The Way

by Jada Bradley

This scholarly look at the Christian journey is for readers who prefer to be persuaded by reason and logic rather than an overtly emotional appeal. Still one can sense the earnestness that underlies the author’s calm approach. "The... Read More

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Desperation

by James DenBoer

The literature of the Holocaust is vast and ever-growing. The thousands of memoirs and autobiographies written by survivors can hardly be judged on their literary worth alone. These stories heart-rending and nearly unbelievable in their... Read More

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Stop the Stress Habit

by Sarah White

If you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel. This is a common argument in self-improvement books these days, and one that forms the basis of Dr. Leslie Torburn’s Stop the Stress Habit: Change Your Perceptions and... Read More

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