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November 2008

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

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The Road to Eden's Ridge

The Road to Edens Ridge by M.L. Rose (Iroquois Press 978-1-59652-484-2) tells two stories of love. Lindsey Briggs has left her fiancé at the altar and her home in Maine to become a country music star in Nashville. While playing a show... Read More

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Unknown Soldiers

Surviving Soldiers:[/b] In 1943, Joseph Garland began to keep a journal describing his life as an infantry soldier during World War II. The author and his friends and fellow soldiers fought in some of the war’s bloodiest battles: Anzio... Read More

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How to Write Like Chekhov

Chekhov never wrote a “how to” book on writing but Brunello and Lencek’s compilation does much to meet the need. The advisory excerpts that the editors have mined from his work and letters and assembled here present a powerfully... Read More

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The Triumph of Music

In the 1960s it seemed as if music were a primal force that could help change the world. Various music festivals embraced the power of music as a means of fostering peace and love and demonstrators at political rallies swayed to music... Read More

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Remember Who You Are

In her latest book, "Remember Who You Are", Linda Carroll offers an astonishingly diverse array of thoughts. From Coretta Scott King to Sappho, the pages of Remember are enriched with a wealth of meditations from great women thinkers,... Read More

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U.P.

“The U.P.‘s greatest export is drunk drivers; its greatest import is cold weather,” writes R.A. Riekki, who has been paroled from a life sentence in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. By mercilessly displaying the warts of Yooper... Read More

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Yellowrocket

Todd Boss’s first collection of poems, "Yellowrocket", takes its title from a wildflower that “reeked” when pulled from the soil. The poems also wish to, and do, hold as tightly as plants to the plain earth, and to heritage, to... Read More

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