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April 2011

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published April 2011.

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The Tenth Door

by Bobbye Middendorf

Yogi, teacher, and author Michele Hébert invites readers to traverse the demanding spiritual path of Raja Yoga, with its realizations and doubts. Her memoir traces one student’s story, from the roots of the human potential movement... Read More

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Stolen Lives

by Diane Gardner

“She’d said the wrong thing. She knew that immediately. Salimovic’s thin lips twisted into a smile and Jade realized with a sinking heart that the trafficker had realized she was bluffing,” writes Jassy Mackenzie in her gripping... Read More

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The Watery Part of the World

by Jessica Henkle

In 1970, Yaupon Island is down to three inhabitants: Maggie, Whaley, and Woodrow, who make up half of Michael Parker’s novel, The Watery Part of the World. The other half begins in 1813, when pirates capture and spare Theodosia Burr... Read More

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Toward You

by Dana Rae Laverty

A cursing dog, a rosebush that channels the dead, an eight-year-old rabies victim and a man who looks strangely like a capybara all collide—together with a multitude of baked goods—in Jim Krusoe’s smart and witty tale of revenge,... Read More

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Galore

by Mary Popham

“Time was a single moment endlessly circling on itself…” In a sweeping story of several generations, Galore reveals the lives of the Irish and West Country English in rugged Newfoundland. From the time of Napoleon through the early... Read More

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A Race to Splendor

by Julia Ann Charpentier

Amelia stared at the remnants of her former life and grieved for every lost doorway and chimney of the grand Victorian lady. Somewhere in the charred ruins were the carbon splinters of a cherry wood bar and a couch where Ling Lee had met... Read More

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Miss Entropia and the Adam Bomb

by Teresa Scollon

If fiction is moved forward by getting its characters into deeper and deeper trouble, then George Rabasa’s latest novel is a speedy little car, following the misadventures of two lovable misfits. Thirteen-year-old Adam Webb falls in... Read More

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Lincoln on War

by Jack Shakely

Precisely 150 years ago, on March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office as president of a hopelessly divided United States. Nine southern states had already seceded, and in only a month Fort Sumter would fall to the... Read More

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