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January 2015

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published January 2015.

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Sisters Born, Sisters Found

by Patty Comeau

In the space of these pages, McHale Holland has cultivated a community that encourages speaking truth to empower. In Sisters Born, Sisters Found: A Diversity of Voices on Sisterhood, editor Laura McHale Holland captures the feeling of... Read More

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Right of Boom

by Jeff Fleischer

The book is appropriately unsettling, while remaining a reasoned overview of a hard-to-contain problem. Where once the threat of nuclear war came primarily from nations, experts generally agree the real danger now is a weapon in the... Read More

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The Book of Yōkai

by Meg Nola

Research and enthusiasm merge to show how otherworldly creatures in Japanese folklore have enriched cultural experience. For author and scholar Michael Dylan Foster, a little keepsake kappa doll kept on top of a refrigerator sparked a... Read More

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Swimming in the Rain

by Colby Cedar Smith

Each of Bloch’s poems tells a story filled with history and depth, inviting the audience to watch each enlightened moment unfold on the page. Award winning poet and translator Chana Bloch’s latest collection of poems, Swimming in the... Read More

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Tears and Trombones

by Hilary Daninhirsch

This highly readable, triumphant tale deserves a place on any music lover’s and book lover’s shelf. "Tears and Trombones" is the inspiring novel, based on a true story, of how one young man beat the odds to become a renowned trombone... Read More

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Coyote

by Peter Dabbene

Spare prose boosts the psychological experience of this snapshot of grief and memory. Colin Winnette’s "Coyote" provides an intimate look at a child’s disappearance, told from the fragmented perspective of a distraught mother.... Read More

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Plus One

by Karen Ackland

"Plus One" provides a comic view of Hollywood excesses, but at its heart is a family reclaiming what’s important. Christopher Noxon’s "Plus One" describes a family struck by sudden good fortune in Hollywood. It’s a laugh-out-loud,... Read More

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Radiomen

by Jason Henninger

This philosophical novel reflects on physics and cults, analyzing the nature of mysteries. Is there life beyond our world? What if a hazy childhood dream was in fact a memory of an impossible visitor? In "Radiomen", poet and novelist... Read More

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