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May 2019

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published May 2019.

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Every Human Love

by Kristen Rabe

Imaginative and haunting, "Every Human Love" is a masterful collection of short stories by Joanna Pearson, written with insight and empathy. The characters—students, mothers, interns, teachers––are resilient but wounded. In “The... Read More

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Hormone Power

by Melissa Wuske

Marjolein Dubbers’s wellness how-to "Hormone Power" gives women the tools to transform their lives. Many modern women wouldn’t think of themselves as malnourished, but their bodies may be saying otherwise via fatigue, pain, and... Read More

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Blood, Oil and the Axis

by Jeff Fleischer

By the spring of 1941, the Axis powers were in ascendance, with France and Russia on their heels, the United States still officially neutral, and the United Kingdom and its colonies representing the last hope for stopping Nazi domination... Read More

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Jacques Schiffrin

by Jeff Fleischer

Jacques Schiffrin was an influential publisher in Paris at the outbreak of World War II, but soon he had to flee the life he’d built and begin again in the United States. The story of his impressive rise, and of his unexpected second... Read More

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Bring the Rain

by Meg Nola

In JoAnn Franklin’s novel "Bring the Rain", Dart Sommers has an established career as a psychology professor at a North Carolina university. She is also the founder of The Raindrop Institute, a think tank dedicated to ending poverty.... Read More

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Dakota in Exile

by Joe Taylor

In "Dakota in Exile", Linda M. Clemmons tells the little-known story of the Dakota from their perspective: how their men were executed and imprisoned while their women and children were sent to a distant, barren land. Clemmons examines... Read More

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Far Flung

by Kristine Morris

Underlying Cassandra Kircher’s intimate and moving essays on nature, family, and adventures in the wild there are secrets: of a beloved father whose silences and rages marked her childhood; of the people who traveled to the mountains,... Read More

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