Book Review
Pebbles and the Biggest Number
by Aimee Jodoin
In the exhilarating and informative picture book "Pebbles and the Biggest Number", a butterfly’s horizons expand as he learns about the environments of Earth and outer space. In Joey Benun’s educational picture book "Pebbles and the...
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Rolling in the Deep
by Aimee Jodoin
"Rolling in the Deep" is a coming-of-age novel in which a displaced teenager and his grieving new friend reckon with their losses and rediscover their identities. In Arthur Kevin Rein’s mystery novel "Rolling in the Deep", a grieving...
Book Review
Trust Yourself to Be All In
by Aimee Jodoin
"Trust Yourself to Be All In" is an inspiring account of how one woman pieced together wisdom from a variety of philosophies to address her own trauma. Amanda McKoy Flanagan’s memoir-cum-self-help-book "Trust Yourself to Be All In"...
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Tolerant
by Aimee Jodoin
In C. J. Sparrow’s stunning fantasy novel "Tolerant", a servant subverts her culture’s oppressive values, going to great lengths to protect those she loves. Obeying her late older sister’s command to defect rather than fail her...
Book Review
Zen for Kids
by Aimee Jodoin
Laura Burges’s soothing children’s guide to Buddhist meditation, "Zen for Kids", shares how Zen practices can improve lives. Beginning with Siddhartha Gautama’s biography, this introduction to Zen Buddhism includes Asian folktales,...
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The Good Daughter Syndrome
by Aimee Jodoin
"The Good Daughter Syndrome" is a thorough, conversational self-help book about avoiding the unconscious traps that mothers set up when they see their daughters as reflections of themselves. Psychotherapist Katherine Fabrizio’s...
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The Narrator
by Aimee Jodoin
"The Narrator" is an absorbing science fiction novel in which intelligent people are pushed to their emotional limits while investigating their tech industry employer’s corruption. In Babak Hodjat’s pensive science fiction novel "The...
Book Review
By the Rivers of Babylon
by Aimee Jodoin
A young couple inherits a house on a romantic Southern island in Mary Glickman’s stunning literary Southern Gothic novel turned murder mystery "By the Rivers of Babylon". Given its “mist over the marsh, trees that look to harbor...