Book Review
In the Night of Memory
Linda LeGarde Grover’s poignant "In the Night of Memory" explores loss and belonging among an Ojibwe family in northern Minnesota. It’s 1977, and two sisters—three-year-old Azure and four-year-old Rain—are taken from their...
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The Songs We Hide
Enriching and evocative, Connie Hampton Connally’s historical "The Songs We Hide" is about the redemptive potency of beauty, love, and music in post-World War II Hungary. It’s 1951, and Stalinist repression rules society. Fear is...
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Small Moving Parts
"Small Moving Parts" is an emotive, atmospheric, and memorable tour de force. Not to be missed. In 1958, on a summer’s night in Bufort, Texas, two strangers’ destinies collide. Harley Cain, an ill WWI veteran and rancher, and Dodger...
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No Tougher Duty, No Greater Honor
Bussler’s memoir is a gripping and edifying tour de force. Gunnery Sergeant L. Christian Bussler’s No Tougher Duty, No Greater Honor: A Memoir of a Mortuary Affairs Marine recounts three tours of duty during the Iraq War, during...
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Edge of Morning
Encompassing wisdom and grace, "Edge of Morning" is a finessed articulation of respect and the simplicity of being human. Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bears Ears, edited by Jacqueline Keeler of the Navajo and Yankton...
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Lenin, Hitler, and Me
"Lenin, Hitler, and Me" is an exceptional account by a man who survived persecution. In the insightful and gripping memoir "Lenin, Hitler, and Me", Boris J. Kochanowsky recounts his indomitable will to survive persecution following the...
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Voices in the Stones
Lessons are drawn from Native American tradition, highlighting what can be gained from a focus on harmony. Kent Nerburn’s "Voices in the Stones" is a gorgeous meditation on the Native American way of being and of interacting with the...
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Hindsight
This intriguing chronicle of past lives emphasizes the importance of acting in the here and now. Mindy Tarquini’s "Hindsight" is an evocative and inventive reincarnation tale that chronicles the past lives of an intriguing assortment...