Book Review
A Lifetime at War
Trying to digest the extent and implications of Gordon L. Ewell’s injuries is nearly impossible. A career soldier, the master sergeant was severely wounded in an IED explosion in Iraq. After fifty-nine missions, it was the sixth such...
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A Tragedy of a Broken Heart
Willie Pilgrim’s memoir, "A Tragedy of a Broken Heart", is heartwrenching, but it feels sadly familiar. Written during his incarceration in federal prison, Pilgrim’s book is a distressing tale of a life lived in difficult...
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Try Reading Again
DeAnna Horstmeier is a highly qualified educator with vast experience working as both a special education teacher and a consultant. In teaching children with moderate to severe disabilities, including Down syndrome and Autism Spectrum...
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The Odyssey of Art O'Hara
John Loranger knows how to start a story. From the very first line of his new novel, The Odyssey of Art O’Hara, he grabs readers and pulls them right along with his protagonist, Petty Officer Art O’Hara of the US Navy. The narrative...
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Blind Quest
Bert Tucker has written Blind Quest: Avoiding Pitfalls as a sequel to his first "Blind Quest" novel, Deceived by Experience. Tucker writes science fiction for people who wouldn’t typically pick the genre, and his writing will...
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No Time to Cry
In her memoir "No Time to Cry", Vera Leinvebers relates the harrowing tale of her childhood during World War II and its aftermath. Her tale is difficult and agonizingly sad, but beautifully told in prose that borders on the poetic....
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America's Answer to the Tiger Mother
Of those who have read Amy Chau’s The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, many find themselves intrigued, yet also appalled, at what this one parent has done to “further” the potential success of her children. In America’s Answer to...
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Diary of a Prisoner in World War I
At the start of World War I, Josef Šrámek, a young Czech textile worker, found himself drafted into the Austrian army. As part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Czechoslovakia fell under the empire’s rule, and the twenty-two-year-old...