Book Review
Christmas
Christian author Beryl Mears is serious about bringing back the true meaning of Christmas. Written from the heart, Christmas: A Different Perspective offers her views on what is necessary for modern Christians to celebrate the holiday...
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When We Were Young
Presented as a family saga and historical romance, "When We Were Young" spans the years from WWII forward, focusing on Mitchell family member Jim and the numerous women in his life. The story follows Jim from his youth in wartime England...
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The Home Front
In "The Home Front", Alan J. Summers offers a revealing glimpse of civilian life in 1940s wartime England. Set in a small seaside town in Essex, a county northeast of London, Summers’ story, which draws on “anecdotes and...
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Songs at Twilight
“Who the hell would be interested in reading my memoirs?” asks author, songwriter, and playwright Arthur Langer in Songs at Twilight: Stories of My Time. With an eye to avoiding “the burden of minutiae which most likely could put...
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Letters to the Editor that Were Never Published
Alex Caemmerer Jr., a practicing psychiatrist since the early 1950s, claims to be “addicted to writing letters to the editor of the New York Times” about things going on in the United States. While some of those letters—and some to...
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Green Gravy, Monster Bread, and Other Adventures
Alice Breon offers a collection of delightful, lighthearted tales about her often ordinary, if oddly fascinating, personal life in Green Gravy, Monster Bread and Other Adventures. The title conveys the octogenarian’s fine sense of...
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A Bronx Story
“Many people think that a tree that grows crooked will never grow straight,” writes Salvatore Sarate. In "A Bronx Story", he has fictionalized his own life’s story to prove those people wrong. His tale is a sad one, but the...
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My Guardian Angel & Me
Retired military and civil engineer Arlan W. Horman has lived a long and rewarding life. Over the course of what must have been many hours, Horman narrated his life story into a cassette recorder, and a transcript of the twenty-three...