Book Review
Tracing Our Footsteps
This poignant memoir related in fifteen separate but cohesive tales explores the emigration experience of the author’s father, Yong Da, and his struggles to reinvent himself, reestablish a relationship with his daughter, and adapt to...
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Cold Sunshine
Espionage has been part of the human experience at least since the Trojan War. It wasn’t until 1953, however, that the debut of Ian Fleming’s iconic Secret Agent 007 suddenly turned many a young man’s daydreams to the glitz,...
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Hiding in Water
Had Katherine Lippa’s life been normal by traditional standards, readers of her Hiding in Water: A Memoir Based Mostly in Reality might have been deprived of her wicked wit, her skewed way of interpreting cause and effect, and her...
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Walkabout Dancer
It would be easy to dismiss the free-spirited imagery that adorns both the front and back covers of Eileen Kramer’s memoir, "Walkabout Dancer", as silly or amateurish. Like comparable books with a choreography theme, however, its...
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Actor. Writer. Whatever.
As the title of the vintage song goes, “There’s a Broken Heart for Every Light on Broadway.” Yet for as many disappointments, rejections, setbacks, and snubs that Mellini Kantayya has endured during her “rise to the top of the...
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The Year of the Cicadas
For Catie Hartsfield, the day that forever changed her life began in relatively ordinary fashion. Two of her three sons are on a hike, her daughter is shopping with Grandma Rose, and Catie is enduring the company of her critical...
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For My Boys and the Women They Will Love
"For My Boys and the Women They Will Love" is a slim volume of relationship advice penned by Princess Elaine S. Fletcher Watson. Intended as a heartfelt guide to dating and marriage for her own two sons, Watson draws on personal...
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Mary Ann or Ginger
For many people, the duration of the quest for a soul mate can last anywhere from the length of a first, magical look to well over half a lifetime. For as-yet-unmarried author Barry Rothman (now in his fifties), his search for the...