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A Family of Strangers
"A Family of Strangers" is truly an epic tale of love and friendship, mystery and adventure, danger and suspense. Kathleen Flanagan Rollins’s "A Family of Strangers" is an epic tale set in Northern Spain fourteen thousand years ago....
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More Tales for Your Monkey's Mind
These fables are designed to help children make sense of the world around them and do so in a quaint, charming, and soothing way. Steve Michael Reedy’s More Tales for Your Monkey’s Mind is a charming and intelligent collection of...
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A Brief History of Oversharing
Hitchins’s mix of raw emotion and salty hilarity works beautifully. It takes a special kind of person to write a play-by-play description of masturbation that is simultaneously hilarious, repulsive, and sweet. That person is Shawn...
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The Spanish Knight's Secret
An interesting premise and a unique blend of modern international thriller with historic warfare make this an appealing historical work. In The Spanish Knight’s Secret, Peter H. Christopher brings to life the Great Siege of Malta...
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Once in a Blue Moon Lodge
The story is full of the warmth and humor that Landvik is known for. The ladies of Lorna Landvik’s Patty Jane’s House of Curl are back and just as eccentric as ever. In "Once in a Blue Moon Lodge", the focus shifts to Patty Jane’s...
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Confessions of an Accidental Zoo Curator
Berkovits’s humor, passion for her work, and wealth of interesting anecdotes make for a book that is a pleasure to read. Though Annette Libeskind Berkovits fell into her job as a zoo curator by accident, her engaging memoir shows how...
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The 7 Wonders of Olive Oil
Academic, scientific, and enthusiastic, this book makes strong arguments for incorporating olive oil into your daily life. Alice Alech and Cécile Le Galliard’s well-researched "The 7 Wonders of Olive Oil" is an enthusiastic...
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
War on Crime policies of the ‘60s have consequences that can be seen in today’s police militarization and mass incarceration. The United States comprises 5 percent of the world’s overall population, but 25 percent of its prison...