Book Review
Feathers
In a small village, a young woman spreads an unkind rumor. Her victim goes to the village rabbi to get justice for her ruined reputation. The gossipmonger offers to make amends by taking back her words, demonstrating that she does not...
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America's White Table
Katie is helping her mother set the table for the family’s Veterans Day dinner. When her Uncle John sees an empty chair pushed up to an extra little table—specially set with a white tablecloth, a white candle, a black napkin, an...
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Somebodys Daughter
With the name Sarah Thorson, a girl must be a fair-skinned, blue-eyed blonde Lutheran who loves lutefisk herring. Or so the young protagonist of this delicate novel once thought. Yet, mirror glimpses remind her that she has “black,...
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The Little Big Book for Grandfathers
Any grandpa who has ever been at a loss for ways to entertain and relate to his grandchildren will find in this book a pirate’s treasure chest full of ideas, stories, and activities. The latest in the publisher’s series of “Little...
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Irish Legends for Children
In Ireland, every stone in the road has a name and a story, and telling these stories is an essential skill for conveying the nation’s history and culture. Countless Irish legends have been passed on orally down the generations. This...
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The League of Elder
Historical fiction and futuristic star-battle fantasy are combined in this debut novel by Ren Garcia. The book’s hero is Captain Davage a Lord of the League of Elders who commands the Stellar Fleet vessel Seeker dressed in military...
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All the Little Children
In a culture whose media are soaked in hateful anti-gay imagery the malevolent words and deeds of hatemongers like Fred Phelps and legislative initiatives that attempt to deprive gay people of their rights this is a refreshing and...
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Fields of Memory
This poet lives in a dark world full of violence regret loss and shadows. He is self-reflective using poetry to make sense of dismal chaos. Whenever he begins to imagine a brighter world his awareness of the bleakness of reality clouds...