Book Review
Farmer Arnold's Barnyard
The stories collected in Farmer Arnold’s Barnyard: Book Four reveal both the fun and the frustrations of life on the farm. M. E. Hulme’s Farmer Arnold’s Barnyard: Book Four is a charming collection of vignettes about life on a...
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Our Dream in His Hands
"Our Dream in His Hands" is a warm memoir in picture book format that conveys parental love and faith to a child conceived via IVF. Tara Bushby’s warm, personal picture book "Our Dream in His Hands" uses biblical passages, loving...
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The Art of Forgiveness
Full of wise counsel, "The Art of Forgiveness" is a faith-based self-help text about the physical, mental, and emotional benefits of letting go of the past. With elements of a memoir, Pamela Marshall’s emotive faith-based self-help...
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The Flow
Amy-Jane Beer’s memoir "The Flow" is about the drowning of a friend and how it almost destroyed her love for rivers. In 2012, Beer’s friend group set out on a New Year’s Day kayaking trip. One friend, Kate, never came home. For...
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Between Light and Storm
Esther Woolfson’s "Between Light and Storm" contemplates the eons-long interaction between human beings and animals. It questions what the belief that humans are superior to all other living beings has done to bring on the multiple...
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Chasing Plants
In "Chasing Plants", botanist Chris Thorogood shares how his lifelong obsession with plants led him to precarious situations in far-flung places to find them, no matter what it took. Thorogood sketched and scribbled his way around the...
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Conversations with Birds
In the luminous essays of Priyanka Kumar’s "Conversations with Birds", birds are a portal to reclaiming childhood connections with nature and the lush, wild landscape of northern India’s remote mountains. Torn from her roots by a...
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Cherokee Earth Dwellers
Christopher Teuton and Hastings Shade’s "Cherokee Earth Dwellers" makes traditional Cherokee wisdom, language, teachings, and culture accessible to all because it “is time for all to know.” Based on the work and teachings of the...