Book Review
The Spirituality of Dreaming
"The Spirituality of Dreaming" repackages dreaming as a life-enhancing, revolutionary act resulting in access to fonts of sacred energy. Kelly Bulkeley declares that dreaming is the most democratic and accessible of all the spiritual...
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Generation Dread
"Generation Dread" probes the psychological, emotional, and spiritual impacts of climate change with recommendations for turning ecoanxiety into action. With the planet appearing to be growing ever more hostile to life, ecoanxiety,...
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Dare to Be Me
Taking a light, respectful approach to the sensitive topic of children being different from their peers, "Dare to Be Me" is an exuberant, supportive picture book. In Kaci Bolls and Nathan Meckel’s colorful picture book "Dare to Be Me",...
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Lessons of Nature, from a Modern-Day Shepherd
The personal religious musings collected in "Lessons of Nature, from a Modern-Day Shepherd" promote mindful attention to the natural world. The essays and poems of Idaho rancher Don F. Pickett’s religious collection "Lessons of Nature,...
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Pearl
A girl is consumed with grief and guilt when her mother goes missing in Siȃn Hughes’s luminous novel "Pearl". Marianne recalls the exact moment when the police stopped looking for her missing mother and began searching for her body....
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A Touch of Blue
In Tory Christie’s novel "A Touch of Blue", a mysterious new neighbor changes how a girl sees the world and its unusual people. Celie, the only girl in her fourth-grade class, has only one friend, Junior. But Junior betrays her by...
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Freddie
Grant Hayter-Menzies’s heartwarming memoir "Freddie" is about the rescue dog who became his rescuer. Part Pomeranian, Freddie was rescued from a hellish existence with an animal hoarder. He endured hunger and fear before Hayter-Menzies...
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Wild Geese
A trans woman confronts her uneasy past when her former girlfriend makes an unexpected visit in Soula Emmanuel’s intimate, provocative novel "Wild Geese". Phoebe is a thirty-year-old Irish graduate student in Copenhagen. Halfway...