Book Review
Unconditional Loss
What if we suddenly had to face a world without dogs? The thriller "Unconditional Loss" draws the reader in with that question, before moving onto a more typical plot scenario: How can one man manage to sound the alarm on a potential...
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Knowing the Questions, Living the Answers
We live in an era of pop psychology, where self-help books offer five easy steps to fixing your life, and television personalities like Dr. Phil solve marital problems in fifteen minute segments. It is refreshing to encounter work that...
Book Review
Psychotherapy in Private Practice and Prisons
As a profession that largely takes place behind closed doors, psychotherapy is particularly dependent on the shared wisdom of its practitioners, and high-quality books by experienced therapists are always welcomed. In Psychotherapy in...
Book Review
The Turkey Feather Cape
Here is a how-to book that may well be the only one of its kind: it teaches readers how to make a turkey feather cape. This majestic full-length garment was once worn by tribal leaders and its construction is now a vanishing Native...
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Farmacist Desk Reference
There is a long American tradition of eccentric health-conscious iconclasts from John Harvey Kellogg to Dr. Bronner and Adelle Davis. Like them Don Tolman a health lecturer author and researcher combines erudition a passion for healthy...
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Evensong
The intensely dramatic history of the World War II era continues to attract novelists who find inspiration in placing people of ordinary—and at times extraordinary—abilities against the backdrop of danger and turbulence that plagued...
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Love on a Plate
In these days of online recipe sites and bookstores crammed with every kind of cookbook imaginable it’s a bit hard to justify another cookbook unless it is wildly original excitingly ethnic or eminently practical (quick...
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Leaving Riverton
Four young women meet the Wild West when they leave home in Louisiana and travel by wagon to Texas where their grandfather has purchased land. Stalwart Liz lively Megan and their cousins head towards Fort Worth in 1856 when the threat of...