Book Review
Travels in Elysium
Legends come alive at a leisurely pace as characters search for treasures hinted at in ancient texts. “It appears Professor Huxley is either going to make people fabulously rich or unleash the Devil,” quips one character in...
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Trapped in the Congo Drama
Based loosely on the author’s own life, "Trapped in the Congo Drama" is an ultimately unsatisfying story of two students who leave their African homeland to study in Prague in the mid-to-late 1980s. Most of the narrative fails to live...
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Wonderful Worlds
“Intelligent evolution” is Robert Greenough’s take on how the world and its inhabitants came into being. “This is not a scientific textbook,” admits Greenough of his single-volume survey of the world from before the Big Bang to...
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Death Zones and Darling Spies
Personal and human stories on the Vietnam War are matched by insightful exploration of political and military strategy. “Marines don’t allow women with legs down there,” a grizzled colonel told Beverly Deepe in 1962 when she sought...
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Warrior Pose
War correspondent turned yogi reveals his heart-wrenching journey from cancer and disability to health and happiness. “Chronic pain is consuming,” laments Brad Willis, author of "Warrior Pose". “It eats away at you day and...
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So, You've Got Bugs
“The devil has been going out of his way to give us bugs,” believes Cailean Terence. “All forms of religious studies acknowledge demons in some form or another,” he adds. “They are our No. 1 enemy” and “inspire us to...
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The Non-Silence of the LAMB
“Having kids was her survival tool,” writes Luke A. M. Brown and Berthalicia Fonseca-Brown of Essie, the main character in their novel about a poor Jamaican woman who uses her physical beauty and cunning sexual wiles to build and...
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Because I Believed in Me
Randi Ward’s memoir "Because I Believed in Me" would make a wonderful, upbeat, and uplifting Lifetime Network-esque movie. This tale of a retired English teacher from Atlanta being “reborn” and having “the greatest experience of...