Book Review
This May Be Difficult to Read
Featuring tangible strategies for parents concerned about their children’s reading skills, "This May Be Difficult to Read" is a knowledgeable education text. Critiquing contemporary reading instruction practices for children,...
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Games for Dead Girls
In Jen Williams’s atmospheric thriller "Games for Dead Girls", supernatural powers are hidden within the limestone caves of southeast England—and within the psyches of adolescent girls. Charlie was at the center of a horrific crime...
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Anangokaa
In Cameron Alam’s lyrical historical novel "Anangokaa", orphaned Scottish siblings struggle to survive in a harsh Canadian climate. In 1804, the MacCallum family joins other Scottish people in emigrating to the planned Baldoon...
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When the Smoke Cleared
"When the Smoke Cleared" is a thorough true crime book that examines a gripping murder case. Retired Massachusetts detective Bill Powers’s procedural true crime book "When the Smoke Cleared" tracks the details of a murder investigation...
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The Indignation Parade
The poems in "The Indignation Parade" are lyrical and rich, addressing the complexity of human emotions on both personal and political scales. F. R. Foksal’s extraordinary poetry collection "The Indignation Parade" explores timeless...
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Moon Luck
The intriguing science fiction novel "Moon Luck" follows life on a moon research station and its attendant physical and psychological challenges. In Wayne Scott Harral’s ambitious science fiction novel "Moon Luck", human greed, the...
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Choosing Family
Memorable and fluid, professor Francesca T. Royster’s memoir "Choosing Family" blends her family’s history with her story of adopting an infant girl, juxtaposing personal life with political life and allowing each to illuminate the...
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The Wife of Bath
Chaucer scholar Marion Turner’s experimental work of literary criticism charts a character’s lasting influence on international culture. A character in Geoffrey Chaucer’s fourteenth-century masterpiece The Canterbury Tales, the...