Book Review
Two Lives
Reeve Lindbergh’s family was in the public eye again and again during the twentieth century. In her memoir "Two Lives", she reveals personal memories of her parents, the controversial aviator-authors Charles A. and Anne Morrow...
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The Showrunner
Kim Moritsugu’s entertaining crime drama "The Showrunner" unapologetically explores Hollywood’s superficial show-business lifestyle, showing just how deadly ambition can be. Cocreators of the newest hit television drama, industry...
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What the Wind Can Tell You
A heartwarming, magical middle-grade novel, Sarah Marie A. Jette’s "What the Wind Can Tell You" tackles tough issues with sensitivity. Twelve-year-old Isabelle wants to harness the power of wind for her science fair project. She...
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The Network Sage
"The Network Sage" is a useful and well-researched self-help book that forwards methods for analyzing and changing relationships for the better. Glenna Crooks’s inclusive and enlightening self-help book, "The Network Sage", includes...
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Sarah Ann Jenyns (1865-1952)
The book’s tone is unbiased, formal, and scholarly, focused on an unlikely success story as well as on the cracks beneath. Patricia Anne Jenyns’s biography, Sarah Ann Jenyns, is an inspirational and historical account of an esteemed...
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The Beekeeper
"The Beekeeper" is Dunya Mikhail’s haunting account of Abdullah, who devoted his life to rescuing mostly Yazidi women and children kidnapped and kept captive by the Daesh, aka the Islamic State. The book includes autobiographical...
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Deir Al Lauz
This beautiful allegorical novel highlights the heartrending issues of Palestinians and refugees with a magical style. "Deir Al Lauz", written by Lama Sakhnini and translated by Sabrina Sakhnini, is a harrowing and stylish novel that...
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The Telling Image
Stark persuasively draws unlikely connections between skyscrapers and sexism, grid cities and loneliness, the internet and sustainability. Lois Farfel Stark’s "The Telling Image" is a wondrous and sweeping book that accomplishes a...