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A Prophet without Honor
"A Prophet without Honor" takes an approach to history that is both inventive and meticulous. Joseph Wurtenbaugh’s A Prophet without Honor: A Novel of Alternative History depicts a world in which the rise of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s...
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The Blue House
This highly personal narrative produces many spiritual insights. Michael Simmons’s "The Blue House" is a memoir that emphasizes the religious dimensions of the author’s experiences. Simmons, a Christian, came to his faith early in...
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That Punk Jimmy Hoffa!
This engrossing book tells the story of a family’s reluctant participation in public affairs at a national level. Marilyn June Coffey’s "That Punk Jimmy Hoffa!" is a work of narrative nonfiction about the author’s father’s...
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Black Book of Poems
Hunanyan’s is a collection of straightforward poems with threads of religiosity. Vincent K. Hunanyan’s "Black Book of Poems" covers topics of love, devotion, family challenges, and loss, all in a brief space. The collection is...
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The Haunted Trail
"The Haunted Trail" is the product of an urgent sort of inspiration. The Haunted Trail: The War of the Dublin Woods by John C. Lukegord is a short suspense novel set in the late nineteenth century. Full of intrigue and the supernatural,...
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Stories of Yesteryear
"Stories of Yesteryear" is an appealing collection of stories about small-town New England life. Harry H. Brown’s "Stories of Yesteryear" provides a textured narrative of Halifax, its residents, and its surroundings. Each story...
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The Stuff of Life
Philosophical and inspirational, these essays wind toward grand ideas. In his collection of essays, "The Stuff of Life", Asif Zaidi takes on a series of often grand subjects and makes them relevant to the lives people lead, distilling...
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A Stalker's Journey
This is a disturbing thriller likely to appeal to readers of horror and crime fiction. The stalker in A Stalker’s Journey, a troubling novel by John C. Lukegord, is Curtis Ware, an antihero who struggles against the world at large and...