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Travels with JJ
"Travels with JJ" is a lighthearted and entertaining travelogue that moves across the United States, two canines in tow. Lori Stewart’s captivating travelogue "Travels with JJ" follows the author’s cross-country journey with her two...
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Childhood Memories
"Childhood Memories" is a slim and introspective memoir of a Lebanese childhood. Ingrid Habib’s brief, sweet memoir, "Childhood Memories", recalls growing up in Lebanon. The people, food, and places of Habib’s 1960s childhood in...
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The Room
"The Room" is a provocative memoir that addresses the complexities of racism in America in a deeply personal way. Russell Mullen’s provocative and earnest memoir The Room: A Racial Journey recalls the author’s pivotal—and forty...
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Lords and Lepers
"Lords and Lepers" is an engaging period piece with protagonists whose stories are not easily forgotten. Across sixteen years in the 1960s and 1970s, four adolescent girls navigate the ups and downs of their personal friendships, school,...
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Cade's Rebellion
Intelligent and lingering, Sheehy’s book is a look at a different kind of life just inside the Washington Beltway. Edward Sheehy’s Cade’s Rebellion is a smart, memorable story of clashing cultures. Jack Cade, a veteran of the war...
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Defiance
"Defiance" is a detailed and enjoyable tale of Dutch survival during World War II. During World War II, a close-knit group of Dutch university students find their lives disrupted by the German occupation in Titia Bozuwa’s detailed and...
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A Matter of Chance
"A Matter of Chance" is a masterful dramatic mystery that deals with a parent’s worst nightmare—having a child go missing. A woman’s attempt to get on with her life following the abduction of her eight-year-old daughter is at the...
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The Templar Legacy
"The Templar Legacy" is a smart, riveting historical adventure that piques interest in the time following the Crusades. In Peter Tallon’s riveting historical adventure "The Templar Legacy", two Englishmen accompany the last remaining...