Book Review
Girl
Alona Frankel’s simply titled memoir, "Girl", presents World War II and the Holocaust through the eyes and imagination of a young Jewish girl trying to make sense of daily experience and the world being torn apart around her. Frankel...
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Never Can I Write of Damascus
As Islamophobia grips America and Europe, "Never Can I Write of Damascus" comes like a godsend to banish ignorance and illumine the richness of multiculturalism. Teacher and activist duo Theresa Kubasak and Gabe Huck recount their years...
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Choosing the Hero
Parts of "Choosing the Hero", K. Riva Levinson’s new political memoir, read like a riveting geopolitical thriller, which only makes this true-life story of one woman’s triumph over civil war and corruption more compelling. Levinson...
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Too Far Gone
The first picture inside Todd Blubaugh’s gorgeous photographic memoir, "Too Far Gone", is a point-of-view shot over the handlebars of his motorcycle—the desert landscape tilting with perspective, the road blurred by speed. The...
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Part of the Family
"Part of the Family" recalls the terrors of the Holocaust while commemorating heroic humanitarian efforts that saved lives. As pointed out in Jason Hensley’s new work of Holocaust history, the terrible statistics of mass murder can...
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From Safari Suit to Camouflage
This memoir reveals a deep love for Africa, a dream of a united country, and touching remembrances of those he once called friends. Violent political struggle in southern Africa during the 1960s and ‘70s is the backdrop of George...
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Bullet in the Blue Sky
A mysterious plot and compelling characterizations make this a roller coaster ride of gritty thrills. There’s no shortage of rough-and-tumble action in Bill Larkin’s engrossing new thriller, Bullet in the Blue Sky. The action is...
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Prison Education Guide
A focus on the “psychological work” of prison education makes the "Prison Education Guide" an important treatise on self-transformation. In an era of cynical and corrosive politics in which serious societal problems seem forever...