Book Review
All Bleeding Stops
Featuring strong scenes set amid the war in Vietnam, "All Bleeding Stops" is a historical novel that concentrates on a doctor who’s changed by his trials. Michael J. Collins’s historical novel "All Bleeding Stops" follows a soldier...
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Leeteg
"Leeteg" is the fascinating biography of an artist who captured Tahitian life at an appealing time in its history. C. J. Cook’s biography "Leeteg" is set in Tahiti prior to World War II; it addresses the art of painting on velvet via...
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Expect Some Delays
Expansive and thoughtful, the short stories of "Expect Some Delays" capture the graces and ironies of aging. Carolyn Gaye’s imaginative short story collection "Expect Some Delays" focuses on characters who have crossed the meridian of...
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Retirement Planning QuickStart Guide
"Retirement Planning QuickStart Guide" is a useful consumer text that forwards advice for creating personalized visions of retirement. In "Retirement Planning QuickStart Guide", certified financial planner Ted D. Snow introduces methods...
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People of the River
Grace Karskens’s engrossing history "People of the River" illuminates Australia’s distant past. The book opens in deep history, describing the topography and course of the Hawkesbury-Nepean River, a waterway that curves like a giant...
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Redshift, Blueshift
The dystopian novel "Redshift, Blueshift" focuses on a man who’s alone in a cell, where his sense of reality fractures. Jordan Silversmith’s dystopian novel "Redshift, Blueshift" is narrated by an unreliable detainee from a...
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Writ in Water
The accomplished biographical novel "Writ in Water" covers John Keats’s life with insight and understanding. James Sulzer’s elegiac novel "Writ in Water" begins as British poet John Keats dies at the age of twenty-five. Accompanied...
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The Scent of Empires
Karl Schlögel’s cultural history "The Scent of Empires" tells the story of two perfumes that permeated portions of the twentieth century. In 1913, French perfumers were commissioned to create a scent to celebrate 300 years of Romanov...