Book Review
The Horses of Sierra Leone
Covering a UN deployment that involved disarming warring factions, nation-building, and helping to facilitate elections, "The Horses of Sierra Leone" is a sobering memoir. In her memoir "The Horses of Sierra Leone", Leeland Shelly Nash...
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A Walk between Raindrops
In Amalie Jahn’s heartfelt novel "A Walk between Raindrops", estranged sisters attempt to mend their relationship while on a tour of American theme parks. Elise and her younger, pretty, popular sister Wylla haven’t spoken to each...
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Café Unfiltered
Jean-Philippe Blondel’s delicate and delightful novel "Café Unfiltered" dips into the musings of several people who have gathered in a French café over the course of one day. In France, the COVID-19 lockdown has just been lifted. Le...
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The Hawaiian Lion
"The Hawaiian Lion" is a lighthearted chapter book in which animal friends overcome their fears and surmount unforeseen obstacles. In Jason Louis’s early reader "The Hawaiian Lion", a group of animals confront their fears and make a...
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Beyond the Next Village
"Beyond the Next Village" is a nurse’s memoir about her transformative, extraordinary experiences in Nepal. American nurse Mary Anne Mercer’s sensitive memoir "Beyond the Next Village" is about the challenges of her life-changing...
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Crying Wolf
In her searing memoir "Crying Wolf", Eden Boudreau enacts a reclamation of herself and her strength after a debilitating rape. Boudreau, the married mother of three boys, is a bisexual, sex-positive woman engaged in a “kink-forward...
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Moraline
"Moraline" is a gentle, empowering novel in which young advocates find their work enhanced by moments of magic. In Cintia Alfonso Fior’s appealing novel "Moraline", a fidgety girl who loves to run finds her place and purpose at a new...
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Underwater Daughter
"Underwater Daughter" is a poetic memoir about transformation and transcendence after abuse. Drawing on a collage of dreams, poems, vignettes, lists, and epigraphs, Antonia Deignan’s unusual memoir "Underwater Daughter" concerns the...