📂 Reviews

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The Neurodiversity Edge Business & Investing
Nov 26, 2024

The Neurodiversity Edge

“Harnessing the gifts of neurodiversity promises businesses in different industries a leading edge in innovative and creative problem-solving. Dismantling groupthink is especially important in an incr

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Buffalo Dreamer Reviews
Nov 19, 2024

Buffalo Dreamer

Buffalo Dreamer by Violet Duncan is a good book, but also kind of confusing to younger readers. A young Native American girl named Summer goes to spend her summer vacation with her mother’s family in

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Lizard Larson and the Time Keeper Reviews
Nov 18, 2024

Lizard Larson and the Time Keeper

Action-packed, exciting, and full of surprises, Lizard Larson and the Time Keeper by Gary Natoli is an excellent book choice for middle school and early teenage readers. Told from the perspective of E

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Star Wars: Tribute to Star Wars Reviews
Nov 15, 2024

Star Wars: Tribute to Star Wars

The perfect gift for any Star Wars fan, Star Wars: Tribute to Star Wars is a collection of beautiful pieces of art created by Japanese manga artists and illustrators. Each piece of art is accompanied

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All Our Ordinary Stories Reviews
Nov 14, 2024

All Our Ordinary Stories

Nothing is ordinary about the narratives we encounter in All Our Ordinary Stories, the second graphic memoir by writer and illustrator Teresa Wong. When her mother appears to grow despondent and melan

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What We Sacrifice for Magic Reviews
Nov 13, 2024

What We Sacrifice for Magic

Elisabeth has just graduated but her future has already been mapped out as she is expected to take her grandmother’s place. The path she is meant to take is simple: become the head of her family, marr

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Pen Pal (Special Limited Edition) Reviews
Nov 12, 2024

Pen Pal (Special Limited Edition)

A thirty-five minute ferry ride outside of Seattle sits Bainbridge Island and the quaint Queen Anne Victorian style home where Michael and Kayla have lived for the past six years. Their life is serene

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A Place Under the Sun Modern Literature
Nov 8, 2024

A Place Under the Sun

Henry works as a consultant at Anthony Freckleman, a leading management consulting company. He is well-paid and enjoys his profession, preferring it to accounting, which he found monotonous after work

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American Rapture Horror
Nov 7, 2024

American Rapture

C.J. Leede is back after her disturbingly dark Maeve Fly with a book that goes hard and epic in American Rapture. Readers may be surprised by something quite different, but it is nevertheless engrossi

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Bear at the Fair Children's
Nov 4, 2024

Bear at the Fair

What does Bear do at an animal fair? Some animals may not understand why Bear comes ripping through the fair and tearing things down. Then, the animals set a trap to calm him down. Only one animal tha

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Musical Tables: Poems Poetry
Oct 28, 2024

Musical Tables: Poems

The works in Billy Collins’ latest collection Musical Tables: Poems are referred to as “small poems” by the author in the introduction. What they really are, though, is an assortment of puns, obvious

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What You Need to Be Warm Poetry
Oct 25, 2024

What You Need to Be Warm

In times of cold and turmoil, it’s easy to forget that the most important thing for some people is warmth. As winter descends, being warm means many things, and it takes on many guises. This small but

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Mother (Penguin Poets) Poetry
Oct 24, 2024

Mother (Penguin Poets)

In what many call “Education for Extinction,” 523 church-run boarding schools took Native American children from their families and attempted to indoctrinate them away from their culture. About 35,000

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Third Wheel by Richard R. Becker Reviews
Oct 25, 2023

Third Wheel by Richard R. Becker

Book Summary: Brady Wilks wished for a new life with a real family in the pre-boomtown years of Las Vegas, 1982. Instead, he finds himself in a precarious situation, struggling to belong and find his

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Just Do Nothing by Joanna Hardis Reviews
Sep 25, 2023

Just Do Nothing by Joanna Hardis

Introduction 7: Joanna Hardis’ Just Do Nothing is a thought-provoking exploration of the benefits of embracing idleness. Through her captivating storytelling and well-researched evidence, Hardis chall

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Kissing Asphalt by Delicia Niami Reviews
Sep 20, 2023

Kissing Asphalt by Delicia Niami

Book Summary: Resilience isn’t inherited. It’s a hard-fought skill forged by our ability to pick up the broken pieces of our past and remake them into something new. Meet four-year-old Delicia, a poor

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The Girls Who Disappeared: A Novel Blog
Jul 18, 2023

The Girls Who Disappeared: A Novel

In a small English town lies a haunted road called the Devil’s Corridor. Though the Devil’s Corridor is known for its strange occurrences, teenage Olivia and her three friends drove through it one nig

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The Rail Splitter: A Novel Blog
Jul 18, 2023

The Rail Splitter: A Novel

Cribb has already written a novel covering the years of Lincoln’s presidency: Old Abe. In The Rail Splitter, he turns to Lincoln’s youth, offering us a portrait of one of the most respected presidents

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The Warrior Prophet: Muhammad and War Blog
Jul 18, 2023

The Warrior Prophet: Muhammad and War

Muhammad was the founder of the Islam religion and was a prophet. Muhammad’s (570-632)’s words and deeds have been chronicled and relayed in the centuries after his passing. Many biographies have been

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Gilded Mountain: A Novel Blog
Jul 14, 2023

Gilded Mountain: A Novel

Manning has made a book as sharp-edged and vital as the Colorado mountains it’s set in. Sylvie Pelletier came to Colorado from Vermont with her family after her father took a mining job. Mining, howev

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In Between Spaces Blog
Jul 14, 2023

In Between Spaces

I’m a sucker for anthologies. There’s something about getting lost in myriad perspectives on a common theme that scratches some kind of persistent itch in my brain. But it’s not very often that one li

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The Labyrinth of Doom Blog
Jul 13, 2023

The Labyrinth of Doom

Tim is a knight-in-training who wakes up every morning to fight off small but deadly fire-breathing dragons. And after Tim falls asleep while attempting to guard the castle gates. And because Tim fell

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The Lost Library Blog
Jul 13, 2023

The Lost Library

The Lost Library is a sweet book about little kids who like reading so much. The plot is very simple and predictable and lacks any measurable detail, so you probably wouldn’t read it more than once. T

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Namaste Is a Greeting Blog
Jul 13, 2023

Namaste Is a Greeting

Namaste Is a Greeting isn’t really about anything except the word “Namaste.” There’s no real storyline, just many fragmented ideas and a little girl pulling it all together. The pictures are a little

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GRONE: Legends of the Known Arc Book 1 Blog
Jul 12, 2023

GRONE: Legends of the Known Arc Book 1

GRONE is an absolute masterpiece of science fiction. This massive tome of a tale spans literal centuries but somehow still manages to leave you wanting more, long after you’ve turned the last page and

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Stalking Justice Blog
Jul 7, 2023

Stalking Justice

It has been four decades since retired detective Larry Klinger lost his son. Yet, at 66, Larry still mourns his loss. Consequently, he joins a group of fathers who suffer from the pain of losing a chi

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Battery Life Blog
Jul 7, 2023

Battery Life

Diane 317 knew something was terribly wrong with her peaceful home. The tremors aboard the Cradle, a space station orbiting a post-apocalyptic Earth, were worsening. When Diane’s home began plummeting

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Before All the World: A Novel Blog
Jul 6, 2023

Before All the World: A Novel

Oh, help, I thought, less than a third of the way into this book, I’m reading poetry. It was not a complaint; far from it. Before All the World is poetry as it should be: deliberate while feeling casu

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Betty White’s Pearls of Wisdom Blog
Jul 6, 2023

Betty White’s Pearls of Wisdom

Betty White’s Pearls of Wisdom almost seems intrusive to read, as it is about the personal and intimate relationship the author and her family had with Betty, and the twelve pearls of wisdom are stori

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The House Guest Blog
Jul 5, 2023

The House Guest

After her wealthy husband suddenly left her, Alyssa Macallan was drowning her sorrows in a hotel bar. She picked the spot specifically because no one in her social circles would ever set foot in a pla

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The Spite House Blog
Jul 5, 2023

The Spite House

Eric Ross and his two daughters are on the run, living out of motels as they try to escape their secrets. Eric comes across an ad for a caretaker for the Masson House, which is known to the locals as

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Around the Year Blog
Jun 30, 2023

Around the Year

If you really like Elsa Beskow’s books, you might not like this one, Around the Year, as much. I don’t like it. It’s not as good as the others. It’s all about poetry, but if you like poetry you will p

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The Pirate’s Eye (Stitch Head) Blog
Jun 30, 2023

The Pirate’s Eye (Stitch Head)

Stitch Head Book 2: The Pirate’s Eye is the second one in the series. Stitch Head and his friends found a letter saying that the Professor should enter a professing contest and then the professor left

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How Does My Fruit Grow? Blog
Jun 16, 2023

How Does My Fruit Grow?

How Does My Fruit Grow? At first glance of the title, you might think this is a book for little kids, but it is not. This book is packed full of information on how plants grow and change in different

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The Last Lumenian by S.G. Blaise Reviews
Jun 19, 2021

The Last Lumenian by S.G. Blaise

Story Summary: She is a rebel. Lilla is fighting for the refugees’s freedom from oppression. The king, her father, lost touch with reality ever since Lilla’s mother died. Now everyone else is paying t

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Heart to Beat by Brian Lima MD Gift Guide
Dec 8, 2019

Heart to Beat by Brian Lima MD

Gift Guide Book Suggestion #4 Book Summary: Success is not reserved for the smartest or most talented—it’s earned by those who want it the most. Heart conquers all and the triumphant always go all in,

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Rosa by Barbara de la Cuesta Gift Guide
Dec 7, 2019

Rosa by Barbara de la Cuesta

Gift Guide Book Suggestion #3 Book Summary “There were little sins and big sins, and if you committed too many little sins you were more likely to go on to the big ones. Some sins you did in your mind

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The Baseball by James Flerlage Gift Guide
Dec 3, 2019

The Baseball by James Flerlage

Gift Guide Book Suggestion #2 Know a baseball or sports fan in your life? The Baseball by James Flerlage might be the perfect gift. Book Summary: Landon Myers is a retired pediatric oncologist who spe

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I AM Manifesto by SB Hilarion Reviews
Oct 17, 2019

I AM Manifesto by SB Hilarion

Book Summary: A book of 366 mantras or affirmations to raise and encourage the self-esteem and self-belief of children (plus adults), told through the eyes of young siblings Hao Finley Lee and Sabine

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Lesath by A. M. Kherbash Reviews
Sep 13, 2019

Lesath by A. M. Kherbash

Book Summary: Amateur journalist Greg travels to a remote mountain area to investigate rumors of a sinister building only to find himself imprisoned there. As he tries to escape, he evinces symptoms o

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The Misogynist by Steve Jackowski Reviews
Jul 18, 2019

The Misogynist by Steve Jackowski

Book Info: George Gray, San Francisco-based reporter for the New York Sentinel, receives two similar emails an hour apart. One offers to expose well-known individuals who have criminally perverted use

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The Prize by Geoffrey M. Cooper Reviews
Dec 29, 2017

The Prize by Geoffrey M. Cooper

The Prize by Geoffrey M. Cooper Book Summary What does it take to win a Nobel Prize? Deceit, fraud, even murder? Set in the competitive world of cutting-edge medical research, The Prize is a science t

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Becoming by Fouad Azim Reviews
Sep 29, 2017

Becoming by Fouad Azim

Becoming by Fouad Azim Story Summary This is a story of blooming love and betrayal, about children coming of age, of conscience and the sociopaths who lack it; it is a story about trust and how true l

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📚 Reviews
May 23, 2017

Gringo By Dan “Tito” Davis

Story Summary: Dan “Tito” Davis comes from a town in South Dakota that’s so small everyone knows their neighbor’s cat’s name. But once he got out, he made some noise. While at the University of Nevada

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📚 Reviews
May 14, 2017

Gideon: The Sound and The Glory

Story Summary: Unsung heroes and murderous villains, hidden forever in ancient shadows, now leap to life – blazing onto the pages of revelation. Gideon, a lowly woodcutter, is blessed by an angel to b

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