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Ballet Orphans by Terez Mertes Rose
December 4, 2020
Book Reviews

Ballet Orphans by Terez Mertes Rose

Book Summary: It's 1990, and New York soloist April Manning is trying to rebalance her world in the aftermath of her parents’ deaths. An offer to join the struggling West Coast Ballet Theatre as a pri...

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The Black Market: A Guide to Art Collecting by Charles Moore
November 29, 2020

The Black Market: A Guide to Art Collecting by Charles Moore

Book Summary: Art collecting can be time-consuming, complicated and confusing for the beginner... ...but it doesn't have to be. In this clear and easy-to-follow guide, learn the necessary knowledge an...

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The Twelve Realms by A.D. Sloane
November 10, 2020
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The Twelve Realms by A.D. Sloane

Book Summary: There are messages told through language. There are messages told through symbols. And there are messages told through terror. Nabii Akachi, a young Moorish royal, unveils a series of cr...

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Shadows by William Stephen Edwards
June 20, 2020
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Shadows by William Stephen Edwards

Book Summary: Poet William Stephen Edwards is a professor and a pathologist, a hippy and a Vietnam veteran, a lover, a cowboy, an explorer…a chronicler of life from his side of it. The poems in Shadow...

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Learning to Quit by Suzanne Harris and Paul Brunetta
March 16, 2020

Learning to Quit by Suzanne Harris and Paul Brunetta

Book Summary: Set yourself free from smoking. Strategy trumps willpower! Personal stories paired with moving photographic portraits. Empathetic, non-judgmental advice to stop smoking for good. Have yo...

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When We Were Brave by Karla M Jay
December 11, 2019
Book Reviews

When We Were Brave by Karla M Jay

Book Summary: In WHEN WE WERE BRAVE, we find a conflicted SS officer, Wilhelm Falk, who risks everything to escape the Wehrmacht and get out the message about the death camps. Izaak is a young Jewish ...

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I AM Manifesto by SB Hilarion
October 18, 2019
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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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Possessed: From Darkness to Light by Cordelia Lee
September 3, 2019
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Possessed: From Darkness to Light by Cordelia Lee

Book Summary: Cordelia Lee has experienced something few in the Western world have even witnessed: exorcism. Demonic possession brought her to a Taoist shaman who could drive out her tormentors, but o...

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Mighty Mary by Max Davine
August 8, 2019
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Mighty Mary by Max Davine

Story Summary: Mary was a circus elephant. The Star of the West. She could dance, play the trumpet and pleased crowds wherever she went. In 1916, after a disastrous Wild West show in Erwin Tennessee, ...

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July 29, 2019
Book Reviews

Silent Spring – Deadly Autumn of the Vietnam War by Patrick Hogan

Book Summary: What would you say if I told you there are disturbing things the US Government hasn’t told you about the Vietnam War and doesn’t want you to know? Things such as all the rainbow-colored ...

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