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Review: Ascending the Hourglass by Anthony Dean

Synopsis: There are great deserts in space… So began The Voided Man. Prisoner Number One has survived in the void. He has even thrived there. But the question remains, can he ever leave there? If so, by what possible method? And at what risk to himself and others? Return to the void, and learn if it offers […]

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Book Review: Grimwell

Grimwell by Michael Belanger Genre: Fantasy / Humor ISBN: 9781960456090 Print Length: 314 pages Publisher: Woodhall Press Buy from Amazon Buy from Bookshop Reviewed by Samantha Hui A book-lover’s fantasy, replete with humor, creativity, and an appreciation for the power of storytelling “To be a character in a book—let alone in your own life—you had […]

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13 Kids’ Books to Get Your Children Excited About Reading

13 Kids’ Books to Get Your Children Excited About Reading by Toni Woodruff, Joe Walters, and Jaylynn Korrell Kids’ books are like windows to a new world. These little people are just trying to figure out this life on earth thing. They know only what they know, and we see why they know what they […]

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The Deal by Elle Kennedy

The Deal by Elle Kennedy on July 31, 2017 Genres: Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Romance / General, Fiction / Romance / New Adult Pages: 445 Format: Paperback Buy on Amazon Goodreads “Sometimes people sneak up on you and suddenly you don’t know how you ever lived without them.” Hannah Wells has finally […]

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A Passion in the Desert by Honoré De Balzac

A Passion in the Desert by Honoré De Balzac was published in 1830 and is one of the Scenes from Military Life of La Comédie Humaine. This post may contain affiliate links that earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. A Passion in the Desert by Honoré De Balzac A Passion in […]

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Review: Blues for the Father by Barry Kohl, Joseph Harrison, and Marcel Wilson

Synopsis: It’s 1957. Marion works for a Memphis record company, roaming the South in search of great songs from Black bands. He buys their songs to be re-recorded by White artists up north. Marion has two families, a White family in Meridian, MS, wife Christine and sons Lloyd and Linden and a Black family in […]

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The Forest of Vanishing Stars by Kristin Harmel

The Forest of Vanishing Stars by Kristin Harmel on July 6, 2021 Genres: Fiction / Historical / World War II, Fiction / War & Military, Fiction / Women Pages: 384 Format: Paperback Buy on Amazon Goodreads The Forest of Vanishing Stars by Kristin Harmel was a book I absolutely loved and couldn’t put down. Set […]

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A Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather

A Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather was first published in Everybody’s Magazine in February 1904. In 1906, it appeared in Cather’s first published collection of short stories, The Troll Garden. A Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather A Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather I received one morning a letter, written in pale ink on glassy, blue-lined […]

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American Spirits – Daring to Write Scared by Barb Rosenstock

A Seance in 1887 I am a natural born skeptic. So, I wasn’t scared when I met my first psychic medium at a birthday party in 2005. I dismissed her insistence that an older man’s spirit wanted to talk with me. “His name began with ‘S’,” she said concentrating, “it sounds like ‘Sam’ but that’s […]

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Book Review: Infrequent Frequencies, Rare Resonance

Infrequent Frequencies, Rare Resonance by G.E. Poole Genre: Science / Spirituality ISBN: 9781923156562 Print Length: 488 pages Buy from Amazon Buy from Bookshop Reviewed by Kathy L. Brown Discover your role in the cosmos with this fascinating intersection of science and faith. Infrequent Frequencies, Rare Resonance takes on the biggest of topics: life and death, […]