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JC Bratton’s Things That Go Bump in the Night, Volume One (Urban Legends) is a series of 4 campfire-like short stories that are fast and quicken the pulse. They […]
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An Eighth Grade Gay Straight Alliance allowed me to step outside my comfort zone. I challenged myself with characters whom I didn’t know and had to look up details to understand. Currently, it’s my most popular book and it gets a lot of acclaim. In writing this book, I learned how injustice can hold […]
Dominic Haynes provides a systematic and extensive introduction to the birth and evolution of ancient Greek culture in A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Traveling the Hellenistic World: An Odyssey Through Political Dynasties and Cultural Mosaics. Tracing the prehistoric origins and later migration of the Greeks across the Mediterranean, the book is thorough in its scope, including demographic and topographical details, and a useful map in the front pages. With succinctly edited content and well-structured chapters, Haynes seamlessly hones down his subject, covering art, culture, architecture, sports, religion, politics, and the spread of Greek influence across the region, for […]
Part book of wisdom and part insight into the practice of evangelicalism, Do You Really Love Me? Feed My Sheep: Evangelisation – Stewardship – The Desire for Higher Love-Making by Ken Rolheiser offers the reader advice on a variety of topics so they can lead a good life and find a close relationship with God. Some of the key subjects covered include marriage, raising children, what evangelicalism is, and how best to form a connection with the divine. The author’s focus on finding something positive in all of life’s challenges is particularly inspiring and offers valuable lessons on being an […]
Adi’s Animal Adventures by Julie Schanke Lyford is a fun and informative illustrated book that shows the great importance of inspiring younger generations to respect nature. Through vibrant illustrations, easy-to-follow text, and fascinating info, this book offers a colorful and accessible guide to many animal species and the environments in which they thrive.
Adi’s public school is truly unique – it’s the home to over a thousand animals, and Adi and her team take care of many different specimens in an entertaining and wild day at school, revealing fascinating facts about the animal kingdom along the way. Did you know […]
Marisol, an illegal immigrant living in Washington Heights, New York, hatches a daring plan with her neighbor to marry for a Green Card, in Maria Rivera’s entertaining Christian romance novel, Chasing The Wind. The hapless Marisol attempts to seduce her new husband using an advice column from Cosmopolitan magazine, while her neighbor also needs to get married to keep his inheritance, with predictable but satisfying results, as their marriage of convenience blossoms into something much more. Religion is kept at the forefront of this romantic melodrama, through a regular sprinkling of earnest prayers and quotes from scripture, heightening the […]
An inspiring collection of lessons from women who made an indelible impact on their time, The Secrets of Women Who Never Give Up: 11 Resilience Building Strategies Learned From Remarkable Women in History by Dr. Katja Lindemann MD is an original work of self-help that also acts as a fascinating work of social history. Along with activist icons such as Rosa Parks, Florence Nightingale, and Emmeline Pankhurst, Lindemann introduces the reader to less celebrated and yet no less compelling historical figures, including the explorer Alexandra David-Néel, the marathon runner Katherine Switzer and the romantic comedy screenwriter Nora Ephron. Alongside short […]
A well-researched portrait of artist Billie Lawless and his controversial sculpture “Green Lightning” is revealed in Michael F. Rizzo’s Fifteen Minutes: Bamboozled in Buffalo. Rizzo analyses the process by which the infamously lascivious sculpture was mistakenly commissioned by Buffalo city officials who were offended by the finished product, and swiftly ordered it to be dismantled, resulting in a court case that Lawless eventually won. Revealing in part the conventionality of the staid art establishment, as well as Lawless’s singular vision, this book not only exposes how an artist tricked a powerful clique of public art commissioners, but also […]