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"The Wingmen" | Reviewed by Bill Schwab
Shortly after the U.S. entered the Korean War in 1953, two men flew over the 38th Parallel into Communist territory aboard identical...
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Aug 17, 20232 min read
"Shark Heart" | Reviewed by Pat Sainz
One striking feature of “Shark Heart,” by Emily Habeck, is the beautiful cover art of a graceful shark painted in flowers, gliding...
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Aug 15, 20232 min read
"Cutting Teeth" | Reviewed by Jenny Johnson
Little Academy Preschool is idyllic. The bright colors, sweet little handprints and chorus of delighted voices in the halls are enough to...
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Aug 14, 20232 min read
"The Fourth Turning Is Here" | Reviewed by Bill Schwab
In 1997, social and historical theorists, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss published “The Fourth Turning,” a hypothesis that...
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Aug 10, 20232 min read
"Family Lore" | Reviewed by Pat Sainz
“Family Lore,” by Elizabeth Acevedo, is a multi-generational story of four sisters born with magical gifts that are revealed as they grow...
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Aug 8, 20233 min read
"The Half Known Life" | Reviewed by Bill Schwab
After traveling the globe for 12 years as the Dalai lama's biographer and observing how people worldwide search for meaning in their...
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Aug 3, 20232 min read
"I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home| Reviewed by William Winkler
Lorrie Moore is a professor of English at Nashville’s Vanderbilt University. She writes essays, short stories, and has published four...
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Aug 1, 20232 min read
"The Housekeepers" | Reviewed by Pat Sainz
“The Housekeepers,” by Alex Hay, is a fun debut novel in which “Ocean’s Eleven” meets “Downton Abbey.” Set in London in the 1900s, the...
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Jul 27, 20232 min read
"Alchemy of a Blackbird" | Reviewed by Susan Ferguson
“Alchemy of a Blackbird,” by Claire McMillan, is a historical fiction novel based on the true story of Surrealist Painters Remedios Varo...
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Jul 24, 20232 min read
"Crook Manifesto" | Reviewed by Bill Schwab
Colson Whitehead “hits it out of the park,” that is out of New York City’s Shea Stadium, in his latest book set in 1970s Harlem. Crime...
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Jul 21, 20232 min read
"Somebody's Fool"|Reviewed by William Winkler
Richard Russo is a prolific wordsmith with 10 novels to his credit, as well as short story collections, screenplays, and a memoir....
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Jul 19, 20232 min read
"Little Monsters" | Reviewed by Pat Sainz
Family secrets form the basis of “Little Monsters,” an engrossing contemporary psychological novel about Adam Gardner, a renowned...
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Jul 18, 20232 min read
"Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups"| Reviewed by Bill Schwab
Notorious cult leaders Charles Manson, David Koresh, and Marshall Applewhite are three of the well-known figures profiled in “Cults” by...
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Jul 16, 20232 min read
"With My Little Eye" | Reviewed by Susan Ferguson
“With My Little Eye” is a contemporary, psychological thriller by Joshilyn Jackson. This page turner contains plenty of suspense and...
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Jul 13, 20233 min read
"This Place of Promise" | Reviewed by Bill Schwab
Gary Kremer, a 5th-generation Missourian, completed his latest book “This Place of Promise” in celebration of Missouri’s 200th...
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Jul 12, 20231 min read
“Clytemnestra” | Reviewed by Diane Disbro
In recent years, several authors have written books that humanize mythological Greek characters. In works of fiction, Madeline Miller,...
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Jul 9, 20232 min read
"The House of Lincoln" | Reviewed by Pat Sainz
In 1854, young Ana Ferreira became a helpmate to Mary Todd Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois. Anna helped with the housekeeping and...
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Jul 5, 20232 min read
"King: A Life" | Reviewed by Bill Schwab
Jonathan Eig’s biography of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) is the first major life history of the civil rights leader to be...
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Jul 4, 20232 min read
"The Origins of You" | Reviewed by Nelson Appell
Vienna Pharaon’s “The Origins of You: How Breaking Family Patterns Can Liberate the Way We Live and Love” is a fantastic addition to the...
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Jul 3, 20232 min read
"The First Ladies"|Reviewed by Susan Ferguson
“The First Ladies,” by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray, is historical novel, the story of the enduring friendship between...
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