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4.8 / 5.0
Although the scope of her study is limited to South Africa, I. India Thusi's observations and conclusions are relevant to urban spaces around the world....
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5.0 / 5.0
THE ALL-WEATHER RETIREMENT PORTFOLIO offers a straightforward and lucid guide to financial planning that the most apprehensive novice will find understandable. While more experienced readers...
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3.3 / 5.0
SNOODLES, KIDOODLES, POODLES AND LOTS AND LOTS OF NOODLES! has a simple plot filled with amusing scenarios and accompanied by cartoons peppered with puns –...
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3.4 / 5.0
In horse/man, Julia Merritt immortalizes a time when horses were depended on for livelihood, and often seen as sublime. In doing so, she draws on...
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4.0 / 5.0
In A TEACHER'S TALE: A Memoir, Joe Gilliland unfurls an odyssey of human experience. From the climax of adolescence fitted into his army days, to...
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4.4 / 5.0
As with most self-help memoirs, ACCIDENTALLY WELL attempts to blend a personal journey with a smattering of practical ‘tips and tricks,’ and thanks to John...
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4.0 / 5.0
Blair Bronwyn's chronicle of a young man's passage out of rural Texas to a world that offers salvation—albeit with a hefty price—is rendered with sympathetic...
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4.4 / 5.0
In DARK BLUE WAVES author Kimberly Sullivan has crafted a detailed and immersive time-traveling romance populated with colorful characters and plot twists that would make...
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4.0 / 5.0
Appropriately subtitled "A Life of Luck and Wonder", Rich Flanders' memoir, UNDER THE GREAT ELM, chronicles his days of world travel, spiritual searching, and romantic...
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2.9 / 5.0
Sharleen Nelson’s skilled plotting and pacing carries THE YESTERDAY GIRL to a satisfying end, but a flawed hero mars this otherwise entertaining time-travel romance.
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5.0 / 5.0
Mike Trigg’s novel BIT FLIP is exceptionally well-written, with a satisfying balance of action, intrigue, back story, characterization, and description. He weaves together several compelling...
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4.0 / 5.0
With an adorable slow-burn romance sprinkled with bursts of exciting action, Monique Duclos’s INKED CAFFEINE introduces lovable characters for a genre-blended series.