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April 13, 2022

POLICING BODIES

By I. India Thusi
Rating:
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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April 13, 2022

THE ALL-WEATHER RETIREMENT PORTFOLIO

By Randy Thurman, CFP, CPA/PFS
Rating:
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...

Rating:
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 –...

April 11, 2022

horse/man

By Julia Merritt
Rating:
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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April 11, 2022

A TEACHER’S TALE: A Memoir

By Joe Gilliland
Rating:
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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April 11, 2022

ACCIDENTALLY WELL

By John Webster
Rating:
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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April 8, 2022

RUNNING BULL

By Blair Bronwyn
Rating:
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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April 8, 2022

DARK BLUE WAVES

By Kimberly Sullivan
Rating:
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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Rating:
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...

April 6, 2022

THE YESTERDAY GIRL

By Sharleen Nelson
Rating:
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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April 6, 2022

BIT FLIP

By Mike Trigg
Rating:
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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April 6, 2022

INKED CAFFEINE

By Monique Duclos
Rating:
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.

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