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Work on it.

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Mediocre
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November 27, 2019

THE DOCTOR WILL KILL YOU NOW

By Louis Siegel, M.D.
Rating:
2.5 / 5.0

With an intriguing and relevant story, there’s enough information and imagination in Louis Siegel's THE DOCTOR WILL KILL YOU NOW to overlook the slight meanderings...

November 18, 2019

FENCE SICKNESS

By Susan Scutti
Rating:
3.5 / 5.0

Susan Scutti's FENCE SICKNESS is engaging and quietly dramatic, full of poetic prose and gritty, real life details. It's an in-depth, emotional examination of family...

IR Approved
Rating:
4.0 / 5.0

Not all anecdotes are created equal, but most in Carol Gino's ME & MARIO create a compelling portrait of two great minds and the adventurous,...

IR Approved
Rating:
4.8 / 5.0

Succinct chapters that interweave personal anecdotes, Cambodian cultural history, and the indoctrination of the Khmer Rouge all serve to create a page-turning memoir of emotional...

IR Approved
Rating:
5.0 / 5.0

HOPE DANCING: Finding purpose and a place to serve among the Maya is a thorough, sometimes harrowing, always thought-provoking memoir about Leslie Baer Dinkel's adventures...

IR Approved
Rating:
4.5 / 5.0

Intense wartime scenes are teamed with moments of tender comradery in UP-CLOSE & PERSONAL, an epic Vietnam memoir that relays author Robert C. Bogison's  raw...

IR Approved
Rating:
5.0 / 5.0

In SAILING BLUE WATER MYSTIQUE SOLO: SAILING THE EXUMAS ALONE, H. Downing Lane’s personal insights and observations of both the self and the blue world...

October 14, 2019

SIMON’S MANSION

By William Poe
Rating:
3.0 / 5.0

SIMON'S MANSION is a thoughtful and philosophical book about coming to terms with one's past, facing the consequences of past misdeeds and failures, and figuring...

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October 11, 2019

COUNT IT ALL JOY

By Mitchell Allen
Rating:
4.0 / 5.0

With COUNT IT ALL JOY, Mitchell Allen unfurls a subtle, poignant and engaging look at one young man's life in a small-town, amidst the unsatisfying...

October 7, 2019

DAYS PASSED

By McEntry Dunbar II
Rating:
3.0 / 5.0

DAYS PASSED is an ambitious novel with a sprawling plot and while author McEntry Dunbar II has created engaging characters who struggle with deeply relatable...

Rating:
3.4 / 5.0

THE MILLION DOLLAR ORGANIZER is a helpful guidebook that fully delivers on its promise to explain how union organizers can recruit more members than ever...

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September 27, 2019

GATED

By J.D. Ventura
Rating:
4.0 / 5.0

A taut, suspenseful thriller, GATED grips readers from its opening pages all the way to its shocking conclusion.

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