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3.7 / 5.0
Traci Strahlendorf's COOL HAT TRICK KILPATRICK is a picture book for young children that successfully tackles issues of self-esteem and kindness.
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3.4 / 5.0
Phil J. Kriz's THE ROADIE CARTEL is a promising debut that blends music industry insider knowledge with the cutthroat world of cocaine trafficking. The novel’s...
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4.0 / 5.0
L.M. Mountford's GIVE US BAD BOYS & BILLIONAIRES is a highly charged, erotically intense collection of short stories designed to appeal to a wide variety...
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February 26, 2024
THE HAPPIEST PRESCHOOL: A Manual for Teachers
By Martha Heineman Pieper, Ph.D., Kelly PerezRating:
4.5 / 5.0
Martha Heineman Pieper and Kelly Perez provide useful guidance in THE HAPPIEST PRESCHOOL: A Manual for Teachers, which values making a connection with preschool students...
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Rating:
5.0 / 5.0
The quiet, contemplative poems of Karyn M. Bruce’s COMPLINE compellingly evoke the living soul’s relationship with death and God in a way that will move...
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Rating:
5.0 / 5.0
Author Michael Pronko is a master craftsman, painting a fascinating portrait of a city and its underbelly through engaging characters and depictions of crime that...
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4.2 / 5.0
EMIGRANT TALES OF THE PLATTE RIVER RAIDS sees author Janelle Molony compile a thorough, blow-by-blow account of a largely forgotten aspect of nineteenth-century trail history.
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3.5 / 5.0
J.O. Quantaman's AFTERLIFE: Cool Assassins 3 is an ambitious book that sets out to do many things, and it does enough of those things well...
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3.0 / 5.0
Irwin Gould’s THE BOOK OF IRWIN GOULD is a short and inspiring memoir that shows the author is more than ready for whatever life throws...
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3.4 / 5.0
Daniel G. Miller’s THE ORPHANAGE BY THE LAKE is a chilling, nail-biting thriller about a chase for the truth when everyone else has failed.
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3.7 / 5.0
THE SISKIYOU SON by G.M. Davis is both tragic and triumphant, tinged with a painful bittersweetness. A scathing commentary on the failures of adults in...
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Rating:
4.0 / 5.0
Pleasantly complex and filled with heart, Adam James Chouinard's THE HUMAN DISPERSAL PROJECT melds exuberant sci-fi storytelling with a compelling existential mystery.