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So You Want to Talk About Race

So You Want to Talk About Race: Understanding Racism in America

Reviewed by Kayo Chang Black

Have you ever tried to ignore the uncomfortable conversations about race that happen around you? Have you ever been angry ...

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Native Country of the Heart

Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir

Reviewed by Richard Fluck

Native Country of the Heart was the right book at the right time. It read like a personal letter from Cherríe Moraga to me, ...

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Just Mercy

Just Mercy

Reviewed by P. J. Lazos

Bryan Stevenson reminds me of Percy Jackson, the boy in those Rick Riordan novels, walking through life trying to fit in like ...

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White Rage

White Rage

Reviewed by Jason Squire Fluck

Built on a mountain of historical insight and irrefutable evidence, White Rage provides a damning indictment of the United ...

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Promise Me Dad

Promise Me Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

Reviewed by Jason Squire Fluck

I read a solid amount. Some books are easier than others to review. I try to review the books in the order that I read them. ...

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Sycophancy

Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy

Reviewed by Richard Fluck

Sycophancy (ˈsikəˌfan(t)sē) is the phenomenon known to most of us by alternative words or phrases such as sucking up, ass ...

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Killers of the Flower Moon

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

Reviewed by Jason Squire Fluck

Killers of the Flower Moon details one of the most heinous mass murders in American history that you’ve probably never heard ...

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The Storytellers: Veterans and Family Members Write About Military Life

Reviewed by Jane M. McCabe

For veterans who have returned from war with PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder), it’s been found that writing about their ...

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Condemned

Condemned: An Overview of Execution Methods Throughout History

Reviewed by Maria Savva

I wasn't going to read this book because the idea of reading about execution methods seemed just a bit too dark (even for ...

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Dreamland

Dreamland

Reviewed by P. J. Lazos

Dreamland, by Sam Quinones, is the story of a nation gone berserk, a harrowing, fear-inducing slog through the small towns ...

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Dark Money

Dark Money

Reviewed by Jason Squire Fluck

The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right CITIZENS UNITED v. FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION ...

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Dodge City

Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West

Reviewed by Jason Squire Fluck

By junior high, I discovered that at least one research paper per year had become de rigeur and I found myself most ...

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Hitler: Ascent, 1889–1939

Hitler: Ascent, 1889–1939

Reviewed by Richard Fluck

Volker Ullrich Translated from the German by Jefferson Chase As the son of a WW II veteran who fought in the Battle of the ...

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David and Goliath

David and Goliath

Reviewed by Jason Squire Fluck

I don’t read books in any kind of order; I grab whatever piques my interest at the moment, though I do generally keep a ...

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View From Lazy Point

The View From Lazy Point

Reviewed by Sandra Fluck

The View From Lazy Point: A Natural Year In An Unnatural World by Carl Safina is a book about love. It is not your typical ...

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The End of Your Life Book Club

The End of Your Life Book Club

Reviewed by Sandra Fluck

There is great value in reading a book about books, and The End of Your Life Book Club is no exception. This book is ...

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Rabbit Warrior

Rabbit Warrior

Reviewed by P. J. Lazos

In an era of tell-all books and reality TV, it’s still unnerving for the average person to reveal too much about themselves, ...

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Music and the Armenian Diaspora

Music and the Armenian Diaspora

Reviewed by Richard Fluck

Big Band music saved my sanity during an especially stressful time in my life. I was working long hours, seven days a week, ...

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Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy book review

Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy

Reviewed by P. J. Lazos

Dinty W. Moore’s new book is a droll, delicious exposé of the inner workings of Moore’s mind. Oh, and it’s a writing tutorial ...

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Secondhand Time

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

Reviewed by Richard Fluck

"I only liked Perestroika when it first started. If someone had told us back then that a KGB lieutenant colonel would end up ...

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The Grind

The Grind: Inside Baseball’s Endless Season

Reviewed by Richard Fluck

The millstone in The Grind is professional baseball. The grain it grinds are the men and women who either play the game, are ...

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Ashley's War

Ashley’s War

Reviewed by Donna Walker

After I read Ashley’s War by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, I found myself thinking about these women warriors during my workouts. ...

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My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me

My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me

Reviewed by Ronne Troup

When I heard about this book, I made a note of it and carried that note with me for many months. It did not appear on the ...

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Big Magic

Big Magic

Reviewed by P. J. Lazos

“I told the universe (and anyone who would listen) that I was committed to living a creative life not in order to save the ...

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The Hidden Messages in Water

The Hidden Messages in Water

Reviewed by P. J. Lazos

You would be hard-pressed to find a more beautifully-appointed and significant book than The Hidden Messages in Water. For ...

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The Secret of the Mantras

The Secret of the Mantras

Reviewed by Piper Templeton

The Secret of the Mantras is an exceptionally-written first-hand account of author Richard Blakely's three-month teacher ...

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Boys in the Boat

The Boys in the Boat

Reviewed by Jan McMillan

The Boys in the Boat shines the light on a dramatic point in American history—the time of Hitler's rise to power in Germany ...

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At a Crossroads

Reviewed by Maren Morgan

This is a humorous diary in comic book form about the frustrations of a college grad who ends up living at home while writing ...

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Perfume Dreams

Perfume Dreams

Reviewed by Leilani Squire

In 2005, the University of Hawaii at Manoa hosted a symposium honoring the forty-year anniversary of the Vietnam War. I went ...

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The Way I Was Taught

The Way I Was Taught

Reviewed by Guest Writer

This novel is a finely drawn, simply worded tale told by the mature spirit of a deeply wounded boy caught between two worlds, ...

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Returning Soldiers Speak

Returning Soldiers Speak

Reviewed by Donna Walker

Returning Soldiers Speak compiled by Leilani Squire is an anthology of prose and poetry written by veterans with whom Squire ...

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The Skin of the Milk

The Skin of the Milk

Reviewed by Sibyl Seachrist

I used to work part time at the Demuth Foundation in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the home of Charles Demuth, internationally ...

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True Compass

True Compass, A Memoir

Reviewed by Sandra Fluck

I didn’t catch onto Ted Kennedy while he was alive, not like I did his brothers Jack and Bobby.  I admired President Kennedy, ...

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Rethinking Depression

Rethinking Depression

Reviewed by Leilani Squire

This is how Rethinking Depression by Dr. Eric Maisel begins: “I have a beautiful story to tell you about how you can take a ...

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